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05720711 Kotrotsos, Serafim Racz, Peter Morariu, Cristian Iskioupi, Katerina Hausheer, David Stiller, Burkhard Business models, accounting and billing concepts in grid-aware networks. Doulamis, T. (ed.) et al., Networks for grid applications. Third international ICST conference, GridNets 2009, Athens, Greece, September 8--9, 2009. Revised selected papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-11732-9/pbk; 978-3-642-11733-6/ebook). Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 25, 27-34 (2010). 2010 Berlin: Springer EN accounting billing model grid metering service network

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11733-6_4

Summary: The emerging Grid Economy, shall set new challenges for the network. More and more literature underlines the significance of network - awareness for efficient and effective grid services. Following this path to Grid evolution, this paper identifies some key challenges in the areas of business modeling, accounting and billing and proposes an architecture that addresses them.