TY - BOOK AU - Vanmechelen,Kurt AU - Altmann,Jörn AU - Rana,Omer F. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 8th International Workshop, GECON 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers T2 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SN - 9783642286759 AV - QA76.76.A65 U1 - 005.7 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer KW - Computer science KW - Software engineering KW - Computer system performance KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Information systems KW - Computer Science KW - Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) KW - Information Storage and Retrieval KW - Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems KW - Software Engineering KW - System Performance and Evaluation KW - Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing N2 - This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2011, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in December 2011. The 9 revised full papers presented together with 5 work in progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 papers. The papers are organized in topical sections on market mechanisms and negotiation; cost models, charging, and trading platforms; resource allocation, scheduling, and admission control; and two work in progress sections: risk assessment and economics of cloud services; and cost-aware adoption of cloud services UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28675-9 ER -