Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 8th International Workshop, GECON 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7150)

This book is about the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services. It is the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the subject that took place in December 2011 in Paphos, Cyprus. The book contains nine revised full papers and five work in progress papers that were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 27 papers. The papers are organized into categories such as market mechanisms and negotiation, cost models, charging, and trading platforms, resource allocation, scheduling, and admission control, and two work in progress categories: risk assessment and economics of cloud services, and cost-aware adoption of cloud services. The publisher is Springer and this is the 2012th edition, with 214 pages of content. The book is written in English and weighs 11 ounces. Its dimensions are 6.1 x 0.49 x 9.25 inches in size. It can be purchased from Amazon.