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CALL FOR PAPERS



Workshop on Cloud Computing and Virtualization (CLOVR)
December 12, 2011
Bangalore, India

http://www.imsaa.org/


Co-located with 5th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Systems
Architecture and Application (IMSAA-11)


Papers are invited for a Cloud Computing and virtualization Workshop (CLOVR)
on topics relating to application of Cloud Computing in Internet Multimedia Systems
and the related opportunities and challenges. While Cloud Computing is an area of
great interest to the wider computing community, the authors are requested to focus
on its relevance and application in the domain of interest for the participants of
this conference - i.e., Internet Multimedia Systems.

The workshop will be organized under the following Tracks:

- Business Value of Cloud: Economic and Business Modeling, ROI, Energy Efficiency,
Business Flexibility and Agility
- Cloud Architectures & Platforms: Business, Applications, Infrastructure, Services,
SOA, Virtualization, Data, Storage, Platforms, Tools and Processes for Design,
Development, Testing, Deployment & Monitoring of Cloud based applications and services
- Cloud Security, Operations and Management: Provider and Consumer views, End-to-end
Security, Quality Of service (QoS), Performance Modeling and Measurement, Reliability,
Governance, Operations Management,
- Cloud Standards and Best Practices: Protocols, Standards, Portability, Interoperability,
Federation


Papers may relate to (but not limited to) the following topics:

- Cloud Computing applied to Telco Business and Operation Systems (i.e., OSS, BSS)
- Business Agility with Cloud Computing
- Business Intelligence and Decision Support using Cloud computing
- Cloud Computing, SOA and Virtualization
- Cloud Architectures for Telco & Media
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service Clouds
- Software-as-a-Service Clouds
- Application-as-a-Service Clouds
- Business Clouds
- Data in the Cloud
- Storage Cloud
- Telco & Media Applications and Services in the Cloud
- Cloud Platforms and Tools ¨C for Development, Testing, Deployment & Monitoring
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Management
- Performance, Reliability and QoS in the Cloud
- Standards for the Cloud
- Cloud Portability, Interoperability and Federation


Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: 20 Sept. 2011 (EST, USA)
Author notifications sent: 15 Oct. 2011 (EST, USA)
Final camera ready paper: 10 Nov. 2011 (EST, USA)

All paper submissions are handled through EDAS: http://edas.info/8901

IMSAA is seeking original research work which is not yet published or not submitted in
any other conferences, journals or magazines. Proposals for tutorials are also solicited.

Paper Submission Format: Papers must be submitted in IEEE format (.pdf file).

Paper for review: Double-column, 10pt IEEE format and no longer than 6 pages (including
all figures and references).

Camera ready paper: It will be in double-column, IEEE format, but in 10 pt font, and no
longer than 6 pages (including all figures and references). Detailed instructions will
be given after the accepted papers announcement.

Contact:
- Ashok Bhattacharya, ashokbhattacharya@ieee.org
- Jayanta Mukherjee, jayanta.mukherjee@hp.com