The 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CloudTech 2017) will be held from October 24th to October 26th, 2016, in Rabat.

After the success of the previous editions (CloudTech’15) and (CloudTech’16), we are very glad to announce the CloudTech’17 in its Third version. The CloudTech’17 will be organized by National College of IT (ENSIAS, Mohamed V University) and Moroccan Association of Cloud Computing in partnership with IEEE cloud computing community and University of Mons (Belguim) during October 24-26, 2017 in Rabat-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. IEEE CloudTech 2017 is expected to attract more than 200 of industry professionals, scientists, and academics from all over the world.

CloudTech’17 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 (but are not limited) to the topics below.
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TOPICS OF INTERESTS

Track 1: Cloud Architectures and Applications

Intercloud architecture models
Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues
Networking technologies
Programming models & systems/tools
Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs
Storage & file systems
Scalability & performance
Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance
Operational, economic & business models
Green data centers
Computational resources, storage & network virtualization
Resource monitoring
Virtual desktops
Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery
Modeling & performance evaluation
Disaster recovery
Energy efficiency

Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications

Cloud services models & frameworks
Cloud services reference models & standardization
Cloud­powered services design
Business processes, compliance & certification
Data management applications & services
Application workflows & scheduling
Application benchmarks & use cases
Cloud­based services & protocols
Fault­tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications
Application development and debugging tools
Business models & economics of cloud services

Track 3: IoT and Mobile on Cloud

IoT cloud architectures & models
Cloud­based dynamic composition of IoT
Cloud­based context­aware IoT
Mobile cloud architectures & models
Green mobile cloud computing
Resource management in mobile cloud environments
Cloud support for mobility­aware networking protocols
Multimedia applications in mobile cloud environments
Cloud­based mobile networks and applications

Track 4: Big Data and applications

Machine learning
Data mining
Approximate & scalable statistical methods
Graph algorithms
Querying & search
Data lifecycle management
Frameworks, tools & their composition
Virtualization for big data on cloud
MapReduce with cloud for big data processing
Big data storage, integration, service, mining
Big data security issues in cloud computing
Big data privacy in cloud computing

Track 5: High Performance Computing in/with the Cloud

Load balancing
Middleware solutions
Scalable scheduling
HPC as a Service
Programming models
Use cases & experience reports
Cloud deployment systems
TCO analysis Cloud vs HPC

Track 6: Distributed Cloud / Cloud Brokering / Edge Computing

Distributed Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud federation & hybrid cloud infrastructure
Utility Computing (UC)
Cloud Brokering Problem
Edge Computing infrastructure
Cloudlets
Fog Computing Systems

Track 7: 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
Accountability & audit
Authentication & authorization
Cloud integrity
Cryptography for & in the cloud
Hypervisor security
Identity management & security as a service
Prevention of data loss or leakage
Secure, interoperable identity management
Trust & credential management
Trusted computing
Usable security

Track 8: 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

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IMPORTANT DATES

Regular Papers Submission Due: April 30, 2017
Notification : June 30, 2017
Camera Ready, Author Registration: July 30, 2017
Conference: October 24 - 26, 2017
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