This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Economics
of Grids Clouds Systems and Services GECON 2012 held in Berlin Germany in November 2012.
The 12 revised full papers presented together with 6 work in progress papers were carefully
reviewed and selected from more than 36 submissions. The papers are organized in the following
topical sections: market mechanisms pricing and negotiation resource allocation scheduling
and admission control work in progress on tools and techniques for cost-efficient service
selection market modeling trust cloud computing in education and work in progress on cloud
adoption and business models.
