Economics of grids, clouds, systems, and services: 8th International Workshop, GECON 2011, Paphos, Cyprus, December 5 2011 : revised selected papers - 7150

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.