UCC 2012
The 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
November 5-8, 2012
Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2012
Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as a service that are commoditized and delivered as in traditional utilities such as electricity, gas and water. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility. Submissions are invited to UCC 2012.

[Conference Scope]
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Pricing and Service Models for Utility Computing
- Cloud Computing Architectures and Middleware
- Cloud Programming Models, Languages and Frameworks
- Virtualization Technologies
- Formal Methods for Utility and Cloud Computing
- Cloud Management: Autonomic, Self-*, and Adaptive
- Energy Efficient Clouds
- Mobile Clouds
- Service Level Agreements
- Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds
- Scalability and Reliability in Cloud Services
- Security, Privacy, Trust and Jurisdiction
- Interoperability and Standardization for Federated Clouds
- Cloud Stack (*aaS): Infrastructure, Platform, Software as a Service
- Resource Management: Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity Planning and Elasticity
- Performance Models and Monitoring
- Case Studies and Applications including Games, Social Networks, Scientific Computing, and Business Intelligence

[Paper Submission]
Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through EasyChair. Manuscripts may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.

[Important Dates (tentative)]
May 4: Workshop and Tutorial Proposals due
July 9: Regular Paper Submissions due
August 10: Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers
August 24: Posters and Demos Submissions due
September 7: Camera Ready versions due
November 5-8: Symposium

[Chairs and Committees]
Conference Chair: Gul Agha (University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign)
Program Co-Chairs: Carlos Varela (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Manish Parashar (Rutgers University)
Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Shrideep Pallickara (Colorado State University)
Cyber Chair: Mohammed AlRokayan (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

[Steering Committee Members]
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair)
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Bharadwaj Veeravalli, The National University of Singapore, Singapore
Cho Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China
Craig Lee, Open Grid Forum, USA
Geng Lin, Cisco Systems Inc., USA
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Jane Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Steve Versteeg, Computer Associates, Australia
Walfredo Cirne, Google, USA
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Universities Regensburg (Germany); Duke and NC State (USA)
S.Thamarai Selvi, Anna University Chennai, India
Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil


[Program Committee]
Jemal Abawajy
Arun Agarwal
David Anderson
David A. Bader
Henri Bal
Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernandez
Siegfried Benkner
Nik Bessis
Milind Bhandarkar
Viraj Bhat
Rajkumar Buyya
Rodrigo N. Calheiros
Harold Castro
Simon Caton
Paolo Ciancarini
Ewa Deelman
Travis Desell
Marcos Dias De Assuncao
Zhihui Du
Kaoutar El Maghraoui
Erik Elmroth
Dick Epema
Jose Fortes
Pawel Garbacki
Saurabh Kumar Garg
Wolfgang Gentzsch
Cecile Germain
Rob Gillen
Andrzej Goscinski
Madhusudhan Govindaraju
Ken Hawick
Bo Hong
Marty Humphrey
Hai Jin
Thilo Kielmann
Kyong Hoon Kim
Bastian Koller
Derrick Kondo
Doug Lea
Craig Lee
Laurent Lefevre
Xiaorong Li
Thenalapadi S. Mohan
Marco A.S. Netto
Shrideep Pallickara
Sangmi Pallickara
Siani Pearson
Marlon Pierce
Radu Prodan
Benny Rochwerger
Dongwan Shin
Alex Sim
Domenico Talia
Michela Taufer
Ruppa Thulasiram
Robert Van Engelen
Peter Van Roy
Carlos A. Varela
Jinesh Varia
Bharadwaj Veeravalli
Srikumar Venugopal
David Walker
Wei-Jen Wang
C.L. Wang
Paul Watson
Timothy Wood
Ramin Yahyapour
Albert Zomaya