Adopting the grid for business purposes: The main objectives and the associated economic issues

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4685 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-15

  Thanos, George A ^a   Courcoubetis, Costas ^a   Stamoulis, George D ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Economics; Economies of scale; Grid technology; Market; Network externalities etc; Resource sharing; Virtual organisations

Indexed keywords

GRID COMPUTING; MARKETING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GRID TECHNOLOGY; NETWORK EXTERNALITIES; RESOURCE SHARING;

VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

EID: 38049026307     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74430-6_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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