[agents] CfP: GECON Special Issue on the Economics of Computing Services in FGCS Journal of Elsevier; deadline April 30th

[Jörn ALTMANN]

*Special Issue on the Economics of Computing Services*
in *Future Generation Computer Systems Journal* of *Elsevier*

at 
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-the-economics-of-computing-services

*THEMES AND TOPICS *
Advances in distributed systems technology have allowed for the 
provisioning of IT services on an unprecedented scale and with 
increasing flexibility. As the global market for infrastructure, 
platforms and software services is continuously evolving supporting new 
application domains, the need to understand and deal with the new 
implications and multitude of new challenges is quickly growing, 
especially from an economic perspective. Some well-timed such issues are 
related to the energy consumption that relate to the distributed 
systems’ operation and their increasingly contributing role to the 
network neutrality.

This Special Issue aims to solicit contributions that are 
interdisciplinary, combining business and economic aspects with 
engineering and computer-science related themes. Contributions to this 
Special Issue can include extensions to existing technologies, 
successful deployment 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 Issue is 
to gather original work and build a strong multidisciplinary community 
in this increasingly important area of a future information and 
knowledge economy.
The issue will focus on cloud, software, and services technologies and 
solutions related (but not limited) to:
• 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
• Blockchain applications and economy
• Open source ecosystems
• 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
• Service value chains and value networks
• Trust, reputation, security, and risk management
• Economics of big data, software, services, service composition, and 
selection
• Community networks, social network systems, and resource sharing models
• Techno-economic analysis
• Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data

This FGCS special issue is linked to the International Conference on the 
Economics of Grids, Clouds, Software and services (GECON) series’ papers 
(http://gecon-conference.org). It aims at soliciting papers from the 
conference series –but not only- that are most promising for achieving a 
high impact. The topic of the FGCS special issue on the economics of 
computing services is highly relevant to the journal’s scope and aims in 
providing a multi-disciplinary application-based view of the current 
research advances.
This will be the 5th GECON Special Issue in FGCS with the other four 
being published in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018.

*IMPORTANT DATES *
Submission of manuscripts: April 30th, 2018
Notification to authors about ‘major revision’ or ‘rejection’: July 
31st, 2018
Submission of revised versions of manuscripts: September 30th, 2018
Notification to authors about ‘minor revision’ or ‘acceptance’: November 
30th, 2018
Submission of final version: December 23rd, 2018
Notification of acceptance: January 15th, 2019

*PAPER SUBMISSION *
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the journal web 
site (http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs).
Please select "SI:GECON18" when reaching the step of selecting article 
type name in submission process.
Contributions must contain original unpublished work not concurrently 
submitted or under review anywhere else.
The paper length could be about 12000 words. This style will lead to 
about 12 pages in the final format.

*GUEST EDITORS *
Jörn Altmann, Seoul National University (http://eng.snu.ac.kr/node/10247)
José Ángel Bañares, University of Zaragoza 
(http://webdiis.unizar.es/~jangelb/Pagina_personal_Banares/Home.html)
Konstantinos Tserpes - Harokopio University of Athens 
(http://www.dit.hua.gr/~tserpes)

*CONTACTS *
For further inquiries feel free to contact: tserpes(AT)hua.gr

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Prof. Dr. Jörn ALTMANN
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