CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE SC2 2018 The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Services Computing (IEEE SC2) 2018 Paris, France November 19 - 22, 2018 https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~cerin/sc2iovsoca2018.html Submission Deadline: September 07, 2018 Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results at the SC2 2018 Conference. ---------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------- The Cloud is a natural evolution of distributed computing and the widespread adaption of virtualization and SOA. Services computing is a new cross-discipline subject that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT services. In cloud computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. IEEE SC2 2018 is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT-driven cloud computing technologies and services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of cloud and services computing. IEEE SC2 2018 will be co-located with IEEE SOCA 2018, IOV 2018 in Paris, France. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud architecture - Cloud OS, middleware, and toolkits - Fog / Edge Computing - Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Contracts - Cloud Storage architecture - Big data infrastructure, systems, methodologies, and applications - Virtualization techniques - Resource provision, monitoring, and scheduling - Privacy and access control for cloud computing - Performance evaluation and modeling measurement for cloud computing - Programming models for building cloud applications - Networking in cloud computing - Security, privacy and trustworthy in clouds - Security, privacy and trustworthy for service oriented architectures and systems - Energy efficient hardware and software solutions - High availability and reliability - Large scale cloud applications - Internet/web computing and data mining - Volunteer and utility computing - Green and pervasive computing - Service oriented architecture - Discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructures - Foundations of services computing - Services-centric business models - Business process integration and management ------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Workshop/Special Session Proposal May 30, 2018 Workshop/Special Session Notification June 15, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline September 07, 2018 Acceptance Notification October 01, 2018 Registration Deadline October 11, 2018 Camera-Ready Submission October 25, 2018 ------------------------------------------ PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE format and submitted via the SC2 2018 submission site : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sc22018 Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. Works-in-Progess (WIP) (6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas. Demo/Poster papers (4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to SC2. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Papers/proposals need to be submitted to the Demo/Poster track. Workshop and Special Session papers (6 pages) need to be submitted to the corresponding workshops and special sessions. --------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS --------------------------------- All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in IEEE CS proceedings (EI indexed). Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - Compendex EI - ACM Digital Library - DBLP - Google Scholar ---------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEES ---------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIRS Omer Rana, Cardiff university, UK Daqing Zhang, Institute Mines-Télécom/Télécom SudParis, France GENERAL EXECUTIVE CHAIR Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland PROGRAM CHAIRS Shu Tao, IBM Research, USA Pascal Bouvry, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PUBLICATION CHAIR Jonathan Lejeune, Sorbonne Université STEERING COMMITTEE Hamid Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Robert Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Christophe Cérin, Université Paris 13 Hanene Azzag, Université Paris 13 Leila Abidi, Université Paris 13 Jonathan Lejeune, Sorbonne Université Mustapha Lebbah Université Paris 13 Arnaud Kaiser, IRT SystemX Kais Klay, Université Paris 13 Tarek Menouer, Université Paris 13 Sondes Khemiri-Kallel, Université Versailles St Quentin Walid Gaaloul, Télécom Sudparis, Evry Khaled Boussetta, Université Paris 13 Nadjib Achir, Université Paris 13