Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services  8th International Workshop, GECON 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Kurt Vanmechelen, Jörn Altmann, Omer F. Rana. 
 - XII, 202 p. 75 illus.  online resource. 
 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science,  7150  0302-9743 ; .
 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science,  7150 .
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783642286759 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/978-3-642-28675-9  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Computer science.<br/>Special purpose computers.<br/>Computer system failures.<br/>Software engineering.<br/>Information storage and retrieval.<br/>Application software.<br/>Computer Science.<br/>Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).<br/>Information Storage and Retrieval.<br/>Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.<br/>Software Engineering.<br/>System Performance and Evaluation.<br/>Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA76.76.A65 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>005.7