The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss and advance the state of the art in the development and security of applications utilising Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is an emerging research topic widely discussed within the community of distributed systems and Grid computing experts. It promises to vastly change the implementation, usage and management of computing systems both in the public and private sector. The proposed benefits of the technology would offer reduced overheads by removing procurement and charging by usage, ultimately delivering computing as a utility. An additional feature is the extensibility of clouds; enabling allocated resources to expand and contract dependent upon the requirements for usage. The potential gains lie not only with the efficient allocation of resources, but also a green utilization of resources by maximizing the usage of a resource through the dynamic reallocation of jobs to cloud resources. The adoption of such technology by organisations clearly carries a number of significant benefits to the computing research community, such as dynamic provisioning of data and software to support project tasks. However, there are also a number of associated challenges which must be considered prior to a widespread uptake of Cloud Computing as a major computing architecture. In particular, the legal and technical management of the systems, the data and the services provided need to be investigated. The CAS workshop, therefore aims to connect and allow sharing ideas, problems and solutions between those researchers and practitioners that face Cloud challenges.

Original papers are invited on all relevant topics of Cloud Computing but papers on or related to the topics listed below are particularly welcome.

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Workshop Topics

Cloud technology
Security issues in the Cloud
QoS and Cloud networking
Cloud applications to the Internet of Things
Cloud-based e-health systems and applications
Application of cloud in private and public sectors/ case studies
Legal issues in the Cloud
New architectures and design methods for developing cloud services
Tools and techniques for developing and managing applications in the cloud
New standards of security and privacy for Cloud applications
Legacy systems in the Cloud
Benefits of Cloud Computing
Green utilization of resources in the Cloud

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All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore and DBLP. Extended version of selected papers will be published in special issue peer reviewed journals.

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Important Dates:

Extended Abstract (work in progress) Submission Date: August 29th, 2014

Full paper Submission Date: October 5th, 2014

Notification Date: October 20th, 2014

Camera Ready: November 1st, 2014

Early Registration: October 20th, 2014

Late Registration: December 1st, 2014

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Paper Submission

Full paper should not exceed 6 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Additional pages cost £25 per page with a maximum of 2 pages. Paper formatting and submission instructions are available at ICITST – 2014 Paper Submission page. Please email a copy of your submission to the workshop organisers Pereirae@edgehill.ac.uk and M.I.Mackay@ljmu.ac.uk

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For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact Workshop Chairs Pereirae@edgehill.ac.uk or M.I.Mackay@ljmu.ac.uk.