[hpc-announce] GECON 2020, Final Call, Submission Deadline Extended to June 7th, 17th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services

[Jörn ALTMANN]

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17th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & 
Services
Extended Deadline: June 7th, 2020
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ONLINE CONFERENCE with high interaction between participants
WWW: http://2020.gecon-conference.org
Dates: 15-17 September 2020
Proceedings: Springer LNCS

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/  NOTICES! /
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Extended Deadlines:
     Extended abstract Submission deadline: May 31st, 2020
     Full papers deadline: June 7th, 2020

The organizing committee of GECON 2020 has decided all
sessions will be held exclusively online!

We consider the new online format to offer opportunities
for exploring new ways of improving the interaction and
feedback of the audience with speakers and promoting
networking among the conference participants.

The registration fee of the online conference has been
reduced to 250€ for one author of each publication,
100 € for participants, and 50€ for students.

The selection process will run as planned. The timely
publication of accepted papers in the proceedings of
GECON 2020 will be published in the LNCS series of
Springer as announced.

Due to the new online format, GECON maintains open the
proposal for special sessions. With the objective of
encouraging alternative forms of participation that can
increase discussions of technical topics and new ideas.

We solicit new topics and birds-of-a-feather session
proposals. Deadline for proposals is August 15th, 2020.

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/ SCOPE /
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GECON 2020 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 Dates /
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Deadlines:
     Extended abstract submission deadline: May 31st, 2020
     Full papers deadline:  June 7th, 2020
     Notification of acceptance: July 6th, 2020
     Camera Ready deadline: July 13th, 2020
     Poster Submission for accepted papers: July 20th, 2020
     Birds of a feather session proposals: August 15th, 2020

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/ Publication and Submission Guidelines /
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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 per cent in recent years.

Full papers, work-in-progress (WIP) papers, and
wild-and-crazy-ideas (WACI) papers shall be submitted
using the Springer LNCS format.
Submitted full papers should not exceed 12 pages, WIP
papers should not exceed 8 pages (including references
and appendices) and WACI papers (4 pages). For further
details, visit the GECON 2020 web page. Paper
submissions are managed through EasyChair at
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2020).

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
- Elsevier Electronic Commerce and Applications
with up to 5 papers is foreseen.

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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-
     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
     Reports on industry test-beds and operational markets
     Energy efficiency
     Sustainability
     Business models and strategies
     Decision support
     Open source 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, scheduling
     Capacity planning
     Virtualization and containers
     Service science, management and engineering (SSME)
     Software engineering
     Security

-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
     Data stream ingestion and complex event processing

Additionally, the following special topic sessions have been
lined up (a detailed description is available on the GECON
2020 submission web site):

-Digital Infrastructures to Support Decision Making for
Pandemic Response and Countermeasures-
     Contact:
     GECON 2020 Chairs,
gecon2020 at easychair.org
-Decentralising Clouds to Deliver Intelligence at the Edge-
     Contact:
     Seugwoo Kum,
     Korean Electronics Technology Institute, Korea,
seungwoo.kum at gmail.com;
     Domenico Siracusa,
     Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy,
dsiracusa at fbk.eu.
-Sustainability of Digital Infrastructures: Social, Economic,
and Policy Aspects for Material Resources Supporting the
Digital World-
     Contact:
     Leandro Navarro
     Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain,
leandro at ac.upc.edu;
     Felix Freitag
     Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain,
felix at ac.upc.edu
-Business and Economic Aspects of Machine Learning, Cognitive
Systems and Data Science-
     Contact:
     Aurilla Aurelie Arntzen
     University of South-Eastern, Norway,
aurilla.aurelie.arntzen at usn.no

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/ Conference Organization /
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Conference Chair
     Vlado Stankovski (University of Ljubljana,Slovenia)
Conference Vice-Chairs
     Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK)
     Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (University of Haifa, Israel)
     Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea)
     Jose Angel Banares (Zaragoza University, Spai
Steering Committee
     Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK)
     Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea)
     Jose Angel Banares (Zaragoza University, Spain)
     Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (Technion, Israel)
     Steven Miller (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
     Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK)
     Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
     Konstantinos Tserpes (Harokopio University, Greece)
     Maurizio Naldi (Universita di Roma, Italy)

Contact for Questions: gecon2020 at easychair.org

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