7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
CLOSER website: http://closer.scitevents.org

April 24 – 26, 2017
Porto, Portugal

In Cooperation with: ACM SIGMIS
Sponsored by: INSTICC
INSTICC is Member of: WfMC and OMG
Technically Co-sponsored by: EGI
Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS

IMPORTANT DATES:
Regular Paper Submission: November 21, 2016
Authors Notification (regular papers): January 23, 2017
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 6, 2017

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland
Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

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

LOCAL CHAIR
Ricardo J. Machado, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

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

CONFERENCE AREAS:

AREA 1: SERVICES SCIENCE

– Business Process Management and Web Services
– Business Services Realized by IT Services
– Cloud Brokering
– 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, Resource Allocation Elasticity, Service State and Resilience
– Service Innovation
– Service Lifecycle Management
– Service-oriented Architecture
– Web Services
– Service Society
– Service Management
– Service Platforms
– Big Data Cloud Services

AREA 2: DATA AS A SERVICE

– On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) services
– NOSQL Services: Store, Visualization, Processing
– Time Series Services: Databases, Dashboards

AREA 3: CLOUD OPERATIONS AND ANALYTICS

– Cloud Management Platforms
– Cloud Analytics
– Cloud Reliability and Resilience
– Cloud Automation
– Hybrid Clouds and their Integration
– Compliance Management in the Cloud
– Cloud Configuration and Capacity Management
– Cloud Workload Profiling and Migration
– Cloud Metering and Billing
– Large-scale Monitoring
– Operations Excellence
– Cloud Performance Analytics

AREA 4: MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING

– Mobile and Energy-efficient use of Clouds
– Mobile and Wearable Computing Systems and Services
– Mobile Cloud Architectures and Models
– Mobile Cloud Networking
– Mobile Commerce, Handheld Commerce and e-markets on Cloud
– High Performance Computing as a Service

AREA 5: EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING

– Edge Cloud Orchestration
– Cluster Management
– Edge Cloud Network Management
– Edge Cloud Data Management
– IoT-Cloud Integration

AREA 6: SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS

– Cloud Cost Analysis
– Data and Service Analytics
–  Service Discovery
– Service Modeling and Specification
– Service Monitoring and Control
– Services Security and Reliability
– Service Ecosystems
– Service Simulation
– Service Performance Analytics
– Analytics and Services

AREA 7: 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 8: 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
– Cloud Data Centers, Storage and Networking Technologies
– Mobile-aware Cloud Data Management and Data Retrieval
– High Performance Computing Cloud Applications ; Use cases , Experiences with HPC Clouds
– Hybrid Cloud Integration

AREA 9: 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
– Cloud-assisted Human-centered Applications based on Wearable Computing Devices
– Energy-saving Mobile Cloud Protocols
– Distributed and Cloud Networking
– Energy Management in Cloud Centers