CLOUD 2014 organizing committee invites you to participate in the 7th edition of CLOUD, to be held on June 27-July 2, 2014, Alaska, USA.

Under the umbrella of the IEEE 2014 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2014), CLOUD 2014 will co-locate with the following service-oriented sister conferences: the 21 IEEE 2014 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2014), the 11th IEEE 2014 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2014), the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2014), and the International Congress on Big Data (BigData 2014). The six co-located theme topic conferences will all center around "services," while each focusing on exploring different aspects (Web-based services, cloud-based services, services innovation lifecycle, mobile services, and Big Data-based services).

Cloud Computing has become a scalable service consumption and delivery platform in the modern IT infrastructure. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include the "as-a-Service" usage model, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualization of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to consolidate infrastructure, and share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure clouds (e.g., IaaS, IT infrastructure management), software clouds (e.g., SaaS and PaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application clouds (e.g., Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business clouds (e.g., business process as a service). Furthermore, cloud-bursting and cloud-bridging enables the on-demand scale out as well as dynamic federation of clouds in response to changing IT requirements.

CLOUD 2014 invites authors to submit original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to cloud computing technology, systems, applications and business innovations are solicited.

Topics of Interests:

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Cloud Computing Architectures and Cloud Solution Design Patterns
- Infrastructure, Platform, Application, Business, Social, and Mobile Clouds
- Storage, Data, and Analytics Clouds
- Self-service Cloud Portal, Dashboard, and Analytics
- Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management for Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds
- Cloud Quality Management and Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Cloud Configuration, Performance, and Capacity Management
- Cloud Workload Profiling and Deployment Control
- Cloud Software Patch and License Management
- Cloud Migration
- Cloud Composition, Federation, Bridging, and Bursting
- Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition
- Cloud Provisioning Orchestration
- High Performance Cloud Computing
- Cloud Programming Models and Paradigms
- Autonomic Business Process and Workflow Management in Clouds
- Cloud DevOps
- Green Cloud Computing
- Innovative Cloud Applications and Experiences
- Economic, Business and ROI Models for Cloud Computing
- Cloud Computing Consulting

The CLOUD 2014 tracks seek original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of cloud computing. Research track papers MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of cloud-oriented services and properly cite related work in the field, such as those published in the proceedings of ICWS, SCC, CLOUD, SERVICES, APSCC, ECOWS, and related journals including TSC, JWSR, and IJBPIM.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. Extended versions of selected research track papers will be invited for potential publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). Both TSC and JWSR are indexed by SCI and EI [Link]. CLOUD Proceedings are EI indexed. According to Thomson Scientific, JWSR is listed in the 2008 Journal Citation Report with an Impact Factor of 1.200. The journal ranks #47 of 99 in the Computer Science, Information Systems and ranks #37 of 86 in Computer Science, Software Engineering.

Submitted research & industry track manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit will not be reviewed. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process can be found at Conference website.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at CLOUD 2014. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.

If your paper is application or solution oriented, you can consider submitting it to CLOUD 2014 Industry Track. Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on application or solution descriptions may be recommended to the Application and Experience Track, or Industry Track for further consideration if the session slots are available.

Important Dates:

Research Track:

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 10, 2014
Full Paper Submission Due Date: January 15, 2014
Decision Notification (Electronic): February 28, 2014
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: March 15, 2014


Industry Track:

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 10, 2014
Full Paper Submission Due Date: January 15, 2014
Decision Notification (Electronic): February 28, 2014
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: March 15, 2014


Work-in-Progress Track:

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 17, 2014
Full Paper Submission Due Date: January 22, 2014
Decision Notification (Electronic): March 10, 2014
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: March 15, 2014


Review Policy

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About the Technical Committee on Services Computing

Founded in 2003, IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC) is a multidisciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Services Computing carried out throughout the IEEE in scientific, engineering, standard, literary and educational areas.

Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and technology of bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. The underneath breaking technology suite includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, business consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration. This scope of Services Computing covers the whole lifecycle of services innovation research that includes business componentization, services modeling, services creation, services realization, services annotation, services deployment, services discovery, services composition, services delivery, service-to-service collaboration, services monitoring, services optimization, as well as services management. The goal of Services Computing is to enable IT services and computing technology to perform business services more efficiently and effectively.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or queries on CLOUD 2014, please send email to cloud DOT ieeecs AT gmail.com.