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

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The 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2015, 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 four perspectives in which we are addressing the area of Cloud Computing in this conference are: (i) Fundamentals of Cloud Computing; (ii) Services Science foundation for Cloud Computing; (iii) Cloud Computing platforms and applications; (iv) Cloud Computing enabling technology.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Avaliable soon.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Victor ChangAston Business School, Aston University, United Kingdom
Paolo TraversoCenter for Information Technology - IRST (FBK-ICT), Italy
Omer RanaCardiff University, United Kingdom
Chung-Sheng LiIndependent Researcher, United States
Cornel KleinSiemens AG, Germany

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 Springer's Journal of Grid Computing.
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by .

SECRETARIAT

CLOSER Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +44 203 014 8813
e-mail: closer.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://closer.scitevents.org

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Markus HelfertMaynooth University, Ireland

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Víctor Méndez MuñozIUL, S.A. & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain
Donald FergusonColumbia University, United States

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Antonia Albani, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Claudio Ardagna, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Alvaro Arenas, Instituto de Empresa Business School, Spain
José E. Armendáriz-Iñigo, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
Muhammad Atif, Australian National University, Australia
Amelia Badica, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Craiova, Romania
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Costas Bekas, , Switzerland
Adam Z. Belloum, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Simona Bernardi, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Karin Bernsmed, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom
Luiz F. Bittencourt, IC/UNICAMP, Brazil
Stefano Bocconi, Independent Researcher, Netherlands
Anne Boyer, Loria - Inria Lorraine, France
Ivona Brandić, Vienna UT, Austria
Iris Braun, Dresden Technical University, Germany
Andrey Brito, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
John Brooke, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Anna Brunstrom, Karlstad University, Sweden
Rebecca Bulander, Pforzheim University of Applied Science, Germany
Tomas Bures, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy
Manuel I. Capel-Tuñón, University of Granada, Spain
Miriam Capretz, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Noel Carroll, NUI Galway, Ireland
John Cartlidge, Computer Science, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Valentina Casola, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Rong N. Chang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States
Augusto Ciuffoletti, Università di Pisa, Italy
Daniela B. Claro, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brazil
José Cordeiro, E.S.T. Setúbal, I.P.S, Portugal
Thierry Coupaye, Orange, France
Sabrina De Capitani Di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Eliezer Dekel, Huawei Technologies, Israel
Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Frédéric Desprez, Antenne Inria Giant, Minatec Campus, France
Ake Edlund, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Hany F. El Yamany, Suez Canal University, Egypt
Erik Elmroth, Umeå University and Elastisys AB, Sweden
Antonio Espinosa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Donald Ferguson, Computer Science Dept., , United States
Tomás Fernández Pena, Universidad Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Juan Fernando Perez, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Stefano Ferretti, University of Bologna, Italy
Mike Fisher, BT, United Kingdom
Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University, United States
Chiara Francalanci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
David Genest, Université d'Angers, France
Chirine Ghedira, IAE - University Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
Martin G. Gilje Jaatun, Software Engineering, Safety and Security, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway, Norway
Lee Gillam, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Katja Gilly, Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
Tristan Glatard, , Canada
Jose R. Gonzalez de Mendivil, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain
Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia
Patrizia Grifoni, CNR, Italy
Stephan Groß, , Germany
Dirk Habich, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Benjamin Heckmann, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany
Dong Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Marianne Huchard, Université de Montpellier, France
Eduardo Huedo Cuesta, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Mohamed Hussien, Suez Canal University, Faculty of Computers & Informatics, Egypt
Sorin M. Iacob, D-CIS Lab, , Netherlands
Ilian Ilkov, IBM Nederland B.V., Netherlands
Anca D. Ionita, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State University, United States
Keith Jeffery, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Meiko Jensen, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Yiming Ji, Georgia Southern University, United States
Ming Jiang, University of Sunderland, United Kingdom
Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
David R. Kaeli, Northeastern University, United States
Yücel Karabulut, Oracle, United States
Gabor Kecskemeti, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Attila Kertesz, University of Szeged, Hungary
Claus-Peter Klas, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Carsten Kleiner, University of Applied Sciences & Arts Hannover, Germany
Geir M. Køien, University of Agder, Norway
Dimitri Konstantas, University of Geneva , Switzerland
George Kousiouris, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
László Kovács, Department of Distributed Systems, , Hungary
Marcel Kunze, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Young C. Lee, Macquarie University, Australia
Miguel Leitão, ISEP / INESCTEC, Portugal
Wilfried Lemahieu, Decision Sciences and Information Management, , Belgium
Fei Li, Siemens AG, Austria
Donghui Lin, Okayama University, Japan
Xumin Liu, Independent Researcher, United States
Shijun Liu, School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, China
Francesco Longo, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Pedro Garcia Lopez, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Suksant S. Lor, Security and Cloud Lab, , United Kingdom
Joseph P. Loyall, BBN Technologies, United States
Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, United States
Glenn Luecke, Iowa State University, United States
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Theo Lynn, Dublin City University, Ireland
Maria Emilia Machado Telles Walter, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada
Elisa Marengo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Mohamed Mohamed, IBM Research, Almaden, United States
Owen Molloy, University of Galway, Ireland
Marco Casassa Mont, , United Kingdom
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
Jean-Marc Nicod, Institut FEMTO-ST, France
Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland
Karsten Oberle, Independent Researcher, Germany
Sebastian Obermeier, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland
David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Federica Paganelli, CNIT - National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications, Italy
Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Michael A. Palis, Rutgers University, United States
Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France
David Paul, The University of New England, Australia
Siani Pearson, Cloud and Security Research Lab, , United Kingdom
Mikhail Perepletchikov, RMIT University, Australia
Giovanna Petrone, University of Torino, Italy
Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy
Antonio Puliafito, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Francesco Quaglia, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Cauligi R. Raghavendra, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
Rajendra Raj, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States
Arcot Rajasekar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Arkalgud Ramaprasad, University of Illinois at Chicago, India
Manuel Ramos-Cabrer, University of Vigo, Spain
Nadia Ranaldo, University of Sannio, Italy
Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dalhousie University, Canada
Christoph Reich, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany
Norbert Ritter, University of Hamburg, Germany
Luis Rodero-Merino, -, Spain
Jerome Rolia, , Canada
Pedro F. Rosa, UFU - Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
António M. Rosado da Cruz, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Elena Sanchez-Nielsen, Universidad De La Laguna, Spain
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy
Erich Schikuta, Universität Wien, Austria
Lutz Schubert, Ulm University, Germany
Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University, Germany
Wael Sellami, ReDCAD Laboratory, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Carlos Serrão, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Armin Shams, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Keiichi Shima, IIJ Innovation Institute, Japan
Richard O. Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Australia
Frank Siqueira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Cosmin S. Spahiu, University of Craiova - Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, Romania
Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Yasuyuki Tahara, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Cedric Tedeschi, IRISA - University of Rennes 1, France
Joe Tekli, Lebanese American University (LAU), Lebanon
Gilbert Tekli, Nobatek, France, Lebanon
Patricia J. Teller, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Guy Tel-Zur, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel
Orazio Tomarchio, University of Catania, Italy
Johan Tordsson, Umea University and Elastisys, Sweden
Francesco Tusa, University College London, United Kingdom
Astrid Undheim, Independent Researcher, Norway
Geoffroy Vallee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States
Robert A. van Engelen, Independent Researcher, United States
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Luis M. Vaquero, , United Kingdom
Bruno Volckaert, Ghent University, Belgium
Hiroshi Wada, , Australia
Chen Wang, Independent Researcher, Australia
Dadong Wang, Independent Researcher, Australia
Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Bo Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Zhifeng Yun, University of Houston, United States
Michael Zapf, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Wolfgang Ziegler, z-rands, Germany

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