Heterogeneous Telescope Networks

EMarkets

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Rick explaining Grid Markets
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Rick explaining Grid Markets

The LJM (http://www.astro.livjm.ac.uk/) group gave a paper at the SPIE Meeting (http://www.spie.org/Conferences/calls/04/as) in 2004:

  • A Free Market in Telescope Time (http://www.telescope-networks.org/wiki/uploads/5/51/A_Free_Market_in_Telescope_Time.pdf) by Etherton, Steele & Mottram, Proceedings of the SPIE

Discussions at the meeting led to the what is tentatively being referred to as the Common Observation Request Exchange (http://alpha.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~hessman/CORE/) (CORE) Collaboration, which in turn produced the HTN Consortium.

Here a (semi-)centralised market is used by the user (or autonomously by the user's software) to buy and sell telescope time. What is traded is the time itself, the market does not drive the telescope, and it does not keep track of time sold. Only knows how much time is for sale, and the price. Access to the telescopes would still be via their own embedded agent or broker service which knows who has allocated time on the telescope.

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