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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. SERVICES SCIENCE
2. DATA AS A SERVICE
3. CLOUD OPERATIONS
4. EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING
5. SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS
6. MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING
7. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS
8. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS
9. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY


AREA 1: SERVICES SCIENCE


  • Business Process Management and Web Services
  • Service Innovation
  • Service Lifecycle Management
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
  • Service Society
  • Service Management
  • Service Platforms
  • Business Services Realized by IT Services
  • Enterprise Architectures and Services
  • Industrial Applications of Services Science
  • Information and Service Economy
  • Internet of Services
  • Model-Driven Web Service Engineering
  • Semantic and Service Web
  • Microservices: Automation, Deployment and Management, Resource Allocation Elasticity, Service State and Resilience

AREA 2: DATA AS A SERVICE


  • NOSQL Services: Store, Visualization, Processing
  • Time Series Services: Databases, Dashboards
  • Data Markets
  • Ethics and Trust
  • Service Modelling and Analytics - Services Mapping and Artificial Intelligence

AREA 3: CLOUD OPERATIONS


  • Cloud Management Platforms
  • Cloud Reliability and Resilience
  • Cloud Automation
  • Hybrid Clouds and Their Integration

AREA 4: EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING


  • Edge Cloud Orchestration
  • Cluster Management
  • Edge Cloud Network Management
  • Edge Cloud Data Management
  • IoT-Cloud Integration
  • AI-enabled Edge Cloud
  • Deep Edge
  • Multi-access Edge Cloud

AREA 5: SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS


  • Cloud Cost Analysis
  • Service Discovery
  • Service Modeling and Specification
  • Service Monitoring and Control
  • Services Security and Reliability
  • Service Ecosystems
  • Service Simulation
  • Service Performance Analytics
  • Analytics and Services

AREA 6: MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING


  • Mobile and Energy-Efficient Use of Clouds
  • Mobile and Wearable Computing Systems and Services
  • Mobile Cloud Architectures and Models
  • Mobile Cloud Networking

AREA 7: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS


  • Cloud Application Portability
  • Privacy, Security and Trust
  • Federated Cloud
  • Consistency and Consensus
  • Cloud Computing Architecture
  • Cloud Delivery Models
  • Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
  • Cloud Interoperability
  • Cloud Risk, Challenges and Governance
  • Cloud Standards
  • QoS for Applications on Clouds
  • Resource Management

AREA 8: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS


  • Access Control
  • Development Methods for Cloud Applications
  • XaaS
  • Cloud Services
  • Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Infrastructures and Approaches
  • Cloud Data Centers, Storage and Networking Technologies
  • Mobile-Aware Cloud Data Management and Data Retrieval
  • High Performance Computing Cloud Applications ; Use Cases , Experiences with HPC Clouds
  • Hybrid Cloud Integration
  • Cloud Brokering
  • Cloud Workflow Management Systems
  • Cloud Solution Design Patterns
  • Native Cloud Applications
  • Cloud for Enterprise Business Transformation
  • Cloud Application Architectures
  • Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
  • Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
  • Cloud Economics
  • Cloud Middleware Frameworks
  • Engineering Mobile Clouds and Mobile-Based Systems
  • Social and Green Cloud Computing

AREA 9: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY


  • API Management
  • Security, Privacy and Compliance Management
  • Virtualization Technologies
  • Containers, Containerization and Enablement
  • Container Composition and Orchestration
  • Container Performance
  • Container Security and Isolation
  • Microservices
  • Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement
  • Cloud Quality and Performance
  • Cloud Optimization and Automation
  • Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition
  • Cloud Management and Operations
  • High Performance Cloud Computing
  • Cloud Migration
  • Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
  • Function-as-a-Service and Serverless Computing

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Erik ElmrothUmeå University and Elastisys, Sweden
Pierangela SamaratiUniversità degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Ulrich HomannMicrosoft, United States

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.

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: 27 - 29 April, 2022

Paper Submission: December 21, 2021 (expired)
Authors Notification:
February 3, 2022 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
February 17, 2022 (expired)

Paper Submission: January 27, 2022 (expired)
Authors Notification:
February 24, 2022 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
March 9, 2022 (expired)

Late-Breaking

Paper Submission: February 17, 2022 (expired)
Authors Notification:
March 9, 2022 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration:
March 16, 2022 (expired)

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: December 20, 2021 (expired)

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: December 20, 2021 (expired)

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: March 15, 2022 (expired)

Demos
Demo Proposal: March 15, 2022 (expired)

Panels
Panel Proposal: March 15, 2022 (expired)

Abstracts
Abstract Submission: March 2, 2022 (expired)
Authors Notification: March 15, 2022 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: March 23, 2022 (expired)

Post Publicationss
Authors Notification: May 10, 2022 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: August 2, 2022 (expired)

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

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Claus PahlFree University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Maarten van SteenDigital Society Institute, University of Twente, Netherlands
Donald FergusonColumbia University, United States

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Luca Abeni, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Claudio Ardagna, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Nicola Bena, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Luiz F. Bittencourt, IC/UNICAMP, Brazil
Andrey Brito, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Claudia Canali, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Manuel I. Capel-Tuñón, University of Granada, Spain
Eddy Caron, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
John Cartlidge, Computer Science, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Anis Charfi, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Thierry Coupaye, Orange, France
Sabrina De Capitani Di Vimercati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Abdelkarim Erradi, Qatar University, Qatar
Massimo Ficco, University of Salerno, Italy
Somchart Fugkeaw, Thammasat University, Thailand
Vinicius C. Garcia, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Antonio García Loureiro, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Francisco García-Sánchez, University of Murcia, Spain
Martin G. Gilje Jaatun, Software Engineering, Safety and Security, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway, Norway
Sukhpal Singh Gill, Queen Many University of London, United Kingdom
Lee Gillam, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Nils Gruschka, University of Oslo, Norway
Franz J. Hauck, Ulm University, Germany
Wolfgang John, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Attila Kertesz, University of Szeged, Hungary
Hamzeh Khazaei, York University, Canada
George Kousiouris, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Nane Kratzke, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Adam Krechowicz, Kielce University of Technology, Poland
Riccardo Lancellotti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Xiaodong Liu, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
Shijun Liu, School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, China
Joseph P. Loyall, BBN Technologies, United States
Sujithra M., Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India
Angelo Marchese, University of Catania, Italy
Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece
Andre Miede, Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, Germany
Antonio Montieri, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
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
Michael A. Palis, Rutgers University, United States
Iraklis Paraskakis, South East European Research Centre, Greece
David Paul, The University of New England, Australia
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy
Antonio Puliafito, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Manuel Ramos-Cabrer, University of Vigo, Spain
Christoph Reich, Furtwangen University, Germany
António M. Rosado da Cruz, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Marc Sanchez-Artigas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Erich Schikuta, Universität Wien, Austria
Armin Shams, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Richard O. Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Australia
Frank Siqueira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Ellis Solaiman, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Jacopo Soldani, Università di Pisa, Italy
Yasuyuki Tahara, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Gilbert Tekli, Nobatek, France, Lebanon
Guy Tel-Zur, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel
Johnson Thomas, Oklahoma State University, United States
Orazio Tomarchio, University of Catania, Italy
Slim Trabelsi, SAP, France
Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy
Yiannis Verginadis, ICCS, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Michael Zapf, Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Chrysostomos Zeginis, ICS-FORTH, Greece

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