BusinessClouds 2014 @ ScalCom-2014

Call for Papers

Scope and Interests

The BusinessClouds workshop provides vibrant opportunities for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experience, original research results and practical development experiences on specific new challenges and emerging issues.
Workshop will provide contributions to significant topics that are under interest of ScalCom-14 conference. Among others, we suppose strong contributions in such areas like:

Cloud/Grid Computing (Resource sharing/monitoring, Data storage, Replication, load balancing, Green cloud systems and networking, Mobile cloud system design, and others).
Modeling and Simulation in Cloud Applications (Combinatorial Optimization, Computational Finance, Computational Neuroscience, Computational Biology Computational Physics and Chemistry and others)
Applications for Cloud Brokering, Internet Shopping (Combinatorial Optimization, Exact algorithms, Heuristic approaches, Evolutionary algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Optimization algorithms, and others.)

Both theoretical papers and papers describing practical experiences are welcome.

Important dates

Paper Submission Deadline: September 8 15, 2014 (extended!)
Author Notification: September 30, 2014
Final Manuscript Due: October 20, 2014
Workshop Date: December 9, 2014

Papers

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the workshop areas or topics. The program committee members will evaluate papers on the basis of additional external reviews.

The submitted papers must be up to 6 pages (but not less than 5), and each paper will receive 2-3 peer reviews. Articles will be judged based on correctness, originality, significance, technical strength, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop scope. The chairs will automatically reject oversized papers.
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop.

Abstracts / Extended abstracts

Beside regular short papers we would be pleased to accept Abstracts / Extended Abstracts. Authors should submit an abstract in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the workshop areas or topics. The program committee members will evaluate papers on the basis of additional external reviews.

The submitted abstract must be 1-3 pages, and each note will receive 2-3 peer reviews. Submited abstracts will be judged based on originality, significance, interest and relevance to the workshop scope. The chairs will automatically reject oversized papers.
Authors of accepted abstracts must guarantee that their note will be registered and presented at the workshop.

Publications and Dissemination

All accepted papers (6 pages) will be published in the conference proceedings and at the workshop web page (as well as 1-3 pages abstracts). The proceedings of the ScalCom-2014 workshops will be published by IEEE-CS Conference Publishing Services (submitted to the IEEE-DL and EI index). Moreover, workshop results will be widely advertised at the party universities during classes with students, project meetings (i.e. Pollux project), scientific academic seminars, and other scientific activities.

Paper Submission Guidelines

All papers and abstracts must be submitted electronically by e-mail and in PDF format to the following address: businessclouds@cs.put.poznan.pl.
Please include (in the e-mail content):

Type: Paper / Abstract,
Title,
Abstract /only for papers/,
Corresponding author information (name, surname, affiliation, e-mail address),
List of authors,
Main area (Cloud/Grid Computing; Modeling and Simulation in Cloud Applications; Applications for Cloud Brokering, Internet Shopping; Other [please name it]).

The material presented should be original and not published or under submission elsewhere. Authors should submit full papers of up to 6 pages and abstracts up to 3 pages, following strictly the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript style, using two-column, single-space format, with 10-point font size. Figures and references must be included in the page limit. Oversized papers will be automatically rejected by the chairs. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register early to attend the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings.

Templates:

MS Word,
Latex.

Fee

Workshop fee will be introduced as soon as we receive information from the conference (ScalCom-2014) organizers. It is planned, that different fees will be introduced for different packages (conference, workshop , etc).