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::::::::Co-located IEEE CLOUD/ICWS/SCC/MS/SERVICES/BigDataCongress 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2015) 

The 22th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2015)

The 12th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2015)

The 4th IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigDataCongress 2015) 

The 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2015)

The 11th IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2015)

June 27-July 2, 2015

Millennium Broadway Hotel (New York City Time Square)

http://www.thecloudcomputing.org/2015/ (2014 acceptance rate: 18%) 

http://icws.org (2014 acceptance rate: 18%) 

http://conferences.computer.org/scc/2015/ (2014 acceptance rate: 20%) 

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Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Services Computing (TC-SVC), the co-located conferences will explore everything as a service from different perspectives:

-CLOUD 2015: XaaS in cloud;

-ICWS 2015: Web-based services;

-SCC 2015: Service innovation lifecycle; 

-MS 2015: Internet of Things and Wearable services;

-BigDataCongress 2015: Big Data-based services 

Each conference will contain a Research track, an Application track, and a Short Paper track. The Congress will comprise keynotes, panels, tutorials, Visionary Tracks, Ph.D symposium, SERVICES Cup contest, Industry summit, and other events like job fair and exhibitions.

Important Dates for Research Track Papers:

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Paper Submission Due Dates:

ICWS/CLOUD 2015: 2/20/2015 (Decision: 4/15/2015) [extended]

SCC 2015: 2/15/2015 (Decision: 4/15/2015) 

BigDataCongress/MS/SERVICES 2015: 3/1/2015(Decision: 4/25/2015)

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Accepted papers will appear in the corresponding conference proceedings (ICWS/CLOUD/SCC/MS/BigDataCongress/SERVICES). 

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited to submit to the Special Issues at the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC, SCI&EI), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR, SCI&EI), International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), International Journal of Services Computing (IJSC), International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC), and Internaitonal Journal of Big Data (IJBD).

A Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be presented by ICWS/CLOUD/SCC/MS/BigDataCongress 2015, respectively. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.

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Publicity Chairs: 

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Zaiwen Feng, University of Wuhan, China 

Marcelo Fantinato, University of São Paulo, Brazil 

Carsten Binnig, DHBW Mannheim, Germany 

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