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<div>3rd Call for Papers<br>
<b>GECON 2018</b></div>
<div><b>15th International Conference on Economics of Grids,
Clouds, Systems & Services</b></div>
<div><a href="http://2018.gecon-conference.org">http://2018.gecon-conference.org</a></div>
<div>18-20 September 2018, Pisa, Italy</div>
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<b>SCOPE</b>
<div>GECON 2018 builds upon the very successful tradition of the
conference previous editions since 2003, (<a
href="http://www.gecon-conference.org">http://www.gecon-conference.org</a>).
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.</div>
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<div><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></div>
<div>Abstract Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2018</div>
<div>Paper and Paper-in-Progress Submission Deadline: May 22nd,
2018</div>
<div>Notification of Paper and Paper-in-Progress Acceptance: June
15th, 2018</div>
<div>Camera-Ready Deadline: June 22nd, 2018</div>
<div>Poster Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2018</div>
<div>Notification of Poster Acceptance: June 21st, 2018</div>
<div>Camera-Ready Poster Deadline: June 24th, 2018</div>
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<div><b>VENUE</b></div>
<div>GECON 2018 will be held in Pisa, Italy, within the research
premises of the Italian National Research Council (CNR).</div>
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<div><b>PUBLICATION AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</b></div>
<div>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.</div>
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<div>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).</div>
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<div>For further details, visit the GECON 2018 Web page. Paper
submissions are managed through EasyChair at (<a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2018">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2018</a>).</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div><b>TOPICS OF INTEREST</b></div>
<div>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:</div>
<div>-Software service platforms and networked systems</div>
<div>-Analysis of software industry and cloud computing industry</div>
<div>-Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages</div>
<div>-Decision support for service selection and procurement</div>
<div>-Revenue and energy‐aware resource management</div>
<div>-Pricing schemes, service level agreements (SLAs), and
revenue models</div>
<div>-Negotiation, enforcement and monitoring of service level
agreements</div>
<div>-Open source ecosystem</div>
<div>-Economically efficient resource allocation, scheduling, and
capacity planning</div>
<div>-Automated trading and bidding support tools</div>
<div>-Incentive design, strategic behavior & game theory</div>
<div>-Development of sustainable infrastructures</div>
<div>-Desktop grids, volunteer computing and crowd-sourcing</div>
<div>-Metering, accounting, and billing</div>
<div>-Business models and strategies for SMEs</div>
<div>-Trust, reputation, security, and risk management</div>
<div>-Reports and analysis on operational markets and test‐beds</div>
<div>-Economics of big data, software, services, service
composition, and selection</div>
<div>-Cost modeling, cost‐benefit analysis</div>
<div>-Performance monitoring, optimization and prediction</div>
<div>-Community networks, social network systems, and resource
sharing models</div>
<div>-Techno‐economic analysis: Emerging computing paradigms (fog,
edge, osmosis computing), and technologies (micro‐services,
containers)</div>
<div>-Efficient resource management based on different
virtualization technologies</div>
<div>-Cross-technology, self-managing mechanisms, tooling to
increase productivity in Platform-as-a Service environments.</div>
<div>-Smart grids, smart cities, smart buildings, energy-aware
infrastructures and services</div>
<div>-Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects</div>
<div>-Economics of IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and Federation of resources</div>
<div>-Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data</div>
<div>-Service Science</div>
<div>-Clouds & Services for Internet‐of‐Things</div>
<div>-Computational and economic aspects of blockchain</div>
<div>-Machine learning, Cognitive Systems and Data Science for
system management</div>
