GPC 2014 (The 9th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing) will follow a new publication model. All the conference paper submissions will go through Journal of Supercomputing submission system, with paper length and requirement of the journal. Top ranked reviewed papers (more than 10) will be published directly by the Journal of Supercomputing (SCI indexed); other accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings, by LNCS, Springer (EI, Scopus indexed). More info can be found at the conference website: http://grid.hust.edu.cn/gpc2014/index.htm

Templates for GPC 2014 manuscripts:
* Latex for Journal of Supercomputing:
http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/468198/application/zip/LaTeX.zip.
* Instructions for authors: http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/11227?detailsPage=pltci_1060445.
* Page limit: 20~25 pages (Those papers accepted for LNCS, the page limit will be 12~14 pages for proceedings)
* Manuscript submission web page: http://supe.edmgr.com/. IMPORTANT: While you submit papers, please choose the Special Issue (SI): Sp Iss: Grid&Pervasive Comp; Yang/Wu

Important Dates:
Paper Submission Due: February 10, 2014
First Round Notification: March 10, 2014
Second Round Notification for SCI Journal Papers: March 31, 2014
Camera-ready Paper Due: March 24, 2014
Registration Due: April 4, 2014
Conference/Workshop Dates: May 26-28, 2014

Green computing in the context of cloud and pervasive computing is a newly-emerging research field in computer science and engineering. Pervasive computing and cloud computing are two promising paradigms in human's daily life. With the exponential growth in the deployments of techniques in pervasive computing and cloud computing, both of them have to face the critical issues on energy consumption, for example, controlling the energy consumed by the large-scale cloud datacenters, and prolonging the battery life of mobile devices in pervasive computing and Internet of Things (IoT). Therefore, new architectures, systems and related techniques, such as mobile cloud computing (MCC), software-defined networking (SDN) and hybrid cloud services, are being developed to make the computing in cloud datacenters and in pervasive wireless devices more productive and energy efficient, for shaping a "Green" world in the future.

In the last eight years, the GPC conference has mainly focused on Grid and Pervasive Computing, and has been successfully held and organized all over the world. It was first held at Taichung, Taiwan in 2006. Then it was succeed held at Paris, France in 2007, Kunming, China in 2008, Geneva, Switzerland in 2009, Hualien, Taiwan in 2010, Oulu, Finland in 2011, Hong Kong in 2012, and Seoul, Korea in 2013, respectively. To continue the previous conferences’ success while timely contributing to an environmentally sustainable computing for the next decade, the ninth International GPC conference highlights a new conference theme on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC 2014), which will be held at Wuhan, China in May 2014. It aims to establish a high-standard world forum for researchers and developers to share their excellent ideas and experiences in the areas of green computing and communications in the broad context of pervasive computing and cloud computing. GPC 2014 welcomes the original and innovative paper submissions from the academia, industry and government, describing theoretical advances, system design, implementation and experimentation on the following topics, but not limited to:

* Energy-efficient computing, communication and virtualization architectures and protocols
* Trade-offs between performance, energy and other resources in cloud datacenters and pervasive computing
* Energy-aware mobile cloud systems and large-scale applications
* Energy management in multi-core systems, parallel and distributed systems, machine to machine communications, social networks and services
* Energy-aware control in the Internet of Things, such as buildings and electric vehicle systems
* Monitoring, sensing, control and management of energy-aware systems
* Integration, scheduling and management of renewable energy sources
* Modeling and control of variability in demand and supply of green energy sources
* Instrumentation and measurement studies on energy-efficient systems
* Economy and business models in cloud computing and pervasive computing
* Incentives and innovative pricing for the management of cloud resources
* Service Level Agreements (SLAs) guarantee for customers in cloud computing
* Data analytics for energy-efficient systems
* Innovative technologies for robustness and reliability of energy-aware systems
* Security and privacy in pervasive and cloud computing

Committees:
* General Chairs
- Laurence T. Yang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK, Fellow of IEEE, ACM and IET

* Program Chair
- Fangming Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

* Steering Committee

- Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Chair)
- Nabil Abdennadher, Univ. of applied Sciences, West. Switzerland
- Christophe Cerin, University of Paris XIII, France
- Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Univ. of California - Irvine, USA
- Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
- Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China
- Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan

* Technical Program Committee

Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia
Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Xudong Wang, Teranovi Technologies, USA
Song Guo , University of Aizu, Japan
Alfredo Navarra, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
Luciana Arantes, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, France
Zhifeng Yun, Center for Advanced Computing and Data Systems, USA
Ricky Kwok, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wei Jin, Amazon Web Services Seattle, USA
Sun-Yuan Hsieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Di Niu, University of Alberta, Canada
Minming Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Xiaofeng Gao, Shanghai Jiaotong University China
Hongbo Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Xiaomeng Huang, Tsinghua University, China
Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China
Dan Li, Tsinghua University, China
Jie Dai, Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security, China
Fan Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Deke Guo, National University of Defense Technology, China
Henry Xu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yuan He , Tsinghua University, China
Robert-C Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Yeh-Ching Chung, National Tsing Hua University , Taiwan
Bin Guo, Institut Telecom SudParis, France
Jingyu Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Chien-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Talbi El-Ghazali, University of Lille France
Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Xiaoyao Liang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Bin Cheng, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Chen Yu , Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Yulei Wu, Chinese Academay of Sciences, China
Kuo-Chan Huang, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan
Chi Liu, Beijing, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Haibo Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Xin Wang, Fudan University, China
Jun-Jie Peng, Shanghai University, China
Di Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Ting-Wei Hou, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Zhiyong Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China