IC2E 2018 Call for Papers

Research Track

The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) seeks to provide a high-quality and comprehensive forum, where researchers and practitioners can exchange information on engineering principles, enabling technologies, and practical experiences related to cloud computing. The conference brings together experts who work on different levels of the cloud stack—systems, storage, networking, platforms, databases, and applications. IC2E offers an end-to-end view on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing, fosters research that addresses the interaction between different layers of the stack, and ultimately helps shape the future of cloud-transformed business and society.

We invite submissions of high-quality research papers describing fully-developed results, and ongoing foundational and applied work related to all aspects of cloud engineering. The program committee will interpret “cloud engineering” very broadly—everything from engineering principles to practical experiences, at and across different levels of the cloud stack, from both academia and industry. We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities. We invite submissions on the following topics:

Big data management, platforms and analytics
Cloud applications and services
Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools
Cloud storage and databases
Cloud processing, both batch and streaming
Cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust
Edge computing and fog computing
Energy management in cloud centers
Hybrid cloud integration
Metering, pricing, and software licensing
Mobile cloud computing
Multimedia cloud computing
Performance, dependability, and service level agreements
Resource management and optimization in the cloud
Service lifecycle management and automation
Virtualization and container technology
Workload deployment and migration
X as a Service, where X includes Backend, Business Process, Database, Information, Infrastructure, Network, Platform, Security, Software, Storage, or other emerging services
Microservices in the cloud

Important Dates

There is no abstract submission deadline.
Full paper submission deadline: September 25, 2017, 23:59 GMT
Author notification: December 7, 2017
Camera-ready deadline: January 19, 2018

Submission instructions

Please submit full (and short) papers by the full paper submission deadline in PDF format via the web submission form at https://hotcrp.doc.ic.ac.uk/ic2e18/
Full research track papers should not exceed 10 pages double column, including figures, and tables. References can be additional pages. Short papers are limited to 6 pages, not including references. Short papers should be clearly marked as such in the title.
The manuscripts may not exceed 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style).

Review process and publication

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted manuscripts must contain original contributions, and their contributions must NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for publication in another workshop, conference, or journal.
After review, some full paper submissions may be offered to be published as a short paper (6 pages) or a poster (2 pages).
Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (EI indexed).

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Industrial Track

The IC2E 2018 Industrial Track invites papers emphasizing practical experiences, real-world applications and emerging challenges in the industry on topics of interest that are similar to those in the general conference call for papers. All accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the conference proceedings. The industrial track aims to enable broader industry participation. It provides a forum for the discussion of practical issues running cloud platforms or services, and sharing of information and best practices among developers, practitioners, service providers and cloud operators.

Key areas of interest include:

Design, implementation and operation of cloud platforms
Practical design issues with infrastructure, platform and other as-a-service offerings
Experimental data on cloud operations and usage patterns
Managing big data, practical challenges and emerging techniques
Platforms and services around data and analytics
Operational analytics and DevOps solutions
Experience with cloud management systems, tools, and integration
Cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust
Resource management and accounting for cloud
Energy management in cloud centers
Cloud and mobile intersection
Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools
Cloud operating models including, public, on-premises and hybrid integration
Economics of cloud including metering, pricing, billing and licence management
Service lifecycle management and automation
Cloud runtimes including virtualization, containers, unikernels, event-driven serverless computing

Submission instructions

Please submit papers by submission deadline in PDF format via the web submission form at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ic2e2018.
Papers must not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style), including abstract, all figures, tables, and references. Submitted papers should follow the general IC2E formatting instructions. Submitted papers may not be submitted for conference publication, journal publication, or be under review for any other conference or journal. For any questions regarding this, please contact the track chair.

Important Dates

There is no abstract submission deadline
Full paper submission deadline: October 16, 2017, 23:59 GMT
Author notification: December 7, 2017
Camera-ready deadline: January 19, 2018