GECON invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present and discuss economics-related issues and solutions associated with these developments and challenges. Contributed work can comprise extensions to existing technologies, successful deployments of technologies, economic analysis, and theoretical concepts. 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 economy.

General topics of interest at GECON 2015 include:     

Analysis of software industry and cloud computing industry

Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages

Decision support for providers, service selection, and procurement

Revenue and energy-aware resource management

Pricing schemes and revenue models

Capacity planning

Resource allocation and scheduling

Automated trading and bidding support tools

Incentive design and strategic behavior

Development of sustainable infrastructures

Desktop grids, volunteer computing and crowd-sourcing

Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data

Business models and strategies

Service value chains and value networks

Metering, accounting, and billing

Negotiation, enforcement and monitoring of Service Level Agreements

Trust, reputation, security, and risk management

Performance monitoring and prediction

Reports and analysis on operational markets and testbeds

Techno-economic analysis

Standardization and legal aspects

Cost modeling, cost-benefit analysis, game theory

Smart electricity grids

Social network systems

IaaS, SaaS, PaaS

Services Science

Technology acceptance models

Benefits to small and medium-sized enterprises