GECON2018: 15th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services Research Campus of CNR Pisa, Italy, September 18-20, 2018 |
Conference website | http://gecon2018.gecon.info/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2018 |
GECON 2018 builds upon the very successful tradition of the conference previous editions since 2003, (http://www.gecon-conference.org). 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 (http://2018.gecon-conference.org).
Important dates
- Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2018
- Paper and Paper-in-Progress Submission Deadline: May 22nd, 2018
- Notification of Paper and Paper-in-Progress Acceptance: June 15th, 2018
- Camera-Ready Deadline: June 22nd, 2018
- Poster Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2018
- Notification of Poster Acceptance: June 21st, 2018
- Camera-Ready Poster Deadline: June 24th, 2018
Submission Guidelines
Original full papers and work-in-progress papers, which are not currently under review by another conference, will be considered. Manuscripts will be reviewed based on technical merit, originality, and relevance. Past acceptance rates have been around 30% in recent years.
Full papers, work-in-progress papers, and poster abstracts shall be submitted using the Springer LNCS format. Submitted full papers should not exceed 12 pages, work-in-progress papers should not exceed 8 pages (including references and appendices) and poster abstracts (4 pages).
For further details, visit the GECON 2018 Web page. Paper submissions are managed through EasyChair at (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2018).
List of Topics
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 challenges is quickly growing. Therefore, the general topics of interest at GECON 2018 are:
- 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)
- Efficient resource management based on different virtualization technologies
- Cross-technology, self-managing mechanisms, tooling to increase productivity in Paltform-as-a-Service environments.
- Smart grids, smart cities, smart buildings, energy-aware infrastructures and services
- Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects
- Economics of IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and Federation of resources
- Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data
- Service Science
- Clouds & Services for Internet‐of‐Things
- Computational and economic aspects of blockchain
Publication
GECON 2018 follows the very successful previous editions GECON conferences, where high-quality technical papers have been presented. As in the previous conferences, accepted papers will be published in the proceedings that are 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 Computer Systems. For papers targeting mainly business and economic aspects within the conference, a special issue of the Springer Electronic Markets Journal with up to 5 papers is foreseen.
Conference Organization
Conference Chair
- Massimo Coppola (ISTI-CNR, Italy) - massimo.coppola@isti.cnr.it
- Emanuele Carlini (ISTI-CNR, Italy) - emanuele.carlini@isti.cnr.it
Conference Vice-Chairs
- Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea)
- José Ángel Bañares (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
- Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK)
- Congduc Pham (University of Pau, France)Proceedings Chair
- Daniele D’Agostino (IMATI-CNR, Genova, Italy)
Industrial Session Chair
- Patrizio Dazzi (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
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)
Venue
GECON 2018 will be held in Pisa, Italy, from Tuesday to Thursday 18-20/09, within the Research Premises of the Italian National Research Council (CNR).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to:
- Jörn Altmann - jorn.altmann@gecon.info
- José Ángel Bañares - banares@unizar.es
All questions about venio should be emailes to:
- Massimo Coppola (ISTI-CNR, Italy) - massimo.coppola@isti.cnr.it
- Emanuele Carlini (ISTI-CNR, Italy) - emanuele.carlini@isti.cnr.it