Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services

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

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.

• Cloud computing
• Cloud economics
• Collaborative and social computing
• Computing and business
• Decision support systems
• Economic impact
• Electronic commerce
• Grid computing
• Intellectual property
• Internet economics
• Interoperability
• Network economics
• Programming interfaces
• Self-organizing autonomic computing
• Socio-technical systems
• Software as a service orchestration systems
• Software infrastructure
• System description languages
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• 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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