Title: A service-oriented accounting system for dynamic Virtual Organizations
Author: Matthias Goehner
e-mail: matthias.goehner@unibw-muenchen.de
Partner: CETIM
Supervisor: Gabi Dreo
Committee: Gabi Dreo, Heinz-Gerd Hegering (LMU)
Year of start: 2005
Year of end: 2008
Funding institution: University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Information System Laboratory (IIS)

The scope of the PhD thesis is the conceptual development and prototypical implementation of a service-oriented Grid accounting architecture for dynamic Virtual Organizations (VO) within multi-provider Grid environments.
Dealing with complex virtual services and virtual resources where service compositions have to take place on-demand, for certain periods of time, and across organizational boundaries imposes new challenging requirements from the perspective of the underlying accounting system.

Brief description of the scope and objectives of the PhD thesis:

• Development of a service model for dynamic VOs overcoming the typically static nature of traditional Grids
• Comprehensive requirements analysis wrt. requirements of the accounting system based on several real-world scenarios
• Detailed evaluation of existing Grid accounting approaches and standardization efforts
• Description of a job workflow wrt. relevant accounting processes
• Identification of accountable units for Grid services and grid resources
• Identification of accounting relevant components and interfaces within a VO
• Assessment done through prototypical implementation in a real-world testbed at our institute

1. Towards an Accounting System for Multi-Provider Grid Environments , Gabi Dreo, Matthias Goehner, Mario Golling and Michael Kretzschmar, IEEE/IFIP Integrated Management Conference IM 2007, Germany.
2. An Accounting Model for Dynamic Virtual Organizations, Matthias Goehner, Martin Waldburger, Fabian Gubler, Gabi Dreo, and Burkhard Stiller, Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid — CCGrid 2007.
3. Towards Integrated Grid Accounting/Billing for D-Grid, Claus-Peter Rueckemann, Matthias Goehner, and Timo Baur. Journal of Grid Computing, Special Issue on Grid Economics and Business Models, 2007 (not yet accepted).