Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services [electronic resource] : 8th International Workshop, GECON 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Kurt Vanmechelen, Jörn Altmann, Omer F. Rana.
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 7150Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012Description: XII, 202 p. 75 illus. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783642286759
- Computer science
- Special purpose computers
- Computer system failures
- Software engineering
- Information storage and retrieval
- Application software
- Computer Science
- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
- Information Storage and Retrieval
- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems
- Software Engineering
- System Performance and Evaluation
- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing
- 005.7 23
- QA76.76.A65

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2011, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in December 2011. The 9 revised full papers presented together with 5 work in progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on market mechanisms and negotiation; cost models, charging, and trading platforms; resource allocation, scheduling, and admission control; and two work in progress sections: risk assessment and economics of cloud services; and cost-aware adoption of cloud services.