Business Model and the Policy of Mapping Light Communication Grid-Based Workflow within the SLA Context

Abstract

In the business Grid environment, the business relationship between a customer and a service provider should be clearly dened. The responsibility of each partner can be stated in the so-called Service Level Agreement (SLA). In the context of SLA-based work ows, the business model is an important factor to determine its job-resource-mapping pol- icy. However, this aspect has not been described fully in the literature. This paper presents the business model of a system handling SLA-based work ow within the business Grid computing environment. From this business model, the mapping policy of the broker is derived. The exper- iment results show the impact of business models on the eciency of mapping policies.