=== CloudCom 2009 CFP === The 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing Beijing, China, December 1-4, 2009. Important dates * Submission deadline: New deadline is set to be July 1st due to new sponsor agreement with CIE. By individual application, modification of registered paper can be extended to July 15th. * Author notification: Sept. 1st, 2009 * Camera-ready manuscript: Oct. 1st, 2009 * Author registration: Oct. 1st, 2009 * Workshop proposal: May 1st, 2009 For more info: cloudcomsislab.no http://www.CloudCom.org Organized by the Beijing Jiaotong University, Chinese Institute of Electronics, and Wuhan University Co-organized by Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Sun Yat-sen University. Sponsored by Chinese Institute of Electronics, In cooperation with IEEE Computer Society --------------------------------------------------------- * About CloudCom 2009 "Cloud" is a common metaphor for an Internet accessible infrastructure (e.g. data storage and computing hardware) which is hidden from users. Cloud Computing makes data truly mobile and a user can simply access a chosen cloud with any internet accessible device. In Cloud Computing, IT-related capabilities are provided as services, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. Thus, many mature technologies are used as components in Cloud Computing, but still there are many unresolved and open problems. This conference and workshop series, steered by the Cloud Computing Association ( www.cloudcom.org ), aims to bring together researchers who work on cloud computing and related technologies. Topics include but are not limited to: * Cloud/Grid architecture * Load balancing * Optimal deployment configuration * Consistency models * Virtualization technologies * Middleware frameworks * Software as a Service (SaaS) * Hardware as a Service (HaaS) * Data grid & Semantic web * Web services * Security and Risk * Fault tolerance and reliability * Auditing, monitoring and scheduling * Utility computing * High-performance computing * Peer to peer computing Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (EI and ISTP indexed). After the conference, extended and revised versions of distinguished papers will be invited for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (SCI-indexed)(pending). The conference workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE (pending). --------------------------------------------------------- * Award A best paper award will be sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty Ltd * Keynote Speaker Rajkumar Buyya - Director for GRIDS Lab,University of Melbourne, Australia Geoffrey Fox - Director for Community Grids Lab, Indiana University, USA James T. Yeh, Director of Strategy, Corporate Strategy, IBM Chunming Rong - University of Stavanger, Norway --------------------------------------------------------- * ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Honarary General Chair Jichuan Wu, Chinese Institue of Electronics, China * General Chairs (Academic) Deyi Li,Chinese Acdemy of Engineering, China Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China * General Chairs (Organizing) Yun Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China * Program Chairs Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Gansen Zhao, Sun Yat-sen University, China * Program Vice Chairs Franck Cappello, INRIA, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Thomas Hardjono, MIT, USA Ho-fung Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Gunther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Waleed Smari, University of Dayton, USA Luca Spalazzi, Universit¨¤ Politecnica delle Marche, Italy Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Yan ZHANG, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Shi Ying, Wuhan University, China * Award Chair David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Steering Committee Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Rulin Liu, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China * Advisory Committee Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Benxiong Huang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Chung-Ming Huang, National Chung Kung University, Taiwan, China Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China Zhiwei Xu, Chinese Academy of Science, China Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Finance Committee Runhua LIN, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China (chair) Zhenjiang Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China (co-chair) Gansen Zhao, Sun Yat-sen University, China(co-chair) * Organizing Committee Yong Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China (Chair) Kaihong Dong, Chinese Institute of Electronics, China (co-Chair) Bing Li, Wuhan University, China (co-Chair) Yanning Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China (co-Chair) Dan Tao, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Liang Yan, University of Stavanger, Norway * Web Administration Chairs Jie Lian, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Qing Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China * Publicity Chair Paul Van Binst, Universit¨¦ Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium * Publication Chair Wei Sun, Sun Yat-sen University, China * European Liaison Chair Erik Hjelmas, Gjovik University College, Norway * American Liaison Chair Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA * Asia Liaison Chair Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan, China * Oceania Liaison Chair Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand * Panel Chair Rajkuma Buyya, Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China * Workshop Chair Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China * Technical Program Committee Knut Øvsthus, Bergen University College, Norway Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Ahmed Al-Dubai, Napier University, UK Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK Kyrre Begnum, Oslo University College, Norway George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, USA Sergey Bratus, Dartmouth College, USA Lawrie Brown, ADFA, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne and Manjrasoft, Australia Jian Cao, ShangHai Jiao Tong University, China David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Tony Chan, The