GECON 2016 - 13th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services

GECON invites researchers and practitioners from industry to present and discuss economics-related issues and solutions associated with these challenges.
The topics of interest are:
? Analysis of software industry and cloud computing industry
? Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages
? Decision support for providers, service selection, and procurement
? Revenue and energy-aware resource management
? Pricing schemes and revenue models
? Capacity planning
? Resource allocation and scheduling Automated trading and bidding support tools Incentive design and strategic behavior
? Development of sustainable infrastructures
? Desktop grids, volunteer computing and crowd-sourcing
? Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data
? Business models and strategies
? Service value chains and value networks
? Metering, accounting, and billing
? Negotiation, enforcement and monitoring of SLAs
? Trust, reputation, security, and risk management
? Performance monitoring and prediction
? Reports and analysis on operational markets and testbeds
? Techno-economic analysis
? Standardization and legal aspects
? Cost modeling, cost-benefit analysis, game theory
? Smart electricity grids Social network systems IaaS, SaaS, PaaS Services Science
? Technology acceptance models
? Benefits to small and medium-sized enterprises