[Tccc] Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Management of Cloud Systems" - Elsevier FGCS (Deadline Extended, November 13)

Mario Fanelli mario.fanelli
Sun Oct 30 03:33:53 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/auditabi-
lity,  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/pro-
totyping/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: November 13, 2011 (extended, hard deadline)
* 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.

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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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