Cloud Computing has been widely adopted by industry and academia over the last decade. Moreover, in recent years, many devices have become cloud aware and many services are migrating to the cloud. This evolution reflects the increasing size and diversity of cloud computing infrastructures that provide support for communication services, end-user applications, and sensor data.

As cloud computing data centres grow bigger, the problem of efficiently managing resources; increasing server utilisation; reducing energy consumption; and incorporating heterogeneity, is becoming ever more complex.

This workshop will attempt to capture the current and proposed solutions to this management problem. Cloud Computing experts and service providers, from both academia and industry are invited to share previously unpublished scientific work in this area and to submit position papers, outlining there their proposed future research directions.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• The topics of the workshop relate to various aspects related to cloud management platforms, and the resulting challenges for the supporting cloud infrastructures. Concretely, we invite submissions focused on next challenging range of topics, but not limited to:

List of Topics

• Cloud Architecture, workflows and automated handling processes;

• HPC in the cloud, Incorporating novel resource hardware in the Cloud;

• Decentralized Cloud Management;Energy Aware Clouds;

• Modeling cloud-based large scale systems;

• Novel Cloud Computing Environments and Service-Oriented Architectures;

• Cloud orchestration and cloud automation;

• Self-organizing and Self-managing clouds;

• Engineering of self-healing cloud autonomic systems;

• Applications of the self-* principles in cloud computing.

Committees

Program Committee

• Shoukat Ali, MiddleScholars San Jose, CA, United States (previously IBM Research, Intel Corporation).
• Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University.
• Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne.
• Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid.
• George Gravvanis, Democritus University of Thrace.
• Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
• Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences.
• Dana Petcu, University of Timisoara, Romania.
• Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania.
• Omer Rana, Cardiff University, United Kingdom.
• Brian Vinter, Neils Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen.

Organizing committee

• John P. Morrison, University College of Cork.
• Gabriel G. Castañé, University College of Cork.

Publication

CLOUDNG 2017 proceedings will be published as part of the ACM Digital Library.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to cloudng2017@easychair.org