Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 15th International Conference, GECON 2018, Pisa, Italy, September 18–20, 2018, Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2018, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 2018. The 21 full papers and 9 short papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions.This GECON 2018 proceedings was structured in three special sessions on selected topics, namely: IT service ecosystems enabled through emerging digital technologies; machine learning, cognitive systems and data science for system management; and blockchain technologies and economics. Front Matter ....Pages I-XV Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Open Science as-a-Service for Research Communities and Content Providers (Alessia Bardi)....Pages 3-6 Front Matter ....Pages 7-7 Applying Auctions to Bank Holding Company Software Project Portfolio Selection (David S. Gerstl)....Pages 9-23 Preventing Collusion in Cloud Computing Auctions (Shunit Agmon, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster)....Pages 24-38 Why Are Repeated Auctions in RaaS Clouds Risky? (Danielle Movsowitz, Liran Funaro, Shunit Agmon, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Orr Dunkelman)....Pages 39-51 An Evaluation of a Market Based Resource Trading in a Multi-campus Compute Co-operative (CCC) (Md Anindya T. Prodhan, Andrew Grimshaw)....Pages 52-65 Snooping Around a Fence: A Lesson from the Education Sector in a Software Service Ecosystem (Djamshid Sultanov, Kibae Kim, Jörn Altmann)....Pages 66-76 Model and Simulation Engines for Distributed Simulation of Discrete Event Systems (José Ángel Bañares, José Manuel Colom)....Pages 77-91 An HVAC Regulation Architecture for Smart Building Based on Weather Forecast (Hanna Kavalionak, Emanuele Carlini)....Pages 92-103 Front Matter ....Pages 105-105 Statistical Model Based Cloud Resource Management (Mitalee Sarker, Stefan Wesner)....Pages 107-115 Network Externalities in Cybersecurity Information Sharing Ecosystems (Zahid Rashid, Umara Noor, Jörn Altmann)....Pages 116-125 AMFC Tool: Auditing and Monitoring for Cloud Computing (Leandro Pauro, Roberta Spolon, Gustavo Bruschi, Aleardo Manacero, Renata Lobato, Marcos Cavenaghi)....Pages 126-134 Front Matter ....Pages 135-135 Business Model Characteristics for Local IaaS Providers for Counteracting the Dominance of the Hyperscalers (Sebastian Floerecke, Franz Lehner)....Pages 137-150 Delivering a Systematic Framework for the Selection and Evaluation of Startups (Ece Erdogan, Somayeh Koohborfardhaghighi)....Pages 151-159 Service User Perspectives on Delivering Social Innovation: An Implication of the Internet of Things for Business (Olga Maria Plessa, Somayeh Koohborfardhaghighi)....Pages 160-168 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 FaaStest - Machine Learning Based Cost and Performance FaaS Optimization (Shay Horovitz, Roei Amos, Ohad Baruch, Tomer Cohen, Tal Oyar, Afik Deri)....Pages 171-186 Secure Query Processing over Encrypted Data Using a Distributed Index Structure for Outsourcing Sensitive Data (Hyunjo Lee, Hyeonguk Ma, Youngho Song, Jae-Woo Chang)....Pages 187-198 An Empirical Study on Performance Server Analysis and URL Phishing Prevention to Improve System Management Through Machine Learning (Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, Simon James Fong, Raymond Kwok-Kay Wong)....Pages 199-207 Using Machine Learning for Identifying Ping Failure in Large Network Topology (Maged Helmy, Aurilla Aurelie Arntzen Bechina, Arvid Siqveland)....Pages 208-216 Front Matter ....Pages 217-217 Smart Contracts for Container Based Video Conferencing Services: Architecture and Implementation (Sandi Gec, Dejan Lavbič, Marko Bajec, Vlado Stankovski)....Pages 219-233 Deploying Blockchains for a New Paradigm of Media Experience (Georgios Palaiokrassas, Antonios Litke, Georgios Fragkos, Vasileios Papaefthymiou, Theodora Varvarigou)....Pages 234-242 Is Arbitrage Possible in the Bitcoin Market? (Work-In-Progress Paper) (Stefano Bistarelli, Alessandra Cretarola, Gianna Figà-Talamanca, Ivan Mercanti, Marco Patacca)....Pages 243-251 Back Matter ....Pages 253-253