CLOUDCOM 2015 - 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science

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Category Cloud computing; Big data; Virtualization; Security and privacy

Deadline: July 08, 2015 | Date: November 30, 2015-December 03, 2015

Venue/Country: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Updated: 2015-07-02 00:53:02 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

CALL FOR PAPERS

CloudCom 2015

7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science

http://2015.cloudcom.org/

November 30-December 3, 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop Proposal: April 17, 2015

Tutorial Proposal: May 15, 2015

Regular Papers Due: July 8, 2015 (Final Deadline)

PhD Consortium Papers Due: July 15, 2015

Posters and Demo Papers Due: July 31, 2015

Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2015

Camera Ready Due: September 15, 2015

Conference Date: November 30-December 3, 2015

SCOPE

The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology & Science 2015 will be the 7th in the series of conferences, steered by the Cloud Computing Association, that brings together researchers, developers and users interested in cloud computing systems to present and discuss the needs of, and innovations in, the area.

TOPICS OF INTEREST, but are not limited to:

1. Architecture

- Intercloud architecture models

- Cloud federation & hybrid cloud infrastructure

- Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & "last mile" issues

- Networking technologies

- Programming models & systems/tools

- Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs

- Storage & file systems

- Scalability & performance

- Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance

- Operational, economic & business models

- Green data centers

- Dynamic resource provisioning

2. Virtualization

- Computational resources, storage & network virtualization

- Resource monitoring

- Virtual desktops

- Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery

- Modeling & performance evaluation

- Disaster recovery

- Energy efficiency

3. Services & Applications

- Cloud services models & frameworks

- Cloud services reference models & standardization

- Cloud-powered services design

- Business processes, compliance & certification

- Data management applications & services

- Application workflows & scheduling

- Application benchmarks & use cases

- Cloud-based services & protocols

- Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications

- Application development and debugging tools

- Business models & economics of cloud services

4. IoT & Mobile in the Cloud

- IoT cloud architectures & models

- Cloud-based dynamic composition of IoT

- Cloud-based context-aware IoT

- Mobile cloud architectures & models

- Green mobile cloud computing

- Resource management in mobile cloud environments

- Cloud support for mobility-aware networking protocols

- Multimedia applications in mobile cloud environments

- Cloud-based mobile networks and applications

5. Big Data

- Machine learning

- Data mining

- Approximate & scalable statistical methods

- Graph algorithms

- Querying & search

- Data lifecycle management

- Frameworks, tools & their composition

- Dataflow management & scheduling

6. HPC in the Cloud

- Load balancing

- Middleware solutions

- Scalable scheduling

- HPC as a Service

- Programming models

- Use cases & experience reports

- Cloud deployment systems

7. Security & Privacy

- Accountability & audit

- Authentication & authorization

- Cloud integrity

- Cryptography for & in the cloud

- Hypervisor security

- Identity management & security as a service

- Prevention of data loss or leakage

- Secure, interoperable identity management

- Trust & credential management

- Trusted computing

- Usable security

8. General Track

Other emerging and new topics in the cloud, such as,

- Software defined systems

- Economics and market mechanisms

- Green Cloud Computing

- Benchmarking and performance studies

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Papers should be submitted through the paper submission system at the conference website. Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format, for regular papers, the page limit will be 8 pages.

The conference proceedings of CloudCom 2015 will be published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE Xplore) and indexed by EI and ISSN. Distinguished papers will be invited to be included within a number of special issues in prestigious international journals.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs

Victor C.M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Steering Committee

Chunming Rong (chair), University of Stavanger, Norway

Martin Gilje Jaatun (vice-chair), SINTEF, Norway

Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney

Stephen L. Diamond, IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, USA

Programme Chairs

Sathish Gopalakrishnan, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs

Henry Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Abdallah Shami, Western University, Canada

Posters and Demo Chairs

Hui-huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan

F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada

Industry Panel Chair

Rodger Lea, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Student Travel Grants and PhD Forum Chairs

Yan Bai, University of Washington Tacoma, USA

Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University, USA

Publicity Chairs

Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece

Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA

Sponsorship Chairs

Panos Nasiopoulos, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Michael Hrybyk, BC Net, Canada

Xiping Hu, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Publication Chair

Zhengguo Sheng, University of Sussex, UK

Registration Chair

Farshid Agharebparast, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Local Arrangement Chairs

Xiaofei Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Financial Chair

Mahsa Pourazad, TELUS, Canada

Web Chair

Wei Cai, The University of British Columbia, Canada