-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: Special Issue on Cloud Computing: International Journal of Electronic Business Management Datum: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:47:48 +0000 Von: Catarina Ferreira da Silva cferr@dei.uc.pt An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

*A Special Issue on Cloud Computing*

*In*

*/International Journal of Electronic Business Management (IJEBM)/*

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Special Issue Editors: Catarina Ferreira da Silva, Parisa Ghodous, Mahmoud Barhamgi**

*_Aim and scope_*

Cloud Computing is an emerging paradigm shift in management of computing resources for provisioning of services with enhanced capabilities. These capabilities pertain to non-functional (such as elasticity, reliability, availability and interoperability), economic (such as cost reduction, pay per use and improved time to market) and technological (such as virtualization, security, privacy, data management and resources metering) aspects. The groundings of Cloud Computing include the "as-a-Service" usage model, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and resources Virtualization. The goal of Cloud Computing is to reinforce infrastructure, and share resources among the cloud stakeholders in the cloud value chain. The NIST (USA National Institute of Standards and Technology http://www.nist.gov/itl/cloud/) identifies cloud computing as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Relevant progress has already been made on both the commercial and the academic side of cloud systems. However several challenges persist and new ones arise in the design, implementation, and deployment of virtualized clouds. These challenges include but are not limited to automated service provisioning, service monitoring and management, resource elasticity, cloud programming models and economic models. The circumstances under which companies choose to build their own value-producing private cloud computing networks are a related opportunity for service science research. There will be significant interest in conducting service science research on how cloud computing affects relationships among stakeholders in specific industry contexts, how the stakeholders will interact, and how their roles may shift, where the extent of economic value produced should be unique.

Authors are invited to submit high quality papers. The submission of papers describing novel research directions are encouraged, as well as those by leading researchers and industry experts describing practical experiences in these areas.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

* New applications in Cloud * Case studies of application of Cloud in private and public sectors * Cloud computing types, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) * Cloud usage types, such as private, public, hybrid and community cloudsSemantic web services in Cloud * Business and transactional models in Cloud * Service level agreements * Privacy, security, governance and legal issues in Cloud * New architectures and design methods for developing cloud services * Tools and techniques for developing and managing applications in cloud * Legacy systems and interoperability with Cloud * Data management * How Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage and market Cloud Computing

*_Paper Submission Instructions and Procedure_*

Full papers should not exceed 10 pages (including all figures, tables, and references), and must adhere to the formattingrules http://ijebm-ojs.ie.nthu.edu.tw/IJEBM_OJS/index.php/IJEBM/information/authors(http://ijebm.ie.nthu.edu.tw/IJEBM_Web/IJEBM_static/00Intro/03InsForAuth.htm) of the IJEBM.Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit by January 31, 2012.Authors of papers will be notified by April 15, 2012 about the status of their submission. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis.

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*_Important Dates_*

*March 31, 2012: Paper Submission Deadline*

*June 15, 2012: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection*

*August 31, 2012: Final Paper Submission *

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to

C. Ferreira da Silva (cferr@dei.uc.pt mailto:cferr@dei.uc.pt), P. Ghodous (parisa.ghodous@runiv-lyon1.fr mailto:parisa.ghodous@runiv-lyon1.fr), M. Barhamgi (Mahmoud.barhamgi@liris.cnrs.fr mailto:Mahmoud.barhamgi@liris.cnrs.fr)