Special Issue Editors: Catarina
Ferreira da Silva, Parisa
Ghodous, Mahmoud
Barhamgi
Aim and scope
Cloud Computing is an emerging paradigm shift in
management of computing resources for provisioning of services
with enhanced capabilities. These capabilities pertain to
non-functional (such as elasticity, reliability, availability
and interoperability), economic (such as cost reduction, pay
per use and improved time to market) and technological (such
as virtualization, security, privacy, data management and
resources metering) aspects. The groundings of Cloud Computing
include the "as-a-Service" usage model, Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) and resources Virtualization. The goal of
Cloud Computing is to reinforce infrastructure, and share
resources among the cloud stakeholders in the cloud value
chain. The NIST (USA National Institute of Standards and
Technology) identifies cloud computing as a model for
enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a
shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,
networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that
can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal
management effort or service provider interaction. Relevant
progress has already been made on both the commercial and the
academic side of cloud systems. However several challenges
persist and new ones arise in the design, implementation, and
deployment of virtualized clouds. These challenges include but
are not limited to automated service provisioning, service
monitoring and management, resource elasticity, cloud
programming models and economic models. The circumstances
under which companies choose to build their own
value-producing private cloud computing networks are a related
opportunity for service science research. There will be
significant interest in conducting service science research on
how cloud computing affects relationships among stakeholders
in specific industry contexts, how the stakeholders will
interact, and how their roles may shift, where the extent of
economic value produced should be unique.
Authors are invited to submit high quality papers. The
submission of papers describing novel research directions are
encouraged, as well as those by leading researchers and
industry experts describing practical experiences in these
areas.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited
to, the following:
New applications in Cloud
Case studies of application of Cloud
in private and public sectors
Cloud computing types, such as Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Cloud usage types, such as private, public,
hybrid and community cloudsSemantic web services in Cloud
Business and transactional models in Cloud
Service level agreements
Privacy, security, governance and legal
issues in Cloud
New architectures and design methods for
developing cloud services
Tools and techniques for developing and
managing applications in cloud
Legacy systems and interoperability with
Cloud
Data management
How Services Science can provide theory,
methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage and
market Cloud Computing
Paper Submission Instructions and Procedure
Full papers should not exceed 10 pages
(including all figures, tables, and references), and must
adhere to the formatting rules(http://ijebm.ie.nthu.edu.tw/IJEBM_Web/IJEBM_static/00Intro/03InsForAuth.htm) of the IJEBM.Researchers and practitioners are invited to
submit by January 31, 2012.Authors of papers will be notified by April 15,
2012 about the status of their submission. All submitted
papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.