Conferences

Cloud computing is a normal evolution of distributed computing combined with Service-oriented architecture, leveraging most of the GRID features and Virtualization merits. The technology foundations for cloud computing led to a new approach of reusing what was achieved in GRID computing with support from virtualization.

CLOUD COMPUTING 2013 is intended as an event to prospect the applications supported by the new paradigm and validate the techniques and the mechanisms. A complementary target is to identify the open issues and the challenges to fix them, especially on security, privacy, and inter- and intra-clouds protocols.

We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.

CLOUD: Cloud computing

Cloud economics

Core cloud services

Cloud technologies

Cloud computing

On-demand computing models

Hardware-as-a-service

Software-as-a-service [SaaS applications]

Platform-as-service

Storage as a service in cloud

Data-as-a-Service

Service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Cloud computing programming and application development

Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures

Trust and clouds

Client-cloud computing challenges

Geographical constraints for deploying clouds

CLOUD: Challenging features

Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues

Performance and QoS

Dynamic resource provisioning

Power-efficiency and Cloud computing

Load balancing

Application streaming

Cloud SLAs, business models and pricing policies

Cloud service subscription model

Cloud standardized SLA

Cloud-related privacy

Cloud-related control

Managing applications in the clouds

Mobile clouds

Roaming services in Clouds

Agent-based Cloud Computing

CLOUD: Platforms, Infrastructures and Applications

Custom platforms

Large-scale compute infrastructures

Data centers

Processes intra- and inter-clouds

Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures

Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare)

Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application)

Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance

Enterprise clouds

Enterprise-centric cloud computing

Interaction between vertical clouds

Public, Private, and Hybrid clouds

Cloud computing testbeds

GRID: Grid networks, services and applications

GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology

GRID infrastructure and technologies

GRID middleware; GRID protocols and networking

GRID computing, utility computing, autonomic computing, metacomputing

Programmable GRID

Data GRID

Context ontology and management in GRIDs

Distributed decisions in GRID networks

GRID services and applications

Virtualization, modeling, and metadata in GRID

Resource management, scheduling, and scalability in GRID

GRID monitoring, control, and management

Traffic and load balancing in GRID

User profiles and priorities in GRID

Performance and security in GRID systems

Fault tolerance, resilience, survivability, robustness in GRID

QoS/SLA in GRID networks; GRID fora, standards, development, evolution

GRID case studies, validation testbeds, prototypes, and lessons learned

VIRTUALIZATION: Computing in virtualization-based environments

Principles of virtualization

Virtualization platforms

Thick and thin clients

Data centers and nano-centers

Open virtualization format

Orchestration of virtualization across data centers

Dynamic federation of compute capacity

Dynamic geo-balancing

Instant workload migration

Virtualization-aware storage

Virtualization-aware networking

Virtualization embedded-software-based smart mobile phones

Trusted platforms and embedded supervisors for security

Virtualization management operations /discovery, configuration, provisioning, performance, etc.

Energy optimization and saving for green datacenters

Virtualization supporting cloud computing

Applications as pre-packaged virtual machines

Licensing and support policies

Scope

The 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2013, focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market and study various aspects of Cloud Computing.

Emerging Enterprise Technologies are profoundly changing the way we think of IT - from economics and efficiency to process and usage models. Many organizations look to the “externalized” IT systems and services as a potential cost-savings advantage by moving internally hosted IT services to external providers. Other organizations view the “external” IT as potential disaster recovery systems or as on-demand capacity to boost business continuity and customer service levels. We need to take a closer look, discerning what emerging enterprise technologies are and how they can catalyze creativity and produce a competitive advantage. There is hence a new wave of interest in 'Externalization of IT' - anything as a service (including Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service), On Demand delivery, outsourcing, and so on. This emerging facilitation and way of utilizing services through IT is what we are referring to as Cloud Computing.

The four perspectives in which we are addressing the area of Cloud Computing in this conference are: (i) Fundamentals of Cloud Computing; (ii) Services Science foundation for Cloud Computing; (iii) Cloud Computing platforms and applications; (iv) Cloud Computing enabling technology. Conference Areas

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS
2. SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING
3. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS
4. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

AREA 1: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS

Cloud Computing Architecture

Cloud Standards

Cloud Application Portability

Cloud Interoperability

Cloud Delivery Models

Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance

Business Cloud vs. Software Cloud

AREA 2: SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING

Semantic Web Technologies
Web Services
Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security
Service-Oriented Architecture
Internet of Services
Service Modeling and Specification
Service Composition
Service Discovery
Service Monitoring and Control
Business Services Realized by IT Services
Service Innovation
Service Operation
Service Strategy
Service Marketing and Management
Information and Service Economy
Human Beings in Service Systems
Enterprise Architectures and Services 

