Computational resource brokering on the Grid is the process of discovering what systems are capable of running a job, obtaining estimates for when that job may run and how much it will cost, and submitting the job to the system that best meets the users’ requirements. This paper identifies how resource brokers differ from superschedulers, and describes a resource brokering architecture which is...

The brokering of the best Cloud proposals that optimizes the application requirements allows to exploit the flexibility of the Cloud programming paradigm by a dynamically selection of the best SLA, which is available into the market. We present in this paper a scalable multi-users version of a Broker As A Service solution that uses the available resources of a distributed environment, and addre...

Mutual data sharing is provided in distributed file sharing environment. Information brokering systems (IBSs) are used to connect large-scale loosely federated data sources via a brokering overlay. Information brokers redirect the client queries to the requested data servers. Privacy preserving methods are used to protect the data location and data consumer. Brokers are trusted to adopt server-...

Previous work has shown that prior experience in language brokering (informal translation) may facilitate the processing of meaning within and across language boundaries. The present investigation examined the influence of brokering on bilinguals' processing of two word collocations with either a literal or a figurative meaning in each language. Proficient Spanish-English bilinguals classified ...

This paper first describes a few existing models for product and merchant brokering and automated negotiation in the framework of agent-based emarketplaces. Our analysis shows that only simplest types of automated negotiation protocols are currently presented online, whereas some powerful systems have been already implemented in the product and merchant brokering field. Then we give an overview...

Jini is able to support applications in heterogeneous, dynamic computing environments and is also being used to develop agent-based applications. This paper presents the design of a multiagent framework for resource brokering and management in a Grid environment and implementation of a part of it utilizing Jini features. The multiagent framework provides services like resource brokering and all...

Grid Computing has succeeded in establishing production Grids serving various user communities all around the world. The emerging Web technologies have already affected Grid development; the latest solutions from peer-topeer networking also need to be considered in order to successfully transform the currently separated production Grids to a World-Wide Grid solving the big problem of Grid Inter...

This paper is based on studies of a living lab process, which is an open, usercentric, innovation approach, where several actors from industry, user groups and academia are involved. We aim to describe and analyze the dynamics in an innovation boundary context based on a living lab process. An action-oriented research approach was applied and the empirical results are from The Find Project (TFP...

E-Commerce describes the revolution that is currently transforming the way business is conducted, through the use of information technology, and in particular the World Wide Web. Brokering and negotiation are fundamental stages of e-Commerce. The last few years, there has been an increasing interest for the automation of these two stages. This is partially achieved by the use of software agents...