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 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