CLOUD 2012 - IEEE 2012 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2012)

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) will be co-located with the 6th IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES), the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), and the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) to grow itself to continute to be the most prestigious professional conference dedicated to cloud computing.

“Change we are leading” is the theme of CLOUD. 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).

Based on the technology foundations and industry driving forces, the International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud Computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Cloud Computing.

To discuss this emerging enabling technology of the modern services industry, CLOUD 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.

CLOUD 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, engineering, and business innovation papers to the following areas:

Infrastructure Cloud
Software Cloud
Application Cloud
Business Cloud
Service-Oriented Architecture in Cloud Computing
Vituralization 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