MICAS 2015: Management of resources and services in Cloud and Sky computing

4th Workshop organized in conjunction with SYNASC 2015
AMICAS workshop jointly organized with the FP7-ICT project SPECS
21-22 September 2015, West University of Timisoara, Romania

Aim:
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 Multi-Clouds.

Call for papers:
Original contributions are invited to be reported to the event.
The suggested topics are the followings (but not restricted to):

-security-as-a-service
-SLA management for Clouds
-self-organisation 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
-Cloud provider selection mechanisms

Deadlines:
Full paper submissions: 30 June 2015
Notifications: 30 July 2015
Registrations: 1 September 2015
Revised papers: 8 September 2015
Event: 21-22 September 2014
Publication in Conference Publishing Services (CPS) proceedings of SYNASC 2015: January 2016
Extended version of selected papers for SCPE: December 2015
Notifications: February 2016
Publication of selected papers in SCPE: March 2016

Submission system:
The papers should be submitted at Easychair account of SYNASC workshops.
The paper can have up to 8 pages in the two-columns CPS conference style.
The papers selected for presentation and publication according to the reviewing results will be published in the SYNASC 2015 proceedings.

Programme Chair:
Dana Petcu, West University and Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania

Programme Committee:

Maria Fazio, University of Messina, Italy
Teodor-Florin Fortis, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Horacio Gonzalez-Velez, National College of Ireland, Ireland
Dan Marinescu, School of EECS University of Central Florida, USA
John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland
Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland
Massimiliano Rak, Second University of Naples, Italy
Juan-Manuel-Murillo Rodríguez, University of Extremadura, Spain
Jose-Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain