CloudAM 2014 - International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Management

Cloud computing, virtualization and virtual (eScience) applications are currently hot topics and have been generating substantial interest in the community and it is anticipated that this interest will expand. It is also important to the research community as it is challenging traditional methods by its sheer size and high level of automation. Clouds must provide appropriate levels of performance to large groups of diverse users, and those clouds are accessed through virtualized wide area networks. Management systems are essential for that and thereby for the future success of the cloud paradigm. New systems, methods, and approaches for cloud, virtualization and (eScience) applications management are to be discussed at this workshop.
For the CloudAM 2014 workshop researchers from the Clouds and (eScience) Applications communities are encouraged to submit and present original work to be considered for publication. Overall topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Cloud computing environments
Cloud service orchestration
Cloud APIs and usage control
Cloud data management
Cloud scalable monitoring
Cloud load balancing
Cloud federation management
Customer cloud management
Managing data centers
Management as a service
Management of virtual slices
IaaS Management
Application and Management Portals
Cloud Scheduling
Hybrid Clouds
Accounting and economic models for clouds
Managing cloud services
Management of virtualized hardware resources
Network-specific mechanisms for optimized cloud access
Performance modeling and evaluation
QoS/QoE management in the cloud
Management tools for infrastructure virtualization
Automated resource slicing
Integration of the wireless and optical domains
Policy driven service/resource life-cycle management
Applications and services enabled by virtualized infrastructure
Optimization of data center and workload energy consumption
Green Cloud Computing
Scentific Workflows on Clouds