5. GECON 2008: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Grid Business Modeling

• Justin Ferris, Mike Surridge, E. Rowland Watkins:
  Business Value Chains in Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications. 1-12
  
• Marcel Risch, Jörn Altmann:
  Cost Analysis of Current Grids and Its Implications for Future Grid Markets. 13-27
  
• Ioannis Papagiannis, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Magdalini Kardara, Vassiliki Andronikou, Theodora A. Varvarigou:
  Business Relationships in Grid Workflows. 28-40
  

Market Mechanisms for the Grid

• Lior Amar, Ahuva Mu'alem, Jochen Stößer:
  The Power of Preemption in Economic Online Markets. 41-57
  
• Costas Courcoubetis, Manos Dramitinos, Thierry Rayna, Sergios Soursos, George D. Stamoulis:
  Market Mechanisms for Trading Grid Resources. 58-72
  
• Nikolay Borissov, Arun Anandasivam, Niklas Wirström, Dirk Neumann:
  Rational Bidding Using Reinforcement Learning. 73-88
  

Grid Markets

• Davide Maria Parrilli:
  Grid and Taxation: The Server as Permanent Establishment in International Grids. 89-102
  
• Dan Ma, Abraham Seidmann:
  The Pricing Strategy Analysis for the "Software-as-a-Service" Business Model. 103-112
  

Grid Architectures

• Carmelo Ragusa, Francesco Longo, Antonio Puliafito:
  On the Assessment of the S-Sicilia Infrastructure: A Grid-Based Business System. 113-124
  
• Omer F. Rana, Martijn Warnier, Thomas B. Quillinan, Frances M. T. Brazier:
  Monitoring and Reputation Mechanisms for Service Level Agreements. 125-139
  

Research Projects on Business Modeling

• Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Davide Maria Parrilli, George A. Thanos:
  BEinGRID: Development of Business Models for the Grid Industry. 140-151
  
• Justin Ferris, Mike Surridge, E. Rowland Watkins, Thomas Fahringer, Radu Prodan, Frank Glinka, Sergei Gorlatch, Christoph Anthes, Alexis Arragon, Christopher J. Rawlings, Arton Lipaj:
  Edutain@Grid: A Business Grid Infrastructure for Real-Time On-Line Interactive Applications. 152-162
  
• Eduardo Oliveros, Henar Muñoz, David Cantelar, Steve Taylor:
  BREIN, Towards an Intelligent Grid for Business. 163-172
  

Research Projects on Market Mechanisms

• Jens Nimis, Arun Anandasivam, Nikolay Borissov, Garry Smith, Dirk Neumann, Niklas Wirström, Erel Rosenberg, Matteo Villa:
  SORMA - Business Cases for an Open Grid Market: Concept and Implementation. 173-184
  
• Jörn Altmann, Costas Courcoubetis, George D. Stamoulis, Manos Dramitinos, Thierry Rayna, Marcel Risch, Chris Bannink:
  GridEcon: A Market Place for Computing Resources. 185-196
  
• Ruby Krishnaswamy, Leandro Navarro, René Brunner, Xavier León, Xavier Vilajosana:
  Grid4All: Open Market Places for Democratic Grids. 197-207
  

Research Projects on Grid Architecture

• Jan Wiebelitz, Stefano Dal Pra, Wolfgang Müller, Gabriele von Voigt:
  The German Grid Initiative: A Uniform Accounting Service in Multiple Middleware Environments. 208-216
  
• Francesca Toni, Mary Grammatikou, Stella Kafetzoglou, Leonidas Lymberopoulos, Symeon Papavassiliou, Dorian Gaertner, Maxime Morge, Stefano Bromuri, Jarred McGinnis, Kostas Stathis, Vasa Curcin, Moustafa Ghanem, Li Guo:
  The ArguGRID Platform: An Overview. 217-225
  
• Dominic Battré, Karim Djemame, Iain Gourlay, Matthias Hovestadt, Odej Kao, James Padgett, Kerstin Voß, Daniel Warneke:
  AssessGrid Strategies for Provider Ranking Mechanisms in Risk-Aware Grid Systems. 226-233