Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 16th International Conference, GECON 2019, Leeds, UK, September 17–19, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 11819)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2019, held in Leeds, UK, in September 2019. The 12 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. This GECON 2019 proceedings was structured in selected topics, namely: blockchain technology and smart contracts; cost-based computing allocation; resource, service and communication federations; economic assessment, business and pricing models; blockchain and network function virtualization technologies; economic models for cyber-physical systems, industry 4.0 and sustainable systems; resource management; and emerging ideas. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Exploiting Blockchain Technology for Attribute Management in Access Control Systems (Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Alessio Lunardelli, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci)....Pages 3-14 GENEVIZ: A Visual Tool for the Construction and Blockchain-Based Validation of SFC Packages (Muriel F. Franco, Martin J. J. Bucher, Eder J. Scheid, Lisandro Z. Granville, Burkhard Stiller)....Pages 15-28 A Smart Contract Based Recommender System (Andrea Lisi, Andrea De Salve, Paolo Mori, Laura Ricci)....Pages 29-42 Front Matter ....Pages 43-43 Cost-Optimized Parallel Computations Using Volatile Cloud Resources (Jens Haussmann, Wolfgang Blochinger, Wolfgang Kuechlin)....Pages 45-53 Bill Estimation in Simplified Memory Progressive Second Price Auctions (Danielle Movsowitz-Davidow, Nir Lavi, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda)....Pages 54-62 Voting for Superior Services: How to Exploit Cloud Hierarchies (J.-Ch. Grégoire, Angèle M. Foley)....Pages 63-70 Energy-Aware Dynamic Pricing Model for Cloud Environments (Peini Liu, Gusseppe Bravo, Jordi Guitart)....Pages 71-80 Front Matter ....Pages 81-81 Architecture and Business Logic Specification for Dynamic Cloud Federations (Ram Govinda Aryal, Jamie Marshall, Jörn Altmann)....Pages 83-96 Towards an Architecture Proposal for Federation of Distributed DES Simulators (Unai Arronategui, José Ángel Bañares, José Manuel Colom)....Pages 97-110 Neutral and Non-neutral Countries in a Global Internet: What Does It Imply? (Patrick Maillé, Bruno Tuffin)....Pages 111-123 Front Matter ....Pages 125-125 Sensing as a Service Revisited: A Property Rights Enforcement and Pricing Model for IIoT Data Marketplaces (Jan-Terje Sørlie, Jörn Altmann)....Pages 127-139 Dominant Business Model Patterns of Regional IaaS Providers – An Exploratory Multiple-Case Study (Sebastian Floerecke, Franz Lehner)....Pages 140-153 SEConomy: A Framework for the Economic Assessment of Cybersecurity (Bruno Rodrigues, Muriel Franco, Geetha Parangi, Burkhard Stiller)....Pages 154-166 Front Matter ....Pages 167-167 Introducing Licensing Throughout SLAs in NFV Environment (Evgenia Kapassa, Marios Touloupou, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, José Bonnet, Carlos Parada, Thomas Soenen et al.)....Pages 169-177 Blockchain-Enabled Participatory Incentives for Crowdsourced Mesh Networks (Elena San Miguel, Roxane Timmerman, Sergio Mosquera, Emmanouil Dimogerontakis, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro)....Pages 178-187 BUNKER: A Blockchain-based trUsted VNF pacKagE Repository (Eder J. Scheid, Manuel Keller, Muriel F. Franco, Burkhard Stiller)....Pages 188-196 Front Matter ....Pages 197-197 Agent-Based Appliance Scheduling for Energy Management in Industry 4.0 (Ioan Petri, Aida Yama, Yacine Rezgui)....Pages 199-207 Leveraging Quality of Service and Cost in Cyber-Physical Systems Design (Christos Kotronis, Anargyros Tsadimas, Mara Nikolaidou, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, George Dimitrakopoulos, Abbes Amira et al.)....Pages 208-217 Conceptual Modeling for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Systematic Literature Review (Otília de Sousa Santos, Patrício de Alencar Silva, Faiza Allah Bukhsh, Paulo Gabriel Gadelha Queiroz)....Pages 218-227 Front Matter ....Pages 229-229 Efficient Multi-resource, Multi-unit VCG Auction (Liran Funaro, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster)....Pages 231-246 Cloud-Based Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling Optimisation via Asynchronous Islands (Shuai Zhao, Haitao Mei, Piotr Dziurzanski, Michal Przewozniczek, Leandro Soares Indrusiak)....Pages 247-259 Stability Analysis of a Statistical Model for Cloud Resource Management (Mitalee Sarker, Stefan Wesner)....Pages 260-272 Front Matter ....Pages 273-273 Genetic Algorithms for Capacity Estimation in Pluralistic Spectrum Licensing Simulations (Stephan Wirsing, Albert Rafetseder)....Pages 275-280 Towards a Roadmap for Cloud TV Services in the Internet of Things Era (G. Dede, D. Grigoropoulos, G. Loupatatzis, T. Kamalakis, Ch. Michalakelis)....Pages 281-285 MeshDapp – Blockchain-Enabled Sustainable Business Models for Networks (Emmanouil Dimogerontakis, Leandro Navarro, Mennan Selimi, Sergio Mosquera, Felix Freitag)....Pages 286-290 Modeling, Characterising and Scheduling Applications in Kubernetes (Víctor Medel, Unai Arronategui, José Ángel Bañares, Rafael Tolosana, Omer Rana)....Pages 291-294 Back Matter ....Pages 295-296