GECON 2012 - The 9th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services

The way in which IT resources and services are being provisioned is currently in flux. Advances in distributed systems technology have allowed for the provisioning of services on an unprecedented scale and with increasing flexibility. At the same time, business and academia have started to embrace a model wherein third-party services that can be acquired with minimal service provider interaction, replace or complement those that are managed internally. Organizations have only started to grasp the economic implications of this evolution.
As a global market for infrastructure, platform and software services emerges, the need to understand and deal with these implications is quickly growing. In addition, a multitude of new challenges arise. These are inherently multidisciplinary and relate to aspects such as the operation and structure of the service market, the alignment of cost, revenue and quality-related objectives when taking on a service consumer or provider role, and the creation of innovative business models and value chains. These challenges emerge in other service domains as well, for example in the coordinated operation of the next generation electricity grids that are characterized by distributed generation facilities and new consumption patterns.
GECON invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present and discuss economics-related issues and solutions associated with these developments and challenges. Contributed work can comprise extensions to existing technologies, successful deployments of technologies, economic analysis, and theoretical concepts. The purpose of this event is to gather original work and build a strong multidisciplinary community in this increasingly important area of a future information economy.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to present their final results or work in progress within the following topic areas of interest:
Market mechanisms, models and bidding languages
Decision support for providers,service selection and procurement
Revenue and energy-aware resource management and scheduling
Pricing schemes and revenue models
Capacity planning
Automated trading and bidding support tools
Incentive design and strategic behavior
Development of sustainable infrastructures
Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data
Business models and strategies
Service value chains and value networks
Metering, accounting and billing
Negotiation of service level agreements (SLAs)
Enforcement and monitoring of SLAs
Trust, reputation, security, and risk management
Performance monitoring and prediction
Reports and analysis on operational markets and testbeds
Standardization
Legal and accounting aspects
Techno-economic analysis
Cost modeling
Software-as-a-Service
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Platform-as-a-Service
Smart Grids
Data center organization
Market-oriented resource allocation
Service placement in Clouds
Service composition
Software development and organization
Cost of fault-tolerance mechanisms