*First IEEE Latin American Conference on Cloud Computing * *and Communications (LatinCloud 2012)*
*26-27 November 2012, Porto Alegre, Brazil* *http://www.ieee-latincloud.org/* <http://labcom.inf.ufrgs.br/latincloud2012> *** Submission deadline extended to Sep 21st, 2012 *** The Cloud Computing and communications paradigm has defined unprecedented business models, promoting on-demand computing resource allocation, elastic scaling, and elimination of up-front costs. Capitalizing on paradigms such as virtualization, utility computing, grid computing, and service oriented architectures, cloud computing and communications has already changed the way we compute and communicate. To cope with numerous technological challenges for the support of diverse services and application, the First IEEE Latin American Conference on Cloud Computing and Communications invites your submission. *Topics of interest * Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the field of cloud computing and communications. The topics include but are not limited to: Cloud architectures Infrastructure core services SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/NaaS Public, private, and hybrid clouds Cloud-based multimedia services Green Clouds Cloud management Mobile Cloud services Social network in Clouds Federated Clouds Virtualization platforms Middeware for cloud environments Network architecture for data center Optical interconnects Mechanisms and protocols to support QoS/QoE Service level agreements and business models Resource provisioning and scheduling Cloud platforms and testbeds Load balancing Policy driven service/resource life-cycle management Privacy and security Measurement and Monitoring Dependability and fault tolerance Performance evaluation and modeling Applications and services enabled by virtualized infrastructures Data management in Clouds Metadata and schemas Service-oriented architecture in Cloud computing Service composition and orchestration Management of scientific models and workflows Cloud computing and communications in industry and IT business * * *Paper Submission * We solicit submission of high-quality full papers reporting original and novel research results on all above topics. Papers must be written in English, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. Full papers must be formatted as the standard IEEE double-column conference template and submitted exclusively in PDF on JEMS (http://jems.sbc.org.br/latincloud2012) at the IEEE LATINCOM 2012 page. Maximum 6 pages are allowed for each paper, including all illustrations and references. *Important Date:* Paper Submission: Sep 21st, 2012 Acceptance Notification: Nov 1st, 2012 Final Version: Nov 15th, 2012 *Organizing Committee* TPC co-chairs: Edmundo Madeira and Nelson L. S. Fonseca, University of Campinas, Brazil General chair: Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Local arrangement chair: Cristiano Bonato Both, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * * *Program Committee* Alfredo Goldman, USP, Brazil Américo Tadeu Sampaio, UNIFOR, Brazil Antônio Tadeu Gomes, LNCC, Brazil Carlos Alberto Kamienski, UFABC, Brazil Carlos Westphall, UFSC, Brazil Christian E. Rothenberg, CPqD, Brazil Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil Daniel Macêdo Batista, USP, Brazil Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA Dilma Silva, IBM, USA Djamel Sadok, UFPE, Brazil Dzmitry Kliazovich, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Fábio Verdi, UFSCar, Brazil Flávia Coimbra Delicato, UFRJ, Brazil Francisco Brasileiro, UFCG, Brazil George Michailidis, University of Michigan, USA Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Guy Pujolle, UPMC, France Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Harold Castro, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Jaime Lloret Mauri, UPV, Spain Jose Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil Karin Breitman, PUC-Rio, Brazil Lisandro Granville, UFRGS, Brazil Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil Luis Henrique M. K. Costa, UFRJ, Brazil Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, UNICAMP, Brazil Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil Marinho P. Barcellos, UFRGS, Brazil Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Nabor das Chagas Mendonça, UNIFOR, Brazil Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio, Brazil Omar Cherkaoui, UQAM, Canada Paulo de Figueiredo Pires, UFRJ, Brazil Piotr Cholda, AGH, Poland Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy Stênio Fernandes, UFPE, Brazil Thais V. Batista, UFRN, Brazil Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Germany Vladimir Tosic, NICTA, Australia Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, ENSIIE, France _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
