Title: The Grid4All ontology for the retrieval of traded resources in a market-oriented grid

Authors: George A. Vouros, Andreas Papasalouros, Konstantinos Kotis, Alexandros Valarakos, Konstantinos Tzonas, Xavier Vilajosana, Ruby Krishnaswamy, Nejla Amara-Hachmi

Addresses: AI-Lab, Department of Information and Communications, Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos 83100, Greece. ' AI-Lab, Department of Information and Communications, Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos 83100, Greece. ' AI-Lab, Department of Information and Communications, Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos 83100, Greece. ' AI-Lab, Department of Information and Communications, Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos 83100, Greece. ' AI-Lab, Department of Information and Communications, Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos 83100, Greece. ' Department of Computer Sciences, Multimedia and Telecommunications, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. ' France Telecom R&D, 38–40, rue du General Leclerc, 92794 Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France. ' France Telecom R&D, 38–40, rue du General Leclerc, 92794 Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France

Abstract: One of the most challenging problems in grid environments concerns the matchmaking between resource requests and offers. As it happens in the physical economy, the grid economy must be supported by services that locate resources based not only on their characteristics, but also on market-related properties, the properties and constraints of offers and requests, as well as on declarative specifications of peers| (providers and consumers) features. Resource retrieval in the context of a grid economy extends the notion of resource matchmaking to the process of discovering those markets that trade resources through market orders. This paper describes an ontology that represents resource orders (offers and requests) in a market-oriented resource retrieval process, and describes the Semantic Information System (SIS) that exploits this ontology for the retrieval of markets. The paper describes the retrieval process thoroughly.

Keywords: grid resources; ontology; resource matchmaking; grid economy; market-oriented resource retrieval; traded resources; resource requests; resource offers; market-oriented grid; semantic information system.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2008.022545

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2008 Vol.4 No.4, pp.418 - 439

Published online: 14 Jan 2009 *

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