Pisa, Italy September 9-11, 2026

GECON 2026

21^st International Conference on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services

Aim & Scope

GECON 2026 builds upon the very successful tradition of the conference previous editions since 2003. GECON solicits contributions that are interdisciplinary, combining business and economic aspects with engineering and computer science related themes.

Announcements

The most recent updates about the conference.

Date	Update
Mar 10, 2026	Call for papers published.
Mar 03, 2026	Important dates & submission guidelines published.
Jan 19, 2026	Website launched.

Topics of interest

As a global market for infrastructures, platforms, and software services emerge, the need to understand and deal with its implications and its interdisciplinary challenges is quickly growing. To address this, GECON encourages the submission of papers, which combine at least one economic/legal area and one technologic area. GECON list of areas includes but is not limited to:

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 & game theory Market mechanisms, auctions 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, cloud computing Internet-of-Things Micro-services, serverless computing Open source Reports on industry test-beds and operational markets Shared public infrastructures for knowledge exchange (e.g. IPFS, Origin Trail, 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: allocation, sharing, scheduling Security Service science, management and engineering (SSME) Software engineering Vertical scaling, burstable computing, vertical elasticity Virtualization and containers

Law and Legal aspects

Negotiation, monitoring, and enforcement Open source ecosystems Privacy Service level agreements (SLAs) Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects