[hpc-announce] Call for Papers: 5th Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2025) - In conjunction with 37th IEEE/SBC International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD)

[Márcio Castro]

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2025)
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In conjunction with: 37th IEEE/SBC International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD)
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The Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2025) is an international forum that brings together researchers and industry professionals to share cutting-edge advances in the theory and practice of cloud computing. The workshop aims to foster the exchange of ideas, highlight emerging research directions, and help shape the future of cloud computing.

WCC 2025 will be held in conjunction with the IEEE/SBC 37th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2025), taking place from October 28 to 31, 2025, in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

We invite authors to submit papers with original research, practical application papers as well as Ph.D./Master’s 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 18, 2025
 - Author notification: September 8, 2025
 - Camera-ready submission: September 22, 2025
 - Workshop dates: October 28-31, 2025

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!YmunRTtfCwT442RAAPmWU-5Q9wxv-fbI_Cd1NNWY5iGneRmkgd57CdBmZTyE0ijRtSEilj3rh3lKYeledKOexuI_WA1hJ4Q$ . 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=wcc2025__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!YmunRTtfCwT442RAAPmWU-5Q9wxv-fbI_Cd1NNWY5iGneRmkgd57CdBmZTyE0ijRtSEilj3rh3lKYeledKOexuI_npKnPtc$ 

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

Program Committee (in construction):

Alfredo Goldman (USP), Brazil
Arthur Lorenzon (UFRGS), Brazil
César De Rose (PUCRS), Brazil
Claude Tadonki (ENSMP), France
Dalvan Griebler (PUCRS), Brazil
Fábio Rossi (IFRS), Brazil
Francisco Brasileiro (UFCG), Brazil
Jorge Barbosa (U. Porto), Portugal
Lucas Schnorr (UFRGS), Brazil
Luciana Arantes (UPS), France
Luiz Bittencourt (UNICAMP), Brazil
Marco Vieira (UC), Portugal
Matheus Serpa (UFRGS), Brazil
Matthias Diener (UIUC), EUA
Pierre Sens (UPS), France
Rafael Mayo (CIEMAT), Spain
Tiago Ferreto (PUCRS), Brazil

Kind regards,

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Márcio Castro, Ph.D.

Associate Professor - Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Computer Science (PPGCC) - UFSC
Coordinator of the Special Commission of Computer Architecture and HPC (CE-ACPAD) - Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
Phone: +55 (48) 3721 7374
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