CLOUD COMPUTING 2012 - International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization

CLOUD COMPUTING 2012, The Third International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization
July 22-27, 2011 - Nice, France
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CLOUDCOMPUTIN...
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPCLOUDCOMPU...
- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitCLOUDCO...
Submission deadline: March 5, 2012
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.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unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to,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 comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
CLOUD COMPUTING 2012 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
Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComCLOUDCOMPU...