[hpc-announce] IEEE CLOUD 2023: Firm Submission Deadline March 25

[Maria Fazio]

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2023)
July 2-8, 2023, Chicago, Illinois, USA
https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2023/

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IMPORTANT DATES (ANYWHERE ON EARTH)
December 1, 2022: EasyChair opens for draft submissions
UPDATED: March 25, 2023: EasyChair closes for submissions (HARD submission deadline)
UPDATED: May 8, 2023: Acceptance notification
Camera-ready due: June 1, 2023
July 2-8, 2023: SERVICES Congress in Chicago
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IEEE CLOUD is the flagship conference focusing on innovative cloud computing across all "as a service" categories (XaaS). This includes modeling, developing, publishing, monitoring, managing, delivering, and scaling XaaS offerings from the core to the edge. The conference is a prime international forum for researchers, academics, businesses, industry, and standard bodies to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of cloud computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of cloud computing.

IEEE CLOUD 2023 invites original papers addressing all aspects of cloud computing infrastructure, applications, and business innovations. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Cloud and AI
* Use of AI to Improve Cloud Services and Operations
* Use of Cloud to Improve AI Research and Deployment
* Predictive Analysis and Federated Learning
* Anomaly Detection and Automation for Remediation & Mitigation
* Observability, Transparency and Reproducibility

Infrastructure
* Cloud Computing Systems and Architectures
* Edge Computing Systems and Architectures
* Cloud Storage and Data Architectures
* Cloud-centric Network Architectures (SDN, NFV, etc)
* Computing Continuum and Edge-Cloud-HPC federation 

Applications
* Large Scale Cloud Applications
* Edge Applications
* Microservice-based, Containerized, & Serverless Applications
* Digital Twins & Applications across Edge-Cloud-HPC Continuum

Cloud Management and Operations
* Hybrid-cloud Integration and Multi-cloud Environments
* Distributed and Parallel Query Processing
* Resource, Energy, Data Management
* Cloud Metering and Monitoring
* Containers, Serverless Computing
* Cloud Service Adaptation and Automation
* Cloud Federation, Service Composition
* Sustainable Cloud Computing

Cloud Security
* Confidential Cloud Computing and Trusted Cloud Environments
* Access Control, Authorization, Authentication
* Assurance, Audit, Certification, Compliance
* Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Reliability
* Privacy-aware data management
* Cloud Applications of Distributed Ledger Technologies

Cloud Economics
* Cloud Strategy for Enterprise Business Transformation
* Cloud Service Level Agreement (SLAs)
* Economics and Business Models for XaaS
* Cloud Quality Management
* Cloud ROI Analysis, Cost and Pricing

Cloud as a Service
* Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
* Platform as a Service (PaaS)
* Function as a Service (FaaS)
* Software as a Service (SaaS)
* Network / Storage as a Service


MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES AND SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Please visit the Information for Authors page on the Congress website for manuscript guidelines: https://conferences.computer.org/services/2023/author_info/

GENERAL CHAIRS 
Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo
Manish Parashar, University of Utah

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Judy Fox, University of Virginia
Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Research - Zurich

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Maria Fazio, University of Messina
Soumya K. Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 
Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University
Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology 
Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba
Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University