International Journal of Web and Grid Services
A pricing information service for grid computing
Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Middleware for grid computing: held at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference
Applying double auctions for scheduling of workflows on the Grid
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Cost Analysis of Current Grids and Its Implications for Future Grid Markets
GECON '08 Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models
On the Assessment of the S-Sicilia Infrastructure: A Grid-Based Business System
GECON '08 Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models
GridEcon: A Market Place for Computing Resources
GECON '08 Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Visualization in Health Grid Environments: A Novel Service and Business Approach
GECON '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models
CloudXplor: a tool for configuration planning in clouds based on empirical data
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
GridEcon - the economic-enhanced next-generation internet
GECON'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Grid economics and business models
Towards a generic value network for cloud computing
GECON'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Economics of grids, clouds, systems, and services
Selling T-shirts and Time Shares in the Cloud
CCGRID '12 Proceedings of the 2012 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (ccgrid 2012)
Knowledge discovery for scheduling in computational grids
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Value creation in IT service platforms through two-sided network effects
GECON'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services
Mandi: a market exchange for trading utility and cloud computing services
The Journal of Supercomputing
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Grid Computing, initially intended to provide access to computational resources for high-performance computing applications, broadened its focus by addressing computational needs of enterprises. It became concerned with coordinating the on-demand, usage-based allocation of resources in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations, and eventually creating new business models based on this technology. This trend in Grid computing holds a lot of potential in many industries with respect to saving costs, improving efficiency, creating new services and products, increasing product quality, as well as improving collaboration between companies. This will change the way business is done and it will change our classical view of the value chains, its stakeholders, and their roles. However, in order to encourage more companies to adopt Grid computing, value chains have to be explained and business models have to be understood. This paper makes a first move in this direction. It analyses existing business models. Based on the result of the analysis, it formally defines a taxonomy of existing and future roles that a stakeholder can take on within the value chains of the Grid and gives examples of those roles. Finally, this paper applies the taxonomy to two reference business models: utility computing and software-as-a-service.