Grid is business

Author: Zhang Runtong, Fan Ning
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Unlike traditional internet technologies, grid computing itself is a business activity, organically integrated into the entire process of business activities in the grid computing era. This book studies grid computing technology from perspectives such as economics, business, management, and applications. The intersections and collisions between grid computing technology and these fields give rise to numerous hot topics, which are the research content of this book. For example: organizational forms of enterprises in grid computing environments, profit models of enterprises in grid computing environments, marketing theories in grid computing environments, supply chain management in grid computing environments, knowledge management in grid computing environments, and further proposes and preliminarily studies a new model of e-commerce in grid computing environments—grid business. This book is suitable for government officials, decision-makers, and technical and managerial personnel at all levels of governments, enterprises, universities, and relevant research institutions in the internet grid computing era. It can also serve as a reference textbook for postgraduate students and senior undergraduate students in relevant majors at universities.