Market-based control of computational systems: Introduction to the special issue

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 109-114

  Gerding, Enrico H ^a   McBurney, Peter ^b   Yao, Xin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Market based control; Mechanism design; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953695734     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-009-9114-9     Document Type: Note

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