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 infrastructures, platforms and software services emerge the need to understand and deal with these implications, and a multitude of new interdisciplinary challenges is quickly growing. Therefore, GECON encourages the submission of papers which combine at least one economic/legal area and one technology area.

GECON’s list of areas includes, but is not limited to:

Economics

    Trustworthiness of services
    Ecosystem economics
    Incentive design, strategic behavior & game theory
    Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages
    Economic efficiency
    Techno-Economic analysis and modelling
    Pricing schemes and revenue models
    Preemptible computing
    Metering, accounting, and billing
    Cost‐benefit analysis
    Automated trading and bidding support tools
    Trust, reputation, security, and risk management
    Performance monitoring, optimization, and prediction
    Economics of Open Data
    Trustworthiness and Assurances for Quality of Data
    Economic impact of distributed storage solutions
    Energy efficiency
    Sustainability
    Business models and strategies
    Decision support
    Ecosystems

Law and Legal aspects

    Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects
    Service level agreements (SLAs)
    Negotiation, monitoring, and enforcement
    Open source ecosystems
    Privacy

Clouds, Grids, Systems and Services

    IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, and federation of resources
    Vertical scaling, burstable computing, vertical elasticity
    Resource management: allocation, sharing, scheduling
    Capacity planning
    Virtualization and containers
    Service science, management and engineering (SSME)
    Software engineering
    Security

Applications and Technologies Transforming the Economy

    Smart grids, smart cities, and smart buildings
    Energy-aware infrastructures and services
    Fog, edge, cloud computing
    Micro‐services, serverless computing
    AI-enabled computing continuum from Cloud to Edge
    Internet‐of‐Things
    Blockchains
    Community networks
    Social networks
    Social computing
    Shared public infrastructures for knowledge exchange:  (e.g.  IPFS, Origin Trail, Decentralised Knowledge Graphs)
    Big data
    Reports on industry test-beds and operational markets
    Data stream ingestion and complex event processing
    Open source