This workshop invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present current results and original research in the area of Grid economics.

The purpose of this workshop is to suggest future directions of research and amendments to existing technologies, aiming at the successful deployment of a global, commercial service-oriented Grid system. In addition to this, the workshop will feature an industry session in order to increase the knowledge transfer between the academia and industry. Speakers of major utility computing providers are expected, describing the state-of-the-art in “computing on demand” and the customer acceptance of the shift from “buying resources”.

The workshop will focus on the interdisciplinary research in the area of IT infrastructure and economics. In particular, the topics of interest are (but not limited to):

• Analysis of existing Grid middleware technology

• Business modeling

• Grid value chain and value networks

• Software-as-a-Service models

• Markets and market mechanisms for the Grid

• Service-orientation of Grid systems

• Utility computing models

• Knowledge utility models

• Incentives for participation and resource sharing

• Economic-enhanced Grid services

• Analysis of pricing schemes for Grid systems

• Reports on Grid test beds and operation

• Analysis of application scenarios (with stakeholders and roles)

• Resource (computing, bandwidth, storage) selection and allocation

• Metering, accounting, charging, billing systems

• Models for service-oriented computing

• Decision support systems for Grid users and providers

• Capacity planning systems

• Service level agreements (SLAs)

• Market models for the grid Virtual organizations

• Economic aspects of existing Grid applications

• Reports on national and international projects on Grid

• Trust, security, and risk management

• Standardization

• Virtual organizations

• Impact of legal requirements on Grid operation

• Economics-aware operation of Grid applications
  

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