ICCI 2012 - The First International Workshop on inter-Clouds and Collective Intelligence (iCCI-2012)

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Category ICCI 2012

Deadline: October 01, 2011 | Date: March 26, 2012-March 29, 2012

Venue/Country: Fukuoka, Japan

Updated: 2011-07-26 17:02:19 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Clouds are the new e-infrastructure for performing and delivering business and science. In particular, clouds are becoming popular by supporting the Internet of the Things as well as by providing a new supplement, consumption, delivery and efficient model for the future Internet; where virtualised, scalable and energy efficient resource management approaches are provided to integrate loose coupled resources, and improve their utility.

By having several data centres around the globe cloud providers aim to optimally serve their clients in a worldwide scale. However, each cloud provider has established their own systems, which are not necessarily inter-operable with each other for effective data portability, service sharing, discovery, scheduling and integration. Thus, it has become apparent that clouds have been designed as "closed" systems hence, they require coming together on an on-demand basis as to further improve QoS and become even more energy and cost efficient. To achieve these, a recent inter-cloud initiative has been emerged with the view of developing mechanisms to enable the interaction between "isolated" cloud systems. Apart from the inter-cloud initiative there is also a notable opportunity namely, the current trend in which a collectively shared and generated content is emerged from end-users.

iCCI-2012 will discuss advances about utilising and exploiting data generated from within inter-cooperative clouds towards a collective intelligence approach leading to the advancements of virtual organisations and their user communities. This is because inter-cooperative clouds will store and continuously generate a vast amount of data, which if combined and analysed through a synergetic, collaborative and collective intelligence manner will make a difference in the organisational settings and their user communities. Thus, the scope of iCCI-2012 is to discuss inter-clouds enabling methods and strategies as well methods and practices to bring these together to capture, integrate, analyse, mine, annotate and visualize data - made available from various cloud community users - in a meaningful manner.

Finally, iCCI-2012 aims to provide a forum for original discussion and prompt future directions.

Topics

The main topic areas include, but are not limited to:

Architectures, Programming Frameworks, Middleware Interfaces and Applications

Business and Web Intelligence for Clouds and inter-Clouds

Critical Reviews on Theory and Practices in Collective Intelligence

Data Management, Data Growth, Storage, Implications

Data/Text Mining, Data Clustering, Graph Partitioning

Data Portability and Interoperability in Clouds, Interoperability Requirements in Cross-Domains

Economy-based Models, Benefits

Ontology Management, Semantic Web, Multi-Agents, Context-aware Clouds

Resource Management for inter-clouds including Discovery, Scheduling and Monitoring

Security, Trust and Reputation, Identity Management and Privacy

Self-adaptive Ant Colony, Swarm and Evolutionary Agents

Social Networks, Social Network Analysis, Link Analysis, Click-stream, Tag clouds

User Communities/Virtual Organizational Structures and Dynamics.

Organising committee

Workshop Co-chairs:

Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK

n.bessisderby.ac.uk

Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

valentin.cristeacs.pub.ro

Dr Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK

r.hillderby.ac.uk

Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

fatoslsi.upc.edu

Workshop Programme Committee members (TBC):

Markus Aleksy, ABB AG, Germany

Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK

Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Mehmet Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Liz Bacon, University of Greenwich, UK

Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology

Tim French, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria

Maozhen Li, Brunel University, UK

Stelios Sotiriadis, University of Derby, UK

Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan

David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Sergio Toral Marn, University of Seville, Spain

Michael Vassilakopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece.

Submission

All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two or more independent referees of the Workshop Programme Committee and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit, originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Submit a full paper of at most six pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page.

To confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines see: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submission

The papers must be submitted electronically via the AINA-2012 website, see: http://www.aina-conference.org/2012/

Accepted workshop papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, must register and present their work at the conference otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Extended version of distinguished workshop papers will be published in books or special issues of prestigious international journals.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: October 1, 2011

Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2011

Author registration: December 23, 2011

Final manuscript: January 6, 2012

Conference dates: March 26-29, 2012.

Contact

Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK

n.bessisderby.ac.uk

Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

valentin.cristeacs.pub.ro

Dr Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK

r.hillderby.ac.uk

Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

fatoslsi.upc.edu