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<div><b>GECON 2018 IS RUNNING TWO SPECIAL SESSIONS THIS YEAR</b></div>
<div><b>***Special Session on IT Service Ecosystems enabled
through Emerging Digital Technologies***</b></div>
<div>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:</div>
<div>- Software ecosystems</div>
<div>- IT service platforms</div>
<div>- Digital business model innovation (opportunities and
barriers)</div>
<div>- New value creation models over new technologies such as
cloud computing, IOT, wearable Tech, blockchain</div>
<div>- Digital transformation and event thinking</div>
<div>- Open source software</div>
<div>- Implementations of distributed business logics</div>
<div>- Digital process re-engineering</div>
<div>- Data-driven business model innovation (Acceptance and
Barriers)</div>
<div>- Social Impact of Digital Business Transformations</div>
<div>- Software service systems</div>
<div>Contact : Somayeh Khaghighi (Amsterdam University ,
Netherlands) - <a href="mailto:skhaghighi@gmail.com">skhaghighi@gmail.com</a></div>
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<div><b>***Special Session on Machine learning, Cognitive Systems
and Data Science for system management***</b></div>
<div>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:</div>
<div>- Machine Learning and their potential applications in
Systems Management</div>
<div>- Self-Autonomous System Management</div>
<div>- Network, Devices and Computers Management</div>
<div>- IT and IoT Infrastructure</div>
<div>- Software as a Service</div>
<div>- AI & Cloud computing</div>
<div>- Robots, drones network management</div>
<div>- Advanced Software for Managed Service Providers</div>
<div>Contact: Aurilla Aurelie Arntzen (University of
South-Eastern, Norway) - <a
href="mailto:Aurilla.Aurelie.Arntzen@usn.no">Aurilla.Aurelie.Arntzen@usn.no</a></div>
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<div><b>CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION</b></div>
<div>Conference Chair</div>
<div>-Massimo Coppola (ISTI-CNR, Italy) - <a
href="mailto:massimo.coppola@isti.cnr.it">massimo.coppola@isti.cnr.it</a></div>
<div>-Emanuele Carlini (ISTI-CNR, Italy) - <a
href="mailto:emanuele.carlini@isti.cnr.it">emanuele.carlini@isti.cnr.it</a></div>
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Conference Vice-Chairs</div>
<div>-Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea)</div>
<div>-José Ángel Bañares (University of Zaragoza, Spain)</div>
<div>-Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK)</div>
<div>-Congduc Pham (University of Pau, France)</div>
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Proceedings Chair</div>
<div>-Daniele D’Agostino (IMATI-CNR, Genova, Italy)</div>
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Industrial Session Chair</div>
<div>-Patrizio Dazzi (ISTI-CNR, Italy)</div>
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Steering Committee</div>
<div>-Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea)</div>
<div>-Jose Angel Bañares (Zaragoza University, Spain)</div>
<div>-Steven Miller (Singapore Mgnt University, Singapore)</div>
<div>-Maria Nikolaidou (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece)</div>
<div>-Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK)</div>
<div>-Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)</div>
<div>-Konstantinos Tserpes (Harokopio University, Greece)</div>
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<div>Program Committee</div>
<div>-Alvaro Arenas (IE University, Spain)</div>
<div>-Ashraf Bany Mohammed (The University of Jordan, Jordan)</div>
<div>-Aurilla Aurelie Arntzen (University of South-Eastern,
Norway)</div>
<div>-Ivona Brandic (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)</div>
<div>-Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia)</div>
<div>-Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich, Germany)</div>
<div>-Costas Courcoubetis (sutd, Greece)</div>
<div>-Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece)</div>
<div>-Patricio Domingues (ESTG - Leiria, Portugal)</div>
<div>-Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy)</div>
<div>-Felix Freitag (UPC, Spain)</div>
<div>-Marc Frincu (West University of Timisoara, Romania)</div>
<div>-Daniel Grosu (Wayne State University, USA)</div>
<div>-Netsanet Haile (Seoul National University, South-Korea)</div>
<div>-Chun-Hsi Huang (University of Connecticut, USA)</div>
<div>-Bahman Javadi (Western Sydney University, Australia)</div>
<div>-Odej Kao (TU Berlin, Germany)</div>
