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The 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2021, 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 AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. SERVICES SCIENCE
2. DATA AS A SERVICE
3. CLOUD OPERATIONS
4. EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING
5. SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS
6. MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING
7. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS
8. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS
9. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY


AREA 1: SERVICES SCIENCE


  • Business Process Management and Web Services
  • Service Innovation
  • Service Lifecycle Management
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
  • Service Society
  • Service Management
  • Service Platforms
  • Business Services Realized by IT Services
  • Enterprise Architectures and Services
  • Industrial Applications of Services Science
  • Information and Service Economy
  • Internet of Services
  • Model-Driven Web Service Engineering
  • Semantic and Service Web
  • Microservices: Automation, Deployment and Management, Resource Allocation Elasticity, Service State and Resilience

AREA 2: DATA AS A SERVICE


  • On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) Services
  • NOSQL Services: Store, Visualization, Processing
  • Time Series Services: Databases, Dashboards
  • Data Markets
  • Ethics and Trust
  • Service Modelling and Analytics - Services Mapping and Artificial Intelligence

AREA 3: CLOUD OPERATIONS


  • Cloud Management Platforms
  • Cloud Reliability and Resilience
  • Cloud Automation
  • Hybrid Clouds and Their Integration

AREA 4: EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING


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

AREA 5: SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS


  • Cloud Cost Analysis
  • 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 6: 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 emarkets on Cloud

AREA 7: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS


  • Cloud Application Portability
  • Privacy, Security and Trust
  • Federated Cloud
  • Web Services
  • Consistency and Consensus
  • 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

AREA 8: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS


  • Access Control
  • 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
  • Cloud Brokering
  • Cloud Workflow Management Systems
  • Cloud Solution Design Patterns
  • Native Cloud Applications
  • 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
  • Social and Green Cloud Computing

AREA 9: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY


  • API Management
  • Security, Privacy and Compliance Management
  • Virtualization Technologies
  • Containers, Containerization and Enablement
  • Container Composition and Orchestration
  • Container Performance
  • Container Security and Isolation
  • Microservices
  • Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement
  • Cloud Quality and Performance
  • Cloud Optimization and Automation
  • Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition
  • 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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Maarten van Steen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Ingo Weber, TU Berlin, Germany
Ivica Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg, Germany

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Engineering Index (EI) and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 28 - 30 April, 2021

Paper Submission: December 21, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification: February 5, 2021 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: February 22, 2021 (expired)

Paper Submission: January 26, 2021 (expired)
Authors Notification: February 24, 2021 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: March 9, 2021 (expired)

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: December 18, 2020 (expired)

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: December 18, 2020 (expired)

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: March 15, 2021 (expired)

Demos
Demo Proposal: March 15, 2021 (expired)

Panels
Panel Proposal: March 15, 2021 (expired)

Abstracts
Abstract Submission: March 2, 2021 (expired)
Authors Notification: March 15, 2021 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: March 23, 2021 (expired)

SECRETARIAT

CLOSER Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: closer.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://closer.scitevents.org

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Markus Helfert, Maynooth University, Ireland
Donald Ferguson, Columbia University, United States

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Luca Abeni, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Claudio Ardagna, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Simona Bernardi, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Luiz F. Bittencourt, IC/UNICAMP, Brazil
Andrey Brito, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Claudia Canali, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Manuel Capel-Tuñón, University of Granada, Spain
Eddy Caron, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
John Cartlidge, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Anis Charfi, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Richard Chbeir, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), France
Augusto Ciuffoletti, Università di Pisa, Italy
Daniela Claro, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brazil
Thierry Coupaye, Orange, France
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Giuseppe Di Modica, University of Catania, Italy
Vincent Emeakaroha, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Massimo Ficco, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Somchart Fugkeaw, Thammasat University, Thailand
Fabrizio Gagliardi, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain
Vinicius Garcia, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Antonio García Loureiro, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Francisco García-sánchez, University of Murcia, Spain
Sukhpal Gill, Queen Many University of London, Australia
Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Antonios Gouglidis, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Nils Gruschka, University of Oslo, Norway
Franz Hauck, Ulm University, Germany
Ilian Ilkov, IBM Nederland B.V., Netherlands
Anca Ionita, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State College, United States
Martin Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway
Keith Jeffery, Independent Consultant (previously Science and Technology Facilities Council), United Kingdom
Meiko Jensen, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Ming Jiang, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Attila Kertesz, University of Szeged, Hungary
Hamzeh Khazaei, York University, Canada
Maria Kihl, Lund University, Sweden
Carsten Kleiner, University of Applied Sciences & Arts Hannover, Germany
George Kousiouris, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
József Kovács, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
Nane Kratzke, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Adam Krechowicz, Kielce University of Technology, Poland
Riccardo Lancellotti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Xiaodong Liu, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Shijun Liu, School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, China
Francesco Longo, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Joseph Loyall, BBN Technologies, United States
Mauro Marinoni, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, Italy
Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Andreas Menychtas, BioAssist S.A., Greece
Kamran Munir, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
Hidemoto Nakada, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Philippe Navaux, UFRGS - Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, United States
Tolga Ovatman, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Michael Palis, Rutgers University, United States
David Paul, The University of New England, Australia
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Laurent Philippe, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy
Antonio Puliafito, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Manuel Ramos-Cabrer, University of Vigo, Spain
Christoph Reich, Furtwangen University, Germany
Pedro Rosa, UFU - Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
António Rosado da Cruz, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Belen Ruiz-Mezcua, Carlos III University, Spain
Elena Sanchez-Nielsen, Universidad De La Laguna, Spain
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy
Erich Schikuta, Universität Wien, Austria
Wael Sellami, ReDCAD Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Australia
Frank Siqueira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Ellis Solaiman, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Jacopo Soldani, Università di Pisa, Italy
Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Canada
Yasuyuki Tahara, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Cedric Tedeschi, IRISA - University of Rennes 1, France
Gilbert Tekli, Nobatek, France, Lebanon
Guy Tel-Zur, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel
Orazio Tomarchio, University of Catania, Italy
Slim Trabelsi, SAP, France
Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy
Yiannis Verginadis, ICCS, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Tomáš Vitvar, Oracle and Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Karoline Wild, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Michael Zapf, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Chrysostomos Zeginis, ICS-FORTH, Greece

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