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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US>3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US>Website: http://closer.scitevents.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US>May 8 - 10, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US>Aachen, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Important Deadlines: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Regular Paper Submission: November 15, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Authors Notification (regular papers): January 17, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 7, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Sponsored by:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>INSTICC is Member of:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>WFMC- Workflow Management Coalition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>OMG- Object Management Group<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Technically sponsored by:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SINTEF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2013, focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market etc. Cloud Computing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Emerging Enterprise Technologies are profoundly changing the way we think of IT - from economics and efficiency to process and usage models. Many organizations look to the “externalized” IT systems and services as a potential cost-savings advantage by moving internally hosted IT services to external providers. Other organizations view the “external” IT as potential disaster recovery systems or as on-demand capacity to boost business continuity and customer service levels. We need to take a closer look, discerning what emerging enterprise technologies are and how they can catalyze creativity and produce a competitive advantage. There is hence a new wave of interest in 'Externalization of IT' - anything as a service (including Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service), On Demand delivery, outsourcing, and so on. This emerging facilitation and way of utilizing services through IT is what we are referring to as Cloud Computing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The four perspectives in which we are addressing the area of Cloud Computing in this conference are: (i) Fundamentals of Cloud Computing; (ii) Services Science foundations for Cloud Computing; (iii) Cloud Computing platforms and applications; (iv) Cloud Computing enabling technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Gottfried Vossen, WWU Münster, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ivona Brandic, Vienna UT, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>PUBLICATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a SSRI Series book <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>AWARDS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please check the website for further information (http://closer.scitevents.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Conference Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen, Germany <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Program Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Frédéric Desprez, LIP / INRIA, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Donald Ferguson, CA Technologies, United States<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ethan Hadar, CA Technologies, Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>CONFERENCE AREAS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2. SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>3. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>4. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>AREA 1: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Computing Architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Standards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Application Portability<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Interoperability<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Delivery Models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Business Cloud vs. Software Cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>AREA 2: SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Semantic Web Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Web Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Service-Oriented Architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Internet of Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Service Modeling and Specification<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Service Composition<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Service Discovery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Service Monitoring and Control<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Business Services Realized by IT Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Service Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Service Operation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Service Strategy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Service Marketing and Management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Information and Service Economy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Human Beings in Service Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Enterprise Architectures and Services<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>AREA 3: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Mobility<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> e-Banking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Social Networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Middleware Frameworks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Application Architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Application Scalability and Availability<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> SaaS, PaaS, IaaS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> COTS and Cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloudsourcing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Development Methods for Cloud Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Economics (ROI, Costs, CAPEX/OPEX,…)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Outsourced Production Environments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Collective Intelligence/Crowd Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Context-aware Computing and Peer to Peer Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> e-Business<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> e-Governance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> E-Health<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> E-Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>AREA 4: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Troubleshooting and Best Practices<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Security<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Performance Development and Management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Cloud Ilities (Scalability, Availability,Reliability)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Load Balancing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Autonomic Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Virtualization Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Utility Computing vs. Cloud Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Grid Computing vs. Cloud Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Disaster Recovery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://closer.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please check further details at the conference website (http://closer.scitevents.org).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>