Program
Day 1: September 16, 2014
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12:30 - 13:30
Coffee and registration
13:30 - 13:45
Introduction to GECON conference series
Jorn Altmann & Kurt Vanmechelen
13:45 - 14:00
Welcome to Cardiff and the Venue
Omer Rana
14:00 - 15:00
Keynote 1: Cybersecurity, Innovation and Economics
Massimo Felici, HP Labs in Bristol
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:50
Session 1: Cloud Adoption
Session Chair: Jorn Altmann
15:30 - 16:00
Paper 1: A Metrics Suite for Cloud Computing Adoption Readiness
Robert J. Kauffman, Dan Ma, Martin Yu, Singapore Management University, Singapore
16:10 - 16:40
Paper 2: An Agency Perspective to Cloud Computing
Frank Pallas, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
16:50 - 17:15
Coffee Break
17:15 - 18:05
Session 2: Work in Progress: Market Dynamics
Session Chair: Kurt Vanmechelen
17:15 - 17:35
Paper 3: Goliath vs. a Federation of Davids: A Two-Sided Market Analysis of Competition between Clouds
Kibae Kim, Songhee Kang, Jorn Altmann, Seoul National University, South-Korea
17:40 - 18:00
Paper 4: Analysis of the Social Effort in Multiplex Participatory Networks
Davide Vega, Roc Meseguer and Felix Freitag, Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya, Spain
18:05 - 20:00
Break
20:00 - 22:00
Informal Dinner (expenses are not covered by the conference)
Day 2: September 17, 2014
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09:00 - 9:30
Coffee
09:30 - 11:30
Session 3: Cost Optimization
Session chair: Kurt Vanmechelen
09:30 - 10:00
Paper 5: Energy-Aware Cloud Management through Progressive SLA Specification
Drazen Lucanin, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Foued Jrad, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Achim Streit, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
10:10 - 10:40
Paper 6: CloudTracker: Using Execution Provenance to Optimize the Cost of Cloud Use
Geoffrey Douglas, Brian Drawert, Chandra Krintz, Rich Wolski, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
10:50 - 11:20
Paper 7: Migration to Governmental-Cloud Digital Forensics Community: Economics and Methodology
Gianluigi Me, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy
11:30 - 12:00
Discussion Round Table on the Next Issues chaired by Omer Rana
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Keynote 2: Machine Learning and e-Commerce: past, present and future
Humphrey Sheil, Eysys, UK
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:10
Session 4: Work in Progress: Pricing, Contracts, and Service Selection
Session chair: Jorn Altmann
15:30 - 15:50
Paper 8: Performance Evaluation for Cost-Efficient Public Infrastructure Cloud Use
John O'Loughlin, Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK
15:55 - 16:15
Paper 9: Balancing Leasing and Insurance Costs to Achieve Total Protection in Cloud Storage Multi-Homing
Maurizio Naldi, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
16:20 - 16:40
Paper 10: A WS-Agreement Based SLA Implementation for the CMAC Platform
Adriano Galati, Karim Djemame, University of Leeds, UK; Martyn Fletcher, University of York, UK, Cybula Ltd, UK; Mark Jessop, Michael Weeks, University of York, UK; John McAvoy, Cybula Ltd., UK
16:45 - 17:05
Paper 11: A Domain Specific Language and a Pertinent Business Vocabulary for Cloud Service Selection
Mathias Slawik, Axel Kopper, Technische Universitet Berlin, Germany
17:05 - 18:00
Break
18:00 - 20:00
Social Event: Visit to Cardiff Downtown
20:00
Conference Dinner
Day 3: September 18, 2013
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9:30 - 10:00
Coffee
10:00 - 12:00
Session 5: Economic Aspects of Quality of Service
Session Chair: Jorn Altmann
10:00 - 10:30
Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Jose Angel Banares, Jose-Manuel Colom, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
10:40 - 11:10
Paper 13: Autonomous Management of Virtual Machine Failures in IaaS Using Fault Tree Analysis
Alexandru Butoi, Alexandru Stan, Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
11:20 - 11:50
Patrick Maille,Telecom Bretagne, France; Bruno Tuffin, Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, France
12:00 - 12:30
GECON Closing and GECON 2015 in TBA
Omer Rana & Kurt Vanmechelen & Jorn Altmann
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch, Coffee, and Good Bye