GCC 2016 - 12th International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster Computing

The conference is composed of a number of tracks, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions; all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Grid Computing:
- Software engineering support for grid computing
- Software integration technologies in grid systems
- Big Data management on Grid
- Grid technology and security
- Grid computing virtual organizations
- Grid information services
- Grid middleware and toolkits
- Grid monitoring, management, and organization tools
- Evolution of grid standards
- User development environment and programming tools for grid computing
- Resource management, scheduling, load balancing & run-time environments
- Information/knowledge grids
- Autonomic & utility computing on global grids
- Architectures for grid computing and fabrics
- Data grid management systems
- Metadata, ontologies, and provenance
- Resource discovery
- Web services and web security in grid computing
- Wireless enhanced grid systems
- Grid and cluster integration
- e-Science, e-Business applications, and virtual instrumentation
- Grid object metadata and schemas
- Grid survivability
- Grid application and deployment environments
- Interconnects and protocols for grids
- Evolution of grid - recent progress
- Major grid initiatives
- Grid computing scenarios and applications in science,engineering, and commerce (life science, CFD grids, business process grids, physics grids, ...)
Cloud Computing:
- Big Data management on Cloud
- Hardware as a service
- SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
- SOA and Cloud computing
- Green information technology
- Application portability
- Cloud scalability
- Cloud management and databases
- Use of cloud for high-performance computing
- Cloudsourcing
- Cloud interoperability
- Web-scale computing
- Data encryption
- Virtual Private Inter-Cloud
- Cloud reliability and secure Cloud computing
- Cloud automation and mobility
- Cloud policies and compliance
- Cloud federation
- Cloud enablement
- Consumption-based billing
- Cloud serviceability and architecture
- Cloud computing and SMBs
- Cloud applications
- Enterprise Cloud Orchestration
- Fabric Computing
- Eclipse and Cloud computing
- Cloud internetworking
Cluster Computing:
- System modeling and architecture design
- Scalability (scalable systems and methods)
- Novel machine and network architectures
- Software tools and utilities
- Programming models, environments, and languages
- Performance modeling and evaluation systems
- Resource management and scheduling methods
- System management, administration, and support
- Novel algorithms and emerging applications