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Techno-economic topics

Original contributions in one of the following areas of techno-economics are of interest to the conference:

• Customer Behavior
• user adoption and service demand forecasting
• service usage patterns
• pricing strategies for current/new services
• Telecom Market Analysis
• regulatory impacts on industry structure and competition
• new business models and value networks
• Cost Optimization
• top-down versus bottom-up approaches
• fractional and cost-driver based models, dimensioning studies
• OPEX and CAPEX models for network and service providers as well as for regulators
• Investment Analysis
• comparison of novel versus classic investment decision techniques
• quantitative value network analysis
• sensitivity studies, risk analysis and real options
• Multi-actor Analysis
• game theoretic analysis
• competition opportunities
• institutional and policy supporting implications
• Techno-economic Tooling and Concepts

Application domains

Application areas include but are not limited to:

• Mobile and wireless networks
• services and applications
• ad hoc networks/sensor networks
• in-building networks
• Optical network technologies
• next-generation optical core, metro and access networks
• telecom as a utility
• Distributed architectures
• P2P and content delivery networks
• grid and cloud computing
• thin clients
• New media and content applications
• eHealth systems
• eGovernment
• IDTV
• Green ICT

Author guidelines and format requirements

Please see submission.