[Om-announce] 3rd IEEE NCCA 2014 - SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 20 2013 (FIRM)

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3rd IEEE NCCA 2014 - Call for Papers

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 20 2013 (FIRM)

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Call For Papers
The Third IEEE Symposium on Network Cloud Computing and Applications 
(NCCA14)
February 5th-7th, 2014, Rome, Italy
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/a/dis.uniroma1.it/ncca-2014/
Sponsored by: The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on 
Distributed Processing
Patron: International Research Institute for Autonomic Network 
Computing
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Cloud Computing is defined as a pool of virtualized computer 
resources. Based on this virtualization the Cloud Computing paradigm 
allows workloads to be deployed and scaled-out quickly through the 
rapid provisioning of virtual machines. A Cloud Computing platform is 
expected to support redundant, self-recovering, highly scalable 
programming models that allow workloads to recover from many 
inevitable hardware/software failures and monitoring resource usage in 
real-time for provisioning purposes and run time optimization of the 
hosted applications. A Cloud Computing platform is more than a 
collection of computer resources because it provides a mechanism to 
manage those resources. In a Cloud Computing platform software is 
migrating from the desktop into the "clouds" of the Internet, 
promising users anytime, anywhere access to their programs and data. 
What challenges does it presents to users, programmers, and 
telecommunications providers? The goal of this Cloud Computing Sympos!
ium series is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to 
discuss all aspects of Cloud Computing. All topics of design, theory 
and realization are of interest.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST ARE:
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Cloud Computing Infrastructure:
- Operating systems;
- Control services;
- Distributed infrastructures;
- Distributed composite services;
- Kernel-exchange modules;
- Application exchange modules;
- Basic services;
- Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) for Cloud Computing.

Scalable, Self-managing and Autonomic Cloud Computing platforms:
- Dynamic instantiation;
- Vertically scaling platforms;
- Dynamic composition;
- Self-managing platforms;
- Dynamic configuration;
- Dynamic reconfiguration of services;
- Horizontally scaling platforms;
- Self-Healing Cloud computing platforms;
- Software Defined Networks (SDN) for Cloud Computing.

Security of Cloud Computing Platforms:
- Authentication;
- Self-protecting platforms;
- Increasing resilience against Cyber attacks of Software as a Service 
(SaaS);
- Increasing resilience against Cyber attacks of Platforms as a 
Service (PaaS);
- Increasing resilience against Cyber attacks of Infrastructure as a 
Service (IaaS).

Cloud Computing Applications:
- E-Commerce, Media processing and Streaming search engines, 
Development and testing, Web hosting, Application hosting, 
Collaboration tools, Store and share, Social networking for businesses 
and web applications, Bio-informatics, Biomedical applications, 
Scientific computing.



Submission categories
All manuscripts must be written in English. Several categories of 
papers are considered:

Traditional Categories

full papers, which must not exceed 8 double-column single-spaced pages 
IEEE conference style (inclusive of figures, tables and references) - 
up to 2 additional pages can be purchased in the conference 
proceedings
short papers, which must not exceed 4 double-column single-spaced 
pages IEEE conference style (inclusive of figures, tables and 
references) - up to 2 additional pages can be purchased in the 
conference proceeding

Full papers are expected to present research results which are 
demonstrated to be robust in terms of their theoretical foundation 
and/or via experimental analysis. Short papers are expected to provide 
research results at their early stage, which have however already 
reached a level of maturity leading them to be of interest for the 
community.

NEW Categories

fast abstracts, which must not exceed 1 double-column single-spaced 
pages IEEE conference style (inclusive of figures, tables and 
references) - no additional page can be purchased in the proceedings
position papers, stating results from challenging research projects 
(e.g. FP7 EU projects) in the area of Cloud Computing, these must not 
exceed 8 double-column single-spaced pages IEEE conference style 
(inclusive of figures, tables and references)
workshop papers, these submissions will be considered as part of a 
special track of the NCCA conference on topics related to Future 
Internet and Cloud Computing, these must not exceed 8 double-column 
single-spaced pages IEEE conference style (inclusive of figures, 
tables and references)
posters, which can be formatted in a truly poster-style (e.g. sequence 
of slides) - these will not be included in the proceedings, but will 
be shown in a poster session at the conference


For each accepted paper or fast abstract or poster, at last one author 
must register and attend the conference.

All the submissions must describe original unpublished research. All 
accepted papers or fast abstracts will be published by the IEEE 
Computer Society Press. Please prepare the final version of the 
manuscript to be submitted using the templates available here (except 
for posters, which can be formatted according to any rule). 
Manuscripts in any category must be submitted in PDF format 
electronically via the EasyChair system.


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******* IMPORTANT DATES *******
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paper submission deadline: November 25, 2013 (EXTENDED TO December 20 
2013 - FIRM)
acceptance notification: December 20, 2013 (EXTENDED TO January 3 2014)
camera ready and author registration: December 30, 2013 (EXTENDED TO 
January 10 2014)


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Steering Committee:

D. R. Avresky (Chair), IRIANC, Munich, Germany

M. Diaz, CNRS (Chair), LAAS, Toulouse, France
E. Gelenbe, Imperial College, London, UK


General Chair:

B. Ciciani, Sapienza University of Roma, Italy

General Co-Chair:

D. R. Avresky, IRIANC, Munich, Germany

Program Chair:

F. Quaglia, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Publication Chair:

S. Distefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Publicity Chairs:

M. Couceiro, INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

R. Palmieri, Virginia Tech, USA