Call for Papers
21st International Conference on Information Systems
Development (ISD2012), Prato, Italy, August 29-31,
2012
Track: Cloud Computing
http://infotech.monash.edu/research/ISD2012/track_cloudcomputing.php
Cloud computing describes a computing paradigm where
services (computation, software and data) are deployed
on virtualized and dynamically scalable computing
resources in remote data centres. Cloud computing
resources are offered in one of three levels depending
on the needs of the user: software as a service,
infrastructure as a service and platform as a service.
The computing resources underlying a given cloud
computing provider's offering such as Amazon's EC2 or
Microsoft's Azure may be distributed on a regional or
global level, and to gain flexibility and efficiency,
these resources are often shared by many applications
and many companies. Cloud-based services are accessed
remotely by users via Internet and telecom (voice and
SMS) protocols through Web browsers and dedicated
applications on devices ranging from mobile phones to
game consoles to tablets to personal computers.
Flexibility in the cloud computing paradigm provides a
logical migration path for various forms of SOA and
service models - software, storage, infrastructure,
platform etc. and enables new flexibility in the rapid
development and scaling of online services. Companies
often combine offerings from multiple cloud providers
and multiple levels (software, platform and
infrastructure) to achieve a much wider range of
outcomes than could be achieved using their own
computing and information system development
capabilities alone. With this flexibility and power
comes a broad range of potential issues ranging from
technical to organizational to social and thus, cloud
computing invites consideration of new models of
governance for systems, service and organization. It
also invokes legal, national, and social considerations.
Cloud computing can help organisations manage risks
related to demand, innovation, efficiency, scaling, and
control leading them towards a more sustainable future.
At the same time, cloud computing is also enabling for a
massive proliferation of online services which in turn
is paradoxically having negative impact as more
computing resource is needed for all of these services.
With the rapid growth in cloud computing has come
significant interest among the practitioner community
with major research activities being conducted in
corporate R&D labs. To compliment this and to
explore the role of cloud computing in the context of
sustainable information systems, we invite rigorous
and relevant contributions from a wide variety of
research methods addressing topics such as those
mentioned below.
Topics
Green Clouds and Resource Efficiency
Trust, Security and Access
New Make vs. Buy IT decision-making processes in the
Age of the Cloud
The Role of the IS architect in leveraging Cloud
technology
Development, implementation, maintenance of
cloud-based projects and systems
Information infrastructures, reuse and quality in the
era of Cloud Computing
Challenges in simultaneously maintaining Legacy system
and cloud based systems
Cloud scalability, reliability, flexibility, recovery
and performance
Cloud infrastructure for data management
The dark side of cloud computing
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 20th April, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance: 15th June, 2012
ISD Conference: 29th - 31st August, 2012
Chairs
Edward Curry (
ed.curry@deri.org)
Brian Donnellan (
brian.donnellan@nuim.ie)
Philip A. DesAutels (
philip.desautels@ltu.se)