June 14 — The IEEE CloudCom 2012 is issuing a call for papers. This year's event will take place at the Grand Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan, December 3-6.

1. Sponsors

2. Important Dates

3. Topics

4. Keynote Speakers

5. Special Issues

6. Workshops

7. Panels and Tutorials

8. Submission & Publication

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1. Sponsors:

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Sponsored by:

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

IEEE Computer Society

IEEE Technical Commitee on Scalable Computing

In-cooperation with:

National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Chung Hua University, Taiwan

National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan

Tunghai University, Taiwan

Taiwan Association of Cloud Computing

National Science Council

Ministry of Education

OpenGrid Forum

IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative

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2. Important Dates:

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Abstract Submission (obligatory): July 13, 2012

Full Submission: July 27, 2012

Notification: Sep. 7, 2012

Camera-ready & Author registration: Sep. 28, 2012

Poster and Demo: Sep. 10, 2012

Poster and Demo Notification: Sept. 20, 2012

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3. Topics:

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1. Architecture

*Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

*Cloud Platform as a Service

*Cloud federation and hybrid cloud infrastructure

*Programming models and systems/tools

*Green data center

*Networking technologies for data center

*Cloud system design with FPGA, GPU, APU

*Monitoring, management and maintenance

*Economic and business models

*Dynamic resource provisioning

2. MapReduce

*Performance characterization and optimization

*MapReduce on multi-core, GPU

*MapReduce on hybrid distributed environments

*MapReduce on opportunistic / heterogeneous computing systems

*Extension of the MapReduce programming model

*Debugging and simulation of MapReduce systems

*Data-intensive applications using MapReduce

*Optimized storage for MapReduce applications

*Fault-tolerance & Self-* capabilities

3. Security and Privacy

*Accountability

*Audit in clouds

*Authentication and authorization

*Cryptographic primitives

*Reliability and availability

*Trust and credential management

*Usability and security

*Security and privacy in clouds

*Legacy systems migration

*Cloud Integrity and Binding Issues

4. Services and Applications

*Cloud Service Composition

*Query and discovery models for cloud services

*Trust and Security in cloud services

*Change management in cloud services

*Organization models of cloud services

*Innovative cloud applications and experiences

*Business process and workflow management

*Service-Oriented Architecture in clouds

5. Virtualization

*Server, storage, network virtualization

*Resource monitoring

*Virtual desktop

*Resilience, fault tolerance

*Modeling and performance evaluation

*Security aspects

*Enabling disaster recovery, job migration

*Energy efficient issues

6. HPC on Cloud

*Load balancing for HPC clouds

*Middleware framework for HPC clouds

*Scalable scheduling for HPC clouds

*HPC as a Service

*Performance Modeling and Management

*Programming models for HPC clouds

*HPC cloud applications

*Optimal cloud deployment for HPC

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4. Keynote Speakers

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Academia:

Prof. Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA

Prof. Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Prof. Amr El-Abbadi, University of California, USA

Industrial:

Dr. Siani Pearson (HP Cloud & Security Research Lab, UK)

Dr. Mazin Yousif (Shell, USA)

Dr. Joe Baguley (VMware, UK) (Pending)

Dr. San-Cheng Chang, Executive Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan)

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5. Special Issues

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Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers.

Selected papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be published in special issues of the following prestigious journals

Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 2.365)

International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.229)

Journal of Systems Architecture (Elsevier) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.768)

Automated Software Engineering (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 0.806)

Journal of Internet Technology (ISI Impact Factor = 0.448)

Information System Frontier (Springer) (ISI Impact Factor = 1.596)

International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing (Scopus, EI)

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6. Workshops

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The following workshops will be organized in conjunction with the IEEE CloudCom-2012.

Proceedings of CloudCom 2012 Workshops will be also published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE-DL & EI indexed)

- The 2012 International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Simulations

- The 2012 International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Research Collaborations

- The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Internet of Things

- The 2nd International Workshop on Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing

- The 2012 International Workshop on GPU Computing in Clouds

- The 2012 International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Bioinformatics and Its Applications

- The 2012 International Workshop on Data Analytics and Mining in the Cloud

- The 2012 Internatinal Workshop on IT Service Management in Distributed Computing

For details in organizing a workshop with CloudCom, please visit http://grid.chu.edu.tw/cloudcom2012/Call_For_Workshops.html

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7. Panels and Tutorials

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The following tutorials will be organized in conjunction with the IEEE CloudCom-2012.

- Tutorial on Hadoop (Yahoo!)

For details in organizing a Panel / Tutorial with CloudCom, please contact

Panels and Tutorials Chair, Prof. Sartaj Sahni (sahni@cise.ufl.edu)

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8. Submission & Publication

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Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format, and submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ieeecloudcom2012 

Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE-DL & EI indexed).

For other questions, please send email to cfp-admin@grid.chu.edu.tw 

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Source: CloudCom