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CALL FOR PAPERS
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International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Management - CloudAM 2014
(cloudam2014.lncc.br/)
In conjunction with the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing

London, UK. December 8-11, 2014

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IMPORTANT DATES

paper submission: 27 August 2014 (FIRM)
notification of reviews: 20 September 2014
camera ready submission: 28 September 2014

Submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudam2014

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DESCRIPTION

Cloud computing, virtualization and virtual (eScience) applications are currently hot topics and have been generating substantial interest in the community and it is anticipated that this interest will expand. It is also important to the research community as it is challenging traditional methods by its sheer size and high level of automation. Clouds must provide appropriate levels of performance to large groups of diverse users, and those clouds are accessed through virtualized wide area networks. Management systems are essential for that and thereby for the future success of the cloud paradigm. New systems, methods, and approaches for cloud, virtualization and (eScience) applications management are to be discussed at this workshop.

For the CloudAM 2014 workshop, researchers from the Clouds and (eScience) Applications communities are encouraged to submit and present original work to be considered for publication. Overall topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Overall topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Cloud computing environments
- Cloud service orchestration
- Cloud APIs and usage control
- Cloud data management
- Cloud scalable monitoring
- Cloud load balancing
- Cloud federation management
- Customer cloud management
- Managing data centers
- Management as a service
- Management of virtual slices
- IaaS Management
- Application and Management Portals
- Cloud Scheduling
- Hybrid Clouds
- Accounting and economic models for clouds
- Management of virtualized hardware resources
- Managing cloud services
- Network-specific mechanisms for optimized cloud access
- Performance modeling and evaluation
- QoS/QoE management in the cloud
- Management tools for infrastructure virtualization
- Automated resource slicing
- Integration of the wireless and optical domains
- Policy driven service/resource life-cycle management
- Applications and services enabled by virtualized infrastructure
- Optimization of data center and workload energy consumption
- Green Cloud Computing
- Scientific Workflows on Clouds

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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Bruno Schulze - LNCC, BR
Luiz Bittencourt - UNICAMP, BR
Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz - Unizar, ES

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

David Abramson, Univ. Queensland, AU
Jose Bañares - Unizar, ES
Daniel Batista - USP, BR
Michael Bauer - Univ. of Western Ontario, CA
Luis Carlos Erpen De Bona - UFPR, BR
Francisco Brasileiro - UFGC, BR
Javier Diaz - Rutgers Univ., USA
Minh Ngoc Dinh - Univ. Queensland, AU
Geoffrey C. Fox - Indiana Univ., USA
Wolfgang Gentzsch - DEISA, DE
Claudio Geyer - UFRGS, BR
Antonio Gomes - LNCC, BR
Hélio Guardia - UFSCar, BR
Hai Jin - HUST, CH
Chao Jin - Univ. Queensland, AU
Laurent Lefevre - INRIA, FR
Edmundo Madeira - UNICAMP, BR
Antonio Mury - LNCC, BR
Marco Netto - IBM, BR
Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA
Omer Rana - Cardiff Univ., UK
Vinod Rebello - UFF, BR
Iván Rodero- Rutgers Univ., USA
Rizos Sakellariou - Manchester Univ., UK
Rafael Ferreira da Silva - USC, USA
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, UCM, ES
Luís Veiga - INESC ID, PT
Srikumar Venugopal - UNSW, AU