George A. Thanos, Costas Courcoubetis (auth.), Daniel J. Veit, Jörn Altmann (eds.)3540744282, 9783540744283
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. |
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Adopting the Grid for Business Purposes: The Main Objectives and the Associated Economic Issues….Pages 1-15
Decision Factors of Enterprises for Adopting Grid Computing….Pages 16-28
Taxonomy of Grid Business Models….Pages 29-43
Development of a Generic Value Chain for the Grid Industry….Pages 44-57
Strategies for the Service Market Place….Pages 58-70
Prediction-Based Enforcement of Performance Contracts….Pages 71-82
DFCA: A Flexible Refundable Auction for Limited Capacity Suppliers….Pages 83-97
A Comparative Analysis of Single-Unit Vickrey Auctions and Commodity Markets for Realizing Grid Economies with Dynamic Pricing….Pages 98-111
A Continuation-Based Framework for Economy-Driven Grid Service Provision….Pages 112-123
On Business Grid Demands and Approaches….Pages 124-135
Enabling the Simulation of Service-Oriented Computing and Provisioning Policies for Autonomic Utility Grids….Pages 136-149
Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?….Pages 150-163
E-Business in ArguGRID….Pages 164-169
AssessGrid, Economic Issues Underlying Risk Awareness in Grids….Pages 170-175
CATNETS – Open Market Approaches for Self-organizing Grid Resource Allocation….Pages 176-181
The edutain@grid Project….Pages 182-187
GridEcon – The Economic-Enhanced Next-Generation Internet….Pages 188-193
SORMA – Building an Open Grid Market for Grid Resource Allocation….Pages 194-200
Back Matter….Pages – |
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