The iScaleCloud'2015 workshop is scheduled on October 27, 2015 and will be held at HangZhou, China. It is collocated with IEEE CIC conference.

Internet-scale cloud data centers, such as those run by Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, provide the next generation computing platforms for many emerging services, such as tele-work, e-government, and business solutions to millions of individuals distributed across the Internet and host tens of thousands of servers. Many small and medium enterprises (SME) have great potential to benefit the economic incentives when using aforementioned internet-scale cloud computing platforms for their business applications. However, there are challenges associated with every new technology.

Interoperability, communication, performance, and security are the four major critical issues that need to be addressed when applications are deployed in internet-scale clouds. Same is the case for the internet-scale cloud platforms that would manage large number of shared and disparate services. Various quality requirements, such as availability, security, economic cost, energy efficiency, and so forth determine the quality of service of internet-scale cloud applications and platforms.

iScaleCloud brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world to share their experiences on the challenges and problems faced in applications deployed in internet-scale cloud. This event will define protocols and standards that need to be set in place for improving cloud computing technologies and making cloud a new and attractive paradigm for various applications.

The topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to:

Enabling application services across Clouds
Novel cloud usage models
High consistency models for cloud storage
Innovative cloud service models
Support for scalable and secure across Clouds
Architectural Models for multi-Cloud deployment
Security, privacy, and trust for cloud computing
Multi-Cloud/hybrid-Cloud support for mobile applications
Applications making use of collaboration in Clouds, including games and social networks
Cloud-enabled Social Computing
Social and Social/Mobile Cloud models and challenges
Collaborative Big Data systems
Scientific, Business, and social computing in single and multi-Cloud environment
Challenges for collaboration in Clouds



Program Co-Chairs

Qingyang Wang, Louisiana State University
Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh
Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia


Technical Program Committee

Gerald Baumgartner, Louisiana State University, USA
Yan Tang, Zhejiang University, China
Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
Seung-Jong Park, Louisiana State University, USA
Lizhen Cui, Shandong University, China
Junjie Zhang, Wright State University, USA
Devesh Tiwari, ORNL, USA
Feng Chen, Louisiana State University, USA
Yuzhe Tang, Syracuse University, USA
Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA
Yandong Wang, IBM T.J Watson Research, USA
De Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Shijun Liu, Shandong University, China
Wei Zhou, YunNan University, China
Qingyang Wang, Louisiana State University, USA