[hpc-announce] Call for Papers - Future Generation Computer Systems - Economics of Computing Services

[Wisser, Grace]

CALL FOR PAPER Future Generation Computer Systems Special Issue
Economics of Computing Services
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MOTIVATION AND SCOPE

Computing infrastructure, particularly cloud computing, faces substantial managerial and economic challenges. Among these, the risk of platform lock-in is a significant barrier to widespread adoption. Additionally, the costs, portability, and the lack of fungibility in cloud services, resulting from diverse hardware, architectures, software, interfaces, and administrative policies, present major challenges. Overcoming these challenges requires the establishment of standards, best practices, legal frameworks, economics-aware technological solutions, and innovative business models.

This special issue aims to achieve this by exploring mechanisms for efficient and cost-effective deployment, orchestration, and resource management across diverse virtualization technologies and different cloud service providers. Moreover, this special issue focuses on manageability of cloud services, supported by a deep understanding of value creation and economic dynamics within the cloud industry.

This special issue invites submissions that are interdisciplinary and integrate business and economic aspects with engineering and computer science themes. Potential submissions may include extensions to existing technologies, successful technology deployments, economic analyses, assessments of technology adoption, and theoretical models on economics of computing services. Related topics are:

*Business models for cloud computing infrastructures
*Decision support for service selection and procurement
*Revenue and energy-aware resource management
*Pricing schemes, service level agreements (SLAs), and revenue models
*Economic aspects of blockchain applications
*Economically efficient resource allocation, scheduling, and capacity planning
*Auction models, automated trading and bidding support tools
*Game theory, incentive design, market mechanism, strategic behavior for computing resources
*Economics of desktop grids, volunteer computing, and crowd-sourcing
*Ecosystems, 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
*Economic modeling of networks, systems, and software

The overall purpose of this special issue is, to build a strong community in this interdisciplinary area of computing and economics. As part of this, the special issue is linked to the International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services (GECON). It aims at soliciting papers from the conference series that are most promising for achieving a high impact. Ideas for a submission to the FGCS Special Issue can also be presented and discussed at the GECON 2024 conference by submitting an abstract/article via Easychair (indicating "FGCS VSI: GECON"), obtaining valuable feedback for a submission to the special issue. The submission deadlines for the GECON conference is August 30th.

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GUEST EDITORS

Jörn Altmann
Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Department; College of Engineering; Seoul National University; Republic of Korea
jorn.altmann at acm.org

José Ángel Bañares
Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering; University of Zaragoza, Spain
banares at unizar.es

Bernhard Egger
Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Seoul National University; Republic of Korea
bernhard at csap.snu.ac.kr

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IMPORTANT DATES


Deadline for paper submission: January 20, 2025

Latest acceptance deadline for all papers: April 30, 2025

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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The FGCS’s submission system (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from August 1, 2024. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type VSI: GECON.


All submissions deemed suitable by the editors to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production to be published in the special issue.

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MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING GUIDELINES

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* Please use Elsevier's Latex Style with "5p, times" option. So your document should start with \documentclass[5p,times]{elsarticle}
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* Article submitted to FGCS should be strictly double column, single spaced and limited to 18 pages; including all figures, tables, references.
* A manuscript longer than 18 pages will not be considered for review and returned to author to be revised to the correct format.

To view a complete list of the Call for Papers for Future Generation Computer Systems Journal, visit: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/future-generation-computer-systems/about/call-for-papers__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!dksnuBT-Dxckx39pAtF5DRgEaPM8Wyp7ySSYUd5UNumY9hoTuu_OsZCi-sVoYsBbGh7-aU9LqgNf6Dg-0-dtk7U$ 

Grace Wisser
Assistant Director, Global Computing Lab
Assistant to Editor in Chief, FGCS Journal

Submitted on behalf of:
Michela Taufer, Ph.D.
Editor in Chief, Future Generation Computer Systems Journal