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CALL FOR PAPERS

CloudCom 2015
7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science

http://2015.cloudcom.org/
November 30-December 3, 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop Proposal: April 17, 2015
Tutorial Proposal: May 15, 2015

Regular Papers Due: July 8, 2015 (Final Deadline)
PhD Consortium Papers Due: July 15, 2015
Posters and Demo Paper Due: July 31, 2015

Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2015
Camera Ready Due: September 15, 2015
Conference Date: November 30-December 3, 2015

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SCOPE

The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology & Science 2015 will be the 7th in the series of conferences, steered by the Cloud Computing Association, that brings together researchers, developers and users interested in cloud computing systems to present and discuss the needs of, and innovations in, the area.

TOPICS OF INTEREST, but are not limited to:

1. Architecture
- Intercloud architecture models
- Cloud federation & hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & "last mile" issues
- Networking technologies
- Programming models & systems/tools
- Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs
- Storage & file systems
- Scalability & performance
- Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance
- Operational, economic & business models
- Green data centers
- Dynamic resource provisioning

2. Virtualization
- Computational resources, storage & network virtualization
- Resource monitoring
- Virtual desktops
- Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery
- Modeling & performance evaluation
- Disaster recovery
- Energy efficiency

3. Services & Applications
- Cloud services models & frameworks
- Cloud services reference models & standardization
- Cloud-powered services design
- Business processes, compliance & certification
- Data management applications & services
- Application workflows & scheduling
- Application benchmarks & use cases
- Cloud-based services & protocols
- Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications
- Application development and debugging tools
- Business models & economics of cloud services

4. IoT & Mobile in the Cloud
- IoT cloud architectures & models
- Cloud-based dynamic composition of IoT
- Cloud-based context-aware IoT
- Mobile cloud architectures & models
- Green mobile cloud computing
- Resource management in mobile cloud environments
- Cloud support for mobility-aware networking protocols
- Multimedia applications in mobile cloud environments
- Cloud-based mobile networks and applications

5. Big Data
- Machine learning
- Data mining
- Approximate & scalable statistical methods
- Graph algorithms
- Querying & search
- Data lifecycle management
- Frameworks, tools & their composition
- Dataflow management & scheduling

6. HPC in the Cloud
- Load balancing
- Middleware solutions
- Scalable scheduling
- HPC as a Service
- Programming models
- Use cases & experience reports
- Cloud deployment systems

7. Security & Privacy
- Accountability & audit
- Authentication & authorization
- Cloud integrity
- Cryptography for & in the cloud
- Hypervisor security
- Identity management & security as a service
- Prevention of data loss or leakage
- Secure, interoperable identity management
- Trust & credential management
- Trusted computing
- Usable security

8. General Track
Other emerging and new topics in the cloud, such as,
- Software defined systems
- Economics and market mechanisms
- Green Cloud Computing
- Benchmarking and performance studies

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Papers should be submitted through the paper submission system at the conference website. Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format, for regular papers, the page limit will be 8 pages.

The conference proceedings of CloudCom 2015 will be published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE Xplore) and indexed by EI and ISSN. Distinguished papers will be invited to be included within a number of special issues in prestigious international journals.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chairs
Victor C.M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Steering Committee
Chunming Rong (chair), University of Stavanger, Norway
Martin Gilje Jaatun (vice-chair), SINTEF, Norway
Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney
Stephen L. Diamond, IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, USA

Programme Chairs
Sathish Gopalakrishnan, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs
Henry Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Abdallah Shami, Western University, Canada

Posters and Demo Chairs
Hui-huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada

Industry Panel Chair
Rodger Lea, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Student Travel Grants and PhD Forum Chairs
Yan Bai, University of Washington Tacoma, USA
Lin Li, Prairie View A&M University, USA

Publicity Chairs
Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA

Sponsorship Chairs
Panos Nasiopoulos, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Michael Hrybyk, BC Net, Canada
Xiping Hu, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Publication Chair
Zhengguo Sheng, University of Sussex, UK

Registration Chair
Farshid Agharebparast, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Local Arrangement Chairs
Xiaofei Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Financial Chair
Mahsa Pourazad, TELUS, Canada

Web Chair
Wei Cai, The University of British Columbia, Canada