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Call For Papers
The Second IEEE Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications (NCCA12)
December 3th-5th, 2012, London, UK
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/ieeencca2012/
Sponsored by: The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing
Sponsored by: International Research Institute Autonomic Network Computing
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Cloud Computing is defined as a pool of virtualized computer resources. Based on this virtualization the Cloud Computing paradigm allows workloads to be deployed and scaled-out quickly through the rapid provisioning of virtual machines or physical machines. A Cloud Computing platform supports redundant, self-recovering, highly scalable programming models that allow workloads to recover from many inevitable hardware/software failures and monitoring resource use in real time for providing physical and virtual servers on which the applications can run. A Cloud Computing platform is more than a collection of computer resources because it provides a mechanism to manage those resources.  In a Cloud Computing platform software is migrating from the desktop into the "clouds" of the Internet, promising users anytime, anywhere access to their programs and data. What challenges does it presents to users, programmers, and telecommunications providers?  The goal of this Cloud Computing Symposium series is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss all aspects of Cloud Computing.  All topics of design, theory and realization are of interest.

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CLOUD COMPUTING SYMPOSIUM TRACKS:
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Cloud Computing Infrastructure:
- Operating systems;
- Control services;
- Distributed infrastructure;
- Distributed composite services;
- Kernel-exchange modules;
- Application exchange modules;
- Basic services.

Scalable, Self-managing and Autonomic Cloud Computing platforms:
- Dynamic instantiation;
- Vertically scaling platforms;
- Dynamic composition;
- Self-managing platforms;
- Dynamic configuration;
- Dynamic reconfiguration of services;
- Horizontally scaling platforms;
- Self-Healing Cloud computing platforms.

Security of Cloud Computing Platforms:
- Authentication;
- Self-protecting platforms;
- Increasing resilience against Cyber attacks of Software as a Service (SaaS);
- Increasing resilience against Cyber attacks of Platforms as a Service (PaaS);
- Increasing resilience against Cyber attacks of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Cloud Computing Applications:
- E-Commerce, Media processing and Streaming search engines, Development and testing, Web hosting, Application hosting, Collaboration tools, Store and share, Social networking for businesses and web applications, Bio-informatics, Biomedical applications.

All manuscripts must be written in English and must not exceed 20 single column double-spaced pages (inclusive of figures and tables using a font size of at least 12 points) describing original unpublished research. All accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Prepare the final version of the manuscript using the paper templates here.The papers must be submitted in PDF format electronically via the Symposium webpage (TBA) All papers will be reviewed.

Furthermore, work in progress papers, industrial papers and student papers are also allowed.

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******* IMPORTANT DATES *******
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Paper Submission Dead line : September 24th, 2012
Authors Notification: October 15th, 2012
Camera Ready Paper : October 25th, 2012

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Steering Committee Chairs:
D. R. Avresky, IRIANC, Munich, Germany
Michel Diaz, CNRS,  LAAS, Toulouse, France

Steering Committee Member:
E. Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

General Chair & Financial Chair:
E. Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

General Co-Chair:
D. R. Avresky, International Research Institute on Autonomic Network Computing (IRIANC), Germany

Publication Chair
J. Alonso, Duke University, USA

Program Co-Chair's:
P. Senac, ISAE (DMIA), CNRS LAAS, France
R. Lent, Imperial College, UK
B. Ciciani, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Publicity Chair:
Roberto Palmieri, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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E. Alata, CNRS, LAAS, Toulouse, France
J. Alonso, Duke University, USA
P. D. Amer, University of Delaware, USA
O. Brun, CNRS LAAS, France
T. Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
F. Cappello,  INRIA, France, UIUC, USA
B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy
M. Colajanni, University of Modena, Italy
E. Dekel , IBM Reasearch , Haifa
M. Dias de Amorim LIP6, France
C. Elks , Universty of Virginia , USA
S. Fdida, University of Paris 6, France
I. Gashi, City  Univeristy, London, UK
B. Johnson, University of Virginia, USA
G. Malewicz , Google, USA
L. Mathy, University of Lancaster, UK
E. Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany
E. Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
E. Net , University of Magdeburg, Germany
S. Papavassiliou, NTUA, Greece
A. Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
F. Quaglia,  University of Roma, ITALY
M. Roy, CNRS, LAAS, Toulouse,  France
R. Roman, Institute Infoocomm Research, Singapore
H. Schwefel, FTW Vienna, Austria,  Aalborg University, Denmark
L. Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
K. Tutschku, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
J. Torres, Technical University of Catalonia - BSC, Spain
O. Thonnard, Symantec Corporation, Europe,
C. Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, Germany
M. Wodczak   --Ericson, Europe
M. Vouk, North Carolina State University, USA