PART I : Foundations

1.

Introduction

Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia) and

2.

Markets, Mechanisms, Games and their Implications in Grids

David Miller (University of California, San Diego),

Sameer Tilak (San Diego Supercomputer Center) and

3.

Ownership Decentralization Issues in Resource Allocation Problems

4.

Pricing, Options, Futures, and Price-Utility Models

Dan C. Marinescu (University of Central Florida) and

5.

Utility functions, prices, and negotiation

PART II : Business Models

6.

Grid Business Models, Evaluation and Principles

Steve Taylor (University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre), and

7.

Grid Business Models for Brokers Executing SLA-Based Workflows

Dang Minh Quan (International University in Germany) and

A Business-Rules Based Model to Manage Virtual Organizations in Collaborative Grid Environments

Pilar Herrero (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid),

José Luis Bosque (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and

9.

Accounting As Requirement for Market­Oriented Grid Computing

PART III : Policies and Agreements

10.

Service Level Agreements in the Grid environment

Bastian Koller (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart),

Eduardo Oliveros (Telefónica R&D) and

11.

SLAs, Negotiation and Potential Problems

Paul McKee (British Telecom) and

Economically Enhanced Resource & SLA Management

Mario Macías (Technical University of Catalonia),

Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University),

Jordi Guitart (University of Catalonia),

Jordi Torres (University of Catalonia), and

Erel Rosenberg (Correlation Systems Ltd)

SLA-based Resource Management and Allocation  

Market Based Resource Allocation for Differentiated

Quality Service Levels

H. Howie Huang (University of Virginia) and

Specification, Planning, and Execution of QoS-aware Grid

Workflows within the Amadeus System

Ivona Brandic (University of Vienna)

Sabri Pllana (University of Vienna) and

Risk Management in Grids

Karim Djemame (University of Leeds),

Odej Kao (Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing) and

PART IV : Resource Allocation and Scheduling Mechanisms

16.

A Reciprocation-based Economy for Multiple Services in a Computational Grid

Nazareno Andrade (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande)

Francisco Brasileiro (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande)

Miranda Mowbray (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol)

17.

Nimrod-G Grid Resource Broker and Cost-based Scheduling

Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne) and

18.

Techniques for providing hard quality of service guarantees in job scheduling.

P. Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory),

P. Sadayappan (Ohio State University) and

19.

Deadline and Budget based Scheduling of Workflows

Game Theoretic Scheduling of Grid Computations

Game theory-based cost optimized workflow scheduling

Radu Prodan (University of Innsbruck) and

Auction-based Resource Allocation

Two Auction-Based Resource Allocation Environments: Design and Experience

Amin Vahdat (University of California San Diego)

Trust in Grid Resource Auctions

Kris Bubendorfer (Victoria University of Wellington),

Ian Welch (Victoria University of Wellington),

Wayne Thomson (Victoria University of Wellington) and

Gridbus: A Market-Oriented Grid Middleware