After the success of the previous edition (CloudTech'15), we are very glad to announce the CloudTech'16, Second International Conference of Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications. The CloudTech'16 will be organized by National College of IT (ENSIAS, Mohamed V University) and Moroccan Association of Cloud Computing in partnership with IEEE Moroccan section and University of Mons (Belguim) during May 24-26, 2016 in Marrakech-Morocco.

Cloud computing has recently gained great attention from both academia and IT industry as a new infrastructure requiring smaller investments in hardware platform, staff training, or licensing new software tools. Cloud computing can be seen as any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, extends the Internet existing capabilities.

CloudTech'16 will address topics related to cloud technologies; architecture and applications including distributed computing and data centers, cloud infrastructure and its security, end-user services, Big data and its applications. The conference will provide a high-level, international forum for scientists, researchers, professionals and students who will have the opportunity to present state-of-the-art research results, address new challenges, and discuss trends in Cloud Technology and Big data.

We invite the submission of original work that is related to the topics below. Topics are organized into six tracks as follow:

Track1 : Cloud Architectures and Applications
Design, implementation and performance evaluation for cloud applications
Cloud Reference Architecture
Cloud Computing and Engineering
Cloud Computing Architecture
Cloud Application Portability
Cloud Interoperability
Cloud IT Systems Reuse
Cloud Abstraction of Composite IT Systems
Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications

Track 2 : Cloud Security and Privacy
Cloud-centric Mobile security
Security for emerging cloud programming models
Cloud-delivered security services
Cryptographic protocols for cloud security
Cloud threat/attack/vulnerability models
Security, integrity and privacy for Cloud Computing
Reliability, Fault Tolerance, Quality-of-Service
Trust and policy management in the Cloud
Secure Identity Access Management
New standards, guidelines, best practices for security and privacy in the Cloud
Security risk models for cloud computing
Legal issues in the Cloud
Incident Response in the Cloud
Cloud Security
Cloud Middleware Frameworks
Governance, Risk and Compliance
Cost and economic models for security in the Cloud
Cloud Risk, Challenges and Governance

Track3 : Cloud Energy Efficiency
Service Level Agreements and Performance Measurement
Energy-aware computing and communications.
Energy-efficient networking and computing infrastructures.
Energy-aware resource allocation and scheduling mechanisms.
Green materials and devices designs.
Usage of renewable energy for green ICT operation.
Cross-layer optimization of green networking infrastructures.
Life-cycle analysis of computing equipment.
Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling
Climate and ecosystem monitoring
Energy-efficient data center and cloud technologies
Green computing models, simulations, designs, and paradigms.

Track 4 : Big Data and applications
Virtualization for big data on cloud
-MapReduce with cloud for big data processing
Novel big data model
Big data storage, integration, service, mining
Big data security issues in cloud computing
Big data privacy in cloud computing
Big data security applications

Track5 : Mobile & Social Cloud, Cloud Solutions and Applications
Bring Your Own Device, Mobile Device Management
Cloud wireless sensor networks
Cloud forensics and e-discovery
Cloud systems and tools
Business Cloud vs. Software Cloud
Cloud based GPU
Educational Cloud Solutions
Cloud Delivery Models
Cloud Optimization and Automation
Web services supporting cloud computing
Models, methodologies and tools for web services
Grid Computing vs. Cloud Computing
Utility Computing vs. Cloud Computing

Track6 : Applications and Industrial Track
Business Cloud
Cloud applications in industry