GECON 2017 - 14th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services

GECON solicits contributions that are interdisciplinary, combining business and economic aspects with engineering and computer-science related themes. Contributions to this conference can include extensions to existing technologies, successful deployments of technologies, economic analyses, analyses of technology adoptions, and theoretical models. We welcome papers that combine micro- and macro-economic principles with resource management strategies in computer science and engineering. Case studies, which demonstrate practical use of economic strategies, benefits and limitations, are particularly encouraged. 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 and knowledge economy.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2017
Paper Submission Deadline: June 7th, 2017
Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 1st, 2017
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: July 10th, 2017
Publication and Submission Guidelines
? Original full papers and work-in-progress papers, which are not currently under review by another conference, will be considered.
? Submitted papers should not exceed 14 pages in Springer LNCS format (including references and appendices). For further details, visit the GECON 2017 Web page.
? Manuscripts will be reviewed based on technical merit, original ity, and relevance. Past acceptance rates have been around 30%.
? Paper submissions are managed through EasyChair at (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2017).
The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of up to 10 accepted papers in the Computer Science field will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems. For papers targeting mainly business and economic aspects, a special issue of the Springer Electronic Markets Journal with up to 5 papers is foreseen
GECON History
GECON 2017 follows the very successful previous editions (http://www.gecon-conference.org), where high-quality technical papers have been presented.
Conference Organization
Conference Chair
? Congduc Pham (Pau & Pays Adour University, France)
Conference Vice-Chairs
? Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea)
? José Ángel Bañares (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Industrial Session Chairs
? R. Chbeir (Pau & Pays Adour University, France)
? E. Exposito (Pau & Pays Adour University, France)
Steering Committee
? Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea)
? Jose Angel Bañares (Zaragoza University, Spain)
? Steven Miller (Singapore Mgnt University, Singapore)
? Maria Nikolaidou (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece)
? Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK)
? Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
? Konstantinos Tserpes (Harokopio University, Greece)
Topics of Interest
Advances in distributed systems technology have allowed for the provisioning of IT services on an unprecedented scale and with increasing flexibility. As a global market for infrastructure, platforms and software services emerges, the need to understand and deal with these implications and multitude of new challenges is quickly growing.
General topics of interest at GECON 2017 include:
? Software service platforms and networked systems
? Analysis of software industry and cloud computing industry
? Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages
? Decision support for service selection and procurement
? Revenue and energy-aware resource management
? Pricing schemes, service level agreements (SLAs), and revenue models
? Negotiation, enforcement and monitoring of service level agreements
? Open source ecosystem
? Economically efficient resource allocation, scheduling, and capacity planning
? Automated trading and bidding support tools
? Incentive design, strategic behavior & game theory
? Development of sustainable infrastructures
? Desktop grids, volunteer computing and crowd-sourcing
? Metering, accounting, and billing
? Business models and strategies for SMEs
? Trust, reputation, security, and risk management
? Reports and analysis on operational markets and test-beds
? Economics of big data, software, services, service composition, and selection
? Cost modeling, cost-benefit analysis
? Performance monitoring, optimization and prediction
? Community networks, social network systems, and resource sharing models
? Techno-economic analysis: Emerging computing paradigms (fog, edge, osmosis computing), and technologies (micro-services, containers)
? Smart grids, smart cities, smart buildings, energy aware infrastructures and services
? Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects
? IaaS, SaaS, PaaS
? Federation of resources
? Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data
? Services Science
? Clouds & Services for Internet-of-Things