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<td><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4"><b>*** Final Call for Papers ***<br>
</b><br>
8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud<br>
Computing (UCC 2015)<br>
<br>
December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus<br>
<br>
<a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015" target="_blank">http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015</a><br>
</font><font face="Lucida Grande"><br>
</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="4">*** DEADLINE: 31 July, 2015 ***<br>
</font><font face="Lucida Grande"><br>
<br>
CONTEXT AND SCOPE<br>
<br>
Cloud Computing delivers computational resources on-demand as services<br>
that are commoditized and delivered analogous to traditional utilities such as<br>
electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute,<br>
storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data<br>
are growing at a tremendous rate, and it is essential to understand how to<br>
effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both<br>
users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial<br>
providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they<br>
offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for<br>
users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of<br>
active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas<br>
related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum<br>
for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field.<br>
UCC 2015, to be held in Cyprus, will happen as Cloud providers worldwide<br>
add new services and increase Cloud utility at an accelerated pace, and Cloud<br>
service users explore new usage modes.<br>
<br>
This will be the 8th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events<br>
were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010<br>
& UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden,<br>
Germany (UCC2013), and London, UK (UCC 2014).<br>
<br>
<br>
CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
<br>
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that<br>
demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility computing<br>
including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems,<br>
data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud<br>
systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific,<br>
engineering, and commercial deployment.<br>
<br>
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br>
<br>
• Big Data and Analytics<br>
<br>
• Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including<br>
pricing and service models<br>
<br>
• Policy languages and Programming models<br>
<br>
• Utility driven model and mechanisms for Cloud federations<br>
<br>
• Autonomic techniques for Clouds and Cloud applications<br>
<br>
• Utility-driven platforms for Clouds<br>
<br>
• Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds<br>
<br>
• Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid,<br>
federated, aggregated<br>
<br>
• Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and <br>
services at all layers (XaaS)<br>
<br>
• Virtualization technologies and other enablers<br>
<br>
• Economic models and scenarios of use<br>
<br>
• Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity<br>
planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces<br>
<br>
• Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance<br>
models and monitoring<br>
<br>
• Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science)<br>
and business<br>
<br>
• Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds<br>
<br>
• Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as<br>
security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction, especially in Utility contexts<br>
<br>
One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed<br>
papers. Further details as well as submission guidelines are available at the<br>
conference website and below.<br>
<br>
<br>
MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES<br>
<br>
Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and<br>
may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using<br>
10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including<br>
figures, tables, and references.<br>
<br>
Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file.<br>
Manuscripts must be received by <b><u>July 17, 2015</u></b>. All<br>
manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on<br>
originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical<br>
strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity<br>
of presentation of the paper.<br>
<br>
Please use the following Easy Chair link to update your submission:<br>
<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2015" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2015</a> .<br>
<br>
Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not<br>
currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not<br>
following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action<br>
may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of<br>
the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions<br>
received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately<br>
structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program<br>
Chairs at the email addressed below for further information or clarification.<br>
Notification of review decisions will be mailed by August 21, 2015. Camera<br>
-ready papers are due by September 21, 2015. Published proceedings will<br>
be available at the conference.<br>
<br>
At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in<br>
order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. There is NO student<br>
rate for the author who is responsible for registration for his/her published<br>
paper. If you have more than one accepted paper, you have to register for<br>
each one individually. There is no discount if you have two or more papers<br>
accepted. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a<br>
requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the<br>
conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore.<br>
<br>
<br>
SPECIAL ISSUES<br>
<br>
Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended<br>
version to the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Papers will be selected<br>
based on their reviewers' scores and appropriateness to the journal's theme.<br>
All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original<br>
unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at the<br>
conference webpage.<br>
<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES<br>
<br>
• Paper submissions due: 31 July, 2015<br>
• Notification of acceptance: 21 August, 2015<br>
• Camera ready papers due: 21 September, 2015<br>
<br>
• Early and author registration deadline: 21 September, 2015<br>
<br>
<br>
COMMITTEES<br>
<br>
General Chairs<br>
<br>
• Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK<br>
• George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus<br>
<br>
Program Committee Chairs<br>
<br>
• Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA (parashar AT rutgers.edu)<br>
• Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK (ranaof AT cardiff.ac.uk)<br>
<br>
Standards/Plug-fest Chair<br>
<br>
• Alan Sill, Texas Tech, USA & Open Grid Forum<br>
<br>
Workshops Chairs<br>
<br>
• Ilkay Altintas, SDSC, USA (altintas AT sdsc.edu)<br>
• Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany (josef.spillner AT tu-dresden.de)<br>
<br>
Tutorials Chairs<br>
<br>
• Ewa Deelman, USC, USA (deelman AT isi.edu)<br>
• Rafael Tolosana, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt AT unizar.es)<br>
<br>
Posters Chair<br>
<br>
• Khalid Elgazzar, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada<br>
<br>
PhD Symposium Chair<br>
<br>
• Kenneth Johnson, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand<br>
<br>
Cloud Challenge 2015 Chair<br>
<br>
• Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK<br>
<br>
Industry Chair<br>
<br>
• Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br>
<br>
Proceedings Chairs<br>
<br>
• Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK<br>
• George Palis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br>
<br>
Publicity Chair<br>
<br>
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br>
<br>
Program Committee<br>
<br>
<a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015/?page_id=281" target="_blank">http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015/?page_id=281</a><br>
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