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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-US>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US>Special Session on Cloud Interoperability - CI 2013</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN-US>In conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2013</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-US>Website</span></b><span lang=EN-US>: http://closer.scitevents.org/CI.aspx<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US>May 8 - 10, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US>Aachen, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US>Co-organized by: </span></b><span lang=EN-US>RWTH<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US>Sponsored by: </span></b><span lang=EN-US>INSTICC<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US>INSTICC is Member of:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> WfMC and OMG<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US>Technically sponsored by:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> SINTEF and IFIP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US>IMPORTANT DATES:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Paper Submission: <b><span style='color:black'>March 1, 2013</span></b> <br>Authors Notification: <b><span style='color:black'>March 19, 2013</span></b> <br>Camera Ready and Registration: <b><span style='color:black'>March 28, 2013</span></b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>We would like to draw your attention to the Cloud Interoperability - CI 2013 (held in conjunction with the <span class=scope>3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science</span>- CLOSER 2013), whose submission deadline is scheduled for <b><span style='color:black'>March 1, 2013</span></b>. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span class=scope><span lang=EN-US>Cloud interoperability is one of the most challenging aspects of cloud computing. For the final user, interoperability means the possibility of migrating from one IaaS provider to another, or to manage in a seamless way the resources provided by distinct providers: thus the risk of being locked to a given provider is avoided, and cloud operation is made more reliable and secure. For the intermediate provider that offers value added services using a cloud infrastructure, interoperability means the possibility to offer the same service using different providers, without redesigning the application each time. Being the cloud a fast evolving creature, standardization proposals must be extremely flexible and not bound to current technologies or short term visions, while being simple to adhere to. As an alternative, some propose the design of intermediate layers that work as adapters for distinct providers.</span></span><span lang=EN-US><br><br><span class=scope>We invite practitioners, researchers and industry representatives to submit original ideas to the Closer Special Session on Cloud Interoperability: we will consider with special interest articles that:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span class=scope><span lang=EN-US>- demonstrate the impact of Cloud Interoperability with well documented use cases and experiments, </span></span><span lang=EN-US><br><span class=scope>- formalize aspects of cloud operation that are relevant for interoperability </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span class=scope><span lang=EN-US>- describe standardization initiatives that aim at Cloud Interoperation.</span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><br>The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), co-organized with the Aachen University (RWTH) and technically sponsored by the SINTEF and IFIP. INSTICC is Member of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and Object Management Group (OMG).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>The purpose of the<span class=scope> 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 and study various aspects of Cloud Computing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>All papers accepted to the Special Session will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (</span><a href="http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/</span></a><span lang=EN-US>). SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (</span><a href="http://www.crossref.org/"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.crossref.org/</span></a><span lang=EN-US>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>CLOSER 2013 will be held in conjunction with WEBIST 2013 (9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - http://www.webist.org/), SMARTGREENS 2013 (International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems - </span><a href="http://www.smartgreens.org/"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.smartgreens.org/</span></a><span lang=EN-US>) and CSEDU 2013 (International Conference on Computer Supported Education - </span><a href="http://www.csedu.org/"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.csedu.org/</span></a><span lang=EN-US>) in Aachen, Germany. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Registration to CLOSER will enable free attendance to any sessions of WEBIST, SMARTGREENS and CSEDU conferences as a non-speaker.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Please check further details at the Special Session website<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>(</span><a href="http://closer.scitevents.org/CI.aspx"><span lang=EN-US>http://closer.scitevents.org/CI.aspx</span></a><span lang=EN-US>) and the main conference website (http://closer.scitevents.org).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b>CHAIR<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:PT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b>Augusto Ciuffoletti</b> <br>Universitā di Pisa <br>Italy <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>In case of questions, please feel free to contact us: </span><a href="mailto:%20closer.secretariat@scitevents.org"><span lang=EN-US>closer.secretariat@scitevents.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-US>PROGRAM COMMITTEE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Please check the special sessionīs program committee members at http://closer.scitevents.org/CI.aspx<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>