Grid-Cloud: IT platform for Service Science

Service Science is proposed as an integrative discipline with the purpose of creating new technology and market for providing high value service. The development of modern service industry urgently necessitates a new generation network and information supporting platform. This paper proposes an IT platform converging Grid and Cloud, which emphasizes large-scale sharing of resource and virtual application environment respectively, for Service Science. We present the technical architecture of Grid-Cloud based IT platform for Service Science. Then, market-based service system architecture is discussed in detail. Furthermore, we analyze and sum up some key challenges of resource allocation for the Grid-Cloud based IT platform and propose an economics based resource allocation framework.