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The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Service Discovery, April 14, 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, to be held in conjunction with PAKDD 2013. Website link: http://cloudsd2013.org/==================================================================================

Cloud is a novel computing paradigm that builds on the foundations of Distributed Computing, Grid Computing, Networking, Virtualization, Service Orientation, and Market-Oriented Computing. Cloud provides flexible resource allocation on demand with the promise of realizing elastic, Internet-accessible, computing on a pay-as-you-go basis. Cloud services include infrastructure such as computing and storage servers, platform such as operating systems, and application software; these are often referred to as infrastructure-as-a-service or SaaS, platform-as-a-service or PaaS, and software-as-a-service or SaaS, respectively.

With the development of cloud computing, more and more services are deployed or transferred to the cloud. It provides more solutions to the customer, but accompanies with a series of problems. Before this paradigm can be widely accepted, many issues have yet to be resolved, including modeling and development of cloud services and applications, techniques and policies for ensuring security and privacy, cloud service performance modeling and optimization, techniques for accurate cloud service quality prediction, etc.

This workshop focuses on the challenges imposed by effective and personalized service discovery on clouds, and on the different state-of-the-art solutions proposed to overcome these challenges. It brought together the collaborative and distributed computing community and the personalized computing community in an effort to generate productive conversations on the discovery of cloud services.

Papers of applied research, industrial experience reports, work-in-progress and vision papers with different criteria for each category that describe recent advances and efforts in the design and composition of cloud services that will benefit many applications are also solicited.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

? XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
? Service Integration and Orchestration on the Cloud
? Service Mining on the Cloud
? Personalized Service Discovery/Recommendation
? Grid and Computational Services
? Service Composition and Engineering
? Managing Services on the Cloud
? Managing a Cloud Platform
? Software engineering models, methods and methodologies for XaaS
? Workflow management in clouds
? Management Processes and Methods
? Managing Service Infrastructure
? Business Intelligence and Analytics for Services
? Service Security, Privacy and Trust
? Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS)
? Ontology and Semantic Web for Services Computing
? Services Repository and Registry
? Formal Methods for SOA

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Submission Information: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that
present original unpublished research. Before submitting your papers, it is important to carefully read and agree with the PAKDD submission and no show policy.
Submissions should follow LNCS format and the maximum length is 12-page (one column), the same as PAKDD conference. Authors should use LNCS Springer?s manuscript submission guidelines. Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudsd2013

Further information about the workshop can be found at :

http://cloudsd2013.org/

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Important Deadlines:

Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 1, 2013
Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 30, 2013
Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 15, 2013

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General Chairs:
Michael R. Lyu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, lyu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
Jian Yang, Macquire University, Australia, jian.yang@mq.edu.au

Program Chairs:
Jian Wu, Zhejiang University, China, wujian2000@zju.edu.cn
Zibin Zheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, zbzheng@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

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