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Special Issue on Cloud Computing Technology and Applications

The IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine (MEEM) announces
a forthcoming Special Issue on Cloud Computing Technology and Applications
(CCTA) to be published in March 2012.

In recent years, cloud computing has been more and more popular. Cloud computing
is based on an on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing
resources and is rapidly provisioned and released. This special issue is intended to foster
the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of Cloud Computing Technology
and Applications (CCTA) for education and to focus on the technological support of
any pedagogical approach. We invite the submissions of high quality papers describing
future potentials or on-going work.


SCOPE
We solicit papers on various disciplines of cloud computing, but are not limited to:
„P Cloud Computing in Education
„P Cloud-based Services and Education
„P Scalable Scheduling on Heterogeneous Architectures
„P Cloud Industry Management for Education
„P Development and Sharing of Open Educational Resources
„P Cloud Systems and Applications for Education
„P Virtual Machine Technology for Education
„P Software as a Service (SaaS)
„P Platform as a Service (PaaS)
„P Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
„P Middleware Frameworks
„P Mobile Cloud for Education
„P Web Services for Education


INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANUSCRIPTS

A manuscript should be prepared according to the IEEE Transactions on Education Guidelines.
The preferred length of the manuscript is +5 pages for a full PAPER, +3 pages for a short
PAPER and +1 page for a LETTER with the format determined by the MEEM Style File.
A. Did you format your paper using the IEEE Transactions on Education Guidelines
( http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/meem/public/MEEM_camera_ready.doc)
B. Login IEEE MEEM system and choose "Special Issue - Cloud Computing Technology
and Applications (CCTA)" to submit your papers from
( http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/e/sac/meem/index.php/meem/about/submissions)

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
Manuscript Due:  November 15, 2011
Notification Due:  January  15, 2012
Revised Manuscript Due:  February 15, 2012
Final Decision Notification:  February 30, 2012
Expected Publication Date:  March 31, 2012


GUEST EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Chi-Hua Chen
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Email: chihua0826@gmail.com


GUEST ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Prof. Chi-Chun Lo
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Email: cclo@faculty.nctu.edu.tw

Prof. Hsu-Yang Kung
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Email: kung@mail.npust.edu.tw

Prof. Chih-Cheng Hung
National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Email: educch@ccu.edu.tw

Prof. Ping Wang
Kun Shan University, Taiwan
Email: pingwang@mail.ksu.edu.tw

Prof. Maiga Chang
Athabasca University, Canada
Email: maigac@athabascau.ca