The 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science – CLOSER 2016 Venue: Rome, Italy Event date: 23 - 25 April, 2016 Regular Papers Submission: October 27, 2015 Authors Notification: February 1, 2016 Camera Ready and Registration: February 16, 2016 Position Papers Paper Submission: January 5, 2016 Authors Notification: February 9, 2016 Camera Ready and Registration: February 23, 2016 Workshops Workshop Proposal: November 11, 2015 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: February 16, 2016 Authors Notification: February 24, 2016 Camera Ready and Registration: March 4, 2016 Special Sessions Special Session Proposal: November 20, 2015 Tutorials, Demos and Panel Proposals December 16, 2015 Scope: The 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2016, 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. CLOSER 2016 will be held in conjunction with CSEDU 2016, SMARTGREENS 2016, WEBIST 2016, VEHITS 2016