=================================================================== 18th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services http://2021.gecon-conference.org http://2021.gecon-conference.org 21-23. September 2021, Online Springer LNCS Proceedings Fast Track for several Journals in Computer Systems and E-Commerce ===================================================================

Second Call for full papers, short papers (work-in-progress papers), and poster presentations.

Announcement of confirmed panels and tutorials.

GECON 2021 builds upon the very successful tradition of the conference previous editions (http://www.gecon-conference.org http://www.gecon-conference.org) since 2003. GECON solicits contributions that are interdisciplinary, combining business and economic aspects with engineering and computer science related themes.

The conference will be held online.

====================== / Important Deadlines / ======================= - Paper abstract submission deadline: May 31st, 2021 - Full Paper and short paper (Work-in-progress) submission deadline: June 7th, 2021 - Notification of acceptance of papers: July 5th, 2021 - Camera Ready deadline: July 12th, 2021 - Poster Submission deadline: July 12th, 2021

====================== / 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 technological area. GECON list of areas includes but is not limited to:

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

-Law and Legal Aspects- Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects Service level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, monitoring, and enforcement Governance of ecosystems Privacy

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

-Applications and Technologies Transforming the Economy- Smart grids, smart cities, and smart buildings Energy-aware infrastructures and services Fog, edge, osmosis computing Micro-services, serverless computing Internet-of-Things Blockchains Community networks Social networks Social computing Big data Reports on industry test-beds and operational markets Data stream ingestion and complex event processing Open source

====================================================== / Publication and Submission Guidelines for Papers / ====================================================== Original full papers and short papers (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 per cent in recent years.

Full papers and short papers (work-in-progress papers) shall be submitted using the Springer LNCS format. Submitted full papers should not exceed 12 pages and WIP papers should not exceed 8 pages (including references and appendices). For further details, visit the GECON 2021 web page.

Paper submissions are managed through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2021 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2021.

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 or the - Elsevier Electronic Commerce Research and Applications - Springer Electronic Commerce Research with up to 15 papers is foreseen.

====================== / Poster Submissions / ====================== Poster presentations provide a unique opportunity for PhD students and young researchers to present their ongoing work and to receive constructive feedback from their peers as well as experts in the field (including academics and practitioners) at the GECON conference.

Authors of accepted full papers and short papers (work-in-progress papers) are also welcome to present their work in poster sessions, giving them a higher visibility then just giving a talk.

Posters will be organized and presented throughout the conference using gather.town, allowing for many discussions with participants and a highly interactive conference.

===================================================== / Accepted Tutorial: “Energy Efficiency / / Methodologies in Cloud Computing” (Karim Djemame)/ ===================================================== Computer systems have faced significant power consumption challenges over the past 20 years. The dual challenge of both power and performance has in recent years shifted from the devices and circuits level, to their current position as first-order constraints for system architects and software developers. A common theme is the need for low-power computing systems that are fully interconnected, self-aware, context-aware and self-optimising within application boundaries.

The tutorial presents a number of energy efficiency methodologies and their use in domains such as cloud computing, which makes up a large proportion of the total ICT energy consumption. Cloud computing providers resort to a variety of techniques to improve energy consumption at each level of the cloud computing stack: application design, programming model, middleware, virtualisation, hardware. Therefore, research on energy efficiency in cloud computing has attracted considerable attention and has focused on many aspects including ICT equipment (servers, networks) as well as software solutions running on top of ICT equipment (cloud management system domain for managing the cloud infrastructure).

========================================================== / Accepted Special Topic Session: Law & Computer Science / ========================================================== As Law and Computer science develop, they pose each other new challenges. These challenges are expressed in questions such as: Where must computer scientists stretch their abilities to provide law with adequate solutions? What legal developments are required to deal with new computer science achievements?

In this panel, hosted by Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda of the CRI institute at the University of Haifa, we will hear answers from: * Niva Elkin-Koren, of Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. * Supreeth Shastri, of the University of Iowa

=========================== / Conference Organization / =========================== Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (University of Haifa, Israel) Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea) Jose Angel Banares (Zaragoza University, Spain) Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK) Maurizio Naldi (Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (LUMSA), Italy) Vlado Stankovski (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Bruno Tuffin (Inria Rennes, France)

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