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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The “Cloud” is a natural evolution of distributed computing and the widespread adaption of virtualization and SOA. Services computing is a new cross-discipline subject that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT services. In cloud computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology.

SC2 2017 is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT-driven cloud computing technologies and services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of cloud and services computing.

IEEE SC2 2017 will be held on Nov. 22-25, 2017 in Kanazawa, Japan.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Cloud architecture
- Cloud OS, middleware, and toolkits
- Storage architecture
- Big data infrastructure, systems, methodologies, and applications
- Virtualization techniques
- Resource provision, monitoring, and scheduling
- Privacy and access control for cloud computing
- Performance evaluation and modeling measurement for cloud computing
- Programming models for building cloud applications
- Networking in cloud computing
- Security, privacy and trustworthy in clouds
- Security, privacy and trustworthy for service oriented architectures and systems
- Energy efficient hardware and software solutions
- High availability and reliability
- Large scale cloud applications
- Internet/web computing and data mining
- Volunteer and utility computing
- Green and pervasive computing
- Service oriented architecture
- Discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructures
- Foundations of services computing
- Services-centric business models
- Business process integration and management

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PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS
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IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by
- IEEE Xplore
- Scopus
- Compendex EI
- ACM Digital Library
- DBLP
- Google Scholar

Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals.

-Cluster Computing (Springer)
-Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
-Vehicular Communications Journal (Elsevier)
-Journal of Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences
-International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
-Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)
-International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (ESCI, EI, Scopus)
-International Journal of Big Data Intelligence
-Sustainability
-Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
-China Communication


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IMPORTANT DATES
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Tutorial / Workshop / Special Session Proposal Due:
May 29, 2017
Paper Submission (Research Track):
July 15, 2017
Paper Submission (Works-in-Progress/workshop):
Aug 10, 2017
Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP):
Aug 30, 2017
Paper Submission (Demo /Poster /Special session):
Stpt 5th, 2017
Author Notification (Research/workshop/WIP/Poster):
Sept 20, 2017
Camera ready / registration deadline:
October 1, 2017

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SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION
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Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the IEEE SC2 2017 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc22017

IEEE formatting information:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

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Organizing Committees
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General Chairs
Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Christophe Cerin, Université Paris 13, France

General Executive Chairs
Tokuro Matsuo, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan

Program Chairs
Amir H. Alavi, Michigan State University, USA
Yue-Shan Chang, National Taipei University, Taiwan

Workshop Chairs
Chia-Hung Yeh, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Alex Kuo, University of Victoria, Canada

Demo/Poster Chair
Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada

Special Session Chair
Kuan-Chou Lai, National Taichung University, Taiwan

Award Chair
Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

International Liaison & Publicity Chair
Yu Chen, Binghamton University, USA
Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jun Li, University of Sydney, Australia
Bingwei Liu, Aetna Inc., USA
Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan
Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway
Li-Hsin Yen, National Chiao Tung Univ. Taiwan
Rynson Lau, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Publication Chair
Wen-Hwa Liao, Tatung University, Taiwan
Saeid Abolfazli, YTL Communications and Xchanging, Malaysia

Steering Committee
Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
H.J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA
Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA
Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hung-Chang Hsiao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Hui Lei, IBM, USA
Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California Irvine, USA
Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA


Please visit the IEEE SC2 2016 website http://grid.chu.edu.tw/sc2-2017/tpc.php
for the complete listing of organizing committee and TPC members.