TY - GEN N2 - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2019, held in Leeds, UK, in September 2019. The 12 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. This GECON 2019 proceedings was structured in selected topics, namely: blockchain technology and smart contracts; cost-based computing allocation; resource, service and communication federations; economic assessment, business and pricing models; blockchain and network function virtualization technologies; economic models for cyber-physical systems, industry 4.0 and sustainable systems; resource management; and emerging ideas. AB - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2019, held in Leeds, UK, in September 2019. The 12 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. This GECON 2019 proceedings was structured in selected topics, namely: blockchain technology and smart contracts; cost-based computing allocation; resource, service and communication federations; economic assessment, business and pricing models; blockchain and network function virtualization technologies; economic models for cyber-physical systems, industry 4.0 and sustainable systems; resource management; and emerging ideas. T1 - Economics of grids, clouds, systems, and services :16th International Conference, GECON 2019, Leeds, UK, September 17-19, 2019, Proceedings / AU - Djemame, Karim. AU - Altmann, Jörn AU - Bañares, José Ángel. AU - Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Orna. AU - Naldi, Maurizio. VL - 11819 CN - QA76.9.D5 N1 - International conference proceedings. ID - 917451 KW - Electronic data processing KW - Electronic data processing KW - Computational grids (Computer systems) KW - Cloud computing SN - 9783030360276 SN - 303036027X TI - Economics of grids, clouds, systems, and services :16th International Conference, GECON 2019, Leeds, UK, September 17-19, 2019, Proceedings / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-36027-6 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-36027-6 ER -