You can't always get what you want: Achieving differentiated service levels with pricing agents in a storage grid

Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 123-131

  Huang, H Howie ^a   Grimshaw, Andrew S ^a   Karpovich, John F ^a  

^a University of Virginia

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONSTRAINTS; COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; DIFFERENTIATED SERVICE; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MARKET-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION; PRICE SIGNALS; QOS REQUIREMENTS; REAL-WORLD; RESOURCE PROVIDERS; SCARCE RESOURCES; SERVICE LEVELS; SUPPLY AND DEMAND; SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS; TRACE DATA; WEB INTELLIGENCE;

AGENTS; BUDGET CONTROL; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPETITION; MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 48349101086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI.2007.117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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