International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Management - CloudAM 2015
(cloudam2015.lncc.br/)

In conjunction with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing

Limassol, Cyprus. December 7-10, 2015

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IMPORTANT DATES

paper submission: 01 September 2015
notification of reviews: 17 September 2015
Camera ready papers due: 21 September 2015
Early registration deadline: 21 September 2015

Submissions at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudam2015

The Clouds and Applications Management workshop invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers should not exceed 6 pages IEEE style (single-spaced 2-column text using 10-point size type on A4 paper). Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer.

Submission requires the willingness of at least one of the authors to register at full rate (non-student, non-workshop) and present the paper at the workshop. All selected papers for this workshop are peer-reviewed and will be published in IEEE Xplore.

Selected (extended) papers will be invited to submit to a Special Issue in Cloud Computing of the Elsevier's Computers and Electrical Engineering journal. Invited papers will undergo standard review process.


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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 2015 workshop, researchers from the 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:

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
- Cloud federation management
- Customer cloud management
- Managing data centers
- Management as a service
- Management of virtual slices
- IaaS Management
- Application and Management Portals
- Cloud Scheduling
- Hybrid Clouds
- Accounting and economic models for clouds
- Management of virtualized hardware resources
- Managing cloud services
- Network-specific mechanisms for optimized cloud access
- Performance modeling and 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
- Software Defined Networking and Network Virtualization in Clouds
- Cloud and IoT integration and Applications
- Fog Computing and Applications
- Big Data processing in Cloud Computing


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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Bruno Schulze - LNCC, BR
Luiz Bittencourt - UNICAMP, BR
Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz - Unizar, ES
Craig A. Lee, The Aerospace Corporation
Silvio Pardi, INFN-Napoli
David Bernstein, Cloud Strategy Partners, LLC

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

David Abramson - Univ. Queensland, AU
Jose Bañares - Unizar, ES
Daniel Batista - USP, BR
Michael Bauer - Univ. of Western Ontario, CA
Luis Carlos Erpen De Bona - UFPR, BR
Francisco Brasileiro - UFGC, BR
Ewa Deelman - USC, USA
Javier Diaz - Rutgers Univ., USA
Minh Ngoc Dinh - Univ. Queensland, AU
Geoffrey C. Fox - Indiana Univ., USA
Wolfgang Gentzsch - The UberCloud
Claudio Geyer - UFRGS, BR
Antonio Gomes - LNCC, BR
Hélio Guardia - UFSCar, BR
Hai Jin - HUST, CH
Chao Jin - Univ. Queensland, AU
Craig Lee - Aerospace Corporation
Laurent Lefevre - INRIA, FR
Edmundo Madeira - UNICAMP, BR
Antonio Mury - LNCC, BR
Marco Netto - IBM, BR
Manish Parashar - Rutgers Univ., USA
Ioan Petri - Cardiff Univ., UK
Omer Rana - Cardiff Univ., UK
Vinod Rebello - UFF, BR
Iván Rodero- Rutgers Univ., USA
Rizos Sakellariou - Manchester Univ., UK
Rafael Ferreira da Silva - USC, USA
Luis Tomas - Umea University, SE
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti - UCM, ES
Luís Veiga - INESC ID, P
Srikumar Venugopal - UNSW, AU