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2008
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Market Blended Insight: Modeling Propensity to Buy with the Semantic Web
Manuel Salvadores, Landong Zuo, Sm Hazzaz Imtiaz, John Darlington, Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel R Shadbolt, James Dobree
October 2008
ISWC '08: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on The Semantic Web
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
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Market Blended Insight (MBI) is a project with a clear objective of making a significant performance improvement in UK business to business (B2B) marketing activities in the 5-7 year timeframe. The web has created a rapid expansion of content that can ...

 
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Capacity planning and scheduling in Grid computing environments
Ali Afzal, A. Stephen McGough, John Darlington
May 2008
Future Generation Computer Systems , Volume 24 Issue 5
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.
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Grid computing infrastructures embody a cost-effective computing paradigm that virtualises heterogeneous system resources to meet the dynamic needs of critical business and scientific applications. These applications range from batch processes and long-running ...

Keywords: Advance reservations, Brokering, Grid computing, Grid scheduling, Optimisation, Performance, Quality-of-service, Queueing, Scheduling
 
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Payment and negotiation for the next generation Grid and Web
Jeremy Cohen, John Darlington, William Lee
March 2008
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience , Volume 20 Issue 3
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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We present a proposal for a next-generation Internet based on chargeable Web Services and Utility Computing realized by a series of open but interacting markets. We demonstrate through the U.K. e-Science project ‘A Market for Computational Services’ ...

Keywords: Grid economics, Grid markets, Internet commerce, payment, software services
 
2007
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Novel Stochastic Profitable Techniques For Brokers In A Web-Service Based Grid Market
Yash Patel, John Darlington
November 2007
WI '07: Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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Web service-oriented Grid is becoming a standard for achieving loosely coupled distributed computing. Grid services could easily be specified with web-service based interfaces. In this paper we first envisage a realistic Grid market with players such ...

Keywords: Broker, QoS, Workflow, Stochastic Optimisation, Web Service
 
2006
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A Novel Stochastic Algorithm for Scheduling QoS-Constrained Workflows in a Web Service-Oriented Grid
Yash Patel, John Darlington
December 2006
WI-IATW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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The success of web services has influenced the way in which Grid applications are being written. Grid users often submit their applications in the form of workflows with certain Quality of Service (QoS) requirements imposed on the workflows. These workflows ...

 
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Running a Production Grid Site at the London e-Science Centre
David McBride, Marko Krznaric, Olivier van der Aa, Mona Aggarwal, John Darlington, Dave Colling
December 2006
E-SCIENCE '06: Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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This paper describes how the London e-Science Centre cluster MARS, a production 400+ Opteron CPU cluster, was integrated into the production Large Hadron Collider Compute Grid. It describes the practical issues that we encountered when deploying and ...

 
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Capacity Planning and Stochastic Scheduling in Large-Scale Grids
Ali Afzal, John Darlington, A. Stephen McGough
December 2006
E-SCIENCE '06: Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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Grid Infrastructures are inherently dynamic and unpredictable environments where resource management and scheduling play an important part in ensuring that Grid applications execute while satisfying defined cost and performance constraints. Traditional ...

 
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A Novel Approach to Workload Allocation of QoS-Constrained Workflow-Based Jobs in a Utility Grid
Yash Patel, John Darlington
December 2006
E-SCIENCE '06: Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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The Grid can be seen as a collection of services each of which performs some functionality. Grid users often submit their applications in the form of workflows with certain Quality of Service (QoS) requirements imposed on the workflows. These workflows ...

 
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A novel approach to allocating QoS-constrained workflow-based jobs in a multi-cluster grid
Yash Patel, John Darlington
November 2006
MCG '06: Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Middleware for grid computing
Publisher: ACM
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Clusters are increasingly interconnected to form multi-cluster systems, which are becoming popular for scientific computation. Grid users often submit their applications in the form of workflows with certain Quality of Service (QoS) requirements imposed ...

 
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Stochastic Workflow Scheduling with QoS Guarantees in Grid Computing Environments
Ali Afzal, John Darlington, A. Stephen McGough
October 2006
GCC '06: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC'06) - Volume 00 , Volume 00
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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Grid computing infrastructures embody a cost-effective computing paradigm that virtualises heterogenous system resources to meet the dynamic needs of critical business and scientific applications. These applications range from batch processes and long-running ...

 
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