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CALL FOR PAPERS

Management of resources and services in Cloud and Sky computing

MICAS'2013

September 23-26, 2012, Timisoara, Romania
in conjunction with SYNASC 2013

http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/micas-2013/
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* Full paper submissions: 31 July 2013
* Notifications: 19 August 2013
* Revised papers and registrations: 1 Sep 2013
* Event: 23-26 Sep 2013
* Publication of selected papers in IEEE proceedings of SYNASC 2013: Jan 2014
* Submission of extended versions of the selected papers for SCPE: Feb 2014
* Notifications: Mar 2014
* Publication of selected papers in SCPE: Apr 2014

The event intends to be an open forum for discussions about the state-of-the-art,
the recent achievements and the future in breaking
the barriers of Cloud adoption on large scale,
barriers that are related to vendor lock-in,
lack of common interfaces and standards and so on,
shortly the ones hindering the vision of InterCloud or Sky computing.

Original contributions are invited to be reported to the event.

The suggested topics are the followings (but not restricted to):

* self-management in Clouds and federation of Clouds
* applications using multiple Clouds
* interoperability between Clouds
* portability of Cloud based applications
* run-time selection of Cloud services
* reliability of Cloud services
* auto-scaling techniques
* scheduling over heterogeneous Clouds
* dynamic load balancing between multiple Clouds
* architectures for automatic management of applications based on multiple Clouds
* model-driven architectures for multiple Cloud usage scenarios
* open-source support for Cloud computing
* tools, frameworks and processes to enable the transition
from the traditional IT delivery model to the (multi)cloud delivery model
* Cloud provider selection mechanisms to achieve performance
and other non-functional requirements

Programme Chairs:

Arnor Solberg, SINTEF, Norway
Dana Petcu, West University and Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania

Programme Committee:

Andreas Menychtas, National Technical University of Athen, Greece
Aida Omerovic, SINTEF, Norway
Danilo Ardagna, Politehnico Di Milano, Italy
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politehnico Di Milano, Italy
George Kousiouris, National Technical University of Athen, Greece
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK
Florin Fortis, West University Timisoara, Romania
Francesco D’Andria, ATOS, Spain
Harald Kühn, BOC, Austria
Leire Orue-Echevarria Arrieta, Tecnalia, Spain
Peter Matthews, CA Technologies, Spain
Victor Muntes, CA Technologies, Spain