[agents] Last mile CLOUD COMPUTING 2012 July 22-27, 2012 - Nice, France

[Cristina Pascual]

INVITATION:

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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 2012.

The submission deadline is set to March 16, 2012.

In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit
extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org

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============== CLOUD COMPUTING 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

CLOUD COMPUTING 2012, The Third International Conference on Cloud
Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization

July 22-27, 2012 - Nice, France


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CLOUDCOMPUTING12.html

Call for Papers:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPCLOUDCOMPUTING12.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitCLOUDCOMPUTING12.html

Submission deadline: March 16, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

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are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under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 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on
the site)

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 model; 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: 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

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComCLOUDCOMPUTING12.html
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