August 27th, 2007

room I60

1:00 pm: Collaboration Meetings

  • Please schedule your own meetings with other parties

4:00 pm: Committee Meeting

  • Program Committee meeting
  • Steering Committee meeting

5:00 - 7:00 pm: Round Table

  • Round Table discussion about business models for the Grid. It will give the opportunity to all workshop participants to discuss the current and future developments in Grid Computing.

8:00 pm: Dinner

  • Networking dinner for those who want to join (but, it is on your own expense)

August 28th, 2007

room I60

8.45 - 9.00 am: Welcome

9.00 - 10.30 am: Keynote Speaker

  • “Building e-Infrastructures - Lessons Learned and Recommendations”
    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid General Coordinator

10.30 - 11.00 am: Coffee Break

11.00 - 12.30 pm: Session A: Grid Business Modeling

  • “Adopting the Grid for Business Purposes: The Main Objectives and the Associated Economic Issues” George A. Thanos, Costas Courcoubetis, George D. Stamoulis
  • “Decision Factors of Enterprises for Adopting Grid Computing” Junseok Hwang, Jihyoun Park
  • “Taxonomy of Grid Business Models” Jörn Altmann, Mihaela Ion, Ashraf Adel Bany Mohammed
  • “Development of a Generic Value Chain for the Grid Industry”Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Carlo Figà Talamanca, George Thanos, Csilla Zsigri

12.30 - 2.00 pm: Lunch

2.00 - 3.30 pm: Session B: Market Mechanisms for the Grid

  • “Strategies for the Service Market Place”Paul McKee, Steve Taylor, Mike Surridge, Richard Lowe, Carmelo Ragusa
  • “Prediction-Based Enforcement of Performance Contracts” Thomas Sandholm, Kevin Lai
  • “DFCA: A Flexible Refundable Auction for Limited Capacity Suppliers” Zhixing Huang, Shigeo Matsubara
  • “A Comparative Analysis of Single-Unit Vickrey Auctions and Commodity Markets for Realizing Grid Economies with Dynamic Pricing”Kurt Vanmechelen, Jan Broeckhove

3.30 - 4.00 pm: Break

4.00 - 5.30 pm: Session C: Economic Grid Service Provisioning

  • “A Continuation-Based Framework for Economy-Driven Grid Service Provision” Maurizio Giordano, Claudia Di Napoli
  • “On Business Grid Demands and Approaches”Carsten Franke, Adolf Hohl, Philip Robinson, Bernd Scheuermann
  • “Enabling the Simulation of Service-Oriented Computing and Provisioning Policies for Autonomic Utility Grids”Marcos Dias de Assunção, Werner Streitberger, Torsten Eymann, Rajkumar Buyya
  • “Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?”László Toka, Patrick Maillé

5.30 - 5.45 pm: Break

5.45 - 7.15 pm: Session D: Research Projects on Grid Economics

  • “E-business in ArguGrid” Francesca Toni
  • “AssessGrid: Economic Issues Underlying Risk Awareness in Grids” Kerstin Voss, Karim Djemame, Iain Gourlay, and James Padgett
  • “CatNets: Open Market Approaches for Self-Organizing Grid Resource Allocation” Torsten Eymann, Werner Streitberger und Sebastian Hudert
  • “The edutain@grid Project” Thomas Fahringer, Christoph Anthes, Alexis Arragon, Arton Lipaj, Jens Müller-Iden, Christopher Rawlings, Radu Prodan, Mike Surridge
  • “GridEcon – The Economic-Enhanced Next-Generation Internet” Jörn Altmann, Costas Courboubetis, John Darlington, Jeremy Cohen
  • “SORMA – Building an Open Grid Market for Grid Resource Allocation”Dirk Neumann, Jochen Stoesser, Arun Anandasivam, Nikolay Borissov

8:00 pm: TWG7 Work Dinner

  • Work Dinner for people participating in European projects on Grid economics and business models (TWG7 - Technical Working Group 7 of Collaboration Activity 1)