[aims-announce] CfP: GECON 2018 - 15th Intl Conf on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services; Submission Deadline: May 22nd, 2018

[Jörn ALTMANN]

3rd Call for Papers
*GECON 2018*
*15th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & 
Services*
http://2018.gecon-conference.org
18-20 September 2018, Pisa, Italy

*SCOPE*
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.

*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

*VENUE*
GECON 2018 will be held in Pisa, Italy, within the research premises of 
the Italian National Research Council (CNR).

*PUBLICATION AND 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 14 pages, work-in-progress papers should not exceed 10 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).

The proceedings will be 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 Computing Systems. For papers targeting mainly business and 
economic aspects, a special issue of the Springer Electronic Markets 
Journal with up to 5 papers is foreseen.

*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 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 Platform-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
-Machine learning, Cognitive Systems and Data Science for system management

*GECON 2018  IS RUNNING TWO SPECIAL SESSIONS THIS YEAR*
****Special Session on IT Service Ecosystems enabled through Emerging 
Digital Technologies****
Using technologies including open APIs, digital platforms, IoT, wearable 
technology, and cloud computing, new business ecosystems become 
possible. Well-functioning and innovative digital businesses in this 
ecosystem continuously monetize, manage, and measure information as an 
asset for having a competitive advantage in the market. The ecosystems 
are based on a new way of integration of people, resources, processes, 
and technologies. This also effects the management of systems and 
resources (e.g., network management and cloud management). 
Techno-economic analyses (e.g., value creation modeling) are vital for 
understanding the requirements for an uninterruptible operation of 
infrastructure, the needs for future technologies, sustainable business 
operation, and a society that benefits. In this call, we are inviting 
submissions of papers in the following areas:
- Software ecosystems
- IT service platforms
- Digital business model innovation (opportunities and barriers)
- New value creation models over new technologies such as cloud 
computing, IOT, wearable Tech, blockchain
- Digital transformation and event thinking
- Open source software
- Implementations of distributed business logics
- Digital process re-engineering
- Data-driven business model innovation (Acceptance and Barriers)
- Social Impact of Digital Business Transformations
- Software service systems
Contact : Somayeh Khaghighi (Amsterdam University , Netherlands) - 
skhaghighi at gmail.com <mailto:skhaghighi at gmail.com>

****Special Session on Machine learning, Cognitive Systems and Data 
Science for system management****
It is well recognized in this digital world, businesses, government, and 
people depend on reliable technical infrastructure for all aspects of 
daily operations such as Real Estate, Banking, retail, transportation 
and even socializing. And today, with the growing trend for the internet 
of thing, demands for a safe management system has tremendously 
increased. Infrastructure failures are expensive, e.g., network downtime 
or outages should be avoided by all means as it might impact business 
operations and might, also, generate a tremendous cost due to the Mean 
Time to Repair in Network Infrastructure (MTR). There are many reasons 
why infrastructure such computers, devices, network, Information systems 
management failures occur. According to some studies, human errors 
account is often cited. Therefore, several studies focus on defining new 
approaches that could help to automate some of the operation function of 
the systems management. Today, the emerging trend is to use techniques 
from Artificial Intelligence such as Machine Leaning and data science in 
order to increase systems Management performance. In this call, we are 
inviting submissions of papers in the following areas:
- Machine Learning and their potential applications in Systems Management
- Self-Autonomous System Management
- Network, Devices and Computers Management
- IT and IoT Infrastructure
- Software as a Service
- AI & Cloud computing
- Robots, drones network management
- Advanced Software for Managed Service Providers
Contact: Aurilla Aurelie Arntzen (University of South-Eastern, Norway) - 
Aurilla.Aurelie.Arntzen at usn.no <mailto:Aurilla.Aurelie.Arntzen at usn.no>

*CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION*
Conference Chair
-Massimo Coppola (ISTI-CNR, Italy) - massimo.coppola at isti.cnr.it 
<mailto:massimo.coppola at isti.cnr.it>
-Emanuele Carlini (ISTI-CNR, Italy) - emanuele.carlini at isti.cnr.it 
<mailto:emanuele.carlini at 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)

