A Strategic Negotiation Model for Grid Scheduling.
Jiadao Li, Ramin Yahyapour · International transactions on systems science and applications · 2006
Resource management in a decentralized Grid infrastructure is a complex task as it has to cope with different policies and objectives of the different resource providers and the resource users. This problem is further complicated due to the diversity of the resource types, the heterogeneity of their local resource management systems. Agreement-based resource management can be used to address these issues as in the negotiation process of creating such bi-lateral service level agreements (SLAs) between Grid parties, the different polices of the resource providers and the users will be abstracted and observed. Such negotiation processes should be automated with no or minimal human interaction, considering the potential scale of Grid systems and the amount of necessary transactions. Therefore, strategic negotiation models play important roles. In this paper, a negotiation model including learning-based negotiation strategies are proposed and examined. Simulations have been conducted to evaluate the presented system. The results demonstrate that the proposed negotiation model and the learning based negotiation strategies are suitable and effective for Grid environments.