[hpc-announce] Call for Papers - Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2024)

[Márcio Castro]

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2024)

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                 In conjunction with:

36th IEEE/SBC International Symposium on Computer Architecture and
      High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2024)
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The Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2024) 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/SBC 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2024) from November 13th to 15th, 2024, in Hilo, Hawaii.

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: September 23rd, 2024
 - Author notification: October 14th, 2024
 - Camera-ready submission: October 21st, 2024
 - Workshop dates: November 13th - 15th, 2024

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 https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://www__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!b6gCAlm7MPyjcpvmTSqwXJZ2tWhypec3dC2xX25vIxncbR7SlWs5fhcOd6kob-CQFJNVQpDLz4P0pjwp8pRw2HCE4PHbx24$ . 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://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcc20240__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!b6gCAlm7MPyjcpvmTSqwXJZ2tWhypec3dC2xX25vIxncbR7SlWs5fhcOd6kob-CQFJNVQpDLz4P0pjwp8pRw2HCE6Xo5jaI$ 

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

Program Committee (in construction):
Alfredo Goldman (USP), Brazil
Cristiano Costa (Unisinos), Brazil
César De Rose (PUCRS), Brazil
Claude Tadonki (ENSMP), France
Dalvan Griebler (PUCRS), Brazil
Fábio D. Rossi (IFRS), Brazil
Francisco Brasileiro (UFCG), Brazil
Jesus Carretero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Spain
Jorge Barbosa (U. Porto), Portugal
Laurent Lefèvre (INRIA), France
Lucas Schnorr (UFRGS), Brazil
Luciana Arantes (UPS), France
Luiz Bittencourt (Unicamp), Brazil
Lúcia Drummond (UFF), Brazil
Marco Vieira (UC), Portugal
Matthias Diener (UIUC), EUA
Pierre Sens (UPS), France
Rafael Mayo (CIEMAT), Spain
Rodrigo Righi (Unisinos), Brazil
Rosa Badia (BSC), Spain
Tiago Ferreto (PUCRS), Brazil

Kind regards,
WCC 2024 General Chairs

Best,

--
Márcio Castro, Ph.D.

Associate Professor -- Professor Adjunto
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Computer Science (PPGCC)
Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)

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