A Cost-Effective Critical Path Approach for Service Priority Selections in a Grid Computing Economy

• Main Authors: LIN, Mei, Lin, Z.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Grid computing; Internet resources pricing; Critical path method (CPM); Time–cost tradeoff; Heuristic algorithm; Computational complexity; Computer Sciences; Management Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1718; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2006.02.010
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The increasing demand for grid computing resources calls for an incentive-compatible pricing mechanism for differentiated service qualities. This paper examines the optimal service priority selection problem for a grid computing services user, who is submitting a multi-subtask job for the priced ser...