Overview: Interdisciplinary approach that combines work from Economics and Computer Science.Coordination and incentive problems prevalent to any kind of distributed system are analyzed by means of economic theo.Distributed computing paradigms for sharing resources such as Clouds, Grids, Peer-to-Peer systems, or voluntary computing are becoming increasingly popular. While there are some success stories such as PlanetLab, OneLab, BOINC, BitTorrent, and SETI@home, a widespread use of these technologies for business applications has not yet been achieved. In a business environment, mechanisms are
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