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Strategies for the Service Market Place,bles customers to make value judgements regarding the quality of a service. We also discuss the complexity of too much choice from both the customer and provider points of view, and advocate a “discrete offer” approach. We discuss the “cost of negotiation” and argue that it must be carefully balance

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Prediction-Based Enforcement of Performance Contracts,vides these features using the complementary abstractions of proportional shares and reservations. This paper analyzes a hybrid resource allocation system using both proportional shares and reservations. We also examine the use of price prediction to provide statistical QoS guarantees and to set adm

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DFCA: A Flexible Refundable Auction for Limited Capacity Suppliers,ervice provider has finite capacities and consumers could withdraw their bids. We consider a new type of auction called the refundable auction, i. e. refund means that a consumer’s showing up is uncertain and he can get back partial of his payment if his cancellation or no-show occurs. This mechanis

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A Comparative Analysis of Single-Unit Vickrey Auctions and Commodity Markets for Realizing Grid Eco to align the resource consumption and provisioning patterns of Grid participants through proper incentive mechanisms. An important research question in this regard is the choice of a market organization. A number of such organizations have been proposed to support an economically inspired form of G

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On Business Grid Demands and Approaches,ng has been traditionally used to solve large scientific problems, focussing more on accumulative use of computing power and processing large input and output files, typical for many scientific problems. Nowadays businesses have increasing computational demands, such that Grid technologies are of in

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Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Msystem is different from the ones applicable to peer-to-peer file sharing systems, since the storage capacity is a private good here. We study two mechanisms aimed at incentivizing users to offer some of their capacity: a price-based scheme (here a revenue-driven monopoly) and a more classical symme

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E-Business in ArguGRID,by means of argumentative agent-based grid technologies. In this paper we outline the main features of the ARGUGRID envisaged system, intended to support more generally service selection and composition in distributed environments, including the grid and service-oriented architectures.