20th International Conference on 

        Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services

http://2024.gecon-conference.org

26-27. September 2024, Roma Italy

Springer LNCS Proceedings

Fast Track for several Journals in Computer Systems and E-Commerce

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First Call for 

– full papers,

– short papers (work-in-progress papers),

– special topic sessions,

– tutorials, and for

– poster presentations.

GECON 2024 builds upon the very successful tradition of the

conference previous editions (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.

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Important Deadlines

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Deadlines for full papers and short papers (work-in-progress papers) ares:

– Paper abstract submission deadline: June 1st, 2024

– Full Paper  and Short Paper (work-in-progress) submission deadline: June 15th,

 2024

-Poster submission deadline (Extended abstract and poster) submission

 deadline July 12th, 2024

– Notification of acceptance of papers: July 12th, 2024

– Camera Ready deadline: July 26th, 2024

– Poster Submission for accepted papers deadline: July 26th, 2024

Deadlines for special topic session proposals and tutorial proposals are:

– Special topic session proposal deadline: May 1st, 2024

– Tutorial proposal deadline: May 1st, 2024

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Topics of Interest

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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 technologic area. GECON list of 

areas includes but is not limited to:

-Economics-

    Trustworthiness of services

    Ecosystem economics

    Incentive design, strategic behaviour & game theory

    Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages

    Economic efficiency

    Techno-economic analysis and modelling

    Pricing schemes and revenue models

    Preemptible computing

    Metering, accounting, and billing

    Cost-benefit analysis

    Automated trading and bidding support tools

    Trust, reputation, security, and risk management

    Performance monitoring, optimization, and prediction

    Economics of Open Data

    Trustworthiness and Assurances for Quality of Data

    Economic impact of distributed storage solutions

    Energy efficiency 

    Sustainability

    Business models and strategies

    Decision support

    Ecosystems

-Law and Legal Aspects-

    Standardisation, interoperability, and legal aspects

    Service level Agreements (SLAs)

    Negotiation, monitoring, and enforcement

    Governance of ecosystems

    Privacy

    Data sovereignty

-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-

    Generative AI and its economic impact

    Generative AI and Trust

    AI-enabled computing continuum from Cloud to Edge 

    AI and power demand

    Smart grids, smart cities, and smart buildings

    Energy-aware infrastructures and services

    Fog, edge, cloud computing

    Micro-services, serverless computing

    Internet-of-Things

    Blockchains

    Community networks

    Social networks

    Social computing

    Shared public infrastructures for knowledge exchange: 

    (e.g. IPFS, Origin Trail, Decentralised Knowledge Graphs)

    Big data

    Reports on industry test-beds and operational markets

    Data stream ingestion and complex event processing

    Open source

    Modelling, Simulation and Decision-making of Clouds, Systems and Services

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Publication and Submission Guidelines for Papers

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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 2024 web page. 

Paper submissions are managed through EasyChair at 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2024. 

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.

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Submission Guidelines for Special Topic Session Proposals

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GECON 2024 looks for proposals for special topic sessions. With 

the objective of encouraging alternative forms of participation

that can increase the opportunity to discuss technical topics 

and new ideas in a round table atmosphere, we solicit special 

topic proposals.

The special topic sessions program seeks to provide venues for

specialist groups to meet, to generate focused discussion on

specific sub-areas within the economics of distributed systems,

and to engage in community-building activities. Special sessions

should provide a discussion forum for researchers in topics

related to topics of the conference, either on specific research

themes, or in emerging areas of research.  

Special topic sessions can be used, for example, for giving the 

opportunity to all participants to present intermediate/final 

results of projects, finding partners to establish collaborative 

research and innovation projects.

Special topic session proposals should describe briefly 

objectives or purpose, importance of the topic, and strategies 

to facilitate participation in the discussion.

The Special Topic session participants can write a joined 

paper or submit individual papers for the conference proceedings.

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Submission Guidelines for Tutorial Proposals

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GECON 2024 looks for tutorial proposals on topics related to the 

conference topics. The tutorials are supposed to give 

PhD students an overview about existing concepts, challenges, and 

future research directions.

Tutorial proposals should provide a title, an abstract, and a 

table of content.

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/Poster Submissions/ 

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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.