Grid Economics and Business Models: 5th International Workshop, GECON 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26, 2008, Proceeedings [Paperback]

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 20052010 (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.Grid Business Modeling.- Business Value Chains in Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications.- Cost Analysis of Current Grids and Its Implications for Future Grid Markets.- Business Relationships in Grid Workflows.- Market Mechanisms for the Grid.- The Power of Preemption in Economic Online Markets.- Market Mechanisms for Trading Grid Resources.- Rational Bidding Using Reinforcement Learning.- Grid Markets.- Grid and Taxation: The Server as Permanent Establishment in International Grids.- The Pricing Strategy Analysis for the Software-as-a-Service Business Model.- Grid Architectures.- On the Assessment of the S-Sicilia Infrastructure: A Grid-Based Business System.- Monitoring and Reputation Mechanisms lC…