Grid Economics and Business Models

1. Front Matter

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2. Market Models and Mechanisms

   1. DEEP-SaM - Energy-Efficient Provisioning Policies for Computing Environments

      • Christian Bodenstein, Tim Püschel, Markus Hedwig, Dirk Neumann

      Pages 1-14

   2. Response Deadline Evaluation in Point-to-Point Negotiation on Grids

      • Sébastien Noël, Pierre Manneback, Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi

      Pages 15-27

   3. A Framework for Analyzing the Economics of a Market for Grid Services

      • Robin Mason, Costas Courcoubetis, Natalia Miliou

      Pages 28-45

3. Business Support Tools

   1. The GridEcon Platform: A Business Scenario Testbed for Commercial Cloud Services

      • Marcel Risch, Jörn Altmann, Li Guo, Alan Fleming, Costas Courcoubetis

      Pages 46-59

   2. VieSLAF Framework: Enabling Adaptive and Versatile SLA-Management

      • Ivona Brandic, Dejan Music, Philipp Leitner, Schahram Dustdar

      Pages 60-73

   3. Cost Optimization Model for Business Applications in Virtualized Grid Environments

      • Jörg Strebel

      Pages 74-87

4. Business-Related Resource Allocation

   1. Increasing Capacity Exploitation in Food Supply Chains Using Grid Concepts

      • Eugen Volk, Marcus Müller, Ansger Jacob, Peter Racz, Martin Waldburger

      Pages 88-101

   2. A QoS-Based Selection Mechanism Exploiting Business Relationships in Workflows

      • Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Konstantinos Tserpes, Ioannis Papagiannis, Kleopatra Konstanteli, Theodora Varvarigou

      Pages 102-115

5. Work-in-Progress on Economic and Legal Models

   1. Determinants of Participation in Global Volunteer Grids: A Cross-Country Analysis

      • Junseok Hwang, Jörn Altmann, Ashraf Bany Mohammed

      Pages 116-127

   2. The Determination of Jurisdiction in Grid and Cloud Service Level Agreements

      • Davide Maria Parrilli

      Pages 128-139

6. Work-in-Progress on Business Models

   1. Engineering of Services and Business Models for Grid Applications

      • Jürgen Falkner, Anette Weisbecker

      Pages 140-149

   2. Visualization in Health Grid Environments: A Novel Service and Business Approach

      • Frank Dickmann, Mathias Kaspar, Benjamin Löhnhardt, Nick Kepper, Fred Viezens, Frank Hertel et al.

      Pages 150-159

7. Work-in-Progress on Economic-Aware Architectures

   1. Message Protocols for Provisioning and Usage of Computing Services

      • Nikolay Borissov, Simon Caton, Omer Rana, Aharon Levine

      Pages 160-170

   2. Business Collaborations in Grids: The BREIN Architectural Principals and VO Model

      • Steve Taylor, Mike Surridge, Giuseppe Laria, Pierluigi Ritrovato, Lutz Schubert

      Pages 171-181

8. Back Matter

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GECON - Grid Economics and Business Models Cloud computing is seen by many people as the natural evolution of Grid computing concepts. Both, for instance, rely on the use of service-based approaches for pro- sioning compute and data resources. The importance of understanding business m- els and the economics of distributed computing systems and services has generally remained unchanged in the move to Cloud computing. This understanding is nec- sary in order to build sustainable e-infrastructure and businesses around this paradigm of sharing Cloud services. Currently, only a handful of companies have created s- cessful businesses around Cloud services. Among these, Amazon and Salesforce (with their offerings of Elastic Compute Cloud and force. com among other offerings) are the most prominent. Both companies understand how to charge for their services and how to enable commercial transactions on them. However, whether a wide-spread adoption of Cloud services will occur has to seen. One key enabler remains the ability to support suitable business models and charging schemes that appeal to users o- sourcing (part of) their internal business functions. The topics that have been addressed by the authors of accepted papers reflect the above-described situation and the need for a better understanding of Grid economics. The topics range from market mechanisms for trading computing resources, capacity planning, tools for modeling economic aspects of service-oriented systems, archit- tures for handling service level agreements, to models for economically efficient resource allocation.

• Cloud Computing
• architectures
• cloud services
• eBusiness
• eCommerce
• grid applications
• grid computing
• market models
• micropayment
• ubiquitous computing
• visualization

• TEMEP, School of Industrial and Management Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  Jörn Altmann

• Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  Rajkumar Buyya

• School of Computer Science/Welsh eScience Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

  Omer F. Rana