Aim:

The event intends to be an open forum for discussions about the state-of-the-art, the recent achievements and the future in breaking the barriers of Cloud adoption on large scale, barriers that are related to vendor lock-in, lack of common interfaces and standards and so on, shortly the ones hindering the vision of InterCloud or Sky computing.

Call for papers:

Original contributions are invited to be reported to the event.
The paper can have up to 8 pages in the two-columns IEEE conference style.

The suggested topics are the followings (but not restricted to):

self-management in Clouds and federation of Clouds
applications using multiple Clouds
interoperability between Clouds
portability of Cloud based applications
run-time selection of Cloud services
reliability of Cloud services
auto-scaling techniques
scheduling over heterogeneous Clouds
dynamic load balancing between multiple Clouds
architectures for automatic management of applications based on multiple Clouds
model-driven architectures for multiple Cloud usage scenarios
open-source support for Cloud computing

Deadlines:

Call for papers: May 2012
Full paper submissions: 22 June 2012
Notifications: 22 July 2012
Revised papers and registrations: 1 Sept 2012
Event: 26 Sept 2012
Publication of selected papers in IEEE proceedings of SYNASC 2012: Jan 2013
Extended version of selected papers for SCPE: Feb 2013
Notifications: March 2013
Publication of selected papers in SCPE: April 2013

Submission system:

The papers should be submitted at Easychair account of SYNASC workshops