Resource management through multilateral matchmaking

Federated distributed systems present new challenges to resource management, which cannot be met by conventional systems that employ relatively static resource models and centralized allocators. We previously argued that matchmaking provides an elegant and robust resource management solution for these highly dynamic environments (R. Raman et al., 1998). Although powerful and flexible, multiparty policies (e.g., co-allocation) cannot be accommodated by matchmaking. The authors present Gang-Matching, a multilateral matchmaking formalism to address this deficiency.