The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss and advance the state of the art in the development and security of applications utilising Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is an emerging research topic widely discussed within the community of distributed systems and Grid computing experts. It promises to vastly change the implementation, usage and management of computing systems both in the public and private sector. The proposed benefits of the technology would offer reduced overheads by removing procurement and charging by usage, ultimately delivering computing as a utility. An additional feature is the extensibility of clouds; enabling allocated resources to expand and contract dependent upon the requirements for usage. The potential gains lie not only with the efficient allocation of resources, but also a green utilization of resources by maximizing the usage of a resource through the dynamic reallocation of jobs to cloud resources. The adoption of such technology by organisations clearly carries a number of significant benefits to the computing research community, such as dynamic provisioning of data and software to support project tasks. However, there are also a number of associated challenges which must be considered prior to a widespread uptake of Cloud Computing as a major computing architecture. In particular, the legal and technical management of the systems, the data and the services provided need to be investigated. The CAS workshop, therefore aims to connect and allow sharing ideas, problems and solutions between those researchers and practitioners that face Cloud challenges.

Original papers are invited on all relevant topics of Cloud Computing but papers on or related to the topics listed below are particularly welcome.

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Workshop Topics

* Cloud applications
* Cloud technology
* Cloud based e-health systems and applications
* Security issues in Cloud
* Legal issues in cloud
* New standards of security and privacy for Cloud application
* Tools and techniques for developing and managing applications in cloud
* New architectures and design methods for developing cloud services
* Internet of Things and its impact on Cloud Computing
* QoS in Cloud
* Legacy systems in cloud
* Benefits of cloud
* Green utilization of resources in Cloud
* Application of cloud in private and public sectors/ case studies

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All the Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore and modified

version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals

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Important Dates

extended Abstract Submission date: September 1st, 2013
Full Paper Submission Date: September 15th, 2013
Notification Date: October 10th, 2013
Camera Ready: November 1st, 2013
Early Registration: October 20th, 2013
Late Registration: December 9th, 2013

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Paper Submission instructions

Full paper should not exceed 6 pages (including all figures, tables, and references). Additional pages cost £25 per

page with a maximum of 2 pages.

Paper formatting and submission instructions are available at ICITST -2013 Paper Submission page (URL:

http://www.icitst.org/Paper%20Submission.html)

Information on registration, workshop venue and travelling is available at ICITST -2013 website

http://www.icitst.org/Home.htm

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Workshop Chairs

Ella Pereira, Edge Hill University, UK
Michael Mackay, Liverpool John Moores University, UK


Programme Committee

John Haggerty, University of Salford, UK
Andreas Schmietendorf, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Germany
Teh-Sheng Huang, ChungHwa Telecom, Taiwan
Rubem Pereira, LJMU, UK
Denis Reilly, LJMU, UK
Paul Fergus, LJMU, UK
Nagwa Badr, Ain Shams, Egypt
Besim Mustafa, Edge Hill University, UK
Mark Anderson, Edge Hill University, UK
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK
Nigel Thomas, Newcastle University, UK
Anne James, Coventry University, UK

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For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please visit the workshop website

http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/computing/cas/ or contact Workshop Chairs Pereirae@edgehill.ac.uk or M.I.Mackay@ljmu.ac.uk

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