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The 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2018, focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market and study various aspects of Cloud Computing.

Emerging Enterprise Technologies are profoundly changing the way we think of IT - from economics and efficiency to process and usage models. Many organizations look to the “externalized” IT systems and services as a potential cost-savings advantage by moving internally hosted IT services to external providers. Other organizations view the “external” IT as potential disaster recovery systems or as on-demand capacity to boost business continuity and customer service levels. We need to take a closer look, discerning what emerging enterprise technologies are and how they can catalyze creativity and produce a competitive advantage. There is hence a new wave of interest in 'Externalization of IT' - anything as a service (including Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service), On Demand delivery, outsourcing, edge cloud and so on. This emerging facilitation and way of utilizing services through IT is what we are referring to as Cloud Computing.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
1. SERVICES SCIENCE
2. DATA AS A SERVICE
3. CLOUD OPERATIONS
4. EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING
5. SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS
6. MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING
7. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS
8. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS
9. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

AREA 1: SERVICES SCIENCE

    Business Process Management and Web Services
    Service Innovation
    Service Lifecycle Management
    Service-oriented Architecture
    Service Society
    Service Management
    Service Platforms
    Business Services Realized by IT Services
    Enterprise Architectures and Services
    Industrial Applications of Services Science
    Information and Service Economy
    Internet of Services
    Model-driven Web Service Engineering
    Semantic and Service Web
    Microservices: Atomation Deployment and Management, Resource Allocation Elasticity, Service State and Resilience

AREA 2: DATA AS A SERVICE

    On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) services
    NOSQL Services: Store, Visualization, Processing
    Time Series Services: Databases, Dashboards

AREA 3: CLOUD OPERATIONS

    Cloud Management Platforms
    Cloud Reliability and Resilience
    Cloud Automation
    Hybrid Clouds and their Integration

AREA 4: EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING

    Edge Cloud Orchestration
    Cluster Management
    Edge Cloud Network Management
    Edge Cloud Data Management
    IoT-Cloud Integration

AREA 5: SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS

    Cloud Cost Analysis
    Service Discovery
    Service Modeling and Specification
    Service Monitoring and Control
    Services Security and Reliability
    Service Ecosystems
    Service Simulation
    Service Performance Analytics
    Analytics and Services

AREA 6: MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING

    Mobile and Energy-efficient use of Clouds
    Mobile and Wearable Computing Systems and Services
    Mobile Cloud Architectures and Models
    Mobile Cloud Networking
    Mobile Commerce, Handheld Commerce and e-markets on Cloud

AREA 7: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS

    Cloud Application Portability
    Privacy, Security and Trust
    Federated Cloud
    Web Services
    Consistency and Consensus
    Cloud Computing Architecture
    Cloud Delivery Models
    Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
    Cloud Interoperability
    Cloud Risk, Challenges and Governance
    Cloud Standards
    QoS for Applications on Clouds
    Resource Management

AREA 8: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS

    Access Control
    Development Methods for Cloud Applications
    XaaS
    Cloud Services
    Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Infrastructures and Approaches
    Cloud Data Centers, Storage and Networking Technologies
    Mobile-aware Cloud Data Management and Data Retrieval
    High Performance Computing Cloud Applications ; Use cases , Experiences with HPC Clouds
    Hybrid Cloud Integration
    Cloud Brokering
    Cloud Workflow Management Systems
    Cloud Solution Design Patterns
    Native Cloud Applications
    Cloud for Enterprise Business Transformation
    Cloud Application Architectures
    Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
    Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
    Cloud Economics
    Cloud Middleware Frameworks
    Engineering Mobile Clouds and Mobile-based Systems

AREA 9: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

    API Management
    Security, Privacy and Compliance Management
    Virtualization Technologies
    Application Containers
    Microservices and Lambda Functions
    Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement
    Cloud Quality and Performance
    Cloud Optimization and Automation
    Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition
    Cloud Management and Operations
    High Performance Cloud Computing
    Cloud Migration
    Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

CLOSER 2019 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.