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CLOSER is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2017, 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.

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, and so on. This emerging facilitation and way of utilizing services through IT is what we are referring to as Cloud Computing.

The five perspectives in which we are addressing the area of Cloud Computing in this conference are: (i) Cloud Computing Fundamentals; (ii) Services Science; (iii) Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications; (iv) Cloud Computing Enabling Technology, (v) Big Data as a Service.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Avaliable soon.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Stefan TaiTU Berlin, Germany
Francisco HerreraDept. Of Computer Science And Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, Spain
Hamido FujitaFaculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

PAPER SUBMISSION

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.

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.

Authors can submit their work in the form of 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. 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 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).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.
It is planned to publish a short list of revised and  extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book.
A short list of papers presented at the conference venue will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a special issue of  Springer's Computing Journal.
A short list of papers presented at the conference venue will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in a special issue of Future Generation Computer Systems Journal .
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by .

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 24 - 26 April, 2017

Paper Submission: December 15, 2016 (expired)
Authors Notification:
February 14, 2017 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
February 27, 2017 (expired)

Paper Submission: January 31, 2017 (expired)
Authors Notification:
February 27, 2017 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
March 13, 2017 (expired)

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: January 17, 2017 (expired)

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: February 2, 2017 (expired)

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: March 6, 2017 (expired)

Demos
Demo Proposal: March 6, 2017 (expired)

Panels
Panel Proposal: March 6, 2017 (expired)

Post Publicationss
Authors Notification: June 7, 2017 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: September 1, 2017 (expired)

SECRETARIAT

CLOSER Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: closer.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://closer.scitevents.org/

