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Special Session on
Multi-Clouds - MultiCloud 2014

3 - 5 April, 2014 - Barcelona, Spain

Within the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2014


CO-CHAIRS

Dana Petcu
West University of Timisoara
Romania

 
Brief Bio
Massimiliano Rak is an assistant professor at Second University of Naples. He got his degree in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II in 1999. In November 2002 he got a Ph.D. in Electronical Engineering at Second University of Naples. His scientific activity is mainly focused on the analysis and design of High Performance System Architectures and on methodologies and techniques for distributed software development.
Dana Petcu
West University of Timisoara
Romania

 
Brief Bio
Massimiliano Rak is an assistant professor at Second University of Naples. He got his degree in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II in 1999. In November 2002 he got a Ph.D. in Electronical Engineering at Second University of Naples. His scientific activity is mainly focused on the analysis and design of High Performance System Architectures and on methodologies and techniques for distributed software development.

SCOPE

Using resources and services from multiple Clouds for reasons like high availability, cost reductions or special features is a natural evolution from in-silo Clouds.
Being able to move, at design or at run-time, applications from one Cloud to another can reduce the risk of Cloud adoption and can ensure the reliability of the deployed applications.

Two basic delivery models in place for the multiple Clouds: Federations and Multi-Clouds. The session is focusing on the second case, when a third party is building unique entry point for multiple Clouds, without a prior agreement with and between the Cloud providers.

The aim of the Special Session is to offer a snapshot of the current state-of-the-art in using Multi-Clouds and to provide the framework for discussions related to the current problems to be solved and emerging solutions. The session organizers welcome researchers and practitioners who investigate concepts, models and tools for deploying applications on multiple Clouds.

Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Model-driven design for Multi-Cloud applications
  • Portability and interoperability among Clouds
  • Scheduling, dynamic capacity allocation and load balancing in Multi-Cloud environments
  • Self-adaptivity of applications and auto-scaling mechanisms
  • Open-source support for Multi-Clouds
  • Automatic code generation and deployment of applications on Multi-Clouds
  • Risk analysis for Cloud and Multi-Clouds
  • Cloud service discovery, monitoring, metering, performance, availability and other non functional requirements
  • Brokering and selection of Cloud services and providers
  • Multi-Clouds governance
  • Service level agreements and quality of services
  • Case studies and success stories of applications exploiting multiple clouds
  • Business and organzational impact of deploying applications on (Multi-)Cloud
  • Migration of legacy application to a (Multi-)Cloud environment
  • Security-as-a-Service, security services in Multi-Clouds
  • Service Level Agreements, Security Level Agreements
  • Security Mechansims, Evaluation and Monitoring

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: January 29, 2014 (expired)
Authors Notification: February 10, 2014 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: February 20, 2014 (expired)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Marcos Almeida, Independent Researcher, France
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Juan P. Bernal, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Alysson Bessani, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Massimo Ficco, Second University of Naples, Italy
Leire Orue-Echevarria, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain
Massimiliano Rak, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Arnor Solberg, Independent Researcher, Norway
Jose L. Vazquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Umberto Villano, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy

PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines and Templates.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support - and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS

CLOSER Special Sessions - MultiCloud 2014
e-mail: closer.secretariat@scitevents.org
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