Diese Broschüre richtet sich vor allem an kleine undmittlere Unternehmen und Selbständige, die Forschungund Entwicklung betreiben und dabei aufSoftware (Computerprogramme) zurückgreifen. Fürsie stellt sich alsbald die Frage nach Schutzrechten.Heute gehören Software und der PC zum...

The increasing interconnection between computers through the Internet has emergedthe vision of Application Layer Networks. Application Layer Networks comprise anabstract view on overlay networks (e.g. Peer-to-Peer networks, Grid infrastructures) ontop of the TCP/IP protocol. Their common...

The primary target of the CATNETS project is the quantitative comparison between thetechnical and economic efficiency of market-based resource allocation mechanisms inapplication layer networks such as Grids. Here, two fundamentally different approachesare compared. A centralized –...

Future Grid network technology will face the problem of the efficient provisioning ofservices to clients by a scalable and dynamic resource allocation (matching) mechanism.The objective of CATNETS is to determine the applicability of a decentralizedeconomic self-organization mechanism for...