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GECON
2007
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Adopting the Grid for Business Purposes: The Main Objectives and the Associated Economic Issues
Grid technology offers numerous opportunities for the players involved. Despite the fact that the academic community has already exploited many of them, there is an evident relucta...
George A. Thanos, Costas Courcoubetis, George D. S...
GECON
2007
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?
We study a peer-to-peer backup system, where users offer some of their storage space to provide service for the others. The economic model for such a system is different from the o...
László Toka, Patrick Maillé
GECON
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Development of a Generic Value Chain for the Grid Industry
Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Carlo Figà Tal...
GECON
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Prediction-Based Enforcement of Performance Contracts
Grid computing platforms require automated and distributed resource allocation with controllable quality-of-service (QoS). Market-based allocation these features using the compleme...
Thomas Sandholm, Kevin Lai
GECON
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Strategies for the Service Market Place
We describe a number of strategies for a future service oriented market place. We describe the SLA’s role within the service framework, and how it enables customers to make value...
Paul McKee, Steve Taylor, Mike Surridge, Richard L...
GECON
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
DFCA: A Flexible Refundable Auction for Limited Capacity Suppliers
This paper proposes a novel auction-based mechanisms named Decreasing Cancellation Fee Auction (DCFA) for task allocation in the environment where a service provider has finite ca...
Zhixing Huang, Shigeo Matsubara
GECON
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
On Business Grid Demands and Approaches
This paper addresses necessary modification and extensions of existing Grid Computing approaches in order to meet nowadays business demand. So far, Grid Computing has been used to...
Carsten Franke, Adolf Hohl, Philip Robinson, Bernd...
GECON
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
The edutain@grid Project
Thomas Fahringer, Christoph Anthes, Alexis Arragon...
GECON
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Enabling the Simulation of Service-Oriented Computing and Provisioning Policies for Autonomic Utility Grids
A key issue in utility computing environments, such as utility Grids, is the provisioning, orchestration and allocation of resources to services. In these environments, providers ...
Marcos Dias de Assunção, Werner Stre...
GECON
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Taxonomy of Grid Business Models
Grid Computing, initially intended to provide access to computational resources for high-performance computing applications, broadened its focus by addressing computational needs o...
Jörn Altmann, Mihaela Ion, Ashraf Adel Bany M...