Grid Economics and Business Models

1. Front Matter

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2. Adopting the Grid for Business Purposes: The Main Objectives and the Associated Economic Issues

   • George A. Thanos, Costas Courcoubetis, George D. Stamoulis

   Pages 1-15

3. Decision Factors of Enterprises for Adopting Grid Computing

   • Junseok Hwang, Jihyoun Park

   Pages 16-28

4. Taxonomy of Grid Business Models

   • Jörn Altmann, Mihaela Ion, Ashraf Adel Bany Mohammed

   Pages 29-43

5. Development of a Generic Value Chain for the Grid Industry

   • Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Carlo Figà Talamanca, George A. Thanos, Csilla Zsigri

   Pages 44-57

6. Strategies for the Service Market Place

   • Paul McKee, Steve Taylor, Mike Surridge, Richard Lowe, Carmelo Ragusa

   Pages 58-70

7. Prediction-Based Enforcement of Performance Contracts

   • Thomas Sandholm, Kevin Lai

   Pages 71-82

8. DFCA: A Flexible Refundable Auction for Limited Capacity Suppliers

   • Zhixing Huang, Shigeo Matsubara

   Pages 83-97

9. A Comparative Analysis of Single-Unit Vickrey Auctions and Commodity Markets for Realizing Grid Economies with Dynamic Pricing

   • Kurt Vanmechelen, Jan Broeckhove

   Pages 98-111

10. A Continuation-Based Framework for Economy-Driven Grid Service Provision

    • Maurizio Giordano, Claudia Di Napoli

    Pages 112-123

11. On Business Grid Demands and Approaches

    • Carsten Franke, Adolf Hohl, Philip Robinson, Bernd Scheuermann

    Pages 124-135

12. Enabling the Simulation of Service-Oriented Computing and Provisioning Policies for Autonomic Utility Grids

    • Marcos Dias de Assunção, Werner Streitberger, Torsten Eymann, Rajkumar Buyya

    Pages 136-149

13. Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?

    • László Toka, Patrick Maillé

    Pages 150-163

14. E-Business in ArguGRID

    • Francesca Toni

    Pages 164-169

15. AssessGrid, Economic Issues Underlying Risk Awareness in Grids

    • Kerstin Voss, Karim Djemame, Iain Gourlay, James Padgett

    Pages 170-175

16. CATNETS – Open Market Approaches for Self-organizing Grid Resource Allocation

    • Torsten Eymann, Werner Streitberger, Sebastian Hudert

    Pages 176-181

17. The edutain@grid Project

    • Thomas Fahringer, Christoph Anthes, Alexis Arragon, Arton Lipaj, Jens Müller-Iden, Christopher Rawlings et al.

    Pages 182-187

18. GridEcon – The Economic-Enhanced Next-Generation Internet

    • Jörn Altmann, Costas Courcoubetis, John Darlington, Jeremy Cohen

    Pages 188-193

19. SORMA – Building an Open Grid Market for Grid Resource Allocation

    • Dirk Neumann, Jochen Stoesser, Arun Anandasivam, Nikolay Borissov

    Pages 194-200

20. Back Matter

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analysis. Their results show that interoperability is the most indispensable element to a successful utilization of Grid infrastructures in enterprises. In the third contribution, Altmann and colleagues formulate a taxonomical - proach to Grid business models. They survey the development and origin of Grid technologies and focus on the importance of business-directed values when trying to commercialize today’s Grids. Therein, they identify the reduction of costs, the - provement of efficiency, the creation of novel products and services as well as the quality and collaboration between companies as key factors for the differentiation of Grid business models. The paper concludes by applying the proposed taxonomy to a utility computing scenario and a software-as-a-service scenario in practice. Stanoevska-Slabeva and Zsigri propose a generic value chain for the Grid industry. In their contribution, they suggest a case study on aggregating results from different Grid middleware modules into a generic Grid value chain. In their contribution, McKee and coauthors propose a set of strategies for acting in future service-oriented markets. The costs of negotiations are put in relation to the value of the offer under negotiation. Hence, the contribution adds to the state of the art by extending the vision of service level agreements (SLAs) within service fra- works. Sandholm and Lai propose a novel, prediction-based enforcement of performance contracts. Their approach aims at controllable quality of service (QoS) within Grid computing platforms. The proposed mechanism is based on a hybrid resource allo- tion system using both proportional shares and reservations.

• E-Business
• Internet
• Peer
• Service-oriented Computing
• Simulation
• business grids
• distributed systems
• electronic auctions
• grid business models
• grid computing
• grid economics
• grid systems
• grid technology
• high-performance computing
• modeling

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