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Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services

9th International Conference, GECON 2012, Berlin, Germany, November 27-28, 2012, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Kurt Vanmechelen

    1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  2. Jörn Altmann

    1. College of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

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  3. Omer F. Rana

    1. School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7714)

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Session A: Market Mechanisms, Pricing and Negotiation

    1. A Protocol Development Framework for SLA Negotiations in Cloud and Service Computing

      • Edwin Yaqub, Ramin Yahyapour, Philipp Wieder, Kuan Lu
      Pages 1-15

    2. The Use of Provision Point Contracts for Improving Cloud Infrastructure Utilisation

      • Owen Rogers, Dave Cliff
      Pages 16-28

    3. An Economic Agent Maximizing Cloud Provider Revenues under a Pay-as-you-Book Pricing Model

      • Felipe Díaz Sánchez, Elias A. Doumith, Sawsan Al Zahr, Maurice Gagnaire
      Pages 29-45

  3. Session B: Resource Allocation, Scheduling and Admission Control

    1. Economic Co-allocation and Advance Reservation of Network and Computational Resources in Grids

      • Wim Depoorter, Kurt Vanmechelen, Jan Broeckhove
      Pages 46-60

    2. Revenue-Based Resource Management on Shared Clouds for Heterogenous Bursty Data Streams

      • Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, José Ángel Bañares, Congduc Pham, Omer F. Rana
      Pages 61-75

    3. The ISQoS Grid Broker for Temporal and Budget Guarantees

      • Richard Kavanagh, Karim Djemame
      Pages 76-90

  4. Session C:Work-in-Progress on Tools and Techniques for Cost-Efficient Service Selection

    1. Let the Clouds Compute: Cost-Efficient Workload Distribution in Infrastructure Clouds

      • Ulrich Lampe, Melanie Siebenhaar, Ronny Hans, Dieter Schuller, Ralf Steinmetz
      Pages 91-101

    2. A Declarative Recommender System for Cloud Infrastructure Services Selection

      • Miranda Zhang, Rajiv Ranjan, Surya Nepal, Michael Menzel, Armin Haller
      Pages 102-113

    3. Retrieving, Storing, Correlating and Distributing Information for Cloud Management

      • Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Gregory Katsaros, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Athanasios Voulodimos, Roman Talyansky, Theodora Varvarigou
      Pages 114-124

  5. Session D: Market Modeling

    1. On Local Separation of Processing and Storage in Infrastructure-as-a-Service

      • Jörn Künsemöller, Holger Karl
      Pages 125-138

    2. Value Creation in IT Service Platforms through Two-Sided Network Effects

      • Netsanet Haile, Jörn Altmann
      Pages 139-153

  6. Session E: Trust

    1. Cheat-Proof Trust Model for Cloud Computing Markets

      • Mario Macías, Jordi Guitart
      Pages 154-168

    2. Trust Factors for the Usage of Cloud Computing in Small and Medium Sized Craft Enterprises

      • Holger Kett, Harriet Kasper, Jürgen Falkner, Anette Weisbecker
      Pages 169-181

  7. Session F: Cloud Computing in Education

    1. A Cost Analysis of Cloud Computing for Education

      • Fernando Koch, Marcos D. Assunção, Marco A. S. Netto
      Pages 182-196

    2. Delivering Cloud Services with QoS Requirements: An Opportunity for ICT SMEs

      • Alfonso Quarati, Daniele D’Agostino, Antonella Galizia, Matteo Mangini, Andrea Clematis
      Pages 197-211

  8. Session G: Work-in-Progress on Cloud Adoption and Business Models

    1. A Mixed-Methods Research Approach to Investigate the Transition from on-Premise to on-Demand Software Delivery

      • Francesco Novelli
      Pages 212-222

    2. Towards a Federated Cloud Ecosystem: Enabling Managed Cloud Service Consumption

      • Dirk Thatmann, Mathias Slawik, Sebastian Zickau, Axel Küpper
      Pages 223-233

    3. Business Models for Semantic Content Providers

      • Monika Kaczmarek, Agata Filipowska
      Pages 234-244

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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Kurt Vanmechelen

  • College of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

    Jörn Altmann

  • School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Omer F. Rana

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