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MICAS 2016
Management of resources and services in Cloud and Sky computing

5th Workshop organized in conjunction with SYNASC 2016

26-27 September 2016, West University of Timisoara, Romania

https://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/micas-workshops/micas-2016/

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Aim:
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The event intends to be an open forum for discussions about the state-of-the-art,
the recent achievements and the future in breaking the barriers of Cloud adoption on large scale,
barriers that are related to vendor lock-in, lack of common interfaces and standards and so on,
shortly the ones hindering the vision of InterCloud or Multi-Clouds.

Call for papers:
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Original contributions are invited to be reported to the event.
The suggested topics are the followings (but not restricted to):

- self-organisation in Clouds and federation of Clouds
- applications using multiple Clouds
- interoperability between Clouds
- portability of Cloud based applications
- run-time selection of Cloud services
- reliability of Cloud services
- auto-scaling techniques
- scheduling over heterogeneous Clouds
- dynamic load balancing between multiple Clouds
- architectures for automatic management of applications based on multiple Clouds
- model-driven architectures for multiple Cloud usage scenarios
- open-source support for Cloud computing
- Cloud provider selection mechanisms
- security-as-a-service
- SLA management for Clouds

Deadlines:
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Full paper submissions: June 25, 2016
Notifications: August 1, 2016
Registrations: September 4, 2016
Revised papers: September 4, 2016
Event: 26-27 September 2016
Publication in Conference Publishing Services (CPS) proceedings of SYNASC 2016: January 2017
Extended version of selected papers for SCPE: March 2017
Notifications: April 2017
Publication of selected papers in SCPE: May 2017


Submission system:
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The papers should be submitted at Easychair account of SYNASC workshops.
The paper can have up to 8 pages in the two-columns CPS conference style.
The papers selected for presentation and publication according to
the reviewing results will be published in the SYNASC 2016 proceedings (IEEE CS).

Programme Chair:
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Dana Petcu, West University and Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania

Programme Committee:
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Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico Di Milano, Italy
Andy Edmonds, Zürich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Maria Fazio, University of Messina
Teodor-Florin Fortis, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Dan Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA
John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland
Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Juan Manuel Murillo Rodríguez, University of Extremadura, Spain
Giuseppe Valetto, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Zhiming Zhao, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands