THIS CALL IS CLOSED. 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 – Zurich, Switzerland – Call for Papers Co-sponsored by IEEE TCSC & ACM SIGARCH / in-cooperation with ACM SIGHPC ** Final deadline extension: August 29, 2018 ** Website: http://ucc-conference.org Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2018 Context & Scope ——————————————— Cloud Computing delivers computational resources on-demand as services that are commoditized and delivered comfortably analogous to traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute, storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data are growing at a tremendous rate. It is essential to understand how to effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for users, intermediary brokers (aggregators), and providers is also an area of active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2018, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. UCC 2018 offers a main conference track, a co-located BDCAT 2018 conference, as well as workshops, tutorials, doctoral symposium and cloud challenge. Separate calls exist for all satellite events. History ——————— This will be the 11th UCC in a successful conference series of community-driven events. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC 2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015), Shanghai, China (UCC 2016), and Austin, USA (UCC 2017). Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) and workshops will be co-located with UCC like for the past several events. CALL FOR PAPERS ——————————————— Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility computing, including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring Cloud-native application design and engineering Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated Economic and business models of Clouds and services HPC and the Cloud Innovative cloud applications and experiences Integration of Cloud systems with edge and IoT devices Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds Networking for clouds and data centres Performance analysis and modeling of cloud systems and applications Policy languages and programming models Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity Security, trust and privacy in Clouds Utility-driven platforms for Clouds Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers Important Dates ——————————————— Paper submissions due: August 29, 2018 (second and final extension) Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2018 Camera ready papers due: October 15, 2018 Early + author registration deadline: October 15, 2018 Conference: December 17-20, 2018 Manuscript guidelines ————————————————————— Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the UCC 2018 paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2018). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the UCC website. Awards and Special Issues ————————————————————————— A selection commission chaired by the UCC 2018 TPC chairs will select and acknowledge the best paper and best student paper to receive an award during the conference. Authors of highly rated papers from UCC 2018 will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of a prestigious journal in the area of utility and cloud computing which is currently being defined. UCC 2018 Technical Programme Committee —————————————————————————————————————— Valeria Cardellini University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy (chair) Luiz Fernando Bittencourt University of Campinas, Brazil (chair) (Preliminary list) Sherif Abdelwahed Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Vasilios Andrikopoulos University of Groningen, The Netherlands Danilo Ardagna Politecnico of Milan, Italy Marcos Assunção INRIA, France Peter Bloodsworth University of Oxford, UK Francisco Brasileiro University of Campina Grande, Brazil Torsten Braun University of Bern, Switzerland Rodrigo Calheiros Western Sydney University, Australia Giuliano Casale Imperial College London, UK Emiliano Casalicchio Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yong Chen Texas Tech University, USA Tim Cockerill Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA Miguel Correia INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Alexandru Costan Inria / INSA Rennes, France Marilia Curado University of Coimbra, Portugal Beniamino Di Martino University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Italy Andrew Edmonds Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Khalid Elgazzar University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Vincent Emeakaroha Cork IT, UK Luciano Paschoal Gaspary Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Madhu Govindaraju Binghamton University, USA Yanfei Guo Argonne National Laboratory, USA Kenneth Johnson Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Ryan Ko University of Waikato, New Zealand Craig Lee The Aerospace Corporation, USA Jianxin Li Beihang University, China Ling Liu Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Francesco Lo Presti University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Xiaoyi Lu The Ohio State University, USA Edmundo Madeira University of Campinas, Brazil Maciej Malawski AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Zoltán Adam Mann University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Daniel Menascé George Mason University, USA Gabriele Mencagli University of Pisa, Italy Ningfang Mi Northeastern University, USA Edmundo Monteiro University of Coimbra, Portugal Marco Netto IBM Research, Brazil Sangmi Pallickara Colorado State University Shrideep Pallickara Colorado State University, USA Nikos Parlavantzas INSA Rennes and IRISA/Inria Rennes, France Guillaume Pierre University of Rennes, France Radu Prodan University of Innsbruck, Austria Rajiv Ranjan Newcastle University, UK Robert Ricci University of Utah, USA Ivan Rodero Rutgers University, USA Christian Esteve Rothenberg University of Campinas, Brazil Yogish Sabharwal IBM Research - India, India Rizos Sakellariou University of Manchester, UK Bruno Schulze National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil Alex Sim Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Yogesh Simmhan Indian Institute of Science, India Evgenia Smirni College of William and Mary, USA Stefan Tai TU Berlin, Germany Andrey Tchernykh CICESE Research Center, Mexico Ruppa Thulasiram University of Manitoba, Canada Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Adel Nadjaran Toosi University of Melbourne, Australia Hong-Linh Truong TU Wien, Austria Massimo Villari University of Messina, Italy Cho-Li Wang The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Shangguang Wang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yipeng Wang Intel Labs, USA Ramin Yahyapour GWDG - University of Göttingen, Germany Jiangtao Yin Palo Alto Networks, USA Jianfeng Zhan Institute of Computing Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Dongfang Zhao University of Nevada, USA