In this document the developments in defining the computational and theoretical framework for economical resource allocation are described. Accordingly the formal specification of the market mechanisms, bidding strategies of the involved agents and the integration of the market mechanisms into...

This document describes the progress of the simulator development with in the third year of the CATNETS project. The refinement of the simulator as well as a detailed guide to conducting simulations is presented.

Grid computing has recently become an important paradigm for managing eomputationally demanding applications (composed of a collection of services). Providing dynamic discovery of services, and the determination of a service with the "best value" remains a complex problem in Grid computing. Such...

The main content of this report is the identification and definition of market mechanisms for Application Layer Networks (ALNs). On basis of the structured Market Engineering process, the work comprises the identification of requirements which adequate market mechanisms for ALNs have to fulfill....

The Computational Gris is a promising technology for providing access to distributed high-end computational capabilities. It enables the execution of complex and computationally demanding applications such as simulations or multimedia-renderings. However, one of the key problems in the...

This Report is about the preliminary specifications and design documentation for software components to achieve Catallaxy in computational systems.