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Formation of virtual organizations in grids: a game‐theoretic approach
Author(s) -
Carroll Thomas E.,
Grosu Daniel
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.1369
Subject(s) - grid , computer science , service composition , distributed computing , virtual organization , grid computing , resource (disambiguation) , game theory , profit (economics) , service provider , service (business) , web service , business , world wide web , microeconomics , computer network , mathematics , marketing , economics , geometry
Applications require the composition of resources to execute in a grid computing environment. The grid service providers (GSPs), the owners of the computational resources, must form virtual organizations (VOs) to be able to provide the composite resource. We consider grids as self‐organizing systems composed of autonomous, self‐interested GSPs that will organize themselves into VOs with every GSP having the objective of maximizing its profit. Using game theory, we formulate the resource composition among GSPs as a coalition formation problem and propose a framework to model and solve it. Using this framework, we propose a resource management system that supports the VO formation among GSPs in a grid computing system. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.