Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services 8th International Workshop, GECON 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vanmechelen, Kurt (Editor), Altmann, Jörn (Editor), Rana, Omer F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7150
• Subjects: Computer science.; Special purpose computers.; Computer system failures.; Software engineering.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Software Engineering.; System Performance and Evaluation.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.
• Physical Description: XII, 202 p. 75 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783642286759
• ISSN: 0302-9743 ;

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2011, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in December 2011. The 9 revised full papers presented together with 5 work in progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on market mechanisms and negotiation; cost models, charging, and trading platforms; resource allocation, scheduling, and admission control; and two work in progress sections: risk assessment and economics of cloud services; and cost-aware adoption of cloud services.