Grid resource allocation by means of option contracts

• Main Authors: Bossenbroek, Anton, Tirado-Ramos, Alfredo, Sloot, Peter M. A.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95966; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10175
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In Grid environments, where virtual organization resources are allocated to users using mechanisms analogue to market economies, strong price fluctuations can have an impact on the nontrivial quality-of-service expected by end users. In this paper, we investigate the effects of the use of option con...