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

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The 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2018, 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

Mike PapazoglouEuropean Research Institute in Service Science, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Tobias HoellwarthEuroCloud Europe, Austria
Péter KacsukLPDS, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
Lee GillamDepartment of Computing, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

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 (final approval pending).

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 Journal of Grid Computing 

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The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by .

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 19 - 21 March, 2018

Paper Submission: October 30, 2017 (expired)
Authors Notification:
December 15, 2017 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 8, 2018 (expired)

Paper Submission: December 6, 2017 (expired)
Authors Notification:
January 11, 2018 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 24, 2018 (expired)

Late-Breaking

Paper Submission: January 4, 2018 (expired)
Authors Notification:
January 22, 2018 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 31, 2018 (expired)

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: November 23, 2017 (expired)

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: December 13, 2017 (expired)

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: January 30, 2018 (expired)

Demos
Demo Proposal: January 30, 2018 (expired)

Panels
Panel Proposal: January 30, 2018 (expired)

Abstracts
Paper Submission: January 18, 2018 (expired)
Authors Notification: January 26, 2018 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: February 9, 2018 (expired)

European Project Spaces
Authors Notification: January 31, 2018 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: June 13, 2018 (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

The beautiful Funchal town is situated on the wonderful Madeira Island, and is the archipelago capital, nowadays the major touristic, cultural, artistic and politic center in the archipelago. Filled with history, cosmopolite, culture and a wonderful life, Funchal has much to see and admire, starting on the lovely historical nucleus of São Pedro, Santa Maria or Sé, that invite for pleasant walks.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

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

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Víctor Méndez MuñozIUL, S.A. & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain
Donald FergusonComputer Science Dept., Columbia University, United States

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Alina Andreica, Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Claudio Ardagna, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita degli Studi 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
Ivona Brandić, TU Wien Favoritenstr. 9-11, Vienna UT, Austria
Iris Braun, Computer Science, Dresden Technical University, Germany
Andrey Brito, Departamento de Sistemas e Computação, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Ralf Bruns, Computer Science, Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
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
Manuel I. Capel-Tuñón, Software Engineering, University of Granada, Spain
Eddy Caron, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
John Cartlidge, Computer Science, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Roy Cecil, IBM Portugal, Portugal
Rong N. Chang, Services Research, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States
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
Tommaso Cucinotta, Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Tarcísio da Rocha, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil
Mohanad Dawoud, Department of Computer Engineering, Istinye University, Turkey
Eliezer Dekel, Corporate Reliability, Huawei Technologies, Israel
Frédéric Desprez, DRT/LETI/DACLE/ - Bâtiment 51 C, Antenne Inria Giant, Minatec Campus, France
Patrick Dreher, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, United States
Vincent Emeakaroha, Computer Science, Munster Technological University, Ireland
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
Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University, United States
Somchart Fugkeaw, Sirindhorn Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand
Fabrizio Gagliardi, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain
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
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
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
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Faculty of System Design, Information-Communications Systems, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Ivan Ivanov, Science, Mathematics and Technology, SUNY Empire State University, United States
Martin G. Jaatun, IDE, University of Stavanger, Norway
Keith Jeffery, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Yiming Ji, Information Technology, Georgia Southern University, United States
Ming Jiang, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
Xiaolong Jin, CAS Key Lab of Network Data Science and Technology, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Carlos Juiz, Departament De Ciències Matemàtiques I Informàtica, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
David R. Kaeli, ECE, Northeastern University, United States
Yücel Karabulut, Oracle Public Cloud , Oracle, United States
Attila Kertesz, Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, Hungary
Carsten Kleiner, Faculty IV, Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences & Arts Hannover, Germany
Ioannis Konstantinou, NTUA, Greece
Nane Kratzke, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Kyriakos Kritikos, ICS-FORTH, Greece
Ulrich Lampe, Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM), TU Darmstadt, Germany
Riccardo Lancellotti, Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari", University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Donghui Lin, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
Shijun Liu, School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, China
Xiaodong Liu, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Francesco Longo, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Simone Ludwig, Computer Science, North Dakota State University, United States
Glenn Luecke, Mathematics, Iowa State University, United States
Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada
Ioannis Mavridis, Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Greece
Andre Miede, Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, Germany
Mohamed Mohamed, Cloud Services, IBM Research, Almaden, United States
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
Mats Neovius, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Jean-Marc Nicod, AS2M, Institut FEMTO-ST, France
Bogdan Nicolae, Exascale Systems, IBM Research, Ireland
Mara Nikolaidou, Department Of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Emmanuel Ogunshile, Computer Science, The University of the West of England, United Kingdom
Enn Ounapuu, Institute of Informatics, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Tolga Ovatman, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
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
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
Arkalgud Ramaprasad, Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, India
Manuel Ramos-Cabrer, Department Of Telematic Engineering, University of Vigo, Spain
Christoph Reich, Computer Science, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany
Daniel A. Rodriguez-Silva, Network and Applications, Gradiant, Spain
Pedro F. Rosa, Faculty of Computing, UFU - Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
António M. Rosado da Cruz, Higher School of Technology and Management (ESTG-IPVC), Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
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
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
Adenilso S. Simão, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Frank Siqueira, Departament of Informatics and Statistics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
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
Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Michele Tomaiuolo, University of Parma, Italy
Orazio Tomarchio, Dip. di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica e Informatica, University of Catania, Italy
Slim Trabelsi, Security & Trust, SAP, France
Francesco Tusa, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom
Geoffroy Vallee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Robert A. van Engelen, Independent Researcher, United States
Bruno Volckaert, Ghent University, Belgium
Mladen A. Vouk, Computer Science, N.C. State University, United States
Bo Yang, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
George Yee, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Canada
Michael Zapf, Computer Science, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Wolfgang Ziegler, z-rands, Germany

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