CLOUD 2012 Research Track

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).

CLOUD 2012 tries to attract researchers, practitioners, and industry business leaders in all the following areas to help define and shape cloud computing, and its related modernization strategy and directions of the services industry. You are invited to submit research papers to the following areas:

• Infrastructure Cloud
• Software Cloud
• Application Cloud
• Business Cloud
• Service-Oriented Architecture in Cloud Computing
• Virturalization of Hardware Resources
• Virtualization of Software Resources
• Cloud Computing Consulting Methods
• Design Tool for  Cloud Computing
• Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Architecture
• Cloud Applications in Vertical Industries

Please use the CLOUD 2012 Conference Management System for Research Track to submit your papers to CLOUD 2012 Research Track.

Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using  the IEEE Proceedings template. Unformatted papers and papers beyond 8 pages will not be reviewed. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission can be found at Submission Section.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at ICWS 2012. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.

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