[hpc-announce] CFP - [Poster] The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2017) and BDCAT 2017

[Dai, Dong]

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CALL FOR POSTER [DEADLINE IS APPROACHING!]

The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2017)
and Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2017)
  
Austin, TX, USA
December 5 - 8

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/cac/conferences/ucc2017/page-3/calls.html

IMPORTANT DATES 
Deadline for paper submission: September 15, 2017
Notification to authors: September 23, 2017
Camera-ready papers: September 30, 2017

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This call for papers applies to posters with accompanying two-page short writeups for the main UCC or BDCAT conferences. 

Authors are invited to submit a short two-page writeup covering original work-in-progress (WIP) and ongoing research suitable for presentation at the conference venue in poster form. Submissions should relate to current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility computing including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data center design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to those of the UCC or BDCAT conferences.

Manuscript guidelines

Authors are requested to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed two letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, which include an optional free collaborative cloud-based LaTeX authoring tool. Papers should be prepared in two-column single-spaced format.

Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the UCC/BDCAT 2017 poster submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc17poster).

Submitted poster writeups should be structured as technical papers and need to conform to the ACM conference format guidelines.

Manuscript submissions must be received by the announced submission deadline. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper.

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the UCC website.