5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2017)
April 4-7, 2017, Vancouver, Canada
http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2017

The 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) seeks to provide a high-quality and comprehensive forum, where researchers and practitioners can exchange information on engineering principles, enabling technologies, and practical experiences related to cloud computing. By bringing together experts that work on different levels of the cloud stack - systems, storage, networking, platforms, databases, and applications, IC2E offers an end-to-end view on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing, fosters research that addresses the interaction between different layers of the stack, and ultimately helps shape the future of cloud-transformed business and society. We seek high-quality submissions for both a research track and an industrial track, as described in the call for papers below.

CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: August 29, 2016, 23:59 GMT
Paper submission deadline: September 5, 2016, 23:59 GMT
Author notification: December 5, 2016
Camera-ready deadline: January 15, 2017

We invite submissions of high-quality research papers describing fully-developed results, and ongoing foundational and applied work related to all aspects of cloud engineering. The program committee will interpret “cloud engineering” very broadly—everything from engineering principles to practical experiences, at and across different levels of the cloud stack, from both academia and industry. We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities. We invite submissions on the following topics:

* Big data management, platforms and analytics
* Cloud applications and services
* Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools
* Cloud storage and databases
* Cloud processing, both batch and streaming
* Cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust
* Energy management in cloud centers
* Hybrid cloud integration
* Metering, pricing, and software licensing
* Mobile cloud computing
* Multimedia cloud computing
* Performance, dependability, and service level agreements
* Resource management and optimization in the cloud
* Service lifecycle management and automation
* Virtualization technology
* Workload deployment and migration
* X as a Service, where X includes Backend, Business Process, Database, Information, Infrastructure, Network, Platform, Security, Software, Storage, or other emerging services

Submission instructions
* Please register abstracts by the abstract submission deadline and submit full (and short) papers by the full paper submission deadline in PDF format via the web submission form at https://hotcrp.doc.ic.ac.uk/ic2e17/.
* Full research track papers should not exceed 10 pages double column, including figures, and tables. References can be additional pages. Short papers are limited to 6 pages, not including references. Short papers should be clearly marked as such in the title.
* The manuscripts may not exceed 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style).
* See style templates for details: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Review process and publication
* All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted manuscripts must contain original contributions, and their contributions must NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for publication in another workshop, conference, or journal.
* After review, some full paper submissions may be offered to be published as a short paper (6 pages) or a poster (2 pages).
* Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (EI indexed).

CALL FOR INDUSTRIAL TRACK PAPERS

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: October 21, 2016, 23:59 GMT
Author notification: December 12, 2016
Camera-ready deadline: January 15, 2017

The IC2E 2017 Industrial Track invites papers emphasizing practical experiences, real-world applications and emerging challenges in the industry on topics of interest that are similar to those in the general conference call for papers. All accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the conference proceedings. The industrial track aims to enable broader industry participation. It provides a forum for the discussion of practical issues running cloud platforms or services, and sharing of information and best practices among developers, practitioners, service providers and cloud operators.

Key areas of interest include:
* Design, implementation and operation of cloud platforms
* Practical design issues with infrastructure, platform and other as-a-service offerings
* Experimental data on cloud operations and usage patterns
* Managing big data, practical challenges and emerging techniques
* Platforms and services around data and analytics
* Operational analytics and DevOps solutions
* Experience with cloud management systems, tools, and integration
* Cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust
* Resource management and accounting for cloud
* Energy management in cloud centers
* Cloud and mobile intersection
* Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools
* Cloud operating models including, public, on-premises and hybrid integration
* Economics of cloud including metering, pricing, billing and licence management
* Service lifecycle management and automation
* Cloud runtimes including virtualization, containers, unikernels, event-driven serverless computing

Submission Instructions

* Papers must not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style), including abstract, all figures, tables, and references. Submitted papers should follow the general IC2E formatting instructions. Submitted papers may not be submitted for conference publication, journal publication, or be under review for any other conference or journal. For any questions regarding this, please contact the track chair.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chairs
* David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand
* Shu Tao, IBM Watson Research, USA

Program Committee Chairs
* Indranil Gupta, UIUC, USA
* Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Industry Track Chair
* Canturk Isci, IBM Watson Research, USA

Program Committee (Research Track)
* Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC, USA
* Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK
* Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, India
* David Bermbach, Technical University Berlin, Germany
* Roy Campbell, UIUC, USA
* Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA
* Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, USA
* Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University, USA
* Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, USA
* Aiman Erbad, Qatar University, Qatar
* David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand
* Eduardo B. Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA
* Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA
* Anshul Gandhi, Stony Brook University, USA
* Sergey Gorinsky, Imdea Networks, Spain
* Yu Gu, IBM, USA
* Mohamed Hefeeda, Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Cheng-Hsin Hsu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
* Hani Jamjoom, IBM Research TJ Watson Center, USA
* Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
* Dan Li, Tsinghua University, China
* Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada
* Richard T.B. Ma, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Xiaoqiang Ma, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
* Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC, USA
* Thu Nguyen, Rutgers University, USA
* Di Niu, University of Alberta, Canada
* Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK
* Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA
* Kui Ren, University of Buffalo, USA
* Marco Serafini, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
* Weisong Shi Wayne, State University, USA
* Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA
* Stefan Tai, TU Berlin, Germany
* Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
* Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA
* Anwar Walid, Bell Labs, USA
* Wei Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
* Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore
* Rich Wolski, UC Santa Barbara, USA
* Cheng-Zhong Xu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China
* Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore

(The Program Committee for the Industrial Track will be announced closer to
the paper deadline.)