Grid Economics and Business Models: 5th International Workshop, GECON 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26, 2008 Proceeedings (Paperback)

Grid Business Modeling.- Business Value Chains in Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications.- Cost Analysis of Current Grids and Its Implications for Future Grid Markets.- Business Relationships in Grid Workflows.- Market Mechanisms for the Grid.- The Power of Preemption in Economic Online Markets.- Market Mechanisms for Trading Grid Resources.- Rational Bidding Using Reinforcement Learning.- Grid Markets.- Grid and Taxation: The Server as Permanent Establishment in International Grids.- The Pricing Strategy Analysis for the "Software-as-a-Service" Business Model.- Grid Architectures.- On the Assessment of the S-Sicilia Infrastructure: A Grid-Based Business System.- Monitoring and Reputation Mechanisms for Service Level Agreements.- Research Projects on Business Modeling.- BEinGRID: Development of Business Models for the Grid Industry.- Edutain@Grid: A Business Grid Infrastructure for Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications.- BREIN, Towards an Intelligent Grid for Business.- Research Projects on Market Mechanisms.- SORMA - Business Cases for an Open Grid Market: Concept and Implementation.- GridEcon: A Market Place for Computing Resources.- Grid4All: Open Market Places for Democratic Grids.- Research Projects on Grid Architecture.- The German Grid Initiative: A Uniform Accounting Service in Multiple Middleware Environments.- The ArguGRID Platform: An Overview.- AssessGrid Strategies for Provider Ranking Mechanisms in Risk-Aware Grid Systems.