INVITATION:
Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the
following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results
to:
CLOUD COMPUTING 2018, The Ninth International Conference on Cloud Computing,
GRIDs, and Virtualization
The submission deadline is October 1, 2017.
CLOUD COMPUTING 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
CLOUD COMPUTING 2018, The Ninth International Conference on Cloud Computing,
GRIDs, and Virtualization
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/CLOUDCOMPUTING18.html
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/SubmitCLOUDCOMPUTING18.html
Event schedule: February 18 - 22, 2018 - Barcelona, Spain
Contributions:
regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]
doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]
Proposals for:
mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
Submission deadline: October 1, 2017
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts,
state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments,
applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit
complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference
or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of
Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business
presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
CLOUD COMPUTING 2018 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the
site)
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/CfPCLOUDCOMPUTING18.html
TRENDS: New trends
Fog-computing; Mobile Edge Computing; Cloudlets; Hosted Cloud services (WebRTC,
Containers, Cloud micro-services); Cloud computing and SDN/NFV; Cloud computing
and 5G; Cloud computing and LTE Pro 4.5; Cloud computing ad Big Data; High
performance computing (HPC) in the Cloud; Superfluid Clouds; Mobile Apps to the
public Clouds; Vehicular Cloud networks; Cloud orchestration features;
Converged edge systems; Cloud federation; Micro-cloud provider federation;
Open-implementation Cloud infrastructures; Untrusted Cloud environments;
Multiple Clouds and data centers; Power Constrained VMs; Cloud Green
abstraction layer
CLOUD: Cloud computing
Cloud economics; Core cloud services; Cloud technologies; Cloud computing;
On-demand computing models; Hardware-as-a-service; Software-as-a-service [SaaS
applications]; Platform-as-service; Storage as a service in cloud;
Data-as-a-Service; Service-oriented architecture (SOA); Cloud computing
programming and application development; Scalability, discovery of services and
data in Cloud computing infrastructures; Trust and clouds; Client-cloud
computing challenges; Geographical constraints for deploying clouds
CLOUD: Challenging features
Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues; Performance and QoS;
Dynamic resource provisioning; Power-efficiency and Cloud computing; Load
balancing; Application streaming; Cloud SLAs; Business models and pricing
policies; Cloud service subscription models; Cloud standardized SLA;
Cloud-related privacy; Cloud-related control; Managing applications in the
clouds; Mobile clouds; Roaming services in Clouds; Agent-based cloud computing;
Cloud brokering; Cloud contracts (machine readable); Cloud security; Security
and assurance properties in cloud environments; Big Data Analytics in clouds;
Cloud computing back-end solutions; Cloud applications portability;
Cloud-native application design; Security by design for cloud services; Data
privacy guarantee at run-time
CLOUD: Platforms, Infrastructures and Applications
Custom platforms; Large-scale compute infrastructures; Data centers; Processes
intra- and inter-clouds; Content and service distribution in Cloud computing
infrastructures; Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization
a la VMWare); Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one
application); Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance;
Enterprise clouds; Enterprise-centric cloud computing; Interaction between
vertical clouds; Public, Private, and Hybrid clouds; Cloud computing
testbeds
GRID: Grid networks, services and applications
GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology; GRID
infrastructure and technologies; GRID middleware; GRID protocols and
networking; GRID computing, utility computing, autonomic computing,
metacomputing; Programmable GRID; Data GRID; Context ontology and management in
GRIDs; Distributed decisions in GRID networks; GRID services and applications;
Virtualization, modeling, and metadata in GRID; Resource management,
scheduling, and scalability in GRID; GRID monitoring, control, and management;
Traffic and load balancing in GRID; User profiles and priorities in GRID;
Performance and security in GRID systems; Fault tolerance, resilience,
survivability, robustness in GRID; QoS/SLA in GRID networks; GRID fora,
standards, development, evolution; GRID case studies, validation testbeds,
prototypes, and lessons learned
VIRTUALIZATION: Computing in virtualization-based environments
Principles of virtualization; Virtualization platforms; Thick and thin clients;
Data centers and nano-centers; Open virtualization format; Orchestration of
virtualization across data centers; Dynamic federation of compute capacity;
Dynamic geo-balancing; Instant workload migration; Virtualization-aware
storage; Virtualization-aware networking; Virtualization
embedded-software-based smart mobile phones; Trusted platforms and embedded
supervisors for security; Virtualization management operations /discovery,
configuration, provisioning, performance, etc.; Energy optimization and saving
for green datacenters; Virtualization supporting cloud computing; Applications
as pre-packaged virtual machines; Licensing and support policies
CLOUD COMPUTING 2018 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/ComCLOUDCOMPUTING18.html