Being the first IEEE conference dedicated on cloud computing, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of cloud computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of cloud computing. All topics regarding cloud computing align with the theme of CLOUD. In 2017, we will celebrate our 10th version of gathering, to strive to advance the largest international professional forum on cloud computing.
Cloud Computing has become a scalable services consumption and delivery platform in the field of Services Computing. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualizations of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure cloud (e.g., hardware, IT infrastructure management), software cloud (e.g. SaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application cloud (e.g., Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business cloud (e.g., business process as a service).
CLOUD 2017 will co-locate with the following service-oriented sister conferences: the 24th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2017), the 14th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2017), the 6th International Congress on Big Data (c), the 6th IEEE International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS 2017), and the IEEE 2017 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2017). All six co-located theme topic conferences will all center around "services," while each focusing on exploring different themes (web-based services, cloud-based services, Big Data-based services, services innovation lifecycle, mobile services, and industry-specific services and enabling technologies).
Extended versions of selected research track papers will be invited for special issues in the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Cloud Computing, International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). Both TSC and JWSR are indexed by SCI and EI. TSC's Impact Factor in 2014 is 3.049. JWSR is SCI & EI indexed. CLOUD Proceedings are EI indexed.