Special Issue on the Economics of Computing Services
摘要截稿:
全文截稿: 2018-04-30
影响因子: 6.125
期刊难度:
CCF分类: C类
中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 计算机科学 - 2区
• 小类 : 计算机:理论方法 - 1区
Overview
Advances in distributed systems technology have allowed for the provisioning of IT services on an unprecedented scale and with increasing flexibility. As the global market for infrastructure, platforms and software services is continuously evolving supporting new application domains, the need to understand and deal with the new implications and multitude of new challenges is quickly growing. Some well-timed such issues are related to the energy consumption that relate to the distributed systems’ operation and their increasingly contributing role to the network neutrality.
This Special Issue aims to solicit contributions that are interdisciplinary, combining business and economic aspects with engineering and computer-science related themes. Contributions to this Special Issue can include extensions to existing technologies, successful deployment of technologies, economic analyses, analyses of technology adoptions, and theoretical models. We welcome papers that combine micro- and macro-economic principles with resource management strategies in computer science and engineering. Case studies, which demonstrate practical use of economic strategies, benefits and limitations, are particularly encouraged. The purpose of this Issue is to gather original work and build a strong multidisciplinary community in this increasingly important area of a future information and knowledge economy.
The issue will focus on cloud, software, and services technologies and solutions related (but not limited) to:
- 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
- Blockchain applications and economy
- 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
- 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
- Techno-economic analysis
- Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data