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