4rd International Conference on Cloud Computing - Cloudcomp 2013
                          October 17 - 19, 2013  
                              Wuhan, China
                      http://www.cloudcomp.eu/

Submission deadline: 30th May, 2013

Notification of acceptance: 20th July, 2013
Camera-ready deadline: 20th August, 2013
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HIGHLIGHTS

Accepted papers after presentation and extension have good chance to be invited for publication in either ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications or Journal of Internet Technology.

CALL FOR PAPERS

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.

[Topics]

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/didnotwork.
-Clouds Adaptability

[Conference Organizing commitee]

General Chair:
Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada

TPC Chair:
Min Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Program Track Chairs:
Tarik Taleb, NEC Europe Ltd, Heidelberg, Germany
Shiwen Mao, Aubrun University, USA
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Workshop Chair:
Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA

International Advisory Committee Chair:
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
En-Dong Wang, Inspur, China
Roy "Xiaorong" Lai, Confederal Network Inc., USA

Publication Chair:

Foad Dabiri, Google Inc., USA
Chin‐Feng Lai, National Ilan University, Taiwan

Web Chair:
Liang Zhou, NJUPT, China

[Paper submission]

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. Submission of the paper implies agreement of the author(s) to attend the conference and present the paper if accepted Complete formatting and submission instructions for papers and workshops proposals can be found on the conference web site http://cloudcomp.eu/2013/show/initial-submission