VENUE

Overlooking the Douro River, Porto is one of the most ancient European cities, It was born and developed from the northern bank of this river during the Middle Ages. One of the most significant aspects of Porto and its historical centre is its landscape, combining harmony with the urban structure and presenting a frame of rare beauty. The city was classified as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1996. When discovering Porto, you will find many surprises. Besides its welcoming and conservative environment, Porto is also contemporary and artistic. This is shown not only in the streets, architecture, monuments and museums but also in the terraces, restaurants and leisure and shopping areas.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Markus HelfertInnovation Value institute, Maynooth University, Ireland
Claus PahlFree University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Donald FergusonComputer Science Dept., Columbia University, United States
Víctor Méndez MuñozIUL, S.A. & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain
Jorge CardosoDepartment Computer Science, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Huawei German Research Center, Munich, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Jörn Altmann, Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of
Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Computer Science, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Claudio Ardagna, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Danilo Ardagna, Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Amelia Badica, Business Information Systems, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Craiova, Romania
Marcos Barreto, Computer Science, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil
Simona Bernardi, Department of Computer Science and System Engineering, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Nik Bessis, Department of Computing, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom
Luiz F. Bittencourt, IC/UNICAMP, Brazil
Ivona Brandić, TU Wien Favoritenstr. 9-11, Vienna UT, Austria
Anna Brunstrom, Computer Science, Karlstad University, Sweden
Rebecca Bulander, Business Administration and Engineering, Pforzheim University of Applied Science, Germany
Tomas Bures, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Massimo Cafaro, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, University of Salento, Italy
Manuel I. Capel-Tuñón, Software Engineering, University of Granada, Spain
Miriam Capretz, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Eddy Caron, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
John Cartlidge, Computer Science, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Valentina Casola, DIETI, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Augusto Ciuffoletti, Computer Science, Università di Pisa, Italy
Daniela B. Claro, FORMAS/LASID/DCC/IME/Computer Science, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brazil
Thierry Coupaye, Orange Innovation Research, Orange, France
Sabrina De Capitani Di Vimercati, Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Eliezer Dekel, Corporate Reliability, Huawei Technologies, Israel
Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ruksar Fatima, 5-754/b, choti devdi , KBN College of Engineering, India
Tomás Fernández Pena, CiTIUS, Rúa de Jenaro de la Fuente Domínguez,Universidad Santiago de Compostela, Universidad Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Mike Fisher, TSO, BT, United Kingdom
Antonio García Loureiro, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Chirine Ghedira, SOC Research Team @ LIRIS Lab, IAE - University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
Lee Gillam, Department of Computing, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Katja Gilly, Physics and Computer Architecture, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Jose R. Gonzalez de Mendivil, Matematica e Informatica, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain
Dirk Habich, Database Technology Group, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Carmem S. Hara, Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Souleiman Hasan, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Benjamin Heckmann, Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany
Eduardo Huedo Cuesta, Arquitectura de Computadores y Automática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Mohamed Hussien, Computer Science, Suez Canal University, Faculty of Computers & Informatics, Egypt
Ilian Ilkov, IBM Nederland B.V., Netherlands
Anca D. Ionita, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Faculty of System Design, Information-Communications Systems, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Martin G. Jaatun, IDE, University of Stavanger, Norway
Keith Jeffery, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Meiko Jensen, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Yiming Ji, Information Technology, Georgia Southern University, United States
Ming Jiang, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
Péter Kacsuk, LPDS, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
Yücel Karabulut, Oracle Public Cloud , Oracle, United States
Mohand-Tahar Kechadi, Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
Gabor Kecskemeti, Department of Computer Science, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Attila Kertesz, Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, Hungary
Oleksiy Khriyenko, Industral Ontologies Group, MIT Department and Agora Center , University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Carsten Kleiner, Faculty IV, Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences & Arts Hannover, Germany
George Kousiouris, Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Nane Kratzke, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Miguel Leitão, DEE, ISEP / INESCTEC, Portugal
Fei Li, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Austria
Donghui Lin, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Yanchen Liu, Independent Researcher, United States
Shijun Liu, School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, China
Francesco Longo, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Joseph P. Loyall, BBN Technologies, United States
Simone Ludwig, Computer Science, North Dakota State University, United States
Glenn Luecke, Mathematics, Iowa State University, United States
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Theo Lynn, Dublin City University, Ireland
K. Maly, Computer Science Department, Old Dominion University, United States
Mohammad Masdari, Islamic Azad university, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Ioannis Mavridis, Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Greece
Richard McClatchey, CCCS, FET, UWE, Bristol, United Kingdom
Andre Miede, Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, Germany
Mirella M. Moro, Dept. of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
Víctor Méndez Muñoz, Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems (CAOS), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Hidemoto Nakada, Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Philippe Navaux, Institute of Informatics , UFRGS - Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
Jean-Marc Nicod, AS2M, Institut FEMTO-ST, France
Mara Nikolaidou, Department Of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Enn Ounapuu, Institute of Informatics, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Michael A. Palis, Computer Science, Rutgers University, United States
Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France
David Paul, School of Science and Technology, The University of New England, Australia
Agostino Poggi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura, University of Parma, Italy
Antonio Puliafito, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Francesco Quaglia, DIS, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Cauligi R. Raghavendra, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
Rajendra Raj, Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
Arcot Rajasekar, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Manuel Ramos-Cabrer, Department Of Telematic Engineering, University of Vigo, Spain
Christoph Reich, Computer Science, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany
Kun Ren, Computer Science, Yale University, United States
Norbert Ritter, Informatics, University of Hamburg, Germany
António M. Rosado da Cruz, Higher School of Technology and Management (ESTG-IPVC), Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Evangelos Sakkopoulos, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece
Elena Sanchez-Nielsen, Dpto. E. I. O. Y Computación, Universidad De La Laguna, Spain
Patrizia Scandurra, DIGIP, University of Bergamo, Italy
Erich Schikuta, Workflow Systems and Technology, Universität Wien, Austria
Lutz Schubert, IOMI, Ulm University, Germany
Stefan Schulte, Multimedia Communications Lab, Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Michael Schumacher, Institute of Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland
Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University, Germany
Wael Sellami, B.P num 6 bis sidi abbes, ReDCAD Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Rami Sellami, Software Services Technologies, CETIC, Belgium
Giovanni Semeraro, Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Carlos Serrão, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Armin Shams, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Keiichi Shima, Research Laboratory, IIJ Innovation Institute, Japan
Richard O. Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Australia
Frank Siqueira, Departament of Informatics and Statistics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Cosmin S. Spahiu, Computers and information technology, University of Craiova - Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, Romania
Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Ralf Steinmetz, Electr. Eng. & Information Technology, Computer Sience, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Yasuyuki Tahara, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Cedric Tedeschi, IRISA - University of Rennes 1, France
Joe Tekli, ECE, Lebanese American University (LAU), Lebanon
Gilbert Tekli, Technological Pole, Nobatek, France, Lebanon
Guy Tel-Zur, ECE Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel
Michele Tomaiuolo, University of Parma, Italy
Orazio Tomarchio, Dip. di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e Informatica, University of Catania, Italy
Francesco Tusa, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom
Astrid Undheim, Independent Researcher, Norway
Athina Vakali, Informatics, Aristotle University, Greece
Geoffroy Vallee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Robert A. van Engelen, Independent Researcher, United States
Bruno Volckaert, Ghent University, Belgium
Jan-Jan Wu, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Republic of China
George Yee, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Canada
Ustun Yildiz, DBMI, University of California, San Diego, United States
Michael Zapf, Computer Science, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Ennan Zhai, Computer Science, Yale University, United States
Wolfgang Ziegler, z-rands, Germany
Farhana Zulkernine, School Of Computing, Queen's University, Canada

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