Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services [electronic resource] : 9th International Conference, GECON 2012, Berlin, Germany, November 27-28, 2012. Proceedings / edited by Kurt Vanmechelen, Jörn Altmann, Omer F. Rana.

A Protocol Development Framework for SLA Negotiations in Cloud and Service Computing -- The Use of Provision Point Contracts for Improving Cloud Infrastructure Utilisation -- An Economic Agent Maximizing Cloud Provider Revenues under a Pay-as-you-Book Pricing Model -- Economic Co-allocation and Advance Reservation of Network and Computational Resources in Grids -- Revenue-Based Resource Management on Shared Clouds for Heterogenous Bursty Data Streams -- The ISQoS Grid Broker for Temporal and Budget Guarantees -- Let the Clouds Compute: Cost-Efficient Workload Distribution in Infrastructure Clouds -- A Declarative Recommender System for Cloud Infrastructure Services Selection -- Retrieving, Storing, Correlating and Distributing Information for Cloud Management -- On Local Separation of Processing and Storage in Infrastructure-as-a-Service -- Value Creation in IT Service Platforms through Two-Sided Network Effects -- Cheat-Proof Trust Model for Cloud Computing Markets -- Trust Factors for the Usage of Cloud Computing in Small and Medium -- Sized Craft Enterprises -- A Cost Analysis of Cloud Computing for Education -- Delivering Cloud Services with QoS Requirements: An Opportunity for ICT SMEs -- A Mixed-Methods Research Approach to Investigate the Transition from on-Premise to on-Demand Software Delivery -- Towards a Federated Cloud Ecosystem: Enabling Managed Cloud Service Consumption -- Business Models for Semantic Content Providers.