CFP: 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp2010)

[Ming Zhao <zhaom@cis.fiu.edu>]

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Call for Papers
The 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing
(CloudComp2010)

Barcelona, Spain, October 25 – 28, 2010
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Conference Scope:
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Cloud Computing is an emerging computing paradigm envisioned to change 
all IT
landscape facets including technology, business, services and human 
resources.
It is a consumer/delivery model that offers IT capabilities as services, 
billed
based on usage. Many such cloud services can be envisioned, but the main 
ones
are IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), 
and SaaS
(Software-as-a-Service). The underlying cloud architecture includes a 
pool of
virtualized compute, storage and networking resources that can be 
aggregated and
launched as platforms to run workloads and satisfy their Service-Level 
Agreement
(SLA). Cloud architectures also include provisions to best guarantee 
service
delivery for clients and at the same time optimize efficiency of 
resources of
providers. Examples of provisions include, but not limited to, elasticity
through scaling resources up/down to track workload behavior, extensive
monitoring, failure mitigation, and energy optimizations. The two main
technologies enabling clouds are: (i) Virtualization, the foundation of 
clouds;
and (ii) manageability (autonomics), the command and control of clouds.

CloudComp is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and 
industry
professionals to discuss clouds, cloud computing and related ecosystems 
support.
To that end, papers are solicited from all cloud related areas, 
including, but
not limited to:

1. Cloud architectures and provisions to optimize providers’ 
environments while
guaranteeing clients’ SLAs.
2. Programming models, applications and middleware suitable for dynamic 
cloud
environments.
3. End-to-end techniques for autonomic management of cloud resources 
including
monitoring, asset management, process automation and others.
4. New cloud delivery models, models’ optimizations and associated 
architectural
changes.
5. New cloud economic and billing models.
6. Cloud security, privacy and compliance challenges.
7. Toolkits, frameworks and processes to enable clouds and allow seamless
transitions from traditional IT environments to clouds.
8. Experiences with existing cloud infrastructure, services and uses.
9. Novel human interfaces and browsers for accessing clouds.
10.Interaction of mobile computing, mCommerce and Clouds.

Cloud Computing conference is sponsored by ICST (Institute for Computer
Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).



Important Dates:
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1. Conference Papers:
a. Paper submission: May 31, 2010
b. Authors’ notification: July 26, 2010
c. Final manuscripts: August 23, 2010

2. Workshop Proposals:
a. Workshop proposal submission: March 15, 2010
b. Workshop decision date: March 29, 2010

3. Tutorial Proposals
a. Workshop proposal submission: June 28, 2010
b. Workshop decision date: July 16, 2010

4. Conference Date: October 25 – 28, 2010



Organization:
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* General Chair:

o Mazin Yousif, IBM Corporation, Canada


* Program Chairs:

o Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz, SAP Research, Germany


* Program Committee:

o Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
o Cristiana Amza, University of Toronto, Canada
o Daniel Mosse, University of Pittsburgh, USA
o Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA
o Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
o Franco Zambonelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
o George Galambos, IBM Canada, Canada
o Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of London, UK
o Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
o Jose Antonio Lozano, Telefonica I+D, Spain
o Jose Bernabeu-Auban, Microsoft, USA
o Juergen Falkner, Fraunhofer, Germany
o Julie McCann, Imperial College, UK
o Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
o Keith Jeffery, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
o Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer, Germany
o Omar Rana, Cardiff University, UK
o Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy
o Rajkumar Buyya, Manjrasoft, Australia
o Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA
o Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University, USA
o Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Labs, USA
o Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews, UK
o Tamer Aboualy, IBM Corporation, Canada
o Wu Feng, Virginia Tech University, USA


* Demos/Exhibits Chair:

o Katerina Goulioutkina, IBM Corporation, Canada


* Workshop/Tutorial Chair:

o Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews, UK


* Publicity Chair:

o Ming Zhao, Florida International University, USA


* Local Arrangements Chair:

o Joan Serrat, UPC, Barcelona, Spain


* Industry Session Chair:

o Duncan Johnson-Watt, Cloudsoft Corporation, UK



Further Information:
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Web: http://www.cloudcomp.eu
Email: cloudcomp2010@icst.org





-- 
Ming Zhao, Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University
Tel: (305) 348-2034, Fax: (305) 348-3549
Web: http://www.cis.fiu.edu/~zhaom