CFP summary
GECON 2026 is the 21st International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services. The conference continues a series that the official site describes as running successfully since 2003 and is centered on interdisciplinary work that combines economic, business, and legal perspectives with engineering and computer science themes. GECON addresses the market, operational, and socio-technical dimensions of modern infrastructures, platforms, and software services, with particular attention to how distributed and cloud-based systems are designed, priced, managed, and trusted. The 2026 edition will take place in Pisa, Italy, and welcomes full papers, short papers, posters, special topic sessions, and tutorials. Its official scope makes clear that the conference is intended for contributions that bridge at least one economic or legal area with at least one technological area, making it a distinctive venue at the intersection of distributed systems and techno-economic analysis.
Topics
Economics: automated trading and bidding support tools; business models and strategies; cost-benefit analysis; decision support; economic efficiency; economic impact of distributed storage solutions; economics of open data; ecosystem economics; ecosystems; energy efficiency; incentive design, strategic behavior and game theory; market mechanisms, auction models and bidding languages; metering, accounting and billing; performance monitoring, optimization and prediction; preemptible computing; pricing schemes and revenue models; sustainability; techno-economic analysis and modelling; trust, reputation, security and risk management; trustworthiness and assurances for quality of data; trustworthiness of services. Applications and Technologies Transforming the Economy: AI-enabled computing continuum from cloud to edge; big data; blockchains; community networks; data stream ingestion and complex event processing; energy-aware infrastructures and services; fog, edge and cloud computing; Internet of Things; micro-services and serverless computing; open source; industry test-beds and operational markets; shared public infrastructures for knowledge exchange such as IPFS, Origin Trail and decentralised knowledge graphs; smart grids, smart cities and smart buildings; social computing; social networks. Clouds, Grids, Systems and Services: capacity planning; IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and federation of resources; resource management including allocation, sharing and scheduling; security; service science, management and engineering; software engineering; vertical scaling, burstable computing, vertical elasticity; virtualization and containers.