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Subject: [AISWorld] Final Call for Papers: Cloud Computing (ISD2012)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:22:09 +0100
From: Edward Curry <edcurry@acm.org>
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Final 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: 4th May, 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)

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