Introduction

CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, engineers, and students from the fields of big data, systems architecture, service-oriented architecture, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants.

Topics of interest of CloudCom 2020 include, but are not limited to:- Architecture, Storage and Virtualization- Cloud Services and Applications- Security, Privacy and Trust- Edge Computing, IoT and Distributed Cloud


(1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization- Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and micro-services- Cloud services delivery models & "last mile" technologies
- Virtualization technologies and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking)
- Networking technologies
- Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs
- Storage & file systems
- Scalability, performance, and Cloud elasticity
- Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance
- Cloud capacity planning
- Operational, economic & business models
- Energy efficiency
- Green data centers
- Computational resources, storage & network virtualization
- Virtual desktops
- Resilience, fault-tolerance, disaster recovery
- Modeling & performance evaluation

(2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications
- XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
- Cloud services models & frameworks
- Cloud services reference models & standardization
- Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud
- Cloud service and workflow management
- Systems interactions and machine learning
- Data management applications & services
- Services for compute-intensive applications
- Services for emerging technologies (quantum computing, augmented reality etc.)
- Mining and analytics
- Data-provisioning services
- Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools
- Cloud-based services & protocols
- Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications
- Traffic prediction models and auto-scaling for Cloud services
- Application development and debugging tools
- Business models & economics of Cloud services

(3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust
- Accountability & auditing
- Authentication & authorization
- Blockchain Cloud services
- Cryptography in the Cloud
- Hypervisor security
- Identity management & security as a service
- Prevention of data loss or leakage
- Secure, interoperable identity management
- Trust & credential management
- Trust models for Cloud services
- Usable security risk management in Cloud computing environments
- Privacy protection in Cloud platforms
- Privacy policy framework in the Cloud
- Privacy-preserving data mining in the Cloud
- Information sharing and data protection in the Cloud
- Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in the Cloud
- Energy, cost, efficiency of security in the Cloud

(4) Track 4: Edge Computing, IoT and Distributed Cloud
- Cloudlet-enabled applications
- Software infrastructure for cloudlets
- Distributed Cloud infrastructure
- Foundations and principles of distributed Cloud computing
- Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications
- Inter-cloud architecture models
- Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers
- Dynamic resource, service and context management in edge computing
- Fog computing
- IoT cloud architectures & models
- Cloud-based context-aware IoT
- Economics and pricing
- Existing deployments and measurements of public, private, hybrid, and federated environments


Submission Guidelines

Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudcom2020


Publications

Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals.