[hpc-announce] Call for Papers - Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2023)

[Márcio Castro]

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2023)

          http://inf.ufrgs.br/gppd/wcc/2023/

                In conjunction with:

35th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and
     High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2023)
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The Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2023) is an international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange fundamental advances in the state of art and practice of cloud computing, identify emerging research topics and define the future of cloud computing. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE 35th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2023) from October 17th to 20th, 2023, in Porto Alegre - RS, Brazil.


We invite authors to submit papers with original research, practical application papers, Ph.D. and Master Thesis ongoing work.

Topics of interest (but are not limited to):
- High performance computing in the cloud
- Computational resources, storage and network virtualization
- Cloud capacity planning
- Cloud services models and frameworks
- Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs and/or APUs
- Cryptography in the Cloud
- Energy, cost, efficiency, and security in the Cloud
- Fog computing
- Green data centers
- IoT cloud architectures and models
- Blockchain cloud services
- Management in edge computing
- Modeling and performance evaluation
- Networking technologies network virtualization, software-defined networking
- Operational, economic and business cloud models
- Privacy protection in Cloud platforms
- Resilience, fault-tolerance, disaster recovery
- Resource provisioning, monitoring, management and maintenance
- Scalability, performance, and Cloud elasticity
- Virtual desktops
- Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels, and microservices


Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth):
- Paper deadline: August 25th, 2023
- Author notification: September 15th, 2023
- Camera-ready submission: September 29th, 2023
- Workshop Date: October 17th to 20th

Paper Submission guidelines

The workshop will receive submissions of research papers and will carry out a single-blind peer review process to select high-quality papers to be presented in the workshop. Paper submissions must be in English, have from 6 up to 8 pages (including references), and follow the IEEE conference manuscript formatting guidelines for double-column text using a single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5 × 11-inch pages. Templates are available from http://www. ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. To be published in the conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, one of the authors must register at the full rate and present his/her work at the conference. 

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcc2023

General Chairs:
Márcio Castro (UFSC) 
Philippe O. A. Navaux (UFRGS) 

Program Committee (in construction):
Bruno Schulze (LNCC), Brazil
César De Rose (PUCRS), Brazil
Claude Tadonki (ENSMP), France
Dalvan Griebler (PUCRS), Brazil
Edson Borin (Unicamp), Brazil
Laércio Pilla (CNRS), France
Lucas Schnorr (UFRGS), Brazil
Luciana Arantes (Sorbonne University), France
Luciano Gaspary (UFRGS), Brazil
Lúcia Drummond (UFF), Brazil
Marco Vieira (UC), Portugal
Matthias Diener (UIUC), EUA
Mayo Rafael (CIEMAT), Spain
Pierre Sens (UPS), France
Rodrigo Righi (Unisinos), Brazil
Thais Batista (UFRN), Brazil
Tiago Ferreto (PUCRS), Brazil

Kind regards,
WCC 2023 General Chairs