[agents] Last Mile: CLOUD COMPUTING 2013 || May 27 - June 1, 2013 - Valencia, Spain

[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 2013.

The submission deadline is January 27, 2013.

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 2013 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

CLOUD COMPUTING 2013, The Fourth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization

May 27 - June 1, 2013 - Valencia, Spain


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CLOUDCOMPUTING13.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CfPCLOUDCOMPUTING13.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/SubmitCLOUDCOMPUTING13.html


Submission deadline: January 27, 2013

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


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invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal 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 conform with the Editorial rules: 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


CLOUD COMPUTING 2013 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/conferences2013/ComCLOUDCOMPUTING13.html
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