Pricing computational resources in a dynamic grid

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 205-215

  Abdelkader, Khalid ^a   Broeckhove, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computational market; Grid computing; Grid economics; Market based resource management

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMPUTATIONAL MARKET; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; CPU RESOURCES; DYNAMIC GRID; GRID ECONOMICS; GRID RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MARKET-BASED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY AND DEMAND;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 68649116544     PISSN: 1741847X     EISSN: 17418488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2009.027648     Document Type: Article

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