-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] CFP: International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:46:02 -0500 From: Yi Pan pan@cs.gsu.edu Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

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*International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC) ISSN (Online): 2043-9997 - ISSN (Print): 2043-9989 *

*http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijcc *

Published in 4 issues per year (_View Subscription Price_)

*_Click to download IJCC leaflet_*

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Cloud computing refers to computing with a pool of virtualized computer resources and is driven by economics of scale. A cloud can host a variety of different workloads, and allow workloads to be deployed and scaled-out quickly on-demand by rapid provisioning of virtual machines or physical machines. A cloud supports redundant, self-recovering, highly scalable programming models and allows workloads to recover from many unavoidable hardware/software failures. A cloud also monitors resource use in real time to enable rebalancing of allocations when needed. The idea is to move desktop computing to a service-oriented platform using server clusters and huge databases at datacenters. Cloud computing leverages its low cost and simplicity that benefits both users and the providers through providing cost-effective services and pay-per-use pricing model. In cloud computing, everything including software, platform, and infrastructure is as a service.

Cloud computing makes data truly mobile and a user can simply access a chosen cloud with any internet-accessible device. Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of cluster, distributed, grid, service, ubiquitous, utility and virtual computing; however it has emerged from these computing domains and now has its own meaning. In cloud computing, a user does not care much what is in the cloud or what goes on there apart from being able to receive service from it. Cloud computing is now associated with a higher level abstraction of the cloud. Instead of there being application software, routers and servers, there are now services. The underlying hardware and software of networking is of course still there but there are now higher level service capabilities available to build applications. Hidden behind the services are data and computer resources.

There have been many cloud computing platforms built so far including Google Cloud, IBM BlueCloud and Amazon Elastic Cloud. Programming models for cloud computing have been developed including MapReduce by Google and Hadoop by Yahoo group. Using these cloud computing models and toolsets, IT-related capabilities are provided as services, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. Of course, many mature technologies are used as components in cloud computing, but there are still many unresolved and open problems due to its unique characteristics which are different from distributed computing, cluster computing, grid computing, utility computing and service computing.

/IJCC/ addresses the most innovative developments, research issues and solutions in cloud computing and its related technologies.

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Go Top *Objectives*

The objectives of /IJCC/ are to develop, promote and coordinate the development and practice of cloud computing. /IJCC/ aims to help professionals working in the field, academic educators and policy-makers to contribute, to disseminate knowledge, and to learn from each other's work. The international dimension is emphasised in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and to meet the needs of accelerating technological change and changes in the global economy. /IJCC/ is an outstanding outlet that can shape a significant body of research in the field of cloud computing and in which results can be shared across institutions, governments, researchers and students, and also industry.

Go Top *Readership*

/IJCC/ provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics, researchers, graduate students, and managers, working in the field of cloud computing and its related areas such as virtual computing and grid computing, to disseminate information and to learn from each other’s work.

Go Top *Contents*

/IJCC/ publishes original and review papers, technical reports, and case studies. Contribution may be by submission or invitation, and suggestions and proposals for special issues devoted to important topics in cloud computing are welcome.

Go Top *Subject Coverage*

Although the possible set of topics is large and we encourage submission on any area within the scope of cloud computing, the following areas are particularly suitable (but not exhaustive):

* Auditing, monitoring and scheduling * Automatic reconfiguration * Autonomic computing * Cloud architecture and modelling * Cloud-based services * Consistency models * Data grid and semantic web * Fault tolerance and reliability * Hardware as a service (HaaS) * High-performance computing * Integration of mainframe and large systems * Innovations in IP (esp. open source) systems * IT service and relationship management * Load balancing * Middleware frameworks * New and innovative pedagogical approaches * Novel programming models for large computing * Optimal deployment configuration * Peer to peer computing * Power-aware profiling, modelling, and optimisation * Resource registration and discovery * Scalable fault resilience techniques for large computing * Scalable scheduling on heterogeneous architectures * Security and risk * Self healing * Self monitoring * Service integration and management * Service level agreement definitions * Software as a service * Trustworthiness, security and privacy * Utility computing * Virtualisation technologies * Web services

Go Top *Specific Notes for Authors*

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the _Submission of Papers_ http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31 web-page.

To submit a paper, please go to /_Submissions of Papers_ http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=35&jid=367/

*All papers /must/ be submitted online*. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions@inderscience.com mailto:submissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. _Please include in your email the title of the Journal._

Go Top *Editors and Members of the Editorial Board*

*_Editor in Chief_*

*Prof. Yi Pan* Georgia State University Department of Computer Science 34 Peachtree Street, Suite 1450 Atlanta, GA 30302-4110 USA pan@cs.gsu.edu

*_Editorial Board Members_*

*Prof. Rajkumar Buyya*Ra The University of Melbourne Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering ICT Building, 111, Barry Street, Carlton Melbourne VIC 3053 AUSTRALIA

*Prof. Jiannong Cao*Ji Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Computing PQ816, Mong Man Wai Building Hung Hom, Kowloon HONG KONG

*Prof. Ernesto Damiani*Er University of Milan Department of Information Technology Via Bramante 65 Milan ITALY

*Dr. Jack Dongarra*Ja Distinguished Professor, Innovative Computing Laboratory University of Tennessee Knoxville Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) 1122 Volunteer Blvd Knoxville TN 37996-3450 USA

*Prof. Geoffrey Charles Fox*Ge Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing Bloomington, IN 47408 USA

*Prof. Andrzej M. Goscinski*An Professor of Computing Deakin University School of Information Technology Geelong, Victoria 3217 AUSTRALIA

*Dr. Bob Grossman*Bo University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Mathematics, Statistics, & Computer Science Mail Code 249 851 S. Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60607 USA

*Mr. Shigeru Hosono*Sh NEC Corporation Service Platforms Research Laboratories NEC Igarashi Building 11-5, Shibaura 2-chome Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8557 JAPAN

*Dr. Xuedong Huang*Xu Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond WA 98052 USA

*Prof. Kai Hwang*Ka University of Southern California Department of Electrical Engineering – Systems 3740 McClintock Ave., EEB 212 Los Angeles CA 90089-2562 USA

*Dr. Craig A. Lee*Cr President, Open Grid Forum; Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing The Aerospace Corporation M1-102 2310 East El Segundo Blvd. El Segundo, CA 90245 USA

*Prof. Deyi Li*De National Natural Science Foundation 83 Shuang Qing Road Beijing, 100085 CHINA

*Prof. Prabhat K. Mahanti*Pr University of New Brunswick Department of Computer Science and Applied Statistics (CSAS) 100 Tucker Park Road Saint John, N.B. E2L 4L5 CANADA

*Dr. Judy Qiu*Ju Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute Bloomington, IN 47408 USA

*Dr. Andy Rindos*An IBM Corporation P O Box 12195 Dept W4DA/Bldg 503/Office N237 3039 Cornwallis Rd. Research Triangle Park NC 27709-2195 USA

*Prof. Chunming Rong*Ch University of Stavanger Center of IP-Based Services Innovation N-4036 Stavanger NORWAY

*Prof. Kwang Mong Sim*Kw Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology Multiagent & Cloud Computing Laboratory Department of Information & Communications 261 Cheomdan-gwario Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-712 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF

*Prof. Dr. Wolf Zimmermann*Wo Universität Halle Wittenberg Institut of Computer Science Von-Seckendorff-Platz 1 06120 Halle (Saale) GERMANY

*Prof. Albert Zomaya*Al University of Sydney School of Information Technologies Building J12 Sydney NSW 2006