CLOUD 2011 Call for Papers

The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2011)
July 4-9, 2011, Washington Marriott, Washington DC, USA
http://thecloudcomputing.org/2011

Important Dates:

Research Track:

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 24, 2011 February 14, 2011
Full Paper Submission Due Date: January 31, 2011 February 14, 2011
Decision Notification (Electronic): March 15, 2011 April 1, 2011
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 8, 2011 April 30, 2011

Application and Industry Track:

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 24, 2011 February 21, 2011
Full Paper Submission Due Date: January 31, 2011 February 21, 2011
Decision Notification (Electronic): March 15, 2011 April 20, 2011
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 8, 2011 April 30, 2011

Work-in-Progress Track:
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 31 2011 February 21, 2011
Full Paper Submission Due Date: February 7, 2011 February 21, 2011
Decision Notification (Electronic): March 15, 2011 April 25, 2011
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 8, 2011 April 30, 2011

Cloud Computing has become a scalable service consumption and delivery platform in the modern IT infrastructure. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include the "as-a-Service" usage model, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualization of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to consolidate infrastructure, and share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure clouds (e.g., IaaS, IT infrastructure management), software clouds (e.g., SaaS and PaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application clouds (e.g., Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business clouds (e.g., business process as a service). Furthermore, cloud-bursting and cloud-bridging enables the on-demand scale out as well as dynamic federation of clouds in response to changing IT requirements.

The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2011) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for researchers practitioners, and industry/business leaders to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud Computing, to identify emerging research topics, and to define the future of Cloud Computing. It is sponsored by the Technical Committee on Services Computing (IEEE Computer Society), and will be co-located with the 9th IEEE 2011 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2011), 9th IEEE 2011 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2011), and the 7th IEEE 2011 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2011).

The conference invites authors to submit original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to cloud computing technology, systems, applications and business innovations are solicited.

Topic of Interests:

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Infrastructure-as-a-Service Clouds
- Software-as-a-Service Clouds
- Application-as-a-Service Clouds
- Business Clouds
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing
- Cloud Federation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
- Cloud-bridging and Cloud-bursting
- Virtualization of Hardware Resources
- Virtualization of Software Resources
- Programming Models and Systems/Tools
- Cloud Computing Consulting Methods
- Design Tool for Cloud Computing
- Economic and Business Models for Cloud Computing
- Energy Efficiency and Clouds
- Monitoring, Management and Maintenance of Clouds
- Performance Modeling and Management
- Cloud Computing Architectures
- Innovative Cloud Applications and Experiences
- Security and Privacy in Clouds
- Business Process and Workflow Management in Clouds

Paper Submission and Review Process

Please use the submission page (http://www.thecloudcomputing.org/2011/submission.html) to find the right tracks and events to submit your papers.

Submitted manuscripts are limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found from this web site.

Research papers MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of Web-based services and properly cite related work in the field, such as those published in the proceedings of ICWS, SCC, CLOUD, SERVICES, APSCC, ECOWS , and related journals including TSC, JWSR, and IJBPIM.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should NOT be submitted to other conferences or events simultaneously. Duplicate submissions will be rejected from all conferences without review.

Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register the conference and present the paper at the conference. Extended versions of selected papers published in the proceedings of CLOUD 2011 will be invited for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). JWSR is included in SCI-E and EI Compendex.

Technical Program Chairs:

Ling Liu, Ph.D.
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Manish Parashar, Ph.D.
Professor, Rutgers University, USA
Program Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, NSF

Program Committee:
To be published soon.

Paper Review Policy

All reviewers must follow the following policy and professional ethics of IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2011):

Referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge of the paper. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner.

Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. One of the authors of an accepted paper is expected to deliver the presentation of the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chairs should be informed on time, and the authors are responsible for making appropriate substitute arrangements.

Technical Steering Committee:

Carl K. Chang, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Professor, Iowa State University, USA

Ephraim Feig, Ph.D.
President, Innovations-to-Market, USA

Hemant Jain, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee , USA

Frank Leymann, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Liang-Jie Zhang, Ph.D. (Chair)
Research Staff Member and Founding Chair of Services Computing Professional Interest Community, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

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