CLOSER 2011 - The 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2011

CLOSER 2011 will be held in conjunction with CSEDU 2011 and WEBIST 2011

The 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2011, focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market etc. Cloud Computing.

Emerging Enterprise Technologies are profoundly changing the way we think of IT - from economics and efficiency to process and usage models. Many organizations look to the “externalized” IT systems and services as a potential cost-savings advantage by moving internally hosted IT services to external providers. Other organizations view the “external” IT as potential disaster recovery systems or as on-demand capacity to boost business continuity and customer service levels. We need to take a closer look, discerning what emerging enterprise technologies are and how they can catalyze creativity and produce a competitive advantage. There is hence a new wave of interest in 'Externalization of IT' - anything as a service (including Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service), On Demand delivery, outsourcing, and so on. This emerging facilitation and way of utilizing services through IT is what we are referring to as Cloud Computing.

The four perspectives in which we are addressing the area of Cloud Computing in this conference are: (i) Fundamentals of Cloud Computing; (ii) Services Science foundations for Cloud Computing; (iii) Cloud Computing platforms and applications; (iv) Cloud Computing enabling technology.

TRACKS
CLOSER'11 invites papers that address one or more of the perspectives mentioned above. We offer below further elaboration (in terms of tracks and topics). Authors should not feel limited by the topics mentioned. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable, provided they fit the main conference perspectives:

TRACK 1 - CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS
? Cloud Computing Architecture
? Cloud Standards
? Cloud Application Portability
? Cloud Interoperability
? Cloud Delivery Models
? Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
? Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance
? Business Cloud vs. Software Cloud

TRACK 2 - SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING
? Service-Oriented Architecture
? Web Services
? Internet of Services
? Semantic Web Technologies
? Service Modeling and Specification
? Service Composition
? Service Discovery
? Service Monitoring and Control
? Business Services Realized by IT Services
? Service Innovation
? Service Operation
? Service Strategy
? Service Marketing and Management
? Information and Service Economy
? Human Beings in Service Systems
? Enterprise Architectures and Services

TRACK 3 - CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS
? Cloud Middleware Frameworks
? Cloud Application Architectures
? Cloud Application Portability
? Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
? SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
? COTS and Cloud
? Cloudsourcing
? Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
? Development Methods for Cloud Applications
? Economics (ROI, Costs, CAPEX/OPEX,…)
? Outsourced Production Environments
? Collective Intelligence/Crowd Computing
? Context-aware Computing and Peer to Peer Computing
? e-Banking
? e-Business
? e-Governance
? e-Health
? e-Learning
? Mobility
? Social Networks

TRACK 4 - CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
? Autonomic Computing
? Virtualization Technologies
? Utility Computing vs. Cloud Computing
? Grid Computing vs. Cloud Computing
? Performance Development and Management
? Cloud Ilities (Scalability, Availability,Reliability)
? Load Balancing
? Cloud Security
? Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
? Troubleshooting and Best Practices
? Disaster Recovery

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Tony Shan, IBM, U.S.A.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Check the detailed instructions on how and where to submit a paper.

PUBLICATIONS
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
Indexation by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI is awaiting confirmation.

KEY DATES
Conference date: May 7-9, 2011

Regular Paper Submission: November 24, 2010
Authors Notification (regular papers): February 4, 2011
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 24, 2011

CONTACTS
CLOSER Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.

2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal

Tel.: +351 265 100 033

Fax: +44 203 014 8638

e-mail: closer.secretariat-AT-scitevents.org

VENUE
Available soon.

CONFERENCE CHAIR
Boris Shishkov, IICREST / Delft University of Technology, Bulgaria

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, U.S.A.
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente / CTIT / IICREST, The Netherlands