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Journal of Internet Services and Applications
Special Issue on Cloud Computing
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Springer's Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA) will
publish a special issue on Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing is a form of Internet-based computing that explores
new models for consumption and delivery of computing resources, software,
and services. This new paradigm has been receiving great attention from
the research community and industry, due to its potential to trigger
significant change in the computing industry. Cloud computing introduces
challenges and new possibilities in many aspects of Internet architecture,
protocols, services, and applications. As such, we invite submissions on
Cloud Computing topics related to Internet Services and applications
including but not limited to the following:

* Virtualization technology, including image and appliance management;
* Automated provisioning/management of infrastructure and services;
* Availability, resilience, dependability, scalability;
* Networking and storage;
* Resource Management, Performance, Benchmarking;
* Grid Computing, Scientific Applications, High Performance Computing;
* Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service;
* Security and privacy;
* Cloud Middleware;
* Data management in the cloud;
* Cloud economics and pricing;
* Cloud-client interaction;
* Programming models and new cloud applications.

Submission Deadline: November, 8th 2010 (Early submission is encouraged)
Publication Date: 1st Semester, 2011

Special Issue Guest-Editors
Dilma Da Silva (IBM Research, USA)
Dan Reed (Microsoft Research, USA)
Dongyan Xu (Purdue University, USA)

JISA Editors-in-Chief
Fabio Kon (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Gordon Blair (Lancaster University, UK)

Submission Details
Manuscripts are submitted online as described in www.springer.com/jisa
and are typically 14 two-column pages in length, and should not exceed
20 pages. The guest editors can be contacted at
jisa.cloud.computing@gmail.com

JISA is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes high-quality
scientific papers (addressing both theory and practice) covering all
aspects of the Internet architecture, protocols, services, and applications.
JISA is a partnership among Springer, the Brazilian Internet Steering
Committee (CGI.br), the National Computer Networks Laboratory (LARC),
and the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC).