Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Neumann, Dirk (Editor), Baker, Mark (Editor), Altmann, Jörn (Editor), Rana, Omer (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2010.
• Series: Autonomic Systems
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer organization.; Computer system failures.; Management information systems.; Economics.; Computer Science.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Economic Systems.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; System Performance and Evaluation.

Distributed computing paradigms for sharing resources such as Clouds, Grids, Peer-to-Peer systems, or voluntary computing are becoming increasingly popular. While there are some success stories such as PlanetLab, OneLab, BOINC, BitTorrent, and SETI@home, a widespread use of these technologies for bu...