Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Improving elasticity and availability in cloud infrastructure and cloud services

• Cloud support for new hardware technologies (e.g. accelerators and GPUs)

• Cloud data management and analytics

• Multi-tenancy and related issues such as performance isolation

• Micro-cloud (or Cloudlet) infrastructure

• Charging models and economics

• Power-efficient (“green") computing for clouds

• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and failure recovery

• Debugging and performance analysis of cloud applications

• Cloud management and configuration

• Virtual appliance management and composition

• Storage architectures for cloud computing

• Novel networking approaches for cloud computing

• Programming models

• Security and privacy in clouds

• New applications for clouds

• Mobility

• Integrating enterprise applications with the cloud

• Cloud operations

• Cloud workload management including migration to disparate clouds