This chapter describes the error recovery mechanisms in the system handling the Grid-based workflow within the Service Level Agreement (SLA) context. It classifies the errors into two main categories. The first is the large-scale errors when one or several Grid sites are detached from the Grid...

Within this paper, we present the GridEcon Platform, a testbed for designing and evaluating economics-aware services in a commercial Cloud computing setting. The Platform is based on the idea that the exact working of such services is difficult to predict in the context of a market and,...

Taxation can be considered an efficient way to stimulate the real economy, but during economic crisis, an excessive and/ or a badly executed fiscal pressure can cause perturbations to the real economy, more exactly to the economic agents whose financial s

The World Wide Web represents a new frontier towards a global industry, leading the way for new businesses. Commerce now deals with a whole different concept: electronic commerce (e-commerce). This kind of commerce provides new means for a large variety o

The evolution of internal auditing in the last period was a very dynamic one, being affected by the increasing attention for its role in corporate governance, especially because of its links with internal control and risk management systems. Internal audi

The main aim of the UE is to protect and sustain its citizen’s expectations by harmonizing the national politics and strategies in order to generate better results. At this moment we have three main actors: Private Business Environment (PBE), National Pub

Business performance management (BPM) is a key business initiative that enables companies to align strategic and operational objectives with business activities in order to fully manage performance through better informed decision making and action. Effec

In the present paper upon the Business Intelligence framed in the Romanian national culture peculiarity we will appeal to a gradual approach to the subject, from theoretical – to experimental – to applicative. At an empirical level of these approach we will try to interface a theoretical...

Current mechanisms to compensate inventors and improve legal access to their inventions remain ineffective. Manufacturers encounter significant transaction costs in the process of licensing the multitude of patent rights implicated in their products. High-technology product manufacturing...

This paper examines the relationship between firm size, competitive strategy and performance, for the long-lived small firm in Scotland. It uses structural modelling to test the hypothesis that small firms need to remain small if they are to be long-lived. In a three-equation simultaneous model,...