Links to Sites/Literature Relevant to Auctions and Trading Computer Resources

Web sites

Market-based Computing Site at Xerox Parc
Cooperative Problem Solving
Internet Ecologies
The Information Economy
Commerce Net
Agorics, Inc.
Market-Oriented Programming
Michigan Internet AuctionBot
Multi Agent Systems Laboratory
Software Agents Group, MIT
Multiagent Systems Research Group at Washington University
WisWeb: Scalable, Consistent, High-Performance Web Services
Condor - High Throughput Computing
Center for Research in Electronic Commerce
University of California Berkeley NOW Project
The POPCORN project: Global Distributed computation over the internet in Java
GLOBUS.ORG: sponsor of ``Grid Forum''
ENRON online: market for communications bandwidth
Sun Grid Engine: software for harnessing idle cpu cycles for Unix/Linux machines in a network
Grid Forum: organization devoted to utilizing the global Internet to build distributed computing and communications infrastructures.
AKAMAI.COM: firm specializing in providing distributed network servers to business
CENTRATA.COM: firm specializing in networking individual workstations into supercomputers
Parabon Computation, Inc.
Applied Metacomputing
Entropia: High Performance Internet Computing

Papers on Auctions, Markets for Computer Resources, and Related Topics

Market-based Proportional Resource Sharing for Clusters
The POPCORN market--an online market for computational resources
Spawn: A Distributed Computational Economy
Economic Allocation of Computation Time with Computation Markets
Asymptotic Optimality of the K-Double Auction
Proceedings of the first international conference on Information and computation economies
Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems
Trading Agent Competition
Free Riding on Gnutella

Link to NSF Proposal

NSF Proposal:Auction-Based Distributed Computing

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