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The First International Workshop on Enterprise Cloud Computing - Strategies and Solutions

ECCSS 2011

March 20-25, 2011 - St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles


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This workshop is part of ICIW 2011.

 
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Publishing Information:

Published by IARIA XPS Press

Archived in the free access ThinkMindTM Digital Library
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

ISBN: 978-1-61208-124-3


Submit a Paper:

First, fill out the submission form with information about your paper. Please, fill it out only once for each paper, and do not resubmit it. Contact the address below if you run into any difficulties.

As the designated correspondence author, you will then receive a first e-mail message containing the paper ID. The information in the email will allow you to submit your paper.

If you have some problems send your paper via this e-mail (please report your paper ID in the text of your mail AND the name of the conference).

The conference staff will contact you only if the paper does not print properly or has other problems.

You can change information about your paper, submit brief corrections, view an email trail, and even edit your personal information by following the link in the initial confirmation email.

Touristic Information:

Touristic information is available from the hosting conference, ICIW 2011.

Hotels and Travel:

Hotels and travel information is available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2011.

Call for Papers:

Cloud Computing is already becoming a reality for large enterprises as it promises benefits such as reduced costs, on-demand availability of services, use of services and infrastructures as and when required and re-allocation of costs from capital investment to operational expenditure. Recent reports suggest that Enterprises are moving beyond experimentation and beginning to develop management software to deal with scaled Cloud environments and the enterprise-level policies for dealing with Public and Hybrid Clouds. However, there are also many challenges that hinder the full realization of the potential that Cloud infrastructures offer. Faced with this, an Enterprise Cloud Architect needs to be able to correctly relate the enterprise information system architectures (such as application, information and technology architectures) to the Cloud characteristics of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It is important that the inherent issues, limitations and barriers to efficient development and deployment of Cloud Infrastructures are well understood so that Enterprise can use the Cloud infrastructures and capabilities to align and advance their IT strategies with their business missions more effectively.

The proposed workshop aims to present researched articles to describe and explore Enterprise Cloud Computing principles, infrastructures, technologies, methodologies and deployment models. It also aims to investigate the issues inherent in Cloud approaches and limitations with respect to frameworks, methodologies and technologies. A secondary objective is to explore synergies between Service Oriented Architectures, Grid Computing Frameworks and Enterprise Cloud Computing and discuss these with a view to suggesting recommendations and best practices for Enterprise Architects and business managers.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.

Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

  • Architectures for enterprise clouds
  • Principles, concepts and methodologies of enterprise cloud computing
  • Tools, technologies, methodologies and frameworks for enterprise cloud computing
  • Enterprise IS architectures such as application, information and technology architectures
  • Synergies between SOA, Grid Computing and Cloud Infrastructures
  • Quality of Service (QoS) models
  • 'Elastic' and on-demand allocation and management of resources to meet business needs
  • Benefits, issues and limitations of enterprise clouds
  • Security, data integrity, legal and governance issues for enterprise clouds
  • Management, monitoring an governance issues
  • Portability of architectures, applications and data between cloud providers
  • Reliability and maintenance of cloud-based business architectures
  • Architectures for Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service
  • Network architecture using Storage Clouds
  • Experience reports with designing, building and using Cloud infrastructure
  • Novel application architectures, best practices, case studies and surveys

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) November 5, 2010 November 22, 2010
Notification December 13, 2010 December 19, 2010
Registration January 10, 2011
Camera ready January 15, 2011

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the Conference Publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Posters

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as poster.  Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner. The poster slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.

For more details, see the Posters explanation page.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress.  Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference’s CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to [email protected].

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your proposals to [email protected]

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA's site.

For more information, [email protected]

Committees:

ECCSS Workshop Chair

Zaigham Mahmood, University of Derby, UK

ECCSS Workshop Co-Chair

Zhengxu Zhao, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China

ECCSS 2011 Technical Program Committee

Nahed Amin Azab, Regional IT Institute, Cairo, Egypt
Harjinder Singh Lalli, University of Derby, UK
Zaigham Mahmood, University of Derby, UK
Sanjay Misra, Federal University of Technology - Minna, Nigeria
Gopalakrishnan Nair, DS Institutions - Bangalore, India
Doug Thomson, RMIT University - Melbourne, Australia
Muthu Ramachandran, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Pascal Ravesteyn, HU University of Applied Sciences - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Saqib Saeed, University of Siegen, Germany
Arshad Ali Shahid, National University of Computer and Emerging Science (FAST) - Islamabad , Pakistan
Zhengxu Zhao, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China

Tutorials:

Tutorials are available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2011.

Preliminary Program:

Preliminary program is available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2011.

Camera-ready:

The link below contains the details on how to upload the final version of your paper to the publisher. The upload should be done after registering your paper via the Registration Form.[pdf]

Publication Site for ECCSS 2011

Note that the paper page limit as well as the cost per extra page may not be specified at the above link. These details are in the Call for Papers section , namely "Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost". The costs of additional pages are on the Registration Form.[pdf]

If you have any questions about the paper upload process, please contact the proceedings production editor, Mike.

Registration Form:

One registration form covers the registration of the paper and the participation of one presenter.

If an author has two (or more) accepted papers, each paper must be registered with a separate form.

Every participant must register separately. (if two co-authors attend, they each must register)

There are a limited number of prebooked hotel rooms. We suggest you reserve yours at the same time with the paper registration. The flight information can be sent at a later date.

Registration form download:

Note: If you attend but do not have a paper to present, use paper number "0" on your registration form.

The registration form in RTF format can be found here. [pdf]

Statistics:

Statistics are available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2011.

Photos:

Photos are available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2011.

Awards:

Awards are available from the hosting conference page, ICIW 2011.

 
 

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