Call for Papers GECON2009 6th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models http://www.my-groups.de/gecon2009 Delft, Netherlands August 24, 2009 Co-located with Euro-Par 2009 Paper Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2009 This workshop follows the very successful past workshops (http://www.my-groups.de/gecon), where high-quality technical papers have been presented. Scope The commercial exploitation of Grid computing is slowly starting to become popular under the term "Cloud Computing". These existing solutions are very diverse, ranging from Resource-as-a-Service (RaaS) models to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models. However, the existing cloud offerings can only be purchased directly from a provider; they cannot be traded in a common market. Such a cloud market would act as a focal point for Grid buyers and sellers to meet. In fact, in an open market, any market participant could act as a resource provider or resource seller, depending on the current demand level. This approach would allow companies to benefit: on the one hand, excess capacity can be sold to reduce costs; on the other hand, demand peaks can be covered with cheap Grid resources. This type of Grid market could be used to sell a wide array of resources, ranging from simple resource services (network, storage, computing) for mass usage, to complex services encapsulating e-Science or high-performance-computing (HPC) methods. At later stages, the market could be easily expanded to include software and information services. This would allow the buyer to not only purchase resources, but also to add software and information services to create new and innovative end-user services. The GECON workshop invites researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss issues associated with the development of a common market for computing resources, including networks, storage, and software. The purpose of this workshop is to suggest future directions of research and extensions to existing technologies, aiming at the successful deployment of this commercial, service-oriented market for computing resources. Researchers and practitioners are invited to present final results and work in progress. However, submissions have to be original research in the area of Grid economics. The topics of interest are: - Business modeling and analysis - Grid value chain and value networks - Economic modeling of networks, systems, and software - Software-as-a-Service models - Web2.0 - Peer-to-Peer systems - Markets, market mechanisms and market models - Service-orientation of Grid systems - Utility computing models for networked systems - Knowledge utility models - Incentives for participation and resource sharing - Economic-enhanced Grid services - Analysis of pricing schemes for computing systems - Reports on test beds and operation - Analysis of application scenarios (with stakeholders and their roles) - Resource (computing, bandwidth, storage) selection and allocation - Metering, accounting, and charging - Billing systems - Decision support systems for users and providers - Capacity planning systems - Service level agreements (SLAs) - Economic aspects of XaaS - Trust, security, and risk management - Standardization - Virtual organizations - Impact of legal requirements on distributed computing - Economics-aware operation of applications - Economics of software - Infrastructure development Workshop Chair Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea), jorn.altmann(at)acm.org Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK), o.f.rana(at)cs.cardiff.ac.uk Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia), raj(at)csse.unimelb.edu.au Organization Chair Marcel Risch (Intl. University in Germany, Germany), marcel.risch(at)i-u.de Program Committee Hermant K. Bhargava (UC Davis, USA) Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia) Costas Courcoubetis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College London, UK) Dang Minh Quan (Intl. University of Bruchsal, Germany) John Darlington (Imperial College London, UK) Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK) Torsten Eymann University of Bayreuth, Germany) Thomas Fahringer (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Wolfgang Gentzsch (DEISA, EU) Kartik Hosenager (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Chun-Hsi Huang (University of Connecticut, USA) Junseok Hwang (Seoul National University, South-Korea) Bastian Koller (HLRS, Germany) Harald Kornmayer (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany) Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Kevin Lai (HP Labs, USA) Hing-Yan Lee (National Grid Office, Singapore) Jysoo Lee (KISTI, South-Korea) Steven Miller (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Dirk Neumann (University of Freiburg, Germany) Michael Papazoglou (University of Tilburg, The Netherlands) Rajiv Ranjan (University of Melbourne, Australia) Thierry Rayna (Imperial College London, UK) Peter Reichl (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria) Marcel Risch (International University, Germany) Simon See (Sun Microsystems, Singapore) Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan) Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Maria Tsakali (European Commission, Belgium) Bruno Tuffin (IRISA/INRIA, France) Kurt Vanmechelen (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Dora Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Gabriele von Voigt (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) Kerstin Voss (University of Paderborn, Germany) Christof Weinhardt (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Stefan Wesner (HLRS, Germany) Phillip Wieder (University of Dortmund, Germany) Ramin Yahyapour (University of Dortmund, Germany) Wolfgang Ziegler (Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Germany) Important Dates - Paper Registration Deadline: May 1st, 2009 - Paper Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2009 - Notification of Paper Acceptance: June 8st, 2009 - Camera Ready Paper Deadline: June 19th, 2009 Submission Guidelines - Original, high-quality papers and works in progress, which are not currently under review by another conference or journal, will be considered. - Submitted papers should not exceed 14 pages in Springer LNCS format (including references and appendices). - Manuscripts will be reviewed based on technical merit, originality, and relevance. - Paper submission is managed electronically via the EasyChair Website (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2009) Publication - The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS. - This acceptance rate has been below 40 percent during the past years. - Additional information for prospective authors, including paper format and instructions can be found at the GECON 2009 Web page.