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In response to the advent of new computational infrastructures, a number of initiatives, such as autonomic computing [5] and utility computing [8], have been announced by major IT vendors sharing the same underlying principles of provisioning distributed computational resources to a large number of users “on demand”. Since, by their nature, such systems are large, open and dynamic, allocation of resources to users presents unique challenges that threaten to overwhelm existing centralised management approaches [2].