Auction based resource negotiation in NOMAD

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 38, Issue , 2005, Pages 297-306

  Bubendorfer, Kris ^a   Hine, John H ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Computational economy; Market negotiation; Mobility; Resource allocation; Resource discovery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMY; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; GRID COMPUTATION; MARKET NEGOTIATION; MIDDLEWARE PLATFORMS; MOBILE CODES; MULTIPLE RESOURCES; OBJECT MOBILITY; RESOURCE DISCOVERY; RESOURCE NEGOTIATION; RESOURCE PROVIDERS;

CARRIER MOBILITY; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84868698186     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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