Grid Economics and Business Models

Adopting the Grid for Business Purposes: The Main Objectives and the Associated Economic Issues.- Decision Factors of Enterprises for Adopting Grid Computing.- Taxonomy of Grid Business Models.- Development of a Generic Value Chain for the Grid Industry.- Strategies for the Service Market Place.- Prediction-Based Enforcement of Performance Contracts.- DFCA: A Flexible Refundable Auction for Limited Capacity Suppliers.- A Comparative Analysis of Single-Unit Vickrey Auctions and Commodity Markets for Realizing Grid Economies with Dynamic Pricing.- A Continuation-Based Framework for Economy-Driven Grid Service Provision.- On Business Grid Demands and Approaches.- Enabling the Simulation of Service-Oriented Computing and Provisioning Policies for Autonomic Utility Grids.- Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?.- E-Business in ArguGRID.- AssessGrid, Economic Issues Underlying Risk Awareness in Grids.- CATNETS – Open Market Approaches for Self-organizing Grid Resource Allocation.- The edutain@grid Project.- GridEcon – The Economic-Enhanced Next-Generation Internet.- SORMA – Building an Open Grid Market for Grid Resource Allocation.