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9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016)
December 6-9, 2016 - Tongji University - Shanghai, China - Call for Papers Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2016/ Context and Scope: Cloud Computing delivers computational resources ondemand as services that are commoditized and delivered comfortably analogous to traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute, storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data are growing at a tremendous rate. It is essential to understand how to effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2016, to be held in Shanghai, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. This will be the 9th UCC in a successful conference series of community-driven events. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC 2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), and Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015). UCC 2016 will have a co-located 3rd International Conference on Big Data Science, Engineering and Applications (BDSEA 2016). CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility computing including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models • Policy languages and programming models, such as cloud-native and cloud-enabled applications • Utility-driven models and mechanisms for Cloud federations • Autonomic techniques for Cloud applications • Utility-/comfort-driven platforms for Clouds • 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 at all layers (XaaS) • Virtualization technologies and other enablers • Economic models and scenarios of use • 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, as well as large- scale foundations for Big Data and analytics • 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 Important Dates: Workshop proposals due: 08 May, 2016 Tutorial proposals due: 03 July, 2016 Paper submissions due: 03 July, 2016 Notification of acceptance: 21 August, 2016 Camera ready papers due: 21 September, 2016 Early registration deadline: 21 September, 2016 Paper Submission: Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. Borderline papers may be accepted as short papers but all submissions must be full papers. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received in EasyChair by July 03, 2016. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. 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. Further details on the publication and registration regulations are published on the UCC website and need to be followed. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. There is NO student rate for the author who is responsible for registration for his/her published paper. If you have more than one accepted paper, you have to register for each one individually. There is no discount if you have two or more papers accepted. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Templates: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2016 Awards and Special Issues: One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to reputable journals for special issues. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at the conference webpage. Program Committee Chairs: • Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland • Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA Technical Programme Committee: • Jörg Domaschka, Institute of Information Resource Management, Ulm University • Geir Horn, University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences • Marcos Assuncao, Inria, LIP, ENS Lyon • Khaled Salah, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research • Andrew Edmonds, ZHAW • Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck • Sebastian Götz, Technische Universät Dresden • Philipp Leitner, University Of Zurich • Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Göttingen • Kashif Munir, UOHB • Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University • Richard McClatchey, University of the West of England • George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus • Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna • Thomas Beach, Cardiff University • Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza • Marc Lacoste, Orange Labs • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology • Siani Pearson, HP Labs • Shinji Kikuchi, Fujitsu Laboratories • Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney • Fabio López-Pires, Itaipu Technological Park • Flavio Frattini, University of Naples Federico II • Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University • Madhu Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton • Paul Krause, University of Surrey • Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation • Andrey Brito, UFCG • Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute • Jianxin Li, Beihang University • Shrideep Pallickara, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University • Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba • Zhangxi Lin, Texas Tech University • Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Samee Khan, North Dakota State University • Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington • Daniel Waddington, Samsung Electronics • Sangmi Pallickara, Colorado State University • Ryan Ko, University of Waikato • Tim Cockerill, Texas Advanced Computing Center • Alex Sim Lawrence, Berkeley National Laboratory • Peter Bloodsworth, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan • Peter Membrey, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University • Nasro Allah, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences P. R. China • Adel Toosi, The University of Melbourne • Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University • Ivona Brandic, TU Wien • David Walker, Cardiff University • Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK • Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, EPCC, University of Edinburgh • Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas • Siraj A. Shaikh, Coventry University • Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia • Manish Parashar, Rutgers University • Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory • Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit • Massimo Villari, University of Messina • Lee Gillam, University of Surrey • Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Durham University • Raquel Lopes, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande • Rodrigo Calheiros, The University of Melbourne • tbc. |
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