[hpc-announce] Call for Papers: IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2012): NEW Paper Deadline: July 9, 2012

Tue Jun 19 07:21:46 CDT 2012

UCC 2012
The 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
November 5-8, 2012
Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2012

NEW (EXTENDED) Submission Deadline:  July 9, 2012

Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as a service that are commoditized and delivered as in traditional utilities such as electricity, gas and water.  UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility.  Submissions are invited to UCC 2012.

[Conference Scope]
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Pricing and Service Models for Utility Computing
- Cloud Computing Architectures and Middleware
- Cloud Programming Models, Languages and Frameworks
- Virtualization Technologies
- Formal Methods for Utility and Cloud Computing
- Cloud Management: Autonomic, Self-*, and Adaptive
- Energy Efficient Clouds
- Mobile Clouds
- Service Level Agreements 
- Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds
- Scalability and Reliability in Cloud Services
- Security, Privacy, Trust and Jurisdiction
- Interoperability and Standardization for Federated Clouds
- Cloud Stack (*aaS): Infrastructure, Platform, Software as a Service
- Resource Management: Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity Planning and Elasticity
- Performance Models and Monitoring
- Case Studies and Applications including Games, Social Networks, Scientific Computing, and Business Intelligence

[Paper Submission]
Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through EasyChair. Manuscripts may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. 

[Important Dates]
May 4: Workshop and Tutorial Proposals due
July 9: Regular Paper Submissions due  (EXTENDED)
August 10: Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers
August 24: Posters and Demos Submissions due
September 7: Camera Ready versions due
November 5-8: Symposium

[Chairs and Committees]
Conference Chair: Gul Agha (University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign)
Program Co-Chairs: Carlos Varela (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Manish Parashar (Rutgers University)
Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Shrideep Pallickara (Colorado State University)
Cyber Chair: Mohammed AlRokayan (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

[Steering Committee Members]
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair)
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Bharadwaj Veeravalli, The National University of Singapore, Singapore
Cho Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China
Craig Lee, Open Grid Forum, USA
Geng Lin, Cisco Systems Inc., USA
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Jane Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Steve Versteeg, Computer Associates, Australia
Walfredo Cirne, Google, USA
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Universities Regensburg (Germany); Duke and NC State (USA)
S.Thamarai Selvi, Anna University Chennai, India
Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil

[Program Committee]
Jemal Abawajy
Arun Agarwal 
David Anderson
David A. Bader 
Thar Baker
Henri Bal
Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernandez 
Siegfried Benkner 
Nik Bessis 
Milind Bhandarkar 
Viraj Bhat 
Rajkumar Buyya
Rodrigo N. Calheiros 
Harold Castro 
Simon Caton 
Paolo Ciancarini 
Ewa Deelman 
Travis Desell 
Marcos Dias De Assuncao 
Zhihui Du 
Kaoutar El Maghraoui 
Erik Elmroth 
Dick Epema 
Jose Fortes 
Pawel Garbacki 
Saurabh Kumar Garg 
Wolfgang Gentzsch 
Cecile Germain 
Rob Gillen 
Andrzej Goscinski 
Madhusudhan Govindaraju 
Ken Hawick 
Bo Hong 
Marty Humphrey
Hai Jin 
Thilo Kielmann 
Kyong Hoon Kim 
Bastian Koller 
Derrick Kondo 
Doug Lea 
Craig Lee 
Laurent Lefevre 
Xiaorong Li 
Thenalapadi S. Mohan 
Marco A.S. Netto 
Shrideep Pallickara 
Sangmi Pallickara 
Siani Pearson 
Marlon Pierce 
Radu Prodan
Benny Rochwerger 
Bruno Schulze
Dongwan Shin 
Alex Sim 
Domenico Talia 
Michela Taufer 
Ruppa Thulasiram 
Robert Van Engelen 
Peter Van Roy 
Carlos A. Varela 
Jinesh Varia 
Bharadwaj Veeravalli 
Srikumar Venugopal 
David Walker 
Wei-Jen Wang 
C.L. Wang 
Paul Watson 
Timothy Wood 
Ramin Yahyapour 
Qin Zheng
Albert Zomaya 

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- Carlos.

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Carlos A. Varela      <cvarela at cs.rpi.edu> 
Associate Professor                           
Worldwide Computing Laboratory
Department of Computer Science 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA
http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/
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