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Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services

11th International Conference, GECON 2014, Cardiff, UK, September 16-18, 2014. Revised Selected Papers.

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Jörn Altmann

    1. Technology, Economics, and Policy Program, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Gwanak-Gu, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

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  2. Kurt Vanmechelen

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

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  3. Omer F. Rana

    1. School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8914)

Part of the book sub series: Computer Communication Networks and Telecommunications (LNCCN)

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Keynote

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Economics, Security and Innovation

      • Massimo Felici
      Pages 3-15

  3. Cloud Adoption

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. A Metrics Suite for Firm-Level Cloud Computing Adoption Readiness

      • Robert J. Kauffman, Dan Ma, Martin Yu
      Pages 19-35

    3. An Agency Perspective to Cloud Computing

      • Frank Pallas
      Pages 36-51

  4. Work in Progress on Market Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Cloud Goliath Versus a Federation of Cloud Davids

      • Kibae Kim, Songhee Kang, Jörn Altmann
      Pages 55-66

    3. Analysis of the Social Effort in Multiplex Participatory Networks

      • Davide Vega, Roc Meseguer, Felix Freitag
      Pages 67-79

  5. Cost Optimization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Energy-Aware Cloud Management Through Progressive SLA Specification

      • Dražen Lučanin, Foued Jrad, Ivona Brandic, Achim Streit
      Pages 83-98

    3. CloudTracker: Using Execution Provenance to Optimize the Cost of Cloud Use

      • Geoffrey Douglas, Brian Drawert, Chandra Krintz, Rich Wolski
      Pages 99-113

    4. Migration to Governmental Cloud Digital Forensics Community: Economics and Methodology

      • Gianluigi Me
      Pages 114-129

  6. Work in Progress on Pricing, Contracts, and Service Selection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Performance Evaluation for Cost-Efficient Public Infrastructure Cloud Use

      • John O’Loughlin, Lee Gillam
      Pages 133-145

    3. Balancing Leasing and Insurance Costs to Achieve Total Risk Coverage in Cloud Storage Multi-homing

      • Maurizio Naldi
      Pages 146-158

    4. A WS-Agreement Based SLA Implementation for the CMAC Platform

      • Adriano Galati, Karim Djemame, Martyn Fletcher, Mark Jessop, Michael Weeks, John McAvoy
      Pages 159-171

    5. A Domain Specific Language and a Pertinent Business Vocabulary for Cloud Service Selection

      • Mathias Slawik, Axel Küpper
      Pages 172-185

  7. Economic Aspects of Quality of Service

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Towards Petri Net-Based Economical Analysis for Streaming Applications Executed Over Cloud Infrastructures

      • Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, José Ángel Bañares, José-Manuel Colom
      Pages 189-205
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2014, held in Cardiff, UK, in September 2014. The 8 revised full papers and 7 paper-in-progress presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The presentation sessions that have been set up are: Cloud Adoption, Work in Progress on Market Dynamics, Cost Optimization, Work in Progress on Pricing, Contracts and Service Selection and Economic Aspects of Quality of Service.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Technology, Economics, and Policy Program, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Gwanak-Gu, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Jörn Altmann

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

    Kurt Vanmechelen

  • School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

    Omer F. Rana

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