Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit papers for the Third International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), Sept 30th to Oct 2nd, Karlsruhe, Germany

**** Conference Website ****

**** Overview ****

Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. The paradigm has attracted international interest with many open challenges such as security and privacy. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge energy consumptions, heat dissemination, greenhouse emissions and potentially also climate change. As such, green computing challenges the community for energy efficient and environmentally friendly solutions for modern computing infrastructures. These two domains meet at the challenge of making modern (Cloud) computing infrastructures environmentally friendly, sustainable and efficient with respect to their energy consumption.

CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Cloud and Green computing as well as their synergy.

**** Scope and Topics of Interest ****

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

    Fundamentals of cloud computing

    Architectural cloud models

    Programming cloud models

    Provisioning/pricing cloud models

    Data storage and computation in cloud computing

    Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing

    Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing

    Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing

    Access control to cloud computing

    Resource virtualisation

    Monitoring and auditing in cloud

    Scalable and elastic cloud services

    Social computing and impacts on the cloud

    Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud

    Mobile commerce and e-markets on cloud

    Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing

    Migration of business applications to cloud

    Cloud use case studies

    Volume, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud

    Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud

    Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud

    Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud

    Big Data mining and analytics

    Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud

    MapReduce for processing Big Data

    Distributed file storage of Big Data in clouds

    Big Data use cases on clouds

    Fundamentals of green computing

    Energy aware software, hardware and middleware

    Energy efficient IT architecture

    Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation

    Energy efficient clustering and computing

    Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation

    Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design

    Energy efficient networking and operation

    Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture

    Intelligent energy management

    Green data centres, Green IT and Green IS

    Energy aware resource usage and consumption

    Smart grids and virtual power stations

    Energy policy, social behaviour and government management

    Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting

    Low power electronics and energy recycling

    Green computing case studies

    Energy efficiency in the Internet of Things

    Energy efficient cloud architectures

    Energy aware data storage, computation, scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud computing

**** Important Dates ****

Abstract Submission: May 05th 2013

Paper Submission: May 12th 2013

Author Notification: July 10th 2013

Camera Ready: August 12th 2013

**** Submission Guidelines ****

Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for full conference papers, 6 pages for short / work in progress papers, and 2 pages for posters, including all tables and figures in the IEEE CS format. The template files for LaTeX or Word can be downloaded from http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) as a PDF at the CGC2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2013.

**** Publication ****

Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (Indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference.

**** Distinguished Papers ****

Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of high quality SCI indexed international journals: TBA

**** Organization ****

General Chairs

    Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA

    Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Steering Committee

    Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA

    Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia

    Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair)

    Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA

    Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

    Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA

    Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia

    Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

    Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA

    Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, University of Lyon, France

    Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

    Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA

    Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

    Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

Program Chairs

    Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, University of Lyon, France

    Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK

    Thomas Setzer, FZI, Germany

Tutorial Chair

    Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, USA

Workshop Chairs

    Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA

    Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Publication Chair

    Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Publicity Chair

    Martin Chorley, Cardiff University, UK

Local Organization

    Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (chair)

    Margeret Hall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

    Wibke Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

**** More Information: Conference Website ****