[Tccc] Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Management of Cloud Systems" - Elsevier FGCS
Mario Fanelli
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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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 "SI_mocs". 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, University of Cardiff, 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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