University of Akureyri, Iceland Haiping Che, HuaWei, China Huajun Chen, Zhe Jiang University, China Ruey-Maw Chen, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan, China Yixiang Chen, East China Normal University, China Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, H.K, China Kenneth Chiu, Binghamton University, USA Fabio M. Costa, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil Yuanshun Dai, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Reggie Davidrajuh, University of Stavanger, Norway Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Frederic Desprez, INRIA, France Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Chenggong Fan, EMC China Research Center, China Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jürgen Fuss, University of Applied Sciences - Hageberg, Austria Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA Nils Gruschka, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Peiyuan Guo, Beijing Technology and Business University, China Thomas Hacker, Purdue University, USA Jörg Hähner, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany Milton Halem, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Yanbo Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Zhen Han, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Qing He, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Neil Chue Hong, OMII, UK Xiaowen Hong, Microsoft Research Asia, China Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan, China Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, China Yongfeng Huang, Tsinghua University, China Ray Y.M. Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, China Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Michel Hurfin, Irisa, INRIA, France Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, China Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Netherlands Mike (Hua) Ji, Juniper Networks, USA Jianping Jiang, 21vianet, China Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai University, Japan Romain Laborde, University Paul Sabatier, France Bing Li, Wuhan University, China Hui Li, Dell(China) , China Yan Li, Intel, China Yong Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Zhi Li, 800APP, China Wenjun Li, Sun Yat-sen University, China Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Xuhui Li, Wuhan University, China Ning Lin, CESI, China Peter Linington, University of Kent, UK Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, H.K, China Jun Liu, Google(China), China Peng Liu, PLA University of Science and Technology, China Wei Liu, HP China Research, China Yun Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Luigi Lo Iacono, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Shizhu Long, BORQS, China Jinhu Lv, Chinese Academy of Science, China Seng Wai Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Shuqin Lou, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China Huadong Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Antonio Maña Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain Ian Marshall, Lancaster University, UK Hong Mei, Peking University, China Hein Meling, University of Stavanger, Norway Kaixiang Miao, Intel China Research Center, China Jose A. Montenegro, NIST, USA David Moreland, CSIRO, Australia Gero Mühl, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Tadahiko Murata, KANSAI UNIVERSITY, Japan Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech, USA Josef Noll, UniK, Norway Oleksandr Otenko, Oracle, UK Wenjiang Pei, Southeast University, China Maria S. Perez-Hernandez, University Politecnicade Madrid, Spain Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Depei Qian, BeiHang University, China Huaifeng Qin, Platform Computing, China Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway Julian L. Rrushi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Ali Shahrabi, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Kuei-Ping Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan, China Timothy K. Shih, NTUE, Taiwan, China Qinbao Song, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, China Anthony Sulistio, Hochschule Furtwangen, Germany Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Evi Sy, Ukur, Monash University, Australia Jun Tan, ARM(China), China Yong Tang, Sun Yat-sen University, China Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China Xingang Wang, University of Plymouth, UK Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Junfeng Wang, Sichuan University, China Peng Wang, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China Qing Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Yi Wang, Google China Research Lab, China Von Welch, University of Illinois, USA Gilbert Wondracek, TU Vienna, Austria Song Wu, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Zhaohui Wu, Zhe Jiang University, China Xinran Wu, Intel Research China, China Jinhua Xiong, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA Lu Yan, University of Hertfordshire, UK Shoubao Yang, USTC, China Geng Yang, Nanjing University of Post & Telecommunications, China Shi Ying, Wuhan University, China Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan, China Yang Yang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Hongyu Yao, Yoyo System, China Jon (Jong-Hoon) Youn, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Feng Yu, Southeast University, China Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Huashan Yu, Peking University, China Nenghai Yu, University of Science and Technology of China, China Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA Li Zha, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Feng Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, China Li Zhang, BeiHang University, China Tingting Zhang, Mid Sweden University, Sweden Wensheng Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Zonghua Zhang, NICT, Japan Gansen Zhao, Sun Yat-sen University, China Wenyin Zhao, KingQue Cor., China Quanzhan Zheng, Tencent, China Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China Zhibin Zheng, HUAWEI, China Sheng Zhong, SUNY Buffalo, USA Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, China Wenhui Zhou, China Mobile Research Institute, China Jinzy Zhu, IBM Software Group Services, China Peidong Zhu, National University of Defense Technology, China Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China