Program

August 25th, 2008

 11:00 am: Welcome and Coffee11:30 pm: Keynote Speech and Round Table

  • Speaker: NN
  • 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

1:00 pm: Lunch

2:00 pm: Session A: Grid Markets and Grid Architecture (Chair: NN)

  • Grid and Taxation: the Server as Permanent Establishment in International Grids Davide Maria Parrilli
  • The Pricing Strategy Analysis for the “Software-As-A-Service” Business Model
    Dan Ma, Abraham Seidmann
  • On the Assessment of the S-Sicilia Infrastructure: a Grid-based Business System
    Carmelo Ragusa, Francesco Longo, Antonio Puliafito
  • Monitoring and Reputation Mechanisms for Service Level Agreements
    Omer Rana, Martijn Warnier, Thomas B. Quillinan, Frances Brazier

4:00 pm: Coffee Break

4:30 pm: Research Projects on Grid Architecture (Chair: NN)

  • The German Grid Initiative: A Uniform Accounting Service in Multiple Middleware Environments
    Jan Wiebelitz, Stefano Dal Pra, Wolfgang Müller,Gabriele von Voigt
  • The ArguGRID Platform: An Overview
    Francesca Toni, Mary Grammatikou, Stella Kafetzoglou, LeonidasLymberopoulos, Symeon Papavassileiou, Dorian Gaertner, Maxime Morge, Stefano Bromuri, Jarred McGinnis, Kostas Stathis, Vasa Curcin, MoustafaGhanem, Li Guo
  • AssessGrid Strategies on Provider Ranking Mechanisms in Risk-Aware Grid Systems
    Dominic Battré, Karim Djemame, Iain Gourlay, Matthias Hovestadt, Odej Kao, James Padgett, Kerstin Voss

8:00 pm:Dinner

  • Opportunity to socialize and network (on your own expense)
  • Program and Steering Committee Meeting

August 26th, 2008

 9:00 am: Session B: Grid Business Modeling (Chair: NN)

  • Business Value Chains in Real-Time On-line Interactive Applications
    Justin Ferris, Mike Surridge and E. Rowland Watkins
  • Cost Analysis of Current Grids and its Implications for Future Grid Markets
    Marcel Risch, Jörn Altmann
  • Business Relationships in Grid Workflows
    Ioannis Papagiannis, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Magdalini Kardara, Vassiliki Andronikou, Theodora Varvarigou

10:30 am: Invited Talk: European Research Funding for Research on Grid Economics, Program 2009-2010

  • Speaker: Maria Tsakali, European Commission DG Information Society and Media

11:00 am: Coffee Break

11:30 am: Research Projects on Business Modeling (Chair: NN)

  • BEinGRID: Development of Business Models for the Grid Industry
    Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Davide Maria Parrilli, George Thanos
  • Edutain@Grid: A Business Grid Infrastructure for Real-Time On-line Interactive Applications
    Justin Ferris, Mike Surridge, E. Rowland Watkins, Thomas Fahringer, Radu Prodan, Frank Glinka, Sergei Gorlatch, Christoph Anthes, Alexis Arragon, Chris Rawlings, Arton Lipaj
  • BREIN – Towards an Intelligent Grid for Business
    Eduardo Oliveros, Henar Muñoz, David Cantelar, Steve Taylor

1:00 pm: Lunch

2:30 pm: Session C: Market Mechanisms for the Grid (Chair: NN)

  • The Power of Preemption in Economic Online Markets
    Lior Amar, Ahuva Mu’alem, Jochen Stößer
  • Market Mechanisms for Trading Grid Resources
    Costas Courcoubetis, Manos Dramitinos, Thierry Rayna, Sergios Soursos and George D. Stamoulis
  • Rational Bidding using Reinforcement Learning – An Application in Automated Resource Allocation
    Nikolay Borissov, Arun Anandasivam, Niklas Wirström, Dirk Neumann

4:00 pm: Coffee Break

4:30 pm: Research Projects on Market Mechanisms (Chair: NN)

  • SORMA – Business Cases for an Open Grid Market: Concept and Implementation
    Jens Nimis, Arun Anandasivam, Nikolay Borissov, Garry Smith, Dirk Neumann, Niklas Wirström, Erel Rosenberg, Matteo Villa
  • GridEcon: A Market Place for Computing Resources
    Jörn Altmann, Costas Courcoubetis, George D. Stamoulis, Manos Dramitinos, Thierry Rayna, Marcel Risch, Chris Bannink
  • Grid4All: Open Market Places for Democratic Grids
    Ruby Krishnaswamy, Leandro Navarro, René Brunner, Xavier León, Xavier Vilajosana

6:00 pm: Close of Workshop

6:15 pm: TG7 Meeting

Members of the Technical Working Group on Business Models and SLAs discuss further activities

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)