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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** Last Mile ***<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">http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015</a><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'>*** DEADLINE: 17 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Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that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">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: 17 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">http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015/?page_id=281</a><br><br></font>
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