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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 ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
2. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS
3. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS
4. EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING
5. SERVICES
6. CLOUD SECURITY AND PRIVACY


AREA 1: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY


  • API Management
  • Virtualization Technologies
  • Containers, Containerization and Enablement
  • Container Composition and Orchestration
  • Container Performance
  • Microservices
  • Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement
  • Cloud Quality and Performance
  • Cloud Optimization and Automation
  • 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

AREA 2: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS


  • Cloud Application Portability
  • Federated Cloud
  • 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
  • Energy Efficient Cloud Computing

AREA 3: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS


  • Development Methods for Cloud Applications
  • XaaS
  • Cloud Services
  • Cloud Data Centers, Storage and Networking Technologies
  • Cloud Workflow Management Systems
  • Cloud Solution Design Patterns
  • Native Cloud Applications
  • Cloud Application Architectures
  • Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
  • Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
  • Cloud Middleware Frameworks
  • Digital Twinning
  • Blockchains
  • Metaverse, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
  • Web 3.0 / Spatial Web
  • Mobile Cloud Architectures and Models
  • Mobile Cloud Networking
  • Cloud Cost Analysis

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
  • Multi-access Edge Cloud
  • Cloud Continuum

AREA 5: SERVICES


  • Service Modeling and Specification
  • Service Monitoring and Control
  • Service Ecosystems
  • Service Simulation
  • Service Performance Analytics
  • Analytics and Services
  • Business Process Management and Web Services
  • Service Innovation
  • Service Lifecycle Management
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
  • Service Management
  • Service Platforms
  • Enterprise Architectures and Services
  • Industrial Applications of Services Science
  • Internet of Services
  • Microservices: Automation, Deployment and Management, Resource Allocation Elasticity, Service State and Resilience

AREA 6: CLOUD SECURITY AND PRIVACY


  • Container Security and Isolation
  • Security, Privacy and Compliance Management
  • Privacy, Security and Trust
  • Access Control
  • Services Security and Reliability
  • (Multi Factor) Authorization
  • Privacy and Privacy Assurance
  • (Decentralized) Trust
  • Intrusion Detection

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Aaron DingTU Delft, Netherlands
Sonia Ben MokhtarLIRIS CNRS, France

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: 1 - 3 April, 2025

Paper Submission: November 18, 2024 (expired)
Authors Notification:
January 6, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 23, 2025

Paper Submission: December 13, 2024
Authors Notification:
January 30, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration:
February 12, 2025

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: November 27, 2024

Doctoral Consortium
Paper Submission: January 30, 2025
Authors Notification: February 13, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: February 21, 2025

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: November 27, 2024

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: February 18, 2025

Demos
Demo Proposal: February 18, 2025

Panels
Panel Proposal: February 18, 2025

Abstracts
Abstract Submission: January 30, 2025
Authors Notification: February 13, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: February 21, 2025

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

The conference will take place at the Vila Galé Porto hotel which is located in the beautiful and historical city of Porto in Portugal. Porto is considered to be one of the most beautiful historical towns in Portugal, with its remarkable architectural heritage shaped by history.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Maarten van SteenDigital Society Institute, University of Twente, Netherlands

PROGRAM CHAIR

Valeria CardelliniUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Luca Abeni, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Enis Afgan, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Hafiz F. Ahmad, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Robert Morris University, United States
Marco Anisetti, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Atakan Aral, University of Vienna, Austria
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Claudio Ardagna, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
José E. Armendáriz-Iñigo, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
Benjamin Aziz, Buckinghamshire New University, United Kingdom
Sadoon Azizi, Department of Computer Engineering and IT, University of Kurdistan, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Marcos Barreto, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil
Nicola Bena, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Yousra H. Bendaly, Independent Researcher, Tunisia
Samaresh Bera, IIT Jammu, India
Filippo Berto, University of Milan, Italy
Jitendra Bhatia, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, India
Luiz F. Bittencourt, IC/UNICAMP, Brazil
Luis C. E. de Bona, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Agustin C. Caminero, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
Roberto Canonico, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Manuel I. Capel-Tuñón, University of Granada, Spain
Eddy Caron, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy
Inderveer Chana, Thapar Institute Of Engineering And Technology, India
Richard Chbeir, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA), France
Thierry Coupaye, Orange, France
Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany
Dimitrios Dechouniotis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Atakan Dogan, Eskisehir Technical University, Turkey
Jörg Domaschka, Ulm University, Germany
Patricia Takako Endo, Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil
Paul Ezhilchelvan, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Somchart Fugkeaw, Thammasat University, Thailand
Vinicius C. Garcia, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Martin G. Gilje Jaatun, Software Engineering, Safety and Security, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway, Norway
Sukhpal Singh Gill, Queen Many University of London, United Kingdom
Nils Gruschka, University of Oslo, Norway
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
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Eleni Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Mohand-Tahar Kechadi, University College Dublin, Ireland
Attila Kertesz, University of Szeged, Hungary
Sunirmal Khatua, University of Calcutta, India
Harilaos Koumaras, Independent Researcher, 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
Francesco Lelli, Tilburg University, Netherlands
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
Hui Ma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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
Juan M. Murillo Rodríguez, Department of Information Technology and Telematic Systems Engineering, University of Extremadura, Spain
Hidemoto Nakada, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Matteo Nardelli, Bank of Italy, Italy
Joan Navarro, La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain
Philippe Navaux, UFRGS - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Emmanuel Ogunshile, The University of the West of England, United Kingdom
Fatma Omara, cairo university, Egypt
Michael A. Palis, Rutgers University, United States
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Prithviraj Patil, Vanderbilt University, United States
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Daniela Popescu, University of Oradea, Romania
Christian Prehofer, DENSO Automotive Germany, Germany
Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Antonio Puliafito, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
Gleb Radchenko, Silicon Austria Labs, Austria
Christoph Reich, Furtwangen University, Germany
António M. Rosado da Cruz, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Gabriele Russo Russo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Ankit Singh, Independent Researcher, India
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
Gaurav Somani, Central University of Rajasthan, India
Georgios L. Stavrinides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
Gilbert Tekli, Nobatek, France, Lebanon
Orazio Tomarchio, University of Catania, Italy
Ashok K. Turuk, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India
Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Willem-Jan Van Den Heuvel, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Robert A. van Engelen, Independent Researcher, United States
Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy
Yiannis Verginadis, ICCS, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Monica Vitali, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Huaming Wu, Independent Researcher, China
Chrysostomos Zeginis, ICS-FORTH, Greece
Christian Zirpins, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany

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