TY - BOOK AU - Naldi,Maurizio AU - Djemame,Karim AU - Altmann,Jörn AU - Bañares,José Ángel ED - GECON (Conference) TI - Economics of grids, clouds, systems, and services: 20th international conference, GECON 2024, Rome, Italy, September 26-27, 2024 : proceedings T2 - Lecture notes in computer science SN - 3031812263 AV - QA76.9.D5 U1 - 004/.36 23/eng/20250218 PY - 2025///] CY - Cham PB - Springer KW - Electronic data processing KW - Distributed processing KW - Congresses KW - Economic aspects KW - Computational grids (Computer systems) KW - Cloud computing KW - Traitement réparti KW - Congrès KW - Aspect économique KW - Grilles informatiques KW - proceedings (reports) KW - aat KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - lcgft KW - Actes de congrès KW - rvmgf N1 - International conference proceedings; Includes author index; 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 Process. -- Innovating Letter-of-Credit Mechanisms: The Integration of RSA-Encrypted NFTs for Enhanced Security and Efficiency. -- Enhancing Transparency and Ethical Sourcing in Handicraft Supply Chains through Blockchain, Smart Contracts, NFTs, and IPFS Integration. -- Edge Computing and Energy Awareness. -- Scheduling Energy-aware Multi-function Serverless Workloads in OpenFaaS. -- Efficient Placement of Interdependent Services in Multi-access Edge Computing. -- Optimal CPU Frequency Selection to Minimize the Runtime of Tasks Under Power Capping. -- Energy-Efficient Task Offloading in Edge Computing: A Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning Approaches. -- Edge Energy Orchestration. -- AI/Forecasting/Prediction Sales. -- Towards Trustworthy Aircraft Safety: Explainable AI for Accurate Incident and Accident Predictions. -- Trust and Trust-Building Policies to Support Cybersecurity Information Sharing: A Systematic Literature Review. -- Influencer Sales on TikTok: Forecasting Prominent Factors. -- Machine Learning Explainability as a Service: Service Description and Economics. -- Smart Mobility Solutions for Urban Transportation in ASEAN: A Bibliometric Study of Trends and Innovations. -- Resource Management in Cloud Applications: Simulation, Streaming Processing and Workflows. -- Distributed Simulation with Efficient Fault Tolerance. -- Strainer: Windowing-based Advanced Sampling in Stream Processing Systems. -- On Digital Twins for Cloud Continuum Applications. -- Specification of Complex Analytics Workflows: A Formal Language Model of Decision Options N2 - 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 UR - https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-81226-2 ER -