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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.