We invite you to submit research papers related to following conference tracks

Cloud Architectures and Applications

• Intercloud architecture models
• Cloud services delivery models, campus integration and “last mile” issues
• Networking technologies
• Programming models & systems or tools
• Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs or APUs
• Scalability and performance
• Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance
• Operational, economic & business models
• Green data centers
• Computational resources, storage and network virtualization
• Resource monitoring
• Virtual desktops
• Resilience, fault tolerance and disaster recovery
• Modeling and performance evaluation
• Energy efficiency

Cloud Services and Applications

• Cloud services models and frameworks
• Cloud services reference models and standardization
• Cloud-powered services design
• Business processes, compliance and certification
• Data management applications and services
• Application workflows and scheduling
• Application benchmarks and use cases
• Fault-tolerance and availability of cloud services and applications
• Application development and debugging tools
• Business models and economics of cloud services

IoT and Mobile on Cloud

• IoT cloud architectures and models
• Cloud-based dynamic composition of IoT
• Cloud-based and context-aware IoT
• Mobile cloud architectures and models
• Green mobile cloud computing
• Resource management in mobile cloud environments
• Cloud support for mobility-aware networking protocols
• Multimedia applications in mobile cloud environments
• Cloud-based mobile networks and applications

Big Data

• Machine learning
• Data mining
• Approximate and scalable statistical methods
• Graph algorithms
• Querying and search
• Data lifecycle management
• Frameworks, tools and their composition
• Virtualization for big data on cloud
• MapReduce with cloud for big data processing
• Big data storage, integration, service and mining
• Big data security issues in cloud computing
• Big data privacy in cloud computing

High Performance Computing using the Cloud

• Load balancing
• Middleware solutions
• Scalable scheduling
• HPC as a Service
• Programming models
• Use cases and experience reports
• Cloud deployment systems
• TCO analysis Cloud vs HPC
• Web services

Distributed Cloud, Cloud Brokering or Edge Computing

• Distributed Cloud Infrastructure
• Cloud federation and hybrid cloud infrastructure
• Utility Computing (UC)
• Cloud Brokering Problem
• Edge Computing infrastructure
• Cloudlets
• Fog Computing Systems
• Real Time Cloud

Security and Privacy

• Cloud-centric Mobile security
• Security for emerging cloud programming models
• Cloud-delivered security services
• Cryptographic protocols for cloud security
• Cloud threat/attack/vulnerability models
• Security, integrity and privacy for Cloud Computing
• Reliability, Fault Tolerance, Quality-of-Service
• Trust and policy management in the Cloud
• Secure Identity Access Management
• New standards, guidelines, best practices for security and privacy in the Cloud
• Security risk models for cloud computing
• Legal issues in the Cloud
• Incident Response in the Cloud
• Accountability and audit
• Cloud integrity
• Cryptography for and in the cloud
• Hypervisor security
• Identity management and security as a service
• Prevention of data loss or leakage
• Secure, interoperable identity management
• Trust and credential management
• Trusted computing
• Usable security
• Cloud security

Cloud Energy Efficiency

• Service Level Agreements and Performance Measurement
• Energy-aware computing and communications
• Energy-efficient networking and computing infrastructures
• Energy-aware resource allocation and scheduling mechanisms
• Green materials and devices designs
• Usage of renewable energy for green ICT operation
• Cross-layer optimization of green networking infrastructures
• Life-cycle analysis of computing equipment
• Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling
• Climate and ecosystem monitoring
• Energy-efficient data center and cloud technologies
• Green computing models, simulations, designs, and paradigms