Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services 9th International Conference, GECON 2012, Berlin, Germany, November 27-28, 2012. Proceedings /

• 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, 7714
• 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: XIV, 245 p. 66 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783642351945
• ISSN: 0302-9743 ;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2012, held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2012. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 6 work in progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 36 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: market mechanisms, pricing and negotiation; resource allocation, scheduling and admission control; work in progress on tools and techniques for cost-efficient service selection; market modeling; trust; cloud computing in education; and work in progress on cloud adoption and business models.