Application service provision through the grid: Business models and architectures

The new economy is the result of the information revolution that promotes the emergence of networked, ubiquitous and collaborative service provision. Furthermore, the globalisation of trade has increased the number of competitors, driving the need for federated and networked business models. In this paper we argue that next generation ASP models could benefit from the use of the Grid. We describe a Grid-enabled architecture for coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional ASP vendors.