CGC 2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing

CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia.
Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/

Key dates:

Workshop Proposal: June 1, 2011 (to workshop chairs listed on the website)
Submission Deadline: September 5, 2011 (UTC/GMT time 23:59)
Authors Notification: September 15, 2011
Final Manuscript Due: October 3, 2011
Registration Due: October 3, 2011

Introduction

Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information
infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can
then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way
while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high
degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy
remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT
infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically
increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled
tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination,
greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to
the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient
and environmentally friendly.

While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because
cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud
becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy
efficiency and environmental sustainability.

CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both
researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest
fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green
computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas.

Scope and Topics

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Fundamentals of cloud computing
Architectural cloud models
Programming cloud models
Provisioning/pricing cloud models
Data storage and computation in cloud computing
Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing
Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing
Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing
Access control to cloud computing
Resource virtualisation
Monitoring and auditing in cloud
Scalable and elastic cloud services
Social computing and impacts on the cloud
Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud
Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud
Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing
Migration of business applications to cloud
Cloud use case studies
Fundamentals of green computing
Energy aware software, hardware and middleware
Energy efficient IT architecture
Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation
Energy efficient clustering and computing
Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation
Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design
Energy efficient networking and operation
Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture
Intelligent energy management
Green data centers
Energy aware resource usage and consumption
Smart power grid and virtual power stations
Energy policy, social behaviour and government management
Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting
Low power electronics and energy recycling
Green computing case studies
Energy efficient Internet of Things
Energy efficient cloud architecture
Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing
Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud
Case studies of green cloud computing.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding
author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in
IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper
submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer
reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be
regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors
will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at
the CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc201.... Authors
of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their
work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of
IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

Publications

Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings
published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them,
are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers
may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published
in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing
(Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences.

Honorary Chairs
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia

General Chairs
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

General Vice-Chairs
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Program Chairs
Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA

Program Vice-Chairs
Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia
Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan

Workshop Chairs
Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Steering Committee
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia
Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair)
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia
Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA
Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

Award Chairs
Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia

Panel Chairs
Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia

Local and Finance Chairs
Chang Liu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Conference Secretary and Web Chair
Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia