The Ninth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization

CLOUD COMPUTING 2018

February 18, 2018 to February 22, 2018 - Barcelona, Spain

Deadlines

Submission

Nov 06, 2017

Notification

Dec 05, 2017

Registration

Dec 19, 2017

Camera ready

Jan 15, 2018

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

Publication

Published by IARIA Press (operated by Xpert Publishing Services)

Archived in the Open Access IARIA ThinkMind Digital Library

Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal

Indexing Procedure

Affiliated Journals

CLOUD COMPUTING 2018 - The Ninth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization

February 18, 2018 - February 22, 2018

CLOUD COMPUTING 2018

ISSN: 2308-4294
ISBN: 978-1-61208-607-1

CLOUD COMPUTING 2018 is colocated with the following events as part of ComputationWorld 2018 Congress:

  • SERVICE COMPUTATION 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advanced Service Computing
  • CLOUD COMPUTING 2018, The Ninth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization
  • FUTURE COMPUTING 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications
  • COGNITIVE 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications
  • ADAPTIVE 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications
  • CONTENT 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies
  • PATTERNS 2018, The Tenth International Conference on Pervasive Patterns and Applications
  • COMPUTATION TOOLS 2018, The Ninth International Conference on Computational Logics, Algebras, Programming, Tools, and Benchmarking
  • BUSTECH 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology

Special tracks:

PERF-CLOUD: Performance Monitoring and Analysis of Virtual Machines and Cloud
Chair and coordinator:
Maruf Ahmed, Ph.D. candidate, The University of Sydney, Australia mahm1846@uni.sydney.edu.au

SPCAT: Service Provider Cloud Applications and Technologies
Chair and coordinator: Richard Neill, Ph.D., RN Technologies, New York, USA rich@rntech.net

CCOPS: CognitiveCloudOperations: Technologies and Practices
Chair and coordinator: Dr. Fanjing Meng, IBM Research-China mengfj@cn.ibm.com

FAST-CFP: Finding A Solution To - Cloud Forensic Problem
Chair and Coordinator: Dr Bob Duncan, University of Aberdeen, UK s04rd5@abdn.ac.uk

CLOUD COMPUTING 2018 conference tracks:

TRENDS: New trends

Fog-computing; Mobile Edge Computing; Cloudlets; Hosted Cloud services (WebRTC, Containers, Cloud micro-services); Cloud computing and SDN/NFV; Cloud computing and 5G; Cloud computing and LTE Pro 4.5; Cloud computing ad Big Data; High performance computing (HPC) in the Cloud; Superfluid Clouds; Mobile Apps to the public Clouds; Vehicular Cloud networks; Cloud orchestration features; Converged edge systems; Cloud federation; Micro-cloud provider federation; Open-implementation Cloud infrastructures; Untrusted Cloud environments; Multiple Clouds and data centers; Power Constrained VMs; Cloud Green abstraction layer

CLOUD: Cloud computing

Cloud economics; Core cloud services; Cloud technologies; Cloud computing; On-demand computing models; Hardware-as-a-service; Software-as-a-service [SaaS applications]; Platform-as-service; Storage as a service in cloud; Data-as-a-Service; Service-oriented architecture (SOA); Cloud computing programming and application development; Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures; Trust and clouds; Client-cloud computing challenges; Geographical constraints for deploying clouds

CLOUD: Challenging features

Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues; Performance and QoS; Dynamic resource provisioning; Power-efficiency and Cloud computing; Load balancing; Application streaming; Cloud SLAs; Business models and pricing policies; Cloud service subscription models; Cloud standardized SLA; Cloud-related privacy; Cloud-related control; Managing applications in the clouds; Mobile clouds; Roaming services in Clouds; Agent-based cloud computing; Cloud brokering; Cloud contracts (machine readable); Cloud security; Security and assurance properties in cloud environments; Big Data Analytics in clouds; Cloud computing back-end solutions; Cloud applications portability; Cloud-native application design; Security by design for cloud services; Data privacy guarantee at run-time

CLOUD: Platforms, Infrastructures and Applications

Custom platforms; Large-scale compute infrastructures; Data centers; Processes intra- and inter-clouds; Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures; Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare); Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application); Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance; Enterprise clouds; Enterprise-centric cloud computing; Interaction between vertical clouds; Public, Private, and Hybrid clouds; Cloud computing testbeds

GRID: Grid networks, services and applications

GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology; GRID infrastructure and technologies; GRID middleware; GRID protocols and networking; GRID computing, utility computing, autonomic computing, metacomputing; Programmable GRID; Data GRID; Context ontology and management in GRIDs; Distributed decisions in GRID networks; GRID services and applications; Virtualization, modeling, and metadata in GRID; Resource management, scheduling, and scalability in GRID; GRID monitoring, control, and management; Traffic and load balancing in GRID; User profiles and priorities in GRID; Performance and security in GRID systems; Fault tolerance, resilience, survivability, robustness in GRID; QoS/SLA in GRID networks; GRID fora, standards, development, evolution; GRID case studies, validation testbeds, prototypes, and lessons learned

VIRTUALIZATION: Computing in virtualization-based environments

Principles of virtualization; Virtualization platforms; Thick and thin clients; Data centers and nano-centers; Open virtualization format; Orchestration of virtualization across data centers; Dynamic federation of compute capacity; Dynamic geo-balancing; Instant workload migration; Virtualization-aware storage; Virtualization-aware networking; Virtualization embedded-software-based smart mobile phones; Trusted platforms and embedded supervisors for security; Virtualization management operations /discovery, configuration, provisioning, performance, etc.; Energy optimization and saving for green datacenters; Virtualization supporting cloud computing; Applications as pre-packaged virtual machines; Licensing and support policies


Deadlines:

Submission

Nov 06, 2017

Notification

Dec 05, 2017

Registration

Dec 19, 2017

Camera ready

Jan 15, 2018

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

Technical Co-Sponsors and Logistic Supporters