Aims and Scope

The first International Workshop on inter-Clouds and Collective Intelligence (iCCI-2012) is dedicated to the theories, practices and concepts of utilizing inter-operable and inter-cooperative clouds towards a collective intelligence approach for the benefit of business and science. Clouds are the new e-infrastructure for performing and delivering business and science. In particular, clouds are becoming popular by providing a new supplement, consumption, delivery and efficient model for the future Internet; where virtualized, scalable and energy‐efficient resource management approaches are provided to integrate loose‐coupled resources, and improve their utility. By having several data centers around the globe cloud providers aim to optimally serve their clients in a worldwide scale. However, each cloud provider has established their own systems, which are not necessarily inter-operable with each other for effective data portability, service sharing, discovery, scheduling and integration. Thus, it has become apparent that clouds have been designed as “closed” systems hence, they require coming together on an on-demand basis as to further improve QoS and become even more energy and cost efficient. To achieve these, a recent inter-cloud initiative has been emerged with the view of developing mechanisms to enable the interaction between “isolated” cloud systems. Apart from the inter-cloud initiative there is also a notable opportunity namely, the current trend in which a collectively shared and generated content is emerged from end-users. iCCI-2012 will discuss advances about utilizing and exploiting data generated from within inter-cooperative clouds towards a collective intelligence approach leading to the advancements of virtual organizations and their user communities. This is because, inter-cooperative clouds will store and continuously generate a vast amount of data, which if combined and analyzed through a synergetic, collaborative and collective intelligence manner will make a difference in the organizational settings and their user communities. Thus, the scope of iCCI-2012 is to discuss inter-clouds enabling methods and strategies as well methods and practices to bring these together to capture, integrate, analyze, mine, annotate and visualize data – made available from various cloud community users – in a meaningful manner. Finally, iCCI-2012 aims to provide a forum for original discussion and prompt future directions.



The main topic areas include, but are not limited to:

Architectures, Programming Frameworks, Middleware Interfaces and Applications
Business and Web Intelligence for Clouds and inter-Clouds
Critical Reviews on Theory and Practices in Collective Intelligence
Data Management, Data Growth, Storage, Implications
Data/Text Mining, Data Clustering, Graph Partitioning
Data Portability and Interoperability in Clouds, Interoperability Requirements in Cross-Domains
Economy-based Models, Benefits
Ontology Management, Semantic Web, Multi-Agents, Context-aware Clouds
Resource Management for inter-clouds including Discovery, Scheduling and Monitoring
Security, Trust and Reputation, Identity Management and Privacy
Self-adaptive Ant Colony, Swarm and Evolutionary Agents
Social Networks, Social Network Analysis, Link Analysis, Click-stream, Tag clouds
User Communities/Virtual Organizational Structures and Dynamics


Organizing Committee

Workshop Co-chairs:
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
n.bessis at derby.ac.uk



Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

valentin.cristea at cs.pub.ro



Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK

r.hill at derby.ac.uk



Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

fatos at lsi.upc.edu


Workshop Programee Committee Members (TBC):
Markus Aleksy, ABB AG, Germany
Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK
Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Mehmet Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Liz Bacon, University of Greenwich, UK
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology
Tim French, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Maozhen Li, Brunel University, UK

Stelios Sotiriadis, University of Derby, UK
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Sergio Toral Marn, University of Seville, Spain
Dora Varvarigou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Michael Vassilakopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece


Submission

All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two or more independent referees of the Workshop programme committee and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit, originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Submit a full paper of at most 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. To confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines see: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submission The papers must be submitted electronically via the AINA-2012 website, see: http://www.aina-conference.org/2012/



Accepted workshop papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, must register and present their work at the conference otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Extended version of distinguished workshop papers will be published in books or special issues of prestigious international journals.



Important Dates

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2011

Notification of Acceptance: December 1, 2011

Author Registration: December 23, 2011

Final Manuscript: January 6, 2012

Conference Dates: March 26-29, 2012