<div>-Stefan Kirn (Univ. Hohenheim, Germany)</div>
<div>-Bastian Koller (HLRS - University of Stuttgart, Germany)</div>
<div>-Somayeh Koohborfardhaghighi (University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)</div>
<div>-George Kousiouris (National Technical University of Athens,
Greece)</div>
<div>-Dieter Kranzlmüller (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich,
Germany)</div>
<div>-Dimosthenis Kyriazis (National Technical University of
Athens, Greece)</div>
<div>-Jörg Leukel (Univ. Hohenheim, Germany)</div>
<div>-Dan Ma (Singapore Management University, Singapore)</div>
<div>-Richard Ma (National University of Singapore, Singapore)</div>
<div>-Roc Meseguer (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)</div>
<div>-Mircea Moca (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca,
Romania)</div>
<div>-Maurizio Naldi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)</div>
<div>-Leandro Navarro (UPC, Spain)</div>
<div>-Marco Netto (IBM, Italy)</div>
<div>-Frank Pallas (KIT - Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology,
Germany)</div>
<div>-George Pallis (Dpt. of Computer Science, University of
Cyprus, Cyprus)</div>
<div>-Dana Petcu (West University of Timisoara, Romania)</div>
<div>-Ioan Petri (Cardiff University, UK)</div>
<div>-Radu Prodan (University of Innsbruck, Austria)</div>
<div>-Ivan Rodero (Rutgers University, USA)</div>
<div>-Rizos Sakellariou (The University of Manchester, UK)</div>
<div>-Benjamin Satzger (Microsoft, USA)</div>
<div>-Lutz Schubert (OMI, University of Ulm, Germany)</div>
<div>-Jun Shen (University of Wollongong, Australia)</div>
<div>-Mathias Slawik (TU Berlin, Germany)</div>
<div>-Aleksander A. Slominski (Thomas J. Watson Research Center,
USA)</div>
<div>-Stefan Tai (TU Berlin, Germany)</div>
<div>-Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)</div>
<div>-Bruno Tuffin (INRIA, France)</div>
<div>-Iraklis Varlamis (Department of Informatics and Telematics,
Harokopio University of Athens, Greece)</div>
<div>-Claudiu Vinte (Bucharest University of Economic Studies,
Romania)</div>
<div>-Stefan Wesner (HLRS, Germany)</div>
<div>-Phillip Wieder (Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche
Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen, Germany)</div>
<div>-Ramin Yahyapour (Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche
Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen, Germany)</div>
<div>-Dimitrios Zissis (University of the Aegean, Department of
Product and Systems Design Engineering, Greece)</div>
<div>-Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College London, UK)</div>
<div>-Saurabh Garg (IBM Research, USA)</div>
<div>-Thomas Hess (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitet Munchen,
Germany)</div>
<div>-Tobias Knoch (Erasmus University, Netherlands)</div>
<div>-Harald Kornmayer (Duale Hochschule Baden-Wuerttemberg
Mannheim, Germany)</div>
<div>-Leonardo Maccari (University of Trento, Italy)</div>
<div>-Dirk Neumann (University of Freiburg, Germany)</div>
<div>-Rubem Pereira (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)</div>
<div>-Peter Reichl (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna,
Austria)</div>
<div>-Arunabha Sen (Arizona State University, USA)</div>
<div>-Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich, Switzerland)</div>
<div>-Dora Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens,
Greece)</div>
<div>-Luis Veiga (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)</div>
<div>-Ivan Breskovic (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)</div>
<div>-Nikolaus Forgo (University of Hannover, Germany)</div>
<div>-Haiwu He (Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China)</div>
<div>-Matthias Hovestadt (Hanover University of Applied Sciences,
Germany)</div>
<div>-Byungtae Lee (KAIST, South-Korea)</div>
<div>-Marin Litoiu (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Lassonde School of Engineering, Canada)</div>
<div>-Syed Naqvi (Birmingham City University, UK)</div>
<div>-Dang Minh Quan (CREATE-NET, Germany)</div>
<div>-Rajiv Ranjan (University of Melbourne, Australia)</div>
<div>-Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan)</div>
<div>-Kwang Mon Sim (University of Kent, UK)</div>
<div>-Katarina Stanoevska (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland)</div>
<div>-Ruediger Zarnekow (TU Berlin, Germany)</div>
<div>-Wolfgang Ziegler (Fraunhofer, Germany)<br>
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