GECON Workshop Series on the Economics of
Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services

Workshop Links
Current Workshop:
GECON2010, Ischia, Italy
Past Workshops:
GECON2009, Delft, Netherlands
GECON2008, Las Palmas, Spain
GECON2007, Rennes, France
GECON2006, Singapore
GECON2005, Seoul, South-Korea
GECON2004, Seoul, South-Korea

On the long way from the first computer clusters in the eighties and nineties of the last century to the vision of an open commercial Grid, where all kinds of IT services can be traded, many challenges have to be overcome. In order to address these challenges and, therefore, advance the knowledge on the Economics of Grids, Systems, and Services, since 2004, an annual workshop has been organized in collaboration with IEEE conferences or with major conferences like EuroPar. The following research topics, which are addressed within the Gecon workshop series, will ensure that we stay on the right track towards an open commercial IT infrastructure, the next generation Internet:

  • Analysis of the functionality of the existing Grid technology
  • Business services workflows
  • Business modeling
  • Market mechanisms
  • Service-orientation of computing systems
  • Specification of incentives for participation and resource sharing
  • Specification of economic-aware IT services
  • Analysis of pricing schemes for Grids, systems, Clouds, and services
  • Reports on test beds and operation
  • Analysis of application scenarios (with stakeholders and roles)
  • Resource selection and allocation
  • Metering, accounting, charging, billing systems
  • Economic aspects of security
  • Decision support systems for users and providers
  • Capacity planning systems
  • Service level agreements
  • Market models
  • Economic aspects of existing applications
  • Reports on national and international projects on Grid systems
  • Trust and Risk management
  • Standardization Virtual organizations
  • Economic aspects of identity management
  • Impact of legal requirements on interconnection of systems

Please, find more information about the specific workshops on the linked Web sites. The proceedings were published by various publishers like IEEE and Springer LNCS. In addition to this, special journal issues (e.g. Elsevier) of top, extended papers are published as well.
GECON 2004
  • 1st IEEE International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models
  • Organized by Junseok Hwang (Seoul National University, Korea) and Jysoo Lee (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea)
  • Please find here the TOC of the Proceedings
GECON 2005
  • Co-located with GGF13 the 2nd Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models took place in Seoul, Korea, on March 14, 2005
  • Organized by Junseok Hwang (Seoul National University, Korea) and Jysoo Lee (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea)
  • Here you can find the cfp
GECON 2006
  • The 3rd International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models was held on 16 May 2006 in Singapore, in conjunction with the IEEE Cluster Computing & Grid Conference (CCGrid 2006) and Grid Asia 2006
  • Organized by Hing-Yan Lee (National Grid Office, Singapore) and Steven Miller (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
  • The proceedings can be purchased e.g. via this book seller
GECON 2007
  • In 2007 for the first time the GECON workshop was held in Europe: GECON 2007 took place on 28 August 2007 in Rennes, France in collaboration with EuroPar 2007
  • It was organized by Jorn Altmann, Daniel Veit (University of Mannheim, Germany) and Sonja Klingert (International University, Germany)
  • The proceedings were published by Springer as part of the LNCS series.
  • Find the GECON 2007 Web site here.
GECON 2008
  • GECON 2008 took place on 25/26 August 2008 in Las Palmas, Spain in collaboration with EuroPar 2008
  • It was organized by Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea), Dirk Neumann (University of Freiburg, Germany), Thomas Fahringer (University of Innsbruck, Austria), and Sonja Klingert (International University, Germany)
  • The proceedings were published by Springer as part of the LNCS series.
  • Find the GECON 2008 Web site here.
GECON 2009
  • GECON 2009 took place on 24 August 2009 in Delft, Netherlands in collaboration with EuroPar 2009
  • It was organized by Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea), Raj Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia), Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK)
  • The proceedings were published by Springer as part of the LNCS series.
  • Find the GECON 2009 Web site here.
Statistics about the GECON Workshops
    Workshop Attendance Number of Submitted Papers Number of Accepted Papers Acceptance Rate of Papers Number of Invited Papers (Work in Progress) Number of Reviews in Average per Paper
    GECON2010
    		 - - - planned <30% - -
    GECON2009
    		 40 25 8 32% 6 3.4
    GECON2008
    		 25 27 10 37% 9 3.62
    GECON2007
    		 31 30 12 40% 6 2.4
    GECON2006
    		 - - 11 - 4 reviewed
    GECON2005
    		 - - 6 - 4 reviewed
    GECON2004
    		 - - 6 - 3 reviewed
Steering Committee
  • Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Koreaa)
  • Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Junseok Hwang (Seoul National University, South-Korea)
  • Hing-Yan Lee (National Grid Office, Singapore)
  • Jysoo Lee (Kisti, South-Korea)
  • Steven Miller (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
  • Dirk Neumann (University of Freiburg, Germany)
  • Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK)
  • Daniel Veit (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Links to Sites about Grid Economics, Systems Economics, and Services Economics
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