The 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2016, focuses on the emerging 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.

We would like to highlight the presence of the following keynote speakers:
– Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
– Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany

CLOSER is interested in promoting high quality research as it can be confirmed by last year acceptance rates, where from 126 submissions, 14% were presented as full papers.

Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information (http://closer.scitevents.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).

Workshops, Special sessions, Tutorials as well as Demonstrations dedicated to other technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. Workshop chairs and Special Session chairs will benefit from logistics support and other types of support, including secretariat and financial support, to facilitate the development of a valid idea.

CLOSER 2016 will be held in conjunction with CSEDU (8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education – http://www.csedu.org), SMARTGREENS (5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems – http://www.smartgreens.org/), WEBIST (12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies – http://www.webist.org), VEHITS (2nd International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems –http://www.vehits.org) and IoTBD (International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data) in Rome, Italy. Registration to CLOSER will enable free attendance to any sessions of CSEDU, SMARTGREENS, WEBIST, VEHITS and IoTBD conferences  as a non-speaker.
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CONFERENCE CHAIR:
Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Huawei European Research Center, Germany
Donald Ferguson, Dell, United States
Víctor Méndez Muñoz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Please check the program committee members at http://closer.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

CONFERENCE AREAS:

Area 1: Cloud Computing Fundamentals
– Cloud Application Portability
– Cloud Computing Architecture
– Cloud Delivery Models
– Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
– Cloud Education
– Cloud Interoperability
– Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance
– Cloud Scenarios
– Cloud Standards
– QoS for Applications on Clouds
– Energy Management
– Resource Management
– Privacy, Security and Trust
– Federated Cloud

Area 2: Services Science
– Business Process Management and Web Services
– Business Services Realized by IT Services
– Cloud Brokering
– Cloud Cost Analysis
– Data and Service Analytics
– Enterprise Architectures and Services
– Cloud Workflow Management Systems
– Industrial Applications of Services Science
– Information and Service Economy
– Internet of Services
– Model-driven Web Service Engineering
– Semantic and Service Web
– Microservices: Atomation Deployment and Management
– Microservices: Resource Allocation Elasticity
– Microservices: Service State and Resilience
– Service Discovery
– Service Innovation
– Service Lifecycle Management
– Service Modeling and Specification
– Service Monitoring and Control
– Service-oriented Architecture
– Services Security and Reliability
– Web Services
– Service Society
– Service Management
– Service Platforms

Area 3: Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications
– Access Control
– Cloud Solution Design Patterns
– Cloud for Enterprise Business Transformation
– Cloud Application Architectures
– Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
– Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
– Cloud Economics
– Cloud Middleware Frameworks
– Engineering Mobile Clouds and Mobile-based Systems
– Development Methods for Cloud Applications
– XaaS
– Cloud Services
– Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Infrastructures, and Approaches

Area 4: Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
– API Management
– Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement
– Cloud Quality and Performance
– Cloud Optimization and Automation
– Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition
– Cloud Management and Operations
– Green and Energy Management
– High Performance Cloud Computing
– Cloud Migration
– Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
– Performance Development and Management
– Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management
– Virtualization Technologies
– Container schedulers
– Application containers

Area 5: Data as a Service
– On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) services
– On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) services
– Big Data Cloud Services
– NOSQL services: store, visualization, processing
– Time Series Services: Databases, dashboards