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

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The 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2019, 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, 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

Avaliable soon.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Eleni KaratzaInformatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Martin JaatunIDE, University of Stavanger, Norway
David WallomOxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, 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 (consult SCITEPRESS Ethics of Publication)


It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by DBLP, Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index, EI, Microsoft Academic, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 2 - 4 May, 2019

Paper Submission: January 4, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification:
February 7, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
February 21, 2019 (expired)

Paper Submission: January 31, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification:
February 28, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
March 14, 2019 (expired)

Late-Breaking

Paper Submission: February 21, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification:
March 13, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
March 21, 2019 (expired)

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: December 26, 2018 (expired)

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: December 26, 2018 (expired)

Special Session IWFCC
Paper Submission: March 6, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification: March 15, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2019 (expired)

Special Session ADITCA
Paper Submission: March 10, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification: March 15, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2019 (expired)

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: March 20, 2019 (expired)

Demos
Demo Proposal: March 20, 2019 (expired)

Panels
Panel Proposal: March 20, 2019 (expired)

SECRETARIAT

CLOSER Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 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 conference will be held at the Voutes Campus at the University of Crete, Crete, Greece.
The Voutes Campus is about 10km from Heraklion town centre, in the area of Vassiliki Vouton. All the Departments of the School of Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Applied Mathematics, Computer Sciences, and Mathematics) are now housed in new buildings on the Voutes Campus, as well as the School of Medicine and the adjoining University General Hospital.


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

Ahmed Alenezi, Computer Science, Northern Border University, Saudi Arabia
Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Computer Science Department, 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
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
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
Matteo Camilli, Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Manuel I. Capel-Tuñón, Software Engineering, University of Granada, Spain
Glauco F. Carneiro, Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), Brazil
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
Richard Chbeir, Laboratoire LIUPPA, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), France
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
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
Patrick Dreher, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, United States
Nabil El Ioini, Free Univesity of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
Vincent Emeakaroha, Computer Science, Munster Technological University, Ireland
Xin Fang, Qualcomm Inc., United States
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
Somchart Fugkeaw, Sirindhorn Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand
Walid Gaaloul, Telecom SudParis, Telecom SudParis, France
Fabrizio Gagliardi, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain
Antonio García Loureiro, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Lee Gillam, Department of Computing, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Katja Gilly, Physics and Computer Architecture, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Gabriel Gonzalez-Castane, Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland
Andrzej Goscinski, School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia
Antonios Gouglidis, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Nils Gruschka, University of Oslo, Norway
Carmem S. Hara, Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
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
Ivan Ivanov, Science, Mathematics and Technology, SUNY Empire State University, United States
Keith Jeffery, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Meiko Jensen, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Ming Jiang, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
Carlos Juiz, Departament De Ciències Matemàtiques I Informàtica, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Verena Kantere, University of Ottawa, Canada
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
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
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
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
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
Joseph P. Loyall, BBN Technologies, United States
Glenn Luecke, Mathematics, Iowa State University, United States
Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada
Mirco Marchetti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ioannis Mavridis, Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Greece
Andre Miede, Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, Germany
Monica Mordonini, Diparimento di Ingegneria e Architettura , University of Parma, Italy
Mirella M. Moro, Dept. of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
Kamran Munir, Computer Science, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
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
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
Tolga Ovatman, Department of Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Symeon Papavassiliou, Electrical And Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France
David Paul, School of Science and Technology, The University of New England, Australia
Dana Petcu, Computer Science Department, West University of Timisoara, Romania
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
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, Instute for Cloud Computing and IT-Security, Furtwangen University, Germany
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
Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
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
Rami Sellami, Software Services Technologies, CETIC, Belgium
Wael Sellami, B.P num 6 bis sidi abbes, ReDCAD Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Carlos Serrão, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Armin Shams, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Keiichi Shima, Research Laboratory, IIJ Innovation Institute, Japan
Frank Siqueira, Departament of Informatics and Statistics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Ellis Solaiman, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
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
Yasuyuki Tahara, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Cedric Tedeschi, IRISA - University of Rennes 1, France
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
Bruno Volckaert, Ghent University, Belgium
Karoline Wild, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany
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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