Grid Economics and Business Models

1. Front Matter

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2. Grid Business Modeling

   1. Business Value Chains in Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications

      • Justin Ferris, Mike Surridge, E. Rowland Watkins

      Pages 1-12

   2. Cost Analysis of Current Grids and Its Implications for Future Grid Markets

      • Marcel Risch, Jörn Altmann

      Pages 13-27

   3. Business Relationships in Grid Workflows

      • Ioannis Papagiannis, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Magdalini Kardara, Vassiliki Andronikou, Theodora Varvarigou

      Pages 28-40

3. Market Mechanisms for the Grid

   1. The Power of Preemption in Economic Online Markets

      • Lior Amar, Ahuva Mu’alem, Jochen Stößer

      Pages 41-57

   2. Market Mechanisms for Trading Grid Resources

      • Costas Courcoubetis, Manos Dramitinos, Thierry Rayna, Sergios Soursos, George D. Stamoulis

      Pages 58-72

   3. Rational Bidding Using Reinforcement Learning

      • Nikolay Borissov, Arun Anandasivam, Niklas Wirström, Dirk Neumann

      Pages 73-88

4. Grid Markets

   1. Grid and Taxation: The Server as Permanent Establishment in International Grids

      • Davide Maria Parrilli

      Pages 89-102

   2. The Pricing Strategy Analysis for the “Software-as-a-Service” Business Model

      • Dan Ma, Abraham Seidmann

      Pages 103-112

5. Grid Architectures

   1. On the Assessment of the S-Sicilia Infrastructure: A Grid-Based Business System

      • Carmelo Ragusa, Francesco Longo, Antonio Puliafito

      Pages 113-124

   2. Monitoring and Reputation Mechanisms for Service Level Agreements

      • Omer Rana, Martijn Warnier, Thomas B. Quillinan, Frances Brazier

      Pages 125-139

6. Research Projects on Business Modeling

   1. BEinGRID: Development of Business Models for the Grid Industry

      • Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Davide Maria Parrilli, George Thanos

      Pages 140-151

   2. Edutain@Grid: A Business Grid Infrastructure for Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications

      • Justin Ferris, Mike Surridge, E. Rowland Watkins, Thomas Fahringer, Radu Prodan, Frank Glinka et al.

      Pages 152-162

   3. BREIN, Towards an Intelligent Grid for Business

      • Eduardo Oliveros, Henar Muñoz, David Cantelar, Steve Taylor

      Pages 163-172

7. Research Projects on Market Mechanisms

   1. SORMA – Business Cases for an Open Grid Market: Concept and Implementation

      • Jens Nimis, Arun Anandasivam, Nikolay Borissov, Garry Smith, Dirk Neumann, Niklas Wirström et al.

      Pages 173-184

   2. GridEcon: A Market Place for Computing Resources

      • Jörn Altmann, Costas Courcoubetis, George D. Stamoulis, Manos Dramitinos, Thierry Rayna, Marcel Risch et al.

      Pages 185-196

   3. Grid4All: Open Market Places for Democratic Grids

      • Ruby Krishnaswamy, Leandro Navarro, René Brunner, Xavier León, Xavier Vilajosana

      Pages 197-207

8. Research Projects on Grid Architecture

   1. The German Grid Initiative: A Uniform Accounting Service in Multiple Middleware Environments

      • Jan Wiebelitz, Stefano Dal Pra, Wolfgang Müller, Gabriele von Voigt

      Pages 208-216

   2. The ArguGRID Platform: An Overview

      • Francesca Toni, Mary Grammatikou, Stella Kafetzoglou, Leonidas Lymberopoulos, Symeon Papavassileiou, Dorian Gaertner et al.

      Pages 217-225

   3. AssessGrid Strategies for Provider Ranking Mechanisms in Risk–Aware Grid Systems

      • Dominic Battré, Karim Djemame, Iain Gourlay, Matthias Hovestadt, Odej Kao, James Padgett et al.

      Pages 226-233

The Grid computing concept, which allows users to integrate administratively and g- graphically dispersed computing resources, has been gaining traction in a number of application areas during the past few years. By interconnecting many – heterogeneous, though usually virtualized – computing resources, virtual computer centers or superc- puters can be created, providing a seamless supply of computing resources. Grid comp- ing provides benefits not only for scientific computing (e.g., SETI@home, which interconnects one million computers across 226 countries with a total processing power of 711 TFLOPS) but also in a commercial environment. It is projected that computing Grids can lower the total IT costs of businesses by 30%. The report “Grid Computing: A Vertical Market Perspective 2005–2010” (by The Insight Research Corporation) estimates an increase of worldwide Grid spending from $714.9 million in 2005 to approximately $19.2 billion in 2010. One of the most prominent activities in academia is the EGEE project being funded with 30 MEuro by the European Commission. EGEE brings together researchers from over 27 countries with the common aim of developing a service Grid infrastructure, which is suited for scientific computing with very high demand for processing power.

• Middleware
• Monitor
• Workflow
• calculus
• electronic auctions
• grid business models
• grid market
• high-performance computing
• learning
• modeling
• online market
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• service level agreement
• software as a service
• value chain

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