[Tccc] Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Management of Cloud Systems" - Elsevier FGCS

Mario Fanelli mario.fanelli
Tue Sep 20 15:49:15 EDT 2011


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                Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

                  http://www.elsevier.com/locate/future

                
              Special Issue on "Management of Cloud Systems"



The  vision  of  Cloud  computing is becoming a reality because of the
recent 
advances  in  several significant computer and communications research
areas, 
spanning  from  grid/virtualization/utility  computing to Web 2.0 and
Service 
Oriented  Computing  (SOC).  At  the current stage, after the initial hype
of 
enthusiasm,  several  ongoing  research  efforts  are  deeply focusing on
the 
open  management aspects of the Cloud, such as interoperability,
scalability, 
reliability,  power  management,  and  confidentiality/auditability, with
the 
final  goal  to make Cloud technologies and services more mature so to
enable 
and  boost  a  more  widespread  industrial  uptake of Cloud systems.
Despite 
several  recent  provisioning  of  Cloud systems, it is still unclear
whether 
current  solutions can withstand the abrupt and unpredictably changes
imposed 
by  the  emergent  Cloud  application scenarios, where services
de/activation 
and  the  whole software stacks (from the kernel upward) have to scale up
and 
down  fast  by  exploiting  highly  distributed and heterogeneous
virtualized 
resources.


The  mission  of this Special Issue is to put on the foreground all the
above
issues  and  to  disseminate  the  latest  research  result  in this
emergent 
research  area, by providing a fresh snapshot of the current
state-of-the-art 
in management of Cloud systems. Along that direction, this special issue
will 
collect  a  mix of extended and updated versions of papers recently
presented 
at the international Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2011),
and 
of other papers submitted from this open call. In particular, all the
authors 
of  papers  accepted  for inclusion in the MoCS?11 proceedings are invited
to 
submit extended versions of their workshop papers; in addition, we are
asking 
for high-quality papers (from open call) reporting original research
results. 

Contributions  should present practical experiences of system
design/prototy-
ping/deployment related to topics that include, but are not limited to:
* Novel  adaptive  management  solutions  for  scalable,  maintainable,
cost-
  effective Cloud provision, at all software stack layers;
* New  methods  and  tools  able  to  identify and enforce optimal
trade-offs 
  between performance, energy consumption, safety, and security; 
* New   models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the
host 
  level and within/between data centers (intra-/inter-domain); 
* Emerging    standards   for   interoperability   (resource
virtualization, 
  specific  computing  interfaces,  etc.),  also  between  public and
private 
  Clouds;
* Experimentation  testbeds,  field  trials  and  empirical  evaluations,
and 
  measurement studies;
* Analytical  and  simulation  models and tools to measure systems ability
to 
  scale and to achieve relevant energy savings.

Submission process:
Authors  should  prepare  and  submit  manuscripts according to the Guide
for 
Authors as published in the Journal Web site at:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/
find/journaldescription.cws_home/505611/authorinstructions

Manuscripts  must  not  have  been  previously  published  or currently
under 
consideration  for  publication  elsewhere. If a similar version of the
paper 
has  been published in a conference, including MoCS?11, the submitted
version 
should  contain significant additions/enhancements; in that case, authors
are 
requested  to submit  their  published  conference  articles  and  a
summary 
document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version.

Potential  authors  are  encouraged  to  submit original and unpublished
work 
through the submission system at the journal website:
http://ees.elsevier.com
/fgcs/. 

Please  choose  the  Article  Type ?SS: Cloud Systems ? Corradi/Rana?. If
you 
encounter  any  problems in the  use  of  the  online  system,  please do
not  
hesitate to contact authorsupport at elsevier.com.


Important Dates (to be confirmed):
* Paper submission deadline: October 30, 2011
* First revision notification to authors: December 15, 2011
* Revision submission: January 15, 2012
* Second revision notification to authors: February 15, 2012
* Submission of camera-ready versions of accepted manuscripts: March 15,
2012
* Special issue publication schedule (tentative): 3rd Quarter 2012


Guest Editors of the Special Issue:
* Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy, antonio.corradi at unibo.it
* Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, o.f.rana at cs.cardiff.ac.uk 


If you have any questions about paper submission or the special issue,
please 
contact one of the Guest Editors.

_________________________________________

Mario Fanelli, Ph.D. Student
DEIS-LIA - Universit? degli Studi di Bologna
Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY)
Ph.: (+39) 051 209 3541 Fax: (+39) 051 209 3073.
E-mail: mario.fanelli at unibo.it or mario.fanelli at gmail.com
Web: http://www-lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/MarioFanelli/
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