CALL FOR PAPERS
14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science CLOSER

website: https://closer.scitevents.org

May 2 - 4, 2024 Angers, France



IMPORTANT DATES:

Regular Paper Submission: December 13, 2023
Authors Notification (regular papers): February 8, 2024
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 22, 2024


Position Paper Submission: January 25, 2024
Authors Notification (position papers): February 29, 2024
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: March 13, 2024

Scope:
The International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), focuses on the highly important area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market and study various aspects of Cloud Computing. Emerging Enterprise Technologies are profoundly changing the way we think of IT - from economics and efficiency to process and usage models. Many organizations look to the "externalized" IT systems and services as a potential cost-savings advantage by moving internally hosted IT services to external providers. Other organizations view the "external" IT as potential disaster recovery systems or as on-demand capacity to boost business continuity and customer service levels. We need to take a closer look, discerning what emerging enterprise technologies are and how they can catalyze creativity and produce a competitive advantage. There is hence a new wave of interest in 'Externalization of IT' - anything as a service (including Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service), On Demand delivery, outsourcing, edge cloud and so on. This emerging facilitation and way of utilizing services through IT is what we are referring to as Cloud Computing.

Conference Topics:
Area 1: Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
- API Management
- Virtualization Technologies
- Containers, Containerization and Enablement
- Container Composition and Orchestration
- Container Performance
- Microservices
- Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement
- Cloud Quality and Performance
- Cloud Optimization and Automation
- Cloud Management and Operations
- High Performance Cloud Computing
- Cloud Migration
- Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
- Function-as-a-Service and Serverless Computing

Area 2: Cloud Computing Fundamentals
- Cloud Application Portability
- Federated Cloud
- Cloud Computing Architecture
- Cloud Delivery Models
- Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
- Cloud Interoperability
- Cloud Risk, Challenges and Governance
- Cloud Standards
- QoS for Applications on Clouds
- Resource Management
- Energy Efficient Cloud Computing

Area 3: Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications
- Development Methods for Cloud Applications
- XaaS
- Cloud Services
- Cloud Data Centers, Storage and Networking Technologies
- Cloud Workflow Management Systems
- Cloud Solution Design Patterns
- Native Cloud Applications
- Cloud Application Architectures
- Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
- Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
- Cloud Middleware Frameworks
- Digital Twinning
- Blockchains
- Metaverse, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
- Web 3.0 / Spatial Web
- Mobile Cloud Architectures and Models
- Mobile Cloud Networking
- Cloud Cost Analysis

Area 4: Edge Cloud and Fog Computing
- Edge Cloud Orchestration
- Cluster Management
- Edge Cloud Network Management
- Edge Cloud Data Management
- IoT-Cloud Integration
- AI-enabled Edge Cloud
- Multi-access Edge Cloud
- Cloud Continuum

Area 5: Services
- Service Modeling and Specification
- Service Monitoring and Control
- Service Ecosystems
- Service Simulation
- Service Performance Analytics
- Analytics and Services
- Business Process Management and Web Services
- Service Innovation
- Service Lifecycle Management
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Service Management
- Service Platforms
- Enterprise Architectures and Services
- Industrial Applications of Services Science
- Internet of Services
- Microservices: Automation, Deployment and Management, Resource Allocation Elasticity, Service State and Resilience

Area 6: Cloud Security and Privacy
- Container Security and Isolation
- Security, Privacy and Compliance Management
- Privacy, Security and Trust
- Access Control
- Services Security and Reliability
- (Multi Factor) Authorization
- Privacy and Privacy Assurance
- (Decentralized) Trust
- Intrusion Detection




CLOSER CONFERENCE CHAIR:
Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

CLOSER PROGRAM CHAIR:
Maarten van Steen, University of Twente, Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
https://closer.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

CLOSER Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
Tel: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
Web: https://closer.scitevents.org
e-mail: closer.secretariat@insticc.org