AREA 3: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS

Vertical Specific Cloud Services
Mobility
Cloud Middleware Frameworks
Cloud Application Architectures
Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
XaaS
ITaaS
COTS and Cloud
Cloudsourcing
Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
Development Methods for Cloud Applications
Economics (ROI, Costs, CAPEX/OPEX,…)
Outsourced Production Environments
Collective Intelligence/Crowd Computing
Context-aware Computing and Peer to Peer Computing
Big Data Cloud Services 

AREA 4: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

Troubleshooting and Best Practices
Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
Security and Cyber Security in the Cloud
Performance Development and Management
Cloud Ilities (Scalability, Availability,Reliability)
Dynamic Capacity and Performance Management
Cloud Optimization and Automation
Virtualization Technologies
Disaster Recovery
Cloud Abstraction of Composite IT Systems
Cloud IT Systems Reuse 

CLOUD 2013 Call for Papers

Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC), IEEE Computer Society

CLOUD 2013 organizing committee invites you to participate in the 6th edition of CLOUD, to be held on June 27 - July 2, 2013 in Silicon Valley, California, USA.

Under the umbrella of the IEEE 2013 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2013), CLOUD 2013 will co-locate with the following service-oriented sister conferences: the 20th IEEE 2013 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2013), the 10th IEEE 2013 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2013), the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2013), and the International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress 2013). The five co-located theme topic conferences will all center around “services,” while each focusing on exploring different aspects (Web-based services, cloud-based services, services innovation lifecycle, mobile services, and Big Data-based services).

Cloud Computing has become a scalable service consumption and delivery platform in the modern IT infrastructure. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include the “as-a-Service” usage model, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualization of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to consolidate infrastructure, and share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure clouds (e.g., IaaS, IT infrastructure management), software clouds (e.g., SaaS and PaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application clouds (e.g., Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business clouds (e.g., business process as a service). Furthermore, cloud-bursting and cloud-bridging enables the on-demand scale out as well as dynamic federation of clouds in response to changing IT requirements.

CLOUD 2013 invites authors to submit original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to cloud computing technology, systems, applications and business innovations are solicited.

Topics of Interests:

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cloud Computing Architectures and Cloud Solution Design Patterns
• Infrastructure, Platform, Application, Business, Social, and Mobile Clouds
• Storage, Data, and Analytics Clouds
• Self-service Cloud Portal, Dashboard, and Analytics
• Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management for Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds
• Cloud Quality Management and Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Cloud Configuration, Performance, and Capacity Management
• Cloud Workload Profiling and Deployment Control
• Cloud Software Patch and License Management
• Cloud Migration
• Cloud Composition, Federation, Bridging, and Bursting
• Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition
• Cloud Provisioning Orchestration
• High Performance Cloud Computing
• Cloud Programming Models and Paradigms
• Autonomic Business Process and Workflow Management in Clouds
• Cloud DevOps
• Green Cloud Computing
• Innovative Cloud Applications and Experiences
• Economic, Business and ROI Models for Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Consulting

The CLOUD 2013 tracks seek original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of cloud computing. Research track papers MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of cloud-oriented services and properly cite related work in the field, such as those published in the proceedings of ICWS, SCC, CLOUD, SERVICES, APSCC, ECOWS, and related journals including TSC, JWSR, and IJBPIM.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected research track papers will be invited for potential publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). Both TSC and JWSR are indexed by SCI and EI [Link]. CLOUD Proceedings are EI indexed. According to Thomson Scientific, JWSR is listed in the 2008 Journal Citation Report with an Impact Factor of 1.200. The journal ranks #47 of 99 in the Computer Science, Information Systems and ranks #37 of 86 in Computer Science, Software Engineering.

Submitted research & industry track manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit will not be reviewed. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process can be found at Conference website.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at CLOUD 2013. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.

If your paper is application or solution oriented, you can consider submitting it to CLOUD 2013 Industry Track. Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on application or solution descriptions may be recommended to the Application and Experience Track, or Industry Track for further consideration if the session slots are available.

UCC seeks high-quality submissions on all aspects of Utility and Cloud Computing. Topics of interest include:

Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models

Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds

Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated

Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS)

Virtualisation technologies and other enablers

Economic models and scenarios of use

Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces

Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring

Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business

Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds

Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in 
Utility contexts

Submission Information: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through EasyChair. Manuscripts may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.

Submission website: EasyChair UCC 2013

Journal Special Issue: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) is organising a Special Issue which encourages submission of revised and extended versions of 2-3 best papers (based on votes of a panel) in the area of Cloud Computing from our conference. The special issue also seeks direct submission of papers that present 'new' ideas for the first time in TCC. All papers will be peer-reviewed and selected competitively based on their originality and merit as per requirement of TCC. All queries on this special issue should be directed to its guest editors. Details on this special issue will be informed about in a separate Call for Papers.

