The emerging paradigm of interconnected microgrids advocates energy trading or sharing
among multiple microgrids. It helps make full use of the temporal availability of energy and …

Auction mechanisms are used for allocating a resource among multiple agents with the
objective to maximize social welfare. What makes auctions attractive is that they are agnostic …

WirelessHART is a new wireless sensor-actuator network standard specifically developed
for process industries. A key challenge faced by WirelessHART networks is to meet the …

Cloud computing, a business model of computing, has revolutionized the world by its
enormous benefits. Computing resources such as CPU, memory, storage are available in …

Grid computing offers the network of large scale computing resources. Economic models are
effective in collaborating large scale heterogeneous grid resources that are typically owned …

Before any of the current" agile" development methods, earned value management provided
information for planning and controlling complex projects by measuring how much" value" …

The core goal of resource management is to establish a mutual agreement between a
resource producer and a resource consumer by which the provider agrees to supply a …

Dynamic pricing and good level of Pareto optimality make auctions more attractive for
resource allocation over other economic models. However, some auction models present …

The increasingly growing supply and demand for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) makes
cloud trading possible in an open exchange (OCX) marketplace. The mechanisms based on …

Meta-schedulers map jobs to computational resources that are part of a Grid, such as
clusters, that in turn have their own local job schedulers. Existing Grid meta-schedulers …