Topics of interest

As a global market for infrastructures, platforms, and software services emerge, the need to understand and deal with its implications and its interdisciplinary challenges is quickly growing. To address this, GECON encourages the submission of papers, which combine at least one economic/legal area and one technologic area. GECON list of areas includes but is not limited to:

Economics

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

Applications and Technologies Transforming the Economy

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

Clouds, Grids, Systems and Services

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

Law and Legal aspects

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