This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2014, held in Cardiff, UK, in September 2014. The 8 revised full papers and 7 paper-in-progress presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The presentation sessions that have been set up are: Cloud Adoption, Work in Progress on Market Dynamics, Cost Optimization, Work in Progress on Pricing, Contracts and Service Selection and Economic Aspects of Quality of Service.

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Keynote.- Economics, Security and Innovation.- Cloud Adoption.- A Metrics Suite for Cloud Computing Adoption Readiness.- An Agency Perspective to Cloud Computing.- Work in Progress on Market Dynamics .- Goliath vs. a Federation of Davids: A Two-Sided Market Analysis of Competition between Clouds.- Analysis of the Social Effort in Multiplex Participatory Networks.- Cost Optimization.- Energy-Aware Cloud Management through Progressive SLA Specification.- Cloud Tracker: Using Execution Provenance to Optimize the Cost of Cloud Use.- Migration to Governmental-Cloud Digital Forensics Community: Economics and Methodology.- Work in Progress on Pricing, Contracts and Service Selection.- Performance Evaluation for Cost-Efficient Public Infrastructure Cloud Use .- Balancing Leasing and Insurance Costs to Achieve Total Protection in Cloud Storage Multi-Homing .- A WS-Agreement Based SLA Implementation for the CMAC Platform.- A Domain Specific Language and a Pertinent Business Vocabulary for Cloud Service Selection.- Economic Aspects of Quality of Service.- Towards Petri Net-Based Economical Analysis for Streaming Applications Executed Over Cloud infrastructures.- Autonomous Management of Virtual Machine Failures in IaaS Using Fault Tree Analysis.- How Do Content Delivery Networks Affect the Economy of the Internet and the Network Neutrality Debate?.