About IEEE CLOUD 2012

“Change we are leading” is the theme of CLOUD 2012. Cloud Computing has become a scalable services consumption and delivery platform in the field of Services Computing. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualizations of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to 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 cloud (e.g. hardware, IT infrastructure management), software cloud (e.g. SaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application cloud (e.g. Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business cloud (e.g. business process as a service). Extended versions of selected research track papers will be invited for potential 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). Both TSC and JWSR are indexed by SCI and EI [Link]. CLOUD Proceedings are EI indexed. According to Thomson Scientific, JWSR is listed in the 2008 Journal Citation Report with an Impact Factor of 1.200. The journal ranks #47 of 99 in the Computer Science, Information Systems and ranks #37 of 86 in Computer Science, Software Engineering.

Under the umbrella of the IEEE 2012 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2012), CLOUD 2012 will co-locate with the following service-oriented sister conferences: the 19th IEEE 2012 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2012), the 9th IEEE 2012 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2012), the 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2012), and the 1st IEEE International Conference on Services Economics(SE 2012). The five co-located theme topic conferences will all center around "services," while each focusing on exploring different aspects (cloud-based services, web-based services, business services, mobile services, and economics of services).

To discuss this emerging enabling technology of the modern services industry, CLOUD 2012 invites you to join the largest academic conference to explores modern services and software sciences in the field of Services Computing, which was formally promoted by IEEE Computer Society since 2003. From technology foundation perspective, Services Computing has become the default discipline in the modern services industry.

IEEE World Congress on Services

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC), 2012 IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2012) aims to serve as a federation to host the following five theme topic conferences to explore the deep knowledge space of Services Computing in different directions:

• The 2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2012) is the theme topic conference for modeling, developing, publishing, monitoring, managing, delivering XaaS (everything as a service) in the context of various types of cloud environments. 
• The 2012 IEEE tenth International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2012) is the theme topic conference for Web-based services, featuring data-centric services modeling, development, publishing, discovery, composition, testing, adaptation, and delivery, Web services technologies and standards, and service-oriented science.
• The 2012 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2012) is the theme topic conference for services lifecycle management, enterprise modeling, business consulting, solution creation, services orchestration, services optimization, services management, services marketing, business process integration and management.
• The 2012 IEEE 1st International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2012) is the theme topic conference for the development, publication, discovery, orchestration, invocation, testing, delivery, and certification of mobile applications and services.
• The 2012 IEEE 1st International Conference on Services Economics (SE 2012) is the theme topic conference for economic and enterprise transformation aspects of the utility-oriented services paradigm

About IEEE

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About IEEE Computer Society

With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) is the world’s leading organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of the 38 societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the CS is dedicated to advancing the theory and application of computer and information-processing technology.

About the Technical Committee on Services Computing

Founded in 2003, IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC) is a multidisciplinary group whose purpose is to advance and coordinate work in the field of Services Computing carried out throughout the IEEE in scientific, engineering, standard, literary and educational areas.