6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
December 2-5, 2013, Dresden, Germany
http://ucc2013.inf.tu-dresden.de/

Call for Papers

Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as
services that are commoditised and delivered as in traditional utilities
such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. High Utility with Cloud
services can already be achieved for compute, storage and communication
resources but also for hosted software and data. UCC is the premier
IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a
Utility. Submissions are invited to UCC 2013.
This will be the 6th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous
events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia
(Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), and Chicago, USA (UCC
2012). UCC 2013 happens while cloud providers world-wide add new services
and increase utility at a high pace and is therefore of high relevance
for both academic and industrial research.

Conference Scope

Submissions are invited on the following themes as well as additional
interesting related topics:
• Principles and foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and
service models
• Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds
• Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid,
federated, aggregated
• Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and
services on all layers (XaaS)
• Virtualisation technologies and other enablers
• Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity
planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces
• Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance
models and monitoring
• Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science)
and business
• Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds
• Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as
security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility
contexts

Journal Special Issue

As in previous years, it is planned to recommend a selection of the top
papers for journal submission. Details to follow.

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 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.

Chairs and Committees

Conference Co-Chairs:
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Alexander Schill, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Programme Committee Co-Chairs:
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs:
Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA
Francisco Brasileiro, Univ. Fed. de Campina Grande, Brazil
Organising Chair:
Josef Spillner, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Important Dates {tentative}

Workshop/Tutorials Proposals: 10 May 2013
Paper Submissions Due: 19 July 2013
Notification of Acceptance: 30 August 2013
Camera-ready Papers Due: 27 September 2013