Grid Economics and Business Models 4th International Workshop, GECON 2007, Rennes, France, August 28, 2007. Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Veit, Daniel J. (Editor), Altmann, Jörn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4685
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Computer communication systems.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; E-commerce.; Electrical engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; e-Commerce/e-business.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; IT in Business.

analysis. Their results show that interoperability is the most indispensable element to a successful utilization of Grid infrastructures in enterprises. In the third contribution, Altmann and colleagues formulate a taxonomical - proach to Grid business models. They survey the development and origin...

Table of Contents:

• Adopting the Grid for Business Purposes: The Main Objectives and the Associated Economic Issues
• Decision Factors of Enterprises for Adopting Grid Computing
• Taxonomy of Grid Business Models
• Development of a Generic Value Chain for the Grid Industry
• Strategies for the Service Market Place
• Prediction-Based Enforcement of Performance Contracts
• DFCA: A Flexible Refundable Auction for Limited Capacity Suppliers
• A Comparative Analysis of Single-Unit Vickrey Auctions and Commodity Markets for Realizing Grid Economies with Dynamic Pricing
• A Continuation-Based Framework for Economy-Driven Grid Service Provision
• On Business Grid Demands and Approaches
• Enabling the Simulation of Service-Oriented Computing and Provisioning Policies for Autonomic Utility Grids
• Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?
• E-Business in ArguGRID
• AssessGrid, Economic Issues Underlying Risk Awareness in Grids
• CATNETS – Open Market Approaches for Self-organizing Grid Resource Allocation
• The edutain@grid Project
• GridEcon – The Economic-Enhanced Next-Generation Internet
• SORMA – Building an Open Grid Market for Grid Resource Allocation.