Title :
A Distributed Approach for Negotiating Resource Contributions in Dynamic Collaboration
Author :
Nepal, Surya ; Zic, John ; Chan, Jonathan
Author_Institution :
CSIRO, Epping
Abstract :
This paper first defines a format for capturing and distributing contributed resources called an eContract and then proposes an agreement protocol along with a simple distributed algorithm for negotiating the eContract in the context of dynamic collaborations. The insights gained from the analysis of the proposed negotiation algorithm lead us to the development of an efficient "message piggybacking" negotiation algorithm.
Keywords :
contracts; distributed algorithms; groupware; resource allocation; agreement protocol; distributed algorithm; dynamic collaboration; e-contract; message piggybacking; resource contribution negotiation; Algorithm design and analysis; Architecture; Australia; Contracts; Distributed algorithms; Distributed computing; Distributed control; International collaboration; Protocols; Runtime;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, 2007. PDCAT '07. Eighth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Adelaide, SA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-3049-4
DOI :
10.1109/PDCAT.2007.34