Program Committee
-Alvaro Arenas (IE University, Spain)
-Ashraf Bany Mohammed (The University of Jordan, Jordan)
-Aurilla Aurelie Arntzen (University of South-Eastern, Norway)
-Ivona Brandic (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
-Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia)
-Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
-Costas Courcoubetis (sutd, Greece)
-Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece)
-Patricio Domingues (ESTG - Leiria, Portugal)
-Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy)
-Felix Freitag (UPC, Spain)
-Marc Frincu (West University of Timisoara, Romania)
-Daniel Grosu (Wayne State University, USA)
-Netsanet Haile (Seoul National University, South-Korea)
-Chun-Hsi Huang (University of Connecticut, USA)
-Bahman Javadi (Western Sydney University, Australia)
-Odej Kao (TU Berlin, Germany)
-Stefan Kirn (Univ. Hohenheim, Germany)
-Bastian Koller (HLRS - University of Stuttgart, Germany)
-Somayeh Koohborfardhaghighi (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
-George Kousiouris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
-Dieter Kranzlmüller (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
-Dimosthenis Kyriazis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
-Jörg Leukel (Univ. Hohenheim, Germany)
-Dan Ma (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
-Richard Ma (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
-Roc Meseguer (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
-Mircea Moca (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
-Maurizio Naldi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)
-Leandro Navarro (UPC, Spain)
-Marco Netto (IBM, Italy)
-Frank Pallas (KIT - Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology, Germany)
-George Pallis (Dpt. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
-Dana Petcu (West University of Timisoara, Romania)
-Ioan Petri (Cardiff University, UK)
-Radu Prodan (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
-Ivan Rodero (Rutgers University, USA)
-Rizos Sakellariou (The University of Manchester, UK)
-Benjamin Satzger (Microsoft, USA)
-Lutz Schubert (OMI, University of Ulm, Germany)
-Jun Shen (University of Wollongong, Australia)
-Mathias Slawik (TU Berlin, Germany)
-Aleksander A. Slominski (Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA)
-Stefan Tai (TU Berlin, Germany)
-Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
-Bruno Tuffin (INRIA, France)
-Iraklis Varlamis (Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio 
University of Athens, Greece)
-Claudiu Vinte (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)
-Stefan Wesner (HLRS, Germany)
-Phillip Wieder (Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung 
mbH Goettingen, Germany)
-Ramin Yahyapour (Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung 
mbH Goettingen, Germany)
-Dimitrios Zissis (University of the Aegean, Department of Product and 
Systems Design Engineering, Greece)
-Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College London, UK)
-Saurabh Garg (IBM Research, USA)
-Thomas Hess (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitet Munchen, Germany)
-Tobias Knoch (Erasmus University, Netherlands)
-Harald Kornmayer (Duale Hochschule Baden-Wuerttemberg Mannheim, Germany)
-Leonardo Maccari (University of Trento, Italy)
-Dirk Neumann (University of Freiburg, Germany)
-Rubem Pereira (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
-Peter Reichl (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria)
-Arunabha Sen (Arizona State University, USA)
-Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
-Dora Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
-Luis Veiga (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
-Ivan Breskovic (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
-Nikolaus Forgo (University of Hannover, Germany)
-Haiwu He (Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China)
-Matthias Hovestadt (Hanover University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
-Byungtae Lee (KAIST, South-Korea)
-Marin Litoiu (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde 
School of Engineering, Canada)
-Syed Naqvi (Birmingham City University, UK)
-Dang Minh Quan (CREATE-NET, Germany)
-Rajiv Ranjan (University of Melbourne, Australia)
-Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan)
-Kwang Mon Sim (University of Kent, UK)
-Katarina Stanoevska (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland)
-Ruediger Zarnekow (TU Berlin, Germany)
-Wolfgang Ziegler (Fraunhofer, Germany)


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