<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Extended Call for papers:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"> <br>The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. <br> <br>Website: <a href="http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/" target="_blank">http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/</a><br> <br>Key dates:<br>Submission Deadline: August 31, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) <br>Notification: September 30, 2019<br>Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2019<br> <br>Submission site: <a href="http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm" target="_blank">http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm</a><br> <br>Publication:<br>Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.<br> <br>Special issues:<br>Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience,
Pattern Recognition Letters.<br> <br>===========<br>Introduction<br> <br>CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants.<br> <br>Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to:<br><br>- Architecture, Storage and Virtualization<br>- Cloud Services and Applications<br>- Security, Privacy and Trust<br>- Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud<br> <br>(1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">- Intercloud architecture models<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">- Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices<br>- Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues<br>- Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, 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>(2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">- XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">- 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>(3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">- Accountability & audit<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">- 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>(4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">- Cloudlet-enabled applications<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">- 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 measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments)<br> </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">(5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"> <br>Submission Guidelines<br>Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: <a href="http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm" target="_blank">http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm</a>.<br> <br>Publications <br>Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals.<br> <br>General Chairs<br>Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia<br>Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia<br>Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada<br> <br>Program Chairs<br>Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia<br>Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy <br> <br>Workshops and Tutorials Chairs<br>Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand<br> <br>Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair<br>Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia<br> <br>Phd Consortium Chair<br>Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK<br> <br>Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization<br>Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil<br>Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia<br> <br>Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications<br>Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy<br>James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia<br> <br>Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust<br>Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway<br>Li Li, Monash University, Australia<br> <br>Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud<br>Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden<br>Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia<br></div>
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