ICA 2017 - 5th International IBM Cloud Academy Conference ICA CON 2017

ICA CON 2017, the 5th International IBM Cloud Academy Conference, will provide an exciting opportunity for educators, researchers, and practioners to share ideas and experiences in cloud computing and their impacts. The conference is open to K-12 and higher education institutions already or considering implementing cloud technologies and services.
The program will include invited keynotes, technical papers, position papers, workshops and a technology showcase. The technical papers portion of the conference program will feature experience reports and original research papers. The technology showcase will feature poster presentations and demonstrations on cloud computing research or implementations in progress. Selected papers from conference proceedings will be published as a special edition of the International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC)(http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journ...), and the Journal of Organization Design(http://www.jorgdesign.net/), as well as a dedicated Springer monograph.
ICA CON 2017 will be an excellent venue for presenting original work, exchanging new ideas, embracing cloud technologies, sharing results, business impacts, and experiences, and networking with other leading institutions and businesses that are already implementing cloud solutions.
Call for Papers
We invite submission of papers / presentations or posters on the use of cloud computing for educational and research purposes. Of particular interest will be submissions featuring original research or experience reports that address how the transition to cloud computing is helping to transform education. The latter is intended to facilitate the sharing of best practices with real-world examples illustrating improvements in quality, outcomes, lessons learned and return-on-investment.
A range of topics relevant to cloud computing in education and research will be considered. Here are some areas to show the range of interests and possibilities:
Institutional Strategy and Organization Design for Cloud Computing
Building the institution's future infrastructure on a cloud
Management and organization design impacts by clouds
Value chain redesign, culture change and skill shift challenges in transitioning to cloud computing
Economic Models of, and Economic Development through, Cloud Computing
Financial impact and benefits of cloud computing
Roadmap for adoption, integration and transition to cloud computing
Data Management and Analytics on the Cloud
Cognitive computing through cloud
Business Intelligence for education and research purposes using cloud computing
Analytics and predictive analytics in cloud environments
Big Data in clouds
Storage management and clouds
User Productivity with Cloud Computing
Collaboration using cloud computing
Enhancing accessibility through cloud services
Workloads and Use Cases of cloud for education and research
Cloud Computing Implementation Strategies
Data Center migration to cloud computing
Energy Management Considerations
Integration and workflow of cloud services
Impact on IT Infrastructure Management with cloud computing
IT Service and Relationship Management (Business and IT)
Software development services with cloud computing
Research Computing in the Cloud
High Performance Computing and cloud computing
Research computing models using cloud computing
Pedagogical Impact of Cloud Computing
Impact on learning and teaching with cloud computing
Delivering educational resources via a cloud
New and Innovative Pedagogical Approaches with cloud
Service Sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME)
Standards and Open Source Strategies for Cloud Computing
Innovations in IP (especially as relates to Open Source)
Open standards for cloud computing
Systems Management in a Cloud Computing Environment
Service level agreements and clouds
Security, identity, trust and privacy on clouds
Software licensing in education for cloud computing
Papers / presentations proposals on the implementation and research issues associated with various commercial or open source virtualization technologies, management and security policies and user applications are also encouraged, as there is presently significant interest in these areas within the academy community.
Important dates
February 28, 2017
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline
March 31, 2017
Notification of Paper Acceptance
April 30, 2017
Camera Ready Paper Submission and Authors Registration Deadline
May 24-26, 2017
Conference Dates
Review Procedure
All submissions will be peer reviewed by appropriate domain experts among those listed on the Program Committee. The reviewers know that the ICA CON 2017 conference aims to produce innovative as well as quality work, and that authors of selected papers / presentations will be selected and invited to have work published in a special issue of the International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC) (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journ...), and the Journal of Organization Design (http://www.jorgdesign.net/), as well as a dedicated Springer monograph.
Submission Format
Submissions should follow the guidelines below:
Initial extended abstract up to 2 pages; conference paper submissions should not exceed 10 pages (selected IJCC submissions can be longer)
Anonymized (remove author names and affiliations) for the review process.
To facilitate the subsequent publication of selected manuscripts, we suggest you check with the guidelines used by the International Journal of Cloud Computing: (http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31)
Submission implies willingness of at least one author to register and present at the conference.
For more information, contact Andy Rindos (rindos-AT-us.ibm.com) and/or Czesław Smutnicki (czeslaw.smutnicki-AT-pwr.edu.pl)
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General Co-Chairs:
Andy Rindos (IBM)
Cezary Madryas (Wroclaw U)
Steering Committee:
Andras Pataricza (BME)
Diem Ho (IBM)
Imre Kocsis (BME)
Yaser Jararweh (JUST)
Yi Pan (GSU)
Andrzej Kucharski (Wroclaw U)
Czeslaw Smutnicki (Wroclaw U)
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Yaser Jararweh (JUST)
Ryszard Klempous (Wroclaw U)
Jan Nikodem (Wroclaw U)
Proceedings Chair:
Ewa Szlachcic (Wroclaw U)
Local Chairs:
??Mariusz Ochla (IBM)
Jerzy Kotowski (Wroclaw U)
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Publicity Chairs: ?
Mohammad Alsmirat (JUST)
Zilong Ye (Cal State)
Technical Committee
Amy Apon (Clemson)
Carmen Paz Suarez Araujo (ULPGC)
Theodor Borangiu (U Politehnica Bucharest)
Wojciech Bozejko (WUST)
Greg Byrd (NCSU)
Jose Joaquin Canadas (UAL)
Zenon Chaczko (UTS)
Jeff Chase (Duke)
Jean Marie Chesneaux (UPMC)
Kostas Christidis (IBM)
Mike Devetsikiotis (UNM)
Pat Dreher (MIT)
Andrzej Dziedzic (WUST)
Teodo Gotszalk (WUST)
Jerzy Greblicki (WUST)
Milt Halem (UMBC)
Lap Huynh (IBM)
Anupam Joshi (UMBC)
Karuna Joshi (UMBC)
Grzegorz Jozwiak (WUST)
Miroslaw Kutylowski (WUST)
Marin Litoiu (York U)
Richard Lucic (Duke)
Gerhana Markova (IBM)
Jim Martin (Clemson)
Young Oh (IBM)
Jacek Oko (WUST)
Cezary Orlowski (WSB Gdansk)
Ferderico Pigni (GEM)
Ewaryst Rafajlowicz (WUST)
Jerzy Rosenblit (U AZ)
Cameron Seay (NCAT)
Ewa Skubalska-Rafajlowicz (WUST)
Przemyslaw Sliwinski (WUST)
Ben Smith (IBM)
Haiying Shen (UVA)
Mihail Sichitiu (NCSU)
Alexander Sorokin (IBM)
Kamil Staniec (WUST)
Nasseh Tabrizzi (ECU)
Kishor Trivedi (Duke)
Yannis Viniotis (NCSU)
Krzysztof Walkowiak (WUST)
Yingwei Wang (UPEI)
Michal Wozniak (WUST)
Yaacov Yesha (UMBC)
Yelena Yesha (UMBC)
Xianqing Yu (IBM)
Rafal Zdunek (WUST)
Ryszard Zieliński (WUST)