General topics of interest at GECON 2017 include: 

• Software service platforms and networked systems

• Analysis of software industry and cloud computing industry

• 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

• 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

• Metering, accounting, and billing

• Business models and strategies for SMEs

• Service value chains and value networks

• Trust, reputation, security, and risk management

• Negotiation, enforcement and monitoring of service level agreements

• Reports and analysis on operational markets and test-beds

• Economics of big data, software, services, service composition, and selection

• Performance monitoring and prediction

• Community networks, social network systems, and resource sharing models

• Techno-economic analysis

• Smart grids, smart cities, smart buildings, energy aware infrastructures and services

• Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects

• Cost modeling, cost-benefit analysis

• IaaS, SaaS, PaaS

• Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data

• Federation of resources

• Services Science

• Clouds & Services for Internet-of-Things