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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014)</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">December 8-11, 2014, London, UK</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Context and Scope</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as services that are commoditised and delivered as in traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony.
Utility with Cloud services can already be achieved for compute, storage and communication resources but also for hosted software and data. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility. There is also increasing
interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these model could be used to provide utility for both users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers will also be of interest
for this conference.</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">This will be the 7th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010),
Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), and Dresden, Germany (UCC2013). UCC 2014 happens while cloud providers worldwide add new services and increase utility at an accelerated pace and is therefore of high relevance for both academic and industrial research.</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Topics of interest include:</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Big Data and Analytics</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Policy languages and Programming models</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS)</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Virtualisation technologies and other enablers</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Economic models and scenarios of use</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">* Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility contextsImportant Dates</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt"><span style="font-size:10pt">Paper Submissions Due: </span><span style="font-size:10pt">18 July, 2014</span></div>
<div>Tutorial Proposals Due: 18 July, 2014</div>
<div>Cloud Challenge Proposals Due: 15th August, 2014</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Notification of Acceptance:29 August, 2014</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Early Registration Deadline:29 September, 2014</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Paper Submission</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through EasyChair(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2014) . Manuscripts may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including
figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully
justified text). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including
(but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Chairs and Committees</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Nikos Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK (n.antonopoulos@derby.ac.uk)</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK (o.f.rana@cs.cardiff.ac.uk)</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (a.anjum@derby.ac.uk)</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK</div>
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Workshops</div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">We encourage high quality workshops from the community, which relate to one or more of the topics identified above. Individuals interested in organising a workshop are encouraged to consult the
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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:10pt">Venue</div>
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