Applying economic principles to grids is deemed promising to improve the overall value provided by such systems. By introducing market mechanisms, end users can influence the allocation of resources by reporting valuations for these resources. Current market-based schedulers, however, are static, assume the availability of complete information about jobs (in particular with respect to processin...

As competition on global markets increases the vision of utility computing gains more and more interest. To attract more providers it is crucial to improve the performance in commercialization of resources. This makes it necessary to not only base components on technical aspects, but also to include economical aspects in their design. This work presents an framework for an Economically Enhanced...

Article history: Received 1 December 2013 Received in revised form 14 March 2014 Accepted 15 March 2014 Available online 4 May 2014 Research has consistently shown that intelligence is positively correlated with socially liberal beliefs and negatively correlated with religious beliefs. This should lead one to expect that Republicans are less intelligent than Democrats. However, I find that indi...