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

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The International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), 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. CLOUD COMPUTING PARADIGMS AND PRACTICES
2. CLOUD AI
3. CLOUD SECURITY AND PRIVACY
4. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
5. SERVICES, PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS


AREA 1: CLOUD COMPUTING PARADIGMS AND PRACTICES


  • Resource Management and Scheduling
  • Cloud Risk, Challenges and Governance
  • Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing
  • Multi-Cloud Enablement and Interoperability
  • Edge Cloud Orchestration
  • Cloud Continuum
  • Edge Cloud Network Management
  • Edge Analytics and Real-Time Processing

AREA 2: CLOUD AI


  • AI-enabled Edge Cloud
  • AI Services and Tools
  • Machine Learning for Cloud Computing
  • Generative Cloud AI Applications
  • AI-Powered Analytics and Decision Making
  • Intelligent Automation in Cloud and Edge Systems
  • Enhanced Customer Experience
  • Ethical Guidelines

AREA 3: CLOUD SECURITY AND PRIVACY


  • Cloud Network Security
  • Data Privacy
  • Security and Isolation in Lightweight Execution Environments
  • Security, Privacy and Compliance Management
  • Privacy, Security and Trust
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Service Security and Reliability
  • Privacy Policies: Privacy Assurance and Personalization Declaration

AREA 4: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY


  • Cloud Data Centers, Storage and Networking Technologies
  • Virtualization and Lightweight Execution Environments
  • Containers, Containerization and Enablement
  • Container Composition and Orchestration
  • Microservices and Service Mesh
  • Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement
  • Cloud Quality and Performance
  • Cloud Optimization and Automation
  • Cloud Management and Operations
  • High Performance Cloud Computing
  • Observability: Monitoring, Quality of Service, and Service Level Agreements
  • Function-as-a-Service and Serverless Computing

AREA 5: SERVICES, PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS


  • Cloud Application Portability
  • Service Monitoring and Control
  • Service Performance Analytics and Simulation
  • Service Management
  • Service Platforms
  • Development Methods for Cloud Applications
  • Workflow Orchestration and Automation
  • Cloud Application Design and Architectures
  • Cloud Application Scalability, Availability and Resilience
  • Cloud Application Monitoring and Performance Optimization
  • Cloud Cost Analysis and Optimization
  • Emerging Technologies in Cloud Applications: Digital Twins, Web 3.0
  • Quantum Computing Integration

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

CLOSER 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

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. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations and an excessive number of co-authors.

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, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 19 - 21 May, 2026

Paper Submission: January 5, 2026
Authors Notification: March 3, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: March 17, 2026

Paper Submission: February 17, 2026
Authors Notification: March 24, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: April 6, 2026

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: January 20, 2026

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: January 20, 2026

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: April 10, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: April 10, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: April 10, 2026

Abstracts
Abstract Submission: March 24, 2026
Authors Notification: April 7, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: April 15, 2026

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: https://closer.scitevents.org

VENUE

Available soon.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria

PROGRAM CHAIR

Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Luca Abeni, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Robert Morris University, United States
Marco Anisetti, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Claudio Ardagna, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Benjamin Aziz, Buckinghamshire New University, United Kingdom
Sadoon Azizi, Department of Computer Engineering and IT, University of Kurdistan, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Filippo Berto, University of Milan, Italy
Luiz F. Bittencourt, IC/UNICAMP, Brazil
Agustin C. Caminero, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
Manuel Isidoro Capel-Tuñón, University of Granada, Spain
Eddy Caron, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Richard Chbeir, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), France
Thierry Coupaye, Orange, France
Somchart Fugkeaw, Thammasat University, Thailand
Vinicius Cardoso Garcia, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Martin Gilje Gilje Jaatun, Software Engineering, Safety and Security, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway
Sukhpal Singh Gill, Queen Many University of London, United Kingdom
Marco Guazzone, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Carlos Guerrero, Universitat De Les Illes Balears, Spain
Leila Ismail, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates
Wolfgang John, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Eleni Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Attila Kertesz, University of Szeged, 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
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
Thomas Loruenser, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Joseph P. Loyall, BBN Technologies, United States
Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Andre Miede, Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, Germany
Antonio Montieri, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Hidemoto Nakada, Juntendo University, Japan
Matteo Nardelli, Bank of Italy, Italy
Philippe Navaux, UFRGS - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Emmanuel Ogunshile, The University of the West of England, United Kingdom
Michael A. Palis, Rutgers University, United States
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Gleb Radchenko, Silicon Austria Labs, Austria
Christoph Reich, Furtwangen University, Germany
António Miguel Rosado da Cruz, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Gabriele Russo Russo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Frank Siqueira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Jacopo Soldani, Università di Pisa, Italy
Georgios L. Stavrinides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden
Gilbert Tekli, Nobatek, France, Lebanon
Orazio Tomarchio, University of Catania, Italy
Ashok Kumar Turuk, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India
Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Willem-Jan Van Den Heuvel, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Robert Alexander van Engelen, Independent Researcher, United States
Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy
Yiannis Verginadis, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece
Huaming Wu, Independent Researcher, China

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