Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 9th International Conference, GECON 2012, Berlin, Germany, November 27-28, 2012, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7714)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2012, held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2012. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 6 work in progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 36 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: market mechanisms, pricing and negotiation; resource allocation, scheduling and admission control; work in progress on tools and techniques for cost-efficient service selection; market modeling; trust; cloud computing in education; and work in progress on cloud adoption and business models. Front Matter....Pages - A Protocol Development Framework for SLA Negotiations in Cloud and Service Computing....Pages 1-15 The Use of Provision Point Contracts for Improving Cloud Infrastructure Utilisation....Pages 16-28 An Economic Agent Maximizing Cloud Provider Revenues under a Pay-as-you-Book Pricing Model....Pages 29-45 Economic Co-allocation and Advance Reservation of Network and Computational Resources in Grids....Pages 46-60 Revenue-Based Resource Management on Shared Clouds for Heterogenous Bursty Data Streams....Pages 61-75 The ISQoS Grid Broker for Temporal and Budget Guarantees....Pages 76-90 Let the Clouds Compute: Cost-Efficient Workload Distribution in Infrastructure Clouds....Pages 91-101 A Declarative Recommender System for Cloud Infrastructure Services Selection....Pages 102-113 Retrieving, Storing, Correlating and Distributing Information for Cloud Management....Pages 114-124 On Local Separation of Processing and Storage in Infrastructure-as-a-Service....Pages 125-138 Value Creation in IT Service Platforms through Two-Sided Network Effects....Pages 139-153 Cheat-Proof Trust Model for Cloud Computing Markets....Pages 154-168 Trust Factors for the Usage of Cloud Computing in Small and Medium Sized Craft Enterprises....Pages 169-181 A Cost Analysis of Cloud Computing for Education....Pages 182-196 Delivering Cloud Services with QoS Requirements: An Opportunity for ICT SMEs....Pages 197-211 A Mixed-Methods Research Approach to Investigate the Transition from on-Premise to on-Demand Software Delivery....Pages 212-222 Towards a Federated Cloud Ecosystem: Enabling Managed Cloud Service Consumption....Pages 223-233 Business Models for Semantic Content Providers....Pages 234-244 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2014, held in Cardiff, UK, in September 2014. The 8 revised full papers and 7 paper-in-progress presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The presentation sessions that have been set up are: Cloud Adoption, Work in Progress on Market Dynamics, Cost Optimization,Work in Progress on Pricing, Contracts and Service Selection, and Economic Aspects of Quality of Service.