6th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CLOUDS AND (ESCIENCE) APPLICATIONS MANAGEMENT - CloudAM 2017
(http://cloudam2017.lncc.br/)

in conjunction with the 10th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing Conference (UCC)
Austin Texas, USA, December 5-8, 2017

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SPECIAL ISSUE

Selected papers from CloudAM will be invited to be extended for submission to a Special Issue in Cloud Computing to be published by the Elsevier's Computers and Electrical Engineering journal. These invited papers will undergo standard review process in the journal.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission due: September 10, 2017 (HARD)
Notification of acceptance: September 25, 2017
Final camera-ready papers due: September 29, 2017
Workshop Date: December 5-8, 2017
Attendees to CloudAM must register for the main conference UCC2017

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SUBMISSIONS

Submissions at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudam2017

CloudAM2017 The Clouds and Applications Management workshop invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Authors are requested to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 6 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, which include an optional free collaborative cloud-based LaTeX authoring tool.

Submission requires the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper
Selected (extended) papers should be invited to submit to a high quality Journal special issue
To submit your paper, please access the easychair submission system at EasyChair


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DESCRIPTION

Cloud computing, virtualization and virtual (eScience) applications are currently hot topics
and have been generating substantial interest in the community, and it is anticipated that this
interest will expand. It is also important to the research community as it is challenging
traditional methods by its sheer size and high level of automation. Clouds must provide
appropriate levels of performance to large groups of diverse users, and those clouds
are accessed through virtualized wide area networks. Management systems are essential
for that and thereby for the future success of the cloud paradigm. New systems, methods, and
approaches for cloud, virtualization and (eScience) applications management are to be discussed
at this workshop.

For the CloudAM 2017 workshop, researchers from Clouds and (eScience) Applications communities are encouraged to submit and present original work to be considered for publication. Overall topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Cloud computing environments
* Cloud service orchestration
* Cloud APIs and usage control
* Cloud data management
* Cloud scalable monitoring
* Cloud load balancing
* Multi-cloud/Inter-clouds
* Customer cloud management
* Managing data centers
* Management as a service
* Management of virtual slices
* *aaS Management
* Application and Management Portals
* Cloud scheduling
* Hybrid clouds
* Fog computing
* Cloud case studies
* Cloud surveys and taxonomies
* Social clouds
* Accounting and economic models for clouds
* Managing cloud services
* Management of virtualized hardware resources
* Network-specific mechanisms for optimized cloud access
* Performance modeling & evaluation
* QoS/QoE management in the cloud
* Management tools for infrastructure virtualization
* Automated resource slicing
* Integration of the wireless and optical domains
* Policy driven service/resource life-cycle management
* Applications and services enabled by virtualized infrastructure
* Optimization of data center and workload energy consumption
* Green cloud computing
* Scientific workflows on clouds
* Mobile clouds
* Big data / complex event processing in the cloud
* Autonomic cloud computing
* Cloud – IoT/Smart Cities integration



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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Co-Chairs:
* Bruno Schulze - LNCC, BR, schulze@lncc.br
* Luiz Bittencourt - UNICAMP, BR, bit@ic.unicamp.br
* Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, UNIZAR, ES, rafaelt@unizar.es



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PROGRAM COMMITTEE PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• David Abramson - Monash Univ., AU
• José Á. Bañares – Unizar - ES
• Jim Basney - NCSA, USA
• Daniel Batista – USP, BR
• Michael Bauer - Univ. of Western Ontario, CA
• Francisco Brasileiro - UFCG, BR
• Rajkumar Buyya - UniMelb, AU
• Luis Carlos Erpen de Bona - UFPR, BR
• Thomas Fahringer - Univ. of Innsbruck, AT
• Geoffrey C. Fox - Indianna Univ., US
• Wolfgang Gentzsch - RZG/MPG, DE
• Claudio Geyer - UFRGS, BR
• Nazim Agoulmine – UEV, FR
• Hélio Guardia - UFSCar, BR
• Craig Lee – ASC, USA
• Josef Spillner – ZHAW, CH
• Wilson Higashino – Western University, CA
• Laurent Lefevre - INRIA, Univ. of Lyon, FR
• Omer Rana – Cardiff, UK
• Srikumar Venugopal - UNSW, AU
• Manish Parashar – Rutgers U., USA
• José Luis Vázquez Poletti - UC MAdrid, ES
• Ivan Rodero – Rutgers U., USA
• Alan Sill, Texas Tech, USA
• Ashiq Anjum, Univ. of Derby, UK
• Ewa Deelman, USC, USA
• Khalid Elgazzar, ULO, USA
• Rafael Ferreira, USC, USA
• Alan Sil, TTU, USA
• Agustín Caminero, UNED, ES
• Rizos Sakelariou, MU, UK
• Ioan Petri, Cardiff, UK
• Edmundo Madeira, UNIC, BR