Call for papers
CloudComp 2011
3rd International ICST Conference on Cloud Computing
28-30 November, Vienna, Austria
Cloud Computing, which is envisioned to change the IT landscape, is consumer/delivery model where IT capabilities are offered as services billed based on usage. Examples of cloud services include, but are not limited to, IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service).
The underlying cloud architecture includes a pool of virtualized compute, storage and networking resources that can be aggregated and launched as platforms to run workloads and satisfy their Service-Level Agreement (SLA). Cloud architectures also include provisions to best guarantee service delivery for clients and at the same time optimize efficiency of resources of providers. Examples of provisions include, but are not limited to, elasticity through up/down scaling of resources to track workload behavior, extensive monitoring, failure mitigation, and energy optimizations. The two main technologies enabling clouds are: (i) Virtualization, the foundation of clouds; and (ii) manageability (autonomics), the command and control of clouds.
CloudComp is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and industry professionals to discuss recent advances and experiences in clouds, cloud computing and related ecosystems and business support. The conference also aims at presenting the recent advances, experiences and results obtained in the wider area of cloud computing, giving users and researchers equally a chance to gain better insight into the capabilities and limitations of current cloud systems. CloudComp will offer a chance to cloud providers to promote and display their current systems. To that end, papers are solicited from all cloud related areas, including, but not limited to:
- Cloud architectures & provisions to optimize providers’ environments while guaranteeing clients’ SLAs
- Programming models, applications and middleware suitable for dynamic cloud environments
- End-to-end techniques for autonomic management of cloud resources including monitoring, asset management, process automation and others
- Cloud delivery models, models’ optimizations and associated architectural changes
- Cloud economic and billing models
- Green ICT and Clouds – theory, practice and experiences
- Cloud security, privacy and compliance challenges
- Toolkits, frameworks and processes to enable clouds and allow seamless transitions from traditional IT environments to clouds
- Experiences with existing cloud infrastructure, services and uses
- Novel human interfaces and browsers for accessing clouds
- Interaction of mobile computing, mCommerce and Clouds
- Standardisation activity in Clouds – proposals and experiences
- Experiences on clouds in various vertical sectors (e.g., eScience and industry), where the concept worked/did_not_work.
- Clouds Adaptability
Papers should be no more than 10000 words or 10 pages in length. Submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least 3 reviewers. Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found on the conference web site.
Submission of the paper implies agreement of the author(s) to attend the conference and present the paper if accepted.
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in ICST’s joint publication series with Springer, the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) and made available online through ICST’s publications archive, the European Union Digital Library. In addition, proceedings content will be submitted for review by scholarly indexing services including Thomson Reuters/ISI Science Citation Index, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI, DBLP, ZBIMath/CompuServe, IO-Port, Scopus, INSPEC, Zentralblatt Math and other important sites.
Paper Submission
Please visit the conference website (http://cloudcomp.org/submission.shtml) for paper submission instructions. (An alternative is to upload your paper on www.assyst-online.org, EasyChair)
Long Paper Length is 10 pages maximum and Short Paper Length is 4 pages maximum.
Format Guidelines: Please consult http://www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-6-564009-0 for format Tex and MS Word Templates.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: July 18th 2011
Notification of Acceptance: September 19th 2011
Camera Ready Deadline: October 31st 2011
Workshop Proposal Deadline: March 21th 2011
Tutorial/Industry Track Proposal Deadline: July 1st 2011
Demo/Exhibit/Poster Proposal Deadline: September 5th 2011
Conference Date: November 30th – December 2nd 2011
Organizing Committee
General Chair:
- Prof Keith G Jeffery, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
- Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, Inc., USA
- Lutz Schubert, HLRS – University of Stuttgart, DE
Technical Program Committee
- Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
- Andras Micsik, MTA Sztaki, HU
- Bernhard Schott, VCODYNE, DE
- Damien Hubaux , CETIC, BE
- Dimosthenis Kyriazis, NTUA, GR
- Frédéric Desprez, INRIA, France
- Guy Lonsdale, NEC HPC Europe, DE
- Ignacio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Ioannis Fikouras, Ericsson, SE
- Jose Bernabeu-Auban, Microsoft, USA
- J.P. Martin-Flatin, EPFL, Switzerland
- Karsten Oberle, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, DE
- Maria Tsakali, European Commission, BE
- Marian Bubak AGH Krakow, PL and University of Amsterdam, NL
- Mark Parsons, EPCC, UK
- Omar Rana, Cardiff University, UK
- Pawel Gepner, Intel, PL
- Regis Saint-Paul, Create-Net, IT
- Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA
- Yuecel Karabulut, SAP, USA
Tutorials / Workshops Chair(s):
- Josep Martrat, ATOS Origin (not yet confirmed)
Industry Track / Sponsorship Chair:
- Paul Strong, VMware (not yet confirmed)
Marketing & Communications Chair:
- Czilla Zsigri, 451 Group (not yet confirmed)
Local Chair:
- Ivona Brandic, Technical University Vienna
Web & Publicity Chair:
- Elena Fezzardi, EAI/ICST