Rajkumar Buyya & Kris Bubendorfer 
Market-Oriented Grid and Utility Computing 

The first single-source reference covering the state of the art
in grid and utility computing economy research

This book presents the first integrated, single-source reference
on market-oriented grid and utility computing. Divided into four
main parts–and with contributions from a panel of experts in
the field–it systematically and carefully explores:

* Foundations–presents the fundamental concepts of
market-oriented computing and the issues and challenges in
allocating resources in a decentralized computing environment.

* Business models–covers business models for service
providers and brokers supporting different types of distributed
applications, as well as business rules-based models for managing
virtual organizations and accounting operations and services in
grid computing environments.

* Policies and agreements–introduces policies,
agreements, and specifications for the negotiation and
establishment of contracts between providers and consumers. It also
covers different approaches for resource allocation based on
service-level agreements (SLAs) and management of risks associated
with SLA violations.

* Resource allocation and scheduling
mechanisms–covers economic models, such as commodity
models, reciprocation, auctions, and game theory, and middleware
technologies, such as Nimrod/G and Gridbus, for market-oriented
grid computing and utility-oriented resource allocation.

This book expertly captures the state of the art in the field
while also identifying potential research directions and
technologies that will facilitate the creation of global commercial
grid and utility computing systems. It is an indispensable
reference for systems architects, practitioners, developers, new
researchers, and graduate students.

Cuprins

CONTRIBUTORS.

PREFACE.

ACRONYMS.

PART I FOUNDATIONS.

1 Market-Oriented Computing and Global Grids: An Introduction
(Rajkumar Buyya and Srikumar Venugopal).

2 Markets, Mechanisms, Games, and Their Implications in Grids
(Yibo Sun, Sameer Tilak, Ruppa K. Thulasiram, and Kenneth
Chiu).

3 Ownership and Decentralization Issues in Resource Allocation
Mechanisms (Tiberiu Stef-Praun).

4 Utility Functions, Prices, and Negotiation (John
Wilkes).

5 Options and Commodity Markets for Computing Resources (Dan
Cristian Marinescu, John Patrick Morrison, and Howard Jay
Siegel).

PART II BUSINESS MODELS.

6 Grid Business Models, Evaluation, and Principles (Steve
Taylor and Paul Mc Kee).

7 Grid Business Models for Brokers Executing SLA-Based Workflows
(Dang Minh Quan and Jorn Altman).

8 A Business-Rules-Based Model to Manage Virtual Organizations
in Collaborative Grid Environments (Pilar Herrero, Jose Luis
Bosque, and Maria S. Perez).

9 Accounting as a Requirement for Market-Oriented Grid Computing
(Andrea Guarise and Rosario M. Piro).

PART III POLICIES AND AGREEMENTS.

10 Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) in the Grid Environment
(Bastian Koller, Eduardo Oliveros, and Alfonso
Sanchez-Macian).

11 SLAs, Negotiation, and Challenges (Paul Mc Kee, Steve
Taylor, Mike Surridge, and Richard Lowe).

12 SLA-Based Resource Management and Allocation (Jordi
Guitart, Mario Macias, Omer Rana, Philipp Wieder, Ramin
Yahyapour, and Wolfgang Ziegler).

13 Market-Based Resource Allocation for Differentiated Quality
Service Levels (H. Howie Huang and Andrew S. Grimshaw).

14 Specification, Planning, and Execution of Qo S-Aware Grid
Workflows (Ivona Brandic, Sabri Pllana, and Siegfried
Benkner).

15 Risk Management In Grids (Karim Djemame, James Padgett,
Iain Gourlay, Kerstin Voss, and Odej Kao).

PART IV RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND SCHEDULING
MECHANISMS.

16 A Reciprocation-Based Economy for Multiple Services in a
Computational Grid (Nazareno Andrade, Francisco Brasileiro,
Miranda Mowbray, and Walfredo Cirne).

17 The Nimrod/G Grid Resource Broker for Economics-Based
Scheduling (Rajkumar Buyya and David Abramson).

18 Techniques for Providing Hard Quality-of-Service Guarantees
in Job Scheduling (Pavan Balaji, Ponnuswamy Sadayappan, and
Mohammad Islam).

19 Deadline Budget-Based Scheduling of Workflows on Utility
Grids (Jia Yu, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, and Rajkumar
Buyya).

20 Game-Theoretic Scheduling of Grid Computations (Yu-Kwong
Kwok).

21 Cooperative Game-Theory-Based Cost Optimization for
Scientific Workflows (Radu Prodan and Rubing Duan).

22 Auction-Based Resource Allocation (Bjorn
Schnizler).

23 Two Auction-Based Resource Allocation Environments: Design
and Experience (Alvin Au Young, Phil Buonadonna, Brent N. Chun,
Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes, Jeff Shneidman, Alex C. Snoeren, and
Amin Vahdat).

24 Trust in Grid Resource Auctions (Kris Bubendorfer, Ben
Palmer, and Wayne Thomson).

25 Using Secure Auctions to Build a Distributed Metascheduler
for the Grid (Kyle Chard and Kris Bubendorfer).

26 The Gridbus Middleware for Market-Oriented Computing
(Rajkumar Buyya, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajiv Ranjan, and Chee Shin
Yeo).

INDEX.

Despre autor

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is an Associate Professor of Computer
Science and Software Engineering and Director of the Cloud
Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the
University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Buyya has contributed to
the creation of high-performance computing and communication system
software for Indian PARAM supercomputers and has pioneered the
economic paradigm for service-oriented grid and cloud computing. He
currently serves as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a company
producing software systems for utility-oriented grid and cloud
computing.

Dr. Kris Bubendorfer lectures in computer science at the
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He teaches courses
in networking, operating systems, algorithms, mobile systems, and
advanced distributed systems.