IEEE Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2013)
March 25-27, San Francisco, California, USA
http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/computing/conferences/IC2E2013/

CALL FOR PAPERS

[Important Dates]

Abstract submission: September 7, 2012
Paper submission: September 14, 2012
Acceptance notification: December 7, 2012
Camera-ready copies due: January 18, 2013

[Scope and Topics]

Cloud computing has emerged as a new paradigm for the use and delivery of information technology (IT), and is revolutionizing the support of on-demand access, economies of scale and dynamic sourcing options. In the cloud context, a wide range of IT resources and capabilities, including servers, networking, storage, middleware, data, security, applications, and business processes, are available as services enabled for rapid provisioning, flexible pricing, elastic scaling and resilience. These new forms of IT services are challenging conventional wisdom and practices. To fully reap the benefits of the cloud service model requires holistic treatment of key technical and business issues, and engineering methodology that draws upon innovations in diverse areas of computer science and business informatics.

The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) is a new conference that seeks to provide a high-quality and comprehensive forum, where researchers and practitioners involved in the development of cloud infrastructure and applications can exchange information on engineering principles, enabling technologies, and practical experiences as related to cloud computing. By bringing together experts that work on different levels of the cloud stack - systems, storage, networking, platforms, databases, and applications, IC2E will offer an end-to-end view on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing, foster research that addresses the interaction between different layers of the stack, and ultimately help shape the future of cloud-transformed business and society.

Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The conference is interested in both research contributions and industrial experiences in any of the areas associated with cloud architectures, services, development, and operations. Technical papers that take a broad systems perspective and identify how the work fits to an overall solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
* Platform as a service (PaaS)
* Database as a service (DaaS)
* Software as a service (SaaS)
* Network as a service (NaaS)
* Business process as a service (BPaaS)
* Security as a service
* Storage as a service
* Information as a service
* Big data management and analytic
* Virtualization technology
* Performance, dependability and service level agreements
* Cloud security, privacy, and compliance management
* Workload deployment and migration
* Energy management in cloud centers
* Cloud programming models and tools
* Hybrid cloud integration
* Service lifecycle management
* Service management automation
* Metering, pricing, and software licensing

[Paper Submissions]

Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). The length of a paper must not exceed 10 pages. Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper electronically at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/IC2E2013/. All papers selected for this conference are peer-reviewed and will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. The best papers presented in the conference will be selected for a journal special issue.

[Organizers]

General Chairs
John C.S. Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University
Paul Watson, Newcastle University

Program Committee Chairs
Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hui Lei, IBM Watson Research
Volker Markl, TU Berlin

Program Committee
Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge
Roger Barga, Microsoft Research
Azer Bestavros, Boston University
Sara Bouchenak, INRIA
Elisa Burtino, Purdue University
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Michael Carey, University of California, Irvine
Gregory Chockler, IBM Haifa Research Lab
Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University
Paolo Costa, Imperial College London
Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
Phillip Gibbons, Intel Labs
Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc
Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University
Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mor Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University
Joseph Hellerstein, Google Research
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Anthony Joseph, University of California, Berkeley
Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo
Erwin Laure, Royal Institute of Technology
Justin Levandoski, Microsoft Research
Wei Li, Beihang University
Baochun Li, University of Toronto
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Stefan Manegold, CWI Amsterdam
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs
Archan Misra, Singapore Management University
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University
Peng Ning, North Carolina State University
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Donald Porter, Stony Brook University
Berthold Reinwald, IBM Almaden Research Center
Stefan Tai, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Florian Waas, EMC
Haixun Wang, Microsoft Research - Asia
Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota
Dan Williams, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Publicity Chairs
Badrish Chandramouli, Microsoft Research
Lin Gu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Graham Morgan, Newcastle University

Publication Chair
Yinong Chen, Arizona State University

Web Chair
David Webster, University of Leeds

Steering Committee Contact
Jie Xu, University of Leeds