Quality of service negotiation for commercial medical grid services

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 429-447

  Middleton, S E ^a   Surridge, M ^a   Benkner, S ^b   Engelbrecht, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agent; Economic model; Grid; Negotiation; Pricing model; Quality of service

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WEB SERVICES;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE MODEL; SERVICE PROVIDER;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 35348961976     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-007-9080-x     Document Type: Article

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