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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>**** Second CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ****<br>(Papers, Tutorial/Workshop Proposals, Posters, Demos, PhD cons)<br></b><br>The 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing<br>Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018)<br><br>Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 10-13 December, 2018<br><br><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxMHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIENsb3VkIENvbXB1dGluZyBUZWNobm9sb2d5IGFuZCBTY2llbmNlIChDbG91ZENvbSAyMDE4KTogU2Vjb25kIENhbGwgZm9yIENvbnRyaWJ1dGlvbnMJMTU5CUxpc3RzCTE2NwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fcloudcom2018%2F">http://cyprusconferences.org/cloudcom2018/</a></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><br><br>CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide,<br>attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from<br>the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization,<br>security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis<br>on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference<br>is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),<br>is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence<br>of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. CloudCom 2018<br>will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus between 10-13 December, 2018.<br><br><br><b><u>TOPICS OF INTEREST<br></u></b><br>Topics of interest of CloudCom 2018 are grouped into four tracks:<br><br> Architecture, Storage and Virtualization<br> Cloud Services and Applications<br> Security, Privacy and Trust<br> Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud<br><br>The (non-exhaustive) list of topics for each track is as follows:<br><br><u>Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization<br>Chairs</u>: Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil,<br>Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria<br><br> Intercloud architecture models<br> Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices<br> Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & ìlast mileî issues<br> Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization,<br>software-defined networking)<br> Networking technologies<br> Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs<br> Storage & file systems<br> Scalability & performance<br> Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance<br> Operational, economic & business models<br> Green data centers<br> Computational resources, storage & network virtualization<br> Resource monitoring<br> Virtual desktops<br> Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery<br> Modeling & performance evaluation<br> Disaster recovery<br> Energy efficiency<br><br><u>Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications<br>Chairs</u>: Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy,<br>Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universitaí di Napoli, Italy<br><br> XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)<br> Cloud services models & frameworks<br> Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud<br> Cloud service management<br> Cloud workflow management<br> Cloud services reference models & standardization<br> Cloud-powered services design<br> Cloud elasticity<br> Machine learning and systems interactions<br> Data management applications & services<br> Service for computing-intensive applications<br> Mining and analytics<br> Data-provisioning services<br> Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools<br> Cloud-based services & protocols<br> Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications<br> Application development and debugging tools<br> Business models & economics of cloud services<br><br><u>Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust<br>Chairs</u>: Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway,<br>Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy<br><br> Accountability & audit<br> Authentication & authorization<br> Cloud integrity<br> Blockchain Cloud services<br> Cryptography in the Cloud<br> Hypervisor security<br> Identity management & security as a service<br> Prevention of data loss or leakage<br> Secure, interoperable identity management<br> Trust & credential management<br> Trust models for cloud services<br> Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments<br> Privacy policy framework for clouds<br> Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds<br> Information sharing and data protection in the cloud<br> Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds<br> Privacy protection in cloud platforms<br> Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds<br><br><u>Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud<br>Chairs</u>: Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain,<br>Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden<br><br> Cloudlet-enabled applications<br> Distributed Cloud Infrastructure<br> Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing<br> Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications<br> Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers<br> Interoperability and mobility<br> Software infrastructure for cloudlets<br> Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing<br> Fog Computing<br> IoT cloud architectures & models<br> Cloud-based context-aware IoT<br> Economics and pricing<br> Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and<br>measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments)<br><br><br><b><u>PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</b><br></u><br>Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been<br>published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference<br>with proceedings. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated<br>below, using the EasyChair submission system:<br><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxMHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIENsb3VkIENvbXB1dGluZyBUZWNobm9sb2d5IGFuZCBTY2llbmNlIChDbG91ZENvbSAyMDE4KTogU2Vjb25kIENhbGwgZm9yIENvbnRyaWJ1dGlvbnMJMTU5CUxpc3RzCTE2NwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dcloudcom2018">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudcom2018</a> .<br><br>Only PDF files will be accepted. Manuscripts need to be prepared according to<br>the IEEE CS format (<a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxMHRoIElFRUUgSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIENsb3VkIENvbXB1dGluZyBUZWNobm9sb2d5IGFuZCBTY2llbmNlIChDbG91ZENvbSAyMDE4KTogU2Vjb25kIENhbGwgZm9yIENvbnRyaWJ1dGlvbnMJMTU5CUxpc3RzCTE2NwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieee.org%2Fconferences_events%2Fconferences%2Fpublishing%2Ftemplates.html%29.">https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html).</a><br>All regular paper submissions should be written in English with a maximum<br>paper length of 8 pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least<br>three experts.<br><br>Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. At least one author of<br>each accepted paper must register to the conference, by the early date<br>indicated by the organizers, and present the paper.<br><br>The conference proceedings of CloudCom 2018 will be published by IEEE<br>Conference Publishing Service with ISBN and ISSN, and submitted to IEEE<br>Xplore and indexing services such as Ei Compendex. Distinguished papers<br>will be recommended for fast-track publication in the IEEE<i> Transactions on<br>Cloud Computing</i> or invited to be included within a number of special issues<br>in prestigious international journals.<br><br><br><b><u>CALL FOR TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS</u></b><br><br>IEEE CloudCom 2018 is soliciting proposals for full-day / half-day workshops<br>and Tutorials to be held in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2018. For more<br>information on the tutorials and workshops and for the complete Call for<br>Tutorial and Workshop Proposals, please see the conference website.<br><br><br><b><u>CALL FOR POSTERS, DEMOS & SHORT PAPERS (Late-breaking Results)</u></b><br><br>Authors are invited to submit their research work as a poster, demo or short<br>paper (late-breaking results) to the CloudCom 2018 conference. For the<br>complete Call for Call for Posters, Demos & Short Papers (Late-breaking<br>Results) please see the conference website.<br><br><br><b><u>CALL FOR PH.D. CONSORTIUM</u></b><br><br>A Ph.D. consortium will be held in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2018 in<br>Nicosia, Cyprus. For the complete Call for Ph.D. consortium, please see the<br>conference website.<br><br><br><b><u>IMPORTANT DATES<br></u></b><br> Workshop Proposals Due: 30 April 2018<br> Tutorial Proposals Due: 30 June 2018<br> Regular Papers Due: 15 June 2018<br> Ph.D. Consortium Papers Due: 31 August 2018<br> Short Papers, Posters and Demos Due: 31 August 2018<br> Notification of Paper Acceptance: 14 September 2018<br> Camera Ready: 08 October 2018<br> Author Registration: 15 October 2018<br><br><br><b><u>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br></u></b><br><u>GENERAL CHAIR</u><br> George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br><u>PROGRAM CHAIRS</u><br> George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br> Sebastien Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg<br><br><u>PROGRAM TRACK CHAIRS</u><br> Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain<br> Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil<br> Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria<br> Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy<br> Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway<br> Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden<br> Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universitaí di Napoli, Italy<br> Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy<br><br><u>WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS<br></u><br> Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy<br> Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Ionian University, Greece<br><br><u>PH.D. COMSORTIUM CHAIR</u><br> Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br><u>SHORT PAPERS, POSTERS & DEMO CHAIR</u><br> Ioannis Konstantinou, NTUA, Greece<br><br><u>PUBLICITY CHAIR<br></u> Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br></font>
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