Call for Workshops: UCC welcomes co-located workshops on emerging and hot challenges around Utility and Cloud Computing. Individuals interested in organising a workshop are encouraged to consult the separate Call for Workshops.

Important Dates:

Overview

Recent advances in computing, networking, software and mobile technologies have led to the development of cyberspace services that are pervasive and ubiquitous and that touch all aspects of life and economy. Through such advances, cloud and autonomic services will revolutionize the way we do business, maintain our health, conduct education, and how we secure, protect, inform and entertain ourselves.

photo Along with these advances, however, we are experiencing strong challenges to our ability to ensure that our cyberspace resources and services are properly regulated, under appropriate review and control, manageable and secure. The insertion of increasingly automated processes and procedures into normal workflows for personal, scientific and business transactions requires extreme care in design of these systems to ensure that such challenges are properly met.

The main focus of the CAC is to be the premier international forum to present the latest research, applications, and technologies to make cloud and autonomic computing systems and services easy to design, to deploy and to implement, while achieving the simultaneous goals to be self-manageable, self-regulating and scalable with little involvement of human or system administrators.

Special Tracks

The CAC conference main topics are grouped into four special tracks: Autonomic Cloud Computing; Autonomics for Extreme Scales; Autonomic Cybersecurity; and Autonomic Computing Foundation: Tools and Applications. Program vice-chairs in each of these research areas will coordinate the efforts regarding papers focused in these tracks.

Autonomic Cloud Computing: Vice Chair Rosa Badia
    Self-management cloud services
    Autonomic cloud applications and services
    Autonomic virtual cloud resources and services
    Cloud workload characterization and prediction
    Monitoring and analysis of behavior of cloud resources and services
    Theoretical frameworks for modeling and analysis autonomic computing systems and services 
Autonomics for Extreme Scales: Vice Chair Gregor von Laszewski
    Large scale autonomic systems
    Self-optimizing and self-healing at petacomputing scale
    Self-managing middleware and tools for extreme scales
    Experiences in autonomic systems and applications at extreme scales (petacomputing) 
Autonomic Cybersecurity: Vice Chair Sherif Abdelwahed
    Self-protection techniques of computing systems, networks and applications
    Metrics to evaluate and performance of self-protection algorithms
    Anomaly behavior analysis of autonomic systems and services
    Data mining, stochastic analysis and prediction of autonomic systems and applications
    Metrics to characterize and quantify the cybersecurity algorithms (confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of autonomic systems
    Datasets and benchmarks to compare and evaluate different self-protection techniques 
Autonomic Tools and Applications: Vice Chair Jim Dowling
    Benchmarks and tools to evaluate and compare different architectures to implement autonomic cloud systems
    High performance autonomic applications
    Self* applications in science and engineering
    Self* Human Machine Interface
    Full visibility into the behavior of autonomic systems and services
    Knowledge representation and visualization of behavior of autonomic systems and services 

Paper Submission

Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity, and relevance to the broader community. Papers are strongly encouraged to report experiences, measurements, and user studies, and to provide an appropriate quantitative evaluation. Previously published papers and/or papers under review are unacceptable.

Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Both full and short papers must follow the official ACM proceedings format with strict adherence to SIGS style (i.e., Option 1). Both kinds of papers should be submitted via the Web submission form, available here.

Authors are also encouraged to submit a poster or demo that summarizes and highlights the main points of their paper (see below). Extended versions of the best papers will be considered for a special section of TAAS and a special issue in Cluster Computing Journal.

Plagiarism Policy

Respecting intellectual property rights is a foundational principle of the ACM's Codes of Ethics. Plagiarism, in which one misrepresents ideas, words, computer codes, or other creative expression as one's own, is a clear violation of such ethical principles. Plagiarism can also represent a punishable violation of copyright law. Plagiarism manifests itself in a variety of forms, including verbatim copying, near-verbatim copying, or purposely paraphrasing portions of another author's work without citing the source. Proper citing; i.e., accurate use of quotations marks and differentiating copied text from original, is imperative. Copying elements, such as equations or illustrations that are not common knowledge, is also plagiarism. For more information, please visit ACM Plagiarism Policy.

Acceptance Policy

At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper in person at the conference. The accepted papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference and will also appear in proceedings distributed via USB drives at the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify the conference organizers. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on June 10, 2013. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the conference Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.

Posters, Demonstrations, and Exhibitions

A poster, demonstration, and exhibition session consisting of research prototypes and technology artifacts that demonstrate autonomic software or autonomic computing principles will be included in the conference. More information will be available soon.

PhD Thesis Digest Forum

Current PhD students who are working on topics relevant to autonomic computing are invited to submit a short summary (up to 2 pages) of their theses. Top selected submissions will be presented at a PhD forum during the conference. More information will be available soon.