Due to the large variety in computing resources and, consequently, the large number of
different types of service level agreements (SLAs), computing resource markets face the …

Stocks movement direction forecasting has received a lot of attention. Indeed, being able to
make accurate forecasts has strong implications on trading strategies. Surprisingly enough …

Automated and intelligent negotiation solutions for reaching service level agreements (SLA)
represent a hot research topic in computational grids. Previous work regarding SLA …

Cloud computing is one of the most promising computing models evolving from last decade
in distributed computing. It has the capability of using services to allow the small Information …

The Internet has evolved from a fault-tolerant infrastructure to support both social networking
and a semantic web for machine users. Trust in the data, and the infrastructure, has become …

This paper presents a new negotiation model for designing Market-and Behavior-driven
Negotiation Agents (MBDNAs) that address computational grid resource allocation problem …

This article considers the ensuring of secure data processing in distributed computer
systems (DCSs), which is important for a certain class of computing tasks. An approach to …

This article considers cloud service composition from a decision analysis perspective.
Traditional QoS-aware composition techniques usually consider the qualities available at …

In real-life trading, relaxing decisions in the face of trading pressure is common. Similarly, in
market-based grid resource allocation problem designing negotiator agents with the …

Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, ubiquitous and on-demand network
access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (eg storage, applications, and …