Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 11th International Conference, GECON 2014, Cardiff, UK, September 16-18, 2014. Revised Selected Papers.

by Jörn Altmann (Editor), Kurt Vanmechelen (Editor), Omer F. Rana (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319146089
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/23/2014
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #8914
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	231
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Keynote.- Economics, Security and Innovation.- Cloud Adoption.- A Metrics Suite for Cloud Computing Adoption Readiness.- An Agency Perspective to Cloud Computing.- Work in Progress on Market Dynamics.- Goliath vs. a Federation of Davids: A Two-Sided Market Analysis of Competition between Clouds.- Analysis of the Social Effort in Multiplex Participatory Networks.- Cost Optimization.- Energy-Aware Cloud Management through Progressive SLA Specification.- Cloud Tracker: Using Execution Provenance to Optimize the Cost of Cloud Use.- Migration to Governmental-Cloud Digital Forensics Community: Economics and Methodology.- Work in Progress on Pricing, Contracts and Service Selection.- Performance Evaluation for Cost-Efficient Public Infrastructure Cloud Use.-Balancing Leasing and Insurance Costs to Achieve Total Protection in Cloud Storage Multi-Homing.-A WS-Agreement Based SLA Implementation for the CMAC Platform.- A Domain Specific Language and a Pertinent Business Vocabulary for Cloud Service Selection.- Economic Aspects of Quality of Service.- Towards Petri Net-Based Economical Analysis for Streaming Applications Executed Over Cloud infrastructures.- Autonomous Management of Virtual Machine Failures in IaaS Using Fault Tree Analysis.- How Do Content Delivery Networks Affect the Economy of the Internet and the Network Neutrality Debate?.