[hpc-announce] Call for Workshops - CloudCom 2016 (8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Luxembourg, December 12-15, 2016

[Hyacinthe Cartiaux]

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

**IEEE CloudCom 2016**
_8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science_
December 12-15th, 2016, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

http://2016.cloudcom.org

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IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline for workshop proposals      : 11:59 PM, May 15th, 2016 AoE
* Notification for workshop organizers : May 22, 2016

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IEEE CloudCom 2016 is soliciting proposals for full-day / half-day workshops and
tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference in Luxembourg from
December 12th to December 15th, 2016.

We encourage members of the community to consider submitting proposals for
workshops on any topic related to the broad set of research and application
areas covered by IEEE CloudCom. Workshops can be used to publish early results
and/or to conduct teaching and provide hands-on experience for topics of
interest to the CloudCom community.

Topics of interest of IEEE CloudCom 2016 include (but are not limited to):

* Architecture and Virtualization
* Cloud Services and Applications
* IoT and Mobile on Cloud
* Big Data
* High Performance Computing in/with the Cloud
* Security and Privacy
* Distributed Cloud / Cloud Brokering / Edge Computing

More details can be found at the following URL:
http://2016.cloudcom.org/conf/tracks.html

Accepted workshop papers will be published in a supplement of the Proceedings of
IEEE CloudCom 2016, and submitted to IEEE Xplore (conditioned by the
presentation at the workshop by the author).

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WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

All proposals should be no longer than two pages, in PDF format, and must
provide the following information:

* Workshop title, along with a brief 200-word abstract describing the event.
   - the abstract will be published on the conference web site.
* Names, affiliations and contact information of the main organizers, together
  with, where relevant, tentative composition of the committees (as complete as
  possible).
* Motivation, rationale and coverage of the workshop.
   - For regular workshops, a draft Call For Papers (CFP), as complete as
     possible.
   - For teaching workshops, a draft of the syllabus.
* The workshop deadlines, both internal and external.
* Workshop format _i.e._ expected number of participants, submitted and
  presented papers, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, etc.
* If applicable, provide a description of past versions of the activity,
  including dates, organizers, submission and acceptance counts, attendance. For
  new workshops, it would help to list potential attendees.


Proposals (or questions) should be emailed to the Workshops & Tutorials Chairs:

* Valentin Plugaru <valentin.plugaru at uni.lu>,   University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
* Henry Chan       <cshchan at comp.polyu.edu.hk>, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China