出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：In this Paper we discuss and compare the design and implementation of two distributed architectures
we have developed in order to support “responsive” (i.e., timely and available) auction
services in a large scale distributed context. Specifically, our architectures can support distributed
auction services whose timing requirements fall within the range of a few seconds. In addition,
those architectures can adapt timely to possible variations of the network conditions (e.g., congestion,
load).
In order to provide the users with highly available auction services, our architectures allow one to
implement those services by means of replicated auction servers. Hence, we believe that the Grid
technology can provide us with an ideal infrastructure for their implementation.
