Market-Oriented Grid and Utility Computing (Hardcover)

This book presents the first integrated, single-source reference on market-oriented grid and utility computing. Divided into four main parts—and with contributions from a panel of experts in the field—it systematically and carefully explores:

• Foundations—presents the fundamental concepts of market-oriented computing and the issues and challenges in allocating resources in a decentralized computing environment.

• Business models—covers business models for service providers and brokers supporting different types of distributed applications, as well as business rules-based models for managing virtual organizations and accounting operations and services in grid computing environments.

• Policies and agreements—introduces policies, agreements, and specifications for the negotiation and establishment of contracts between providers and consumers. It also covers different approaches for resource allocation based on service-level agreements (SLAs) and management of risks associated with SLA violations.

• Resource allocation and scheduling mechanisms—covers economic models, such as commodity models, reciprocation, auctions, and game theory, and middleware technologies, such as Nimrod/G and Gridbus, for market-oriented grid computing and utility-oriented resource allocation.

This book expertly captures the state of the art in the field while also identifying potential research directions and technologies that will facilitate the creation of global commercial grid and utility computing systems. It is an indispensable reference for systems architects, practitioners, developers, new researchers, and graduate students.

這本書是第一本涵蓋網格和公用程式計算經濟研究最新發展的單一來源參考資料。本書分為四個主要部分，並由該領域的專家小組提供貢獻，系統地且仔細地探討以下內容：

1. 基礎知識：介紹市場導向計算的基本概念，以及在分散式計算環境中分配資源所面臨的問題和挑戰。

2. 商業模式：涵蓋支援不同類型分散式應用程式的服務提供者和經紀人的商業模式，以及基於商業規則的虛擬組織管理和網格計算環境中的會計操作和服務的商業模型。

3. 政策和協議：介紹供應商和消費者之間協商和建立合約的政策、協議和規範。同時涵蓋基於服務水平協議（SLAs）的資源分配不同方法，以及管理與SLA違規相關的風險。

4. 資源分配和排程機制：涵蓋經濟模型，如商品模型、互惠、拍賣和博弈論，以及用於市場導向網格計算和公用程式導向資源分配的中介軟體技術，如Nimrod/G和Gridbus。

本書精準地捕捉了該領域的最新發展，同時確定了可能的研究方向和技術，有助於建立全球商業網格和公用程式計算系統。對於系統架構師、從業人員、開發人員、新研究人員和研究生來說，這是一本不可或缺的參考資料。