CLOUD 2014
The 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing (Cloud 2014), will be held in Alaska, USA, in June 27th - July 2nd, 2014.
Under the umbrella of the IEEE 2014 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2014), CLOUD 2014 will co-locate with the following service-oriented sister conferences: the 21 IEEE 2014 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2014), the 11th IEEE 2014 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2014), the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2014), and the International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress 2014). The six co-located theme topic conferences will all center around "services," while each focusing on exploring different aspects (Web-based services, cloud-based services, services innovation lifecycle, mobile services, and Big Data-based services).
Cloud Computing has become a scalable service consumption and delivery platform in the modern IT infrastructure. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include the "as-a-Service" usage model, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualization of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to consolidate infrastructure, and share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure clouds (e.g., IaaS, IT infrastructure management), software clouds (e.g., SaaS and PaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application clouds (e.g., Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business clouds (e.g., business process as a service). Furthermore, cloud-bursting and cloud-bridging enables the on-demand scale out as well as dynamic federation of clouds in response to changing IT requirements.
CLOUD 2014 invites authors to submit original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to cloud computing technology, systems, applications and business innovations are solicited.