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<div style="text-align:center"><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" color="#1738f5"><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="5">Journal of Grid Computing</font><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="5"> Special Issue:</font><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(23,56,245)"><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="5"><i>Interoperability, Federation, Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds</i></font></span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="4">The Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation, Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Clouds will highlight foundational standards
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<span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large">This issue will provide the community with dedicated forum for presenting new research, development, and deployment efforts in running interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems. Priority will
be given to submissions that focus on presenting solutions to challenges faced by current and future infrastructure cloud toolkits and APIs, and on frameworks that allow their use across a broad range of platforms and user communities.</span></div>
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<div><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="4">Accepted papers will be published in the prestigious Springer Journal of Grid Computing (JOGC), which has impact factor 1,31.</font></div>
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<div><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="4">Link:</font></div>
<div><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span> </font><span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large"><a href="http://cac.hpcc.ttu.edu/jogc/cloud-interop-2012/">http://cac.hpcc.ttu.edu/jogc/cloud-interop-2012/</a></span><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="4"><br>
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<div><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="4">Special Issue Guest Editors:<br>
<span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>* Alan Sill (<a href="mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu">alan.sill@ttu.edu</a>), Texas Tech University & Open Grid Forum<br>
<span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>* Gabor Kecskemeti (<a href="mailto:kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu">kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu</a>), MTA SZTAKI, Hungary<br>
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Editors-in-Chief:<br>
<span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>* Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences & University of Westminster<br>
<span class="x_x_x_x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>* Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory</font></div>
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<div><font class="x_x_x_x_Apple-style-span" size="4">For further information, see the attached flyer or visit the special issue web site at the link above.<br>
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