Dear OpenStack community,

See the notice below.

Please consider a submission if your work is on any aspect of federated clouds 
or related distributed infrastructure as a service offerings.

Work that highlights the use or development of standards will be especially 
favorably considered for inclusion in this issue.

Yours sincerely,

Alan Sill
Co-guest editor

Begin forwarded message:

From: Gabor Kecskemeti 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: November 30, 2012, 10:46:18 AM GMT+01:00
To: 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [DistComp] Deadline extension for the Special Issue on 
Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces 
for IaaS Clouds

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*** Call for Papers ***
Springer Journal of Grid Computing
http://www.springer.com/journal/10723
Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and
Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds
http://cac.hpcc.ttu.edu/jogc/cloud-interop-2012/
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The Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application 
Programming Interfaces for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Clouds will 
highlight foundational standards and application programmer interfaces (APIs) 
useful for large- scale, scalable distributed computing. This issue will 
provide the community with dedicated forum, within the prestigious Springer 
Journal of Grid Computing, for presenting new research, development, and 
deployment efforts in running interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems. 
Priority will be given to submissions that focus on presenting solutions to 
challenges faced by current and future infrastructure cloud toolkits and APIs, 
and on frameworks that allow their use across a broad range of platforms and 
user communities.

Large commercial cloud providers and standards organizations, multi-user and 
multi- organization infrastructure providers and users are welcome to submit to 
this issue to provide formal descriptions of their existing and proposed 
solutions. The increasingly large range of choices and availability of IaaS 
toolkits has also allowed creation of cloud solutions and frameworks suitable 
for private deployment and practical use even on smaller scales. As a result, 
many academic infrastructure service providers have started to their transition 
to add cloud resources to their previously existing campus and shared grid 
deployments. To be successful, such solutions should also support the 
unification of cloud and/or cloud+grid solutions in a seamless, preferably 
interoperable way. Priority in selection will be given to papers that document 
and present measured comparisons or practical information on realistic, 
real-world solutions.

We believe this venue will be an excellent place to help the community define 
the current state, determine future goals, and present architectures and 
service frameworks to achieve highly interoperable federated cloud 
infrastructures.

PROPOSED EXAMPLE TOPICS
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• Case studies of interoperable and federated solutions across multiple 
infrastructures
• Application Programmer Interfaces and standards for interoperability and 
federation
• Experience from operating infrastructure clouds as part of one or more 
federations
• Practical experiences in energy-efficiency or other benefits from cloud 
federation
• Virtual machine deployment and migration solutions across cloud boundaries
• Federation-compatible service agreements, SLAs and quality of service control 
systems
• Virtual machine scheduling and management algorithms in federated systems
• Federation and interoperability challenges of mixed grid and cloud systems
• Construction and management of cross-domain HPC virtual infrastructures
• Accounting and identity management solutions that support federation-level 
models
• Performance evaluation and comparison across multiple federated cloud systems
• New programming models and standards for interoperable cloud computing systems
• Scalability issues and comparisons of different cloud federation approaches
• Security problems, considerations and solutions for hybrid mixed 
public/private clouds
• Storage management, focusing on interoperability and multi cloud placement

Important Dates
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• Papers Due: November 30, 2012 ----> Extended to December 15, 2012
• First Round Decisions: February 1, 2013
• Major Revisions if needed: April 1, 2013
• Second Round Decisions: June 1, 2013
• Minor Revisions if needed: July 15, 2013
• Final Decision: July 30, 2013
• Publication Date: September 2013

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished technical papers. All 
submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, 
technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the 
special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or 
be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may 
they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. 
Submitted papers may not exceed 20 single-spaced double-column pages using 
10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (1" margins), including figures, 
tables, and references; note that accepted papers will likely be between 15 to 
20 pages, depending on a variety of factors.
Manuscripts must be formatted along the guidelines for authors of the Journal 
of Grid Computing: http://www.springer.com/journal/10723
Manuscripts must be submitted online using the site: 
http://www.editorialmanager.com/grid
Please indicate that your manuscript is targeted to the Cloud Federation 
special issue.

Editors
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Special Issue Guest Editors
• Alan Sill ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>), Texas Tech 
University & Open Grid Forum
• Gabor Kecskemeti 
([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>), MTA 
SZTAKI, Hungary

Editors-in-Chief
• Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences & University of Westminster
• Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
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--
Gabor Kecskemeti
Research Fellow
Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems - 
www.lpds.sztaki.hu<http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu>
MTA SZTAKI
Computer and Automation Research Institute - www.sztaki.hu<http://www.sztaki.hu>
Hungarian Academy of Sciences - www.mta.hu<http://www.mta.hu>

Cloud computing group - https://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/CloudResearch
Personal research webpage - http://users.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~kecskemeti
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