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tion process is the creation of distributed SLAs. We
have discussed two different strategies to co-allocate
SLAs in Grids. One using a two phase commit with
a WS-Agreement Commit extension and one using a
single phase commit with SLA cancellation and in-
centives.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Some of the work reported in this paper is funded
by the German Federal Ministry of Education
and Research through the VIOLA project (grant
#01AK605L), by the European Commission’s IST
programme through the CoreGRID Network of Ex-
cellence (grant #004265), and by the French Ministry
of Industry through the CARRIOCAS project.
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