[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