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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** Call for Posters & Demos and Doctoral Symposium ***<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><br>*** DEADLINE: 28 August, 2015 ***</font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><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>TOPICS OF INTEREST<br><br>· Formal Modeling and analysis of Cloud Computing<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>All accepted contributions (Posters & Demos and Doctoral Symposim) will<br>appear in the UCC 2015 Conference Proceedings. The proceedings will be<br>published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be made available online<br>through the IEEE Digital Library.<br><br><br>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR POSTERS & DEMOS<br><br>Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research posters and<br>demos to the UCC 2015 conference. The submission areas of interest<br>include but are not limited to the topics listed above.<br><br>Authors are required to submit a 2-page short paper describing the<br>poster/demo content, research, relevance and importance to the cloud<br>computing community. If accepted, these 2-page short papers will be<br>published in the proceedings of the conference. Participants will be able to<br>display the poster and showcase the demo during the conference. Authors<br>are invited to submit their contributions electronically through EasyChair:<br><br><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2015posters">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2015posters</a><br><br>The authors of accepted posters will be given a 3-minutes time slot to<br>present their work, following the three minutes thesis (3MT) style, at the<br>UCC 2015 Poster Session. The authors will also present their posters and<br>discuss their research with the conference attendees and visitors in the<br>poster exhibition session. The recommended poster size is A0<br>(33.1 x 46.8 in, portrait).<br><br>The best poster will receive a best poster award based on evaluation rating<br>from the Award/Review Committee.<br><br><br>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM<br><br>The aim of the Doctoral Symposium of UCC 2015 is to provide PhD<br>students at all stages of their research a supportive environment to<br>discuss their research proposal, practices and methods, and to promote<br>networking and collaboration.The Doctoral Symposium is an opportunity<br>for students to obtain helpful feedback of their research from leading<br>academics and practitioners in cloud computing technology.<br><br>PhD Students are invited to submit new contributions describing their<br>research. The submission areas of interest include but are not limited to<br>the topics listed above.<br><br>Submissions will be assessed by at least three members of the Program<br>Committee. They will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to the<br>UCC conference series, research potential, and the quality and rigour of<br>the research methods described.<br><br>All contributions must be in IEEE double-column format, available for download:<br><br><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html">https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a><br><br>and should describe, in English, original work that has not been published<br>or submitted for publication elsewhere. PDF versions of papers should be<br>submitted electronically via EasyChair, using the link:<br><br><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc20150">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc20150</a><br><br>We solicit three categories of contributions:<br><br>· Doctoral Research Papers, maximum 6 pages<br>· Extended Research Abstracts, maximum 4 pages<br>· Posters presentations, maximum 2 pages.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>· All types of submissions due: 28 August, 2015<br>· Notification of Acceptance for Doctoral Symposium: 7 September, 2015<br>· Notification of Acceptance for Posters/Demos: 18 September, 2015<br>· Camera-Ready version due for all types of submission: 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/Demos 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 Chairs<br><br>· Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA<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></font>
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