Economics of Grids Clouds Systems and Services

<div>This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Economics of Grids </div><div>Clouds Systems and Services GECON 2019 held in Leeds UK in September 2019. </div><div>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. </div>