Last Mile, January 27 || CLOUD COMPUTING 2014 || May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy

[Jaime Lloret Mauri <jlloret [at] dcom.upv.es>]

INVITATION:
 
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 Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to CLOUD COMPUTING 2014.
 
The submission deadline has been extended to January 27, 2014.
 
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== CLOUD COMPUTING 2014 | Call for Papers ===============
 
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
 
CLOUD COMPUTING 2014, The Fifth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization
 
May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy
 

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CLOUDCOMPUTING14.html
 
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCLOUDCOMPUTING14.html
 
- regular papers
 
- short papers (work in progress)
 
- posters
 
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCLOUDCOMPUTING14.html
 

Submission deadline: January 27, 2014
 
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
 

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
 
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
 
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
 

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.
 
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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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 tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
 
Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
 

CLOUD COMPUTING 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
 

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
 
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 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCLOUDCOMPUTING14.html
 
CLOUD COMPUTING Advisory Chairs
 Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
 Wolf Zimmermann, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
 Yong Woo Lee, University of Seoul, Korea
 Alain April, École de Technologie Supérieure - Montreal, Canada
 Aaron McConnell, University of Ulster, UK
 Christoph Reich, Furtwangen University, Germany
 
CLOUD COMPUTING 2014 Industry/Research Chairs
 Wolfgang Gentzsch, The UberCloud, Germany
 Tony Shan, Keane Inc., USA
 Donglin Xia, Microsoft Corporation, USA
 Laura Moore, SAP, UK
 Anna Schwanengel, Siemens AG, Germany
 Atsuji Sekiguchi, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan
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