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