Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 14th International Conference, GECON 2017, Biarritz, France, September 19-21, 2017, Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2017, held in Biarritz, France, in September 2017. The 10 full papers and 10 short papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. This volume of the GECON 2017 proceedings has been structured in sections following the sessions that comprised the conference program: Section 1: Pricing in Cloud and Quality of Service Session 2: Work in Progress on Service Management l">Session 3: Work in Progress on Business models and Community Cooperation Session 4: Work in Pro gress on Energy Efficiency and Resource Management Session 5: Resource Management Session 6: Edge Computing Session 7: Cloud Federation Session 8: Work in Progress on Service Selection and Coordination Front Matter ....Pages I-XI Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Insurance Pricing and Refund Sustainability for Cloud Outages (Loretta Mastroeni, Maurizio Naldi)....Pages 3-17 Pricing IaaS: A Hedonic Price Index Approach (Persefoni Mitropoulou, Evangelia Filiopoulou, Mara Nikolaidou, Christos Michalakelis)....Pages 18-28 Non-neutrality Pushed by Big Content Providers (Patrick Maillé, Bruno Tuffin)....Pages 29-39 Front Matter ....Pages 41-41 Risk Cost Accounting and Bottom Price Calculation – A Risk Management Information System (Markus Siepermann)....Pages 43-55 BASMATI: An Architecture for Managing Cloud and Edge Resources for Mobile Users (Jörn Altmann, Baseem Al-Athwari, Emanuele Carlini, Massimo Coppola, Patrizio Dazzi, Ana Juan Ferrer et al.)....Pages 56-66 A Comparative Study of Classification Techniques for Managing IoT Devices of Common Specifications (Argyro Mavrogiorgou, Athanasios Kiourtis, Dimosthenis Kyriazis)....Pages 67-77 Front Matter ....Pages 79-79 Agency Monitoring Patterns for Value Networks (Patrício de Alencar Silva, Faiza Allah Bukhsh, Jefferson da Silva Reis, Angélica Félix de Castro)....Pages 81-93 Active Contributors in Online Social Networks – An Empirical Study on German Gen Y’s Facebook Usage (Richard Lackes, Markus Siepermann, Arbnesh Stadelhoff)....Pages 94-105 Pooling Supply and Demand: Collaboration for Community Broadcasts (Jean-Charles Grégoire, Angèle M. Hamel, D. Marc Kilgour)....Pages 106-116 Front Matter ....Pages 117-117 Towards Virtual Machine Energy-Aware Cost Prediction in Clouds (Mohammad Aldossary, Ibrahim Alzamil, Karim Djemame)....Pages 119-131 Economic Implications of Energy-Aware Pricing in Clouds (Antonis Dimakis, Alexandros Kostopoulos, Eleni Agiatzidou)....Pages 132-144 Front Matter ....Pages 145-145 Cost Minimization of Virtual Machine Allocation in Public Clouds Considering Multiple Applications (Joaquín Entrialgo, José Luis Díaz, Javier García, Manuel García, Daniel F. García)....Pages 147-161 Client-Side Scheduling Based on Application Characterization on Kubernetes (Víctor Medel, Carlos Tolón, Unai Arronategui, Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, José Ángel Bañares, Omer F. Rana)....Pages 162-176 Performance and Economic Evaluations in Adopting Low Power Architectures: A Real Case Analysis (Daniele D’Agostino, Daniele Cesini, Elena Corni, Andrea Ferraro, Lucia Morganti, Alfonso Quarati et al.)....Pages 177-189 Front Matter ....Pages 191-191 User Behavior and Application Modeling in Decentralized Edge Cloud Infrastructures (John Violos, Vinicius Monteiro de Lira, Patrizio Dazzi, Jörn Altmann, Baseem Al-Athwari, Antonia Schwichtenberg et al.)....Pages 193-203 Incentivising Resource Sharing in Edge Computing Applications (Ioan Petri, Omer F. Rana, Joseph Bignell, Surya Nepal, Nitin Auluck)....Pages 204-215 Front Matter ....Pages 217-217 Fairness in Revenue Sharing for Stable Cloud Federations (Ram Govinda Aryal, Jörn Altmann)....Pages 219-232 Model for Incentivizing Cloud Service Federation (Juan Pablo Romero Coronado, Jörn Altmann)....Pages 233-246 Front Matter ....Pages 247-247 ClouDSS: A Decision Support System for Cloud Service Selection (Umut Şener, Ebru Gökalp, P. Erhan Eren)....Pages 249-261 Coordination Models for 5G Multi-provider Service Orchestration: Specification and Assessment (George Darzanos, Manos Dramitinos, George D. Stamoulis)....Pages 262-274 Front Matter ....Pages 275-275 Network Neutrality: Modeling and Challenges and Its Impact on Clouds (Bruno Tuffin)....Pages 277-280 IoT and Data Analytics for Developing Countries from Research to Business Transformation (Abdur Rahim)....Pages 281-284 Low-cost IoT, Big Data, and Cloud Platform for Developing Countries (Corentin Dupont, Tomas Bures, Mehdi Sheikhalishahi, Congduc Pham, Abdur Rahim)....Pages 285-299 Back Matter ....Pages 301-302