Editors:Dirk Neumann; Mark Baker; Jörn Altmann; Omer F. Rana
Publisher:   Birkhäuser
Number Of Pages:  263
Publication Date:   2009-09-31
ISBN 978-3-7643-8896-6

Contents
Economic Models and Algorithms for Distributed Systems . . . . . . . ..... 1
Part I: Reputation Mechanisms and Trust
Ali Shaikh Ali and Omer F. Rana
A Belief-based Trust Model for Dynamic Service Selection ............ 9
Arun Anandasivam and Dirk Neumann
Reputation, Pricing and the E-Science Grid . . . . .................... 25
Georgia Kastidou and Robin Cohen
Trust-oriented Utility-based Community Structure in Multiagent
Systems . . . . ................................................ 45
Thomas E. Carroll and Daniel Grosu
Formation of Virtual Organizations in Grids: A Game-Theoretic
Approach ................................................... 63
Jürgen Mangler, Erich Schikuta, Christoph Witzany, Oliver Jorns,
Irfan Ul Haq and Helmut Wanek
Towards Dynamic Authentication in the Grid – Secure and Mobile
Business Workflows Using GSet . . . . . ............................ 83
Part II: Service Level Agreements
Mario Macías, Garry Smith, Omer Rana, Jordi Guitart and
Jordi Torres
Enforcing Service Level Agreements Using an Economically Enhanced
Resource Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................ 109
VI Contents
Tim Püschel, Nikolay Borissov, Dirk Neumann, Mario Macías,
Jordi Guitart and Jordi Torres
Extended Resource Management Using Client Classification and
Economic Enhancements . ...................................... 129
Chris Smith and Aad vanMoorsel
Mitigating Provider Uncertainty in Service Provision Contracts . . . . . . . . 143
Axel Tenschert, Ioannis Kotsiopoulos and Bastian Koller
Text-Content-Analysis based on the Syntactic Correlations between
Ontologies . . . . . . ............................................ 161
Part III: Business Models and Market Mechanisms
Ashraf Bany Mohammed, Jörn Altmann and Junseok Hwang
Cloud Computing Value Chains: Understanding Businesses and Value
Creation in the Cloud . . . ...................................... 187
In Lee
A Model for Determining the Optimal Capacity Investment for Utility
Computing . . . ............................................... 209
Melanie Moßmann, Jochen Stößer, Adam Ouorou, Eric Gourdin, Ruby
Krishnaswamy and Dirk Neumann
A Combinatorial Exchange for Complex Grid Services . . . . ........... 221
Christian Bodenstein
Heuristic Scheduling in Grid Environments: Reducing the Operational
Energy Demand . . . . . . . . ...................................... 239
Raimund Matros, Werner Streitberger, Stefan Koenig and
Torsten Eymann
Facing Price Risks in Internet-of-Services Markets . . . . . .............. 257