Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 20th International Conference, GECON 2024, Rome, Italy, September 2627, 2024, Proceedings [Paperback]

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2024, held in Rome, Italy, during September 2627, 2024.

The 12 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. They focus on topics such as: Function as a Service: Resource Management and QoS; Cloud Business Models, Pricing, Trading, Network Neutrality; Edge Computing and Energy Awareness; AI/Forecasting/Prediction Sales; and Resource Management in Cloud Applications: Simulation, Streaming Processing and Workflows.

.- Keynotes.

.- Privacy as a Collective Value and How to Protect in the Era of AI. 

.- Patents and the Technological Evolution of AI.

.- Function as a Service: Resource Management and QoS.

.- Marginal Cost of Computation as a Collaborative Strategy for Resource Management at the Edge.

.- FaaS@Edge: Bringing Function-as-a-Service to Voluntary Computing at the Edge.

.- FaaS-Utility: Tackling FaaS Cold Starts with User-preference and QoS-driven Pricing.

.- Icarus: a Testing-as-a-Service Utility for Serverless Functions.

.- Cloud Business Models, Pricing, Trading, Network Neutrality.

.- A Cloud Resources Portfolio Optimization Business Model - From Theory to Practice.

.- ISP Pricing and Platform Pricing Interaction under Net Neutrality.

.- How to Accommodate Network Slicing & Network Neutrality.

.- PricingTheCloud: A Pricing Estimator for an Informed Cloud-Migration Pl³(