With a global market for infrastructures, platforms and software services, the need to understand and deal with its implications emerges. A multitude of new interdisciplinary challenges is quickly growing. Therefore, GECON encourages the submission of papers, which combine at least one economic/legal area and one technological area. GECON’s list of focus areas includes:

Economics:
   -Incentive design, strategic behavior & game theory
   -Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages
   -Economic efficiency
   -(Techno) Economic analysis and modelling
   -Pricing schemes and revenue models
   -Metering, accounting, and billing
   -Cost‐benefit analysis
   -Automated trading and bidding support tools
   -Trust, reputation, security, and risk management
   -Performance monitoring, optimization, and prediction
   -Analysis and reports on industry, test-beds and operational markets
   -Energy efficiency, sustainability
   -Business models and strategies, decision support

Law and Legal Aspects:
   -Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects
   -Service level agreements (SLAs), negotiation, enforcement and monitoring
   -Open source ecosystems
   -Privacy

Clouds, Grids, Systems and Services:
   -IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and Federation of resources
   -Vertical scaling, burstable computing, vertical elasticity
   -Resource management: allocation, sharing, scheduling, and capacity planning
   -Virtualization and Containers
   -Service Science, Management and engineering (SSME)
   -Software engineering
   -Security

Technologies Transforming the Economy:
   -Smart grids, cities or buildings
   -Energy-aware infrastructures and services
   -Fog, edge, osmosis computing
   -Micro‐services, Serverless computing
   -Internet‐of‐Things
   -Blockchains
   -Community Networks
   -Social networks
   -Big data
   -Data stream ingestion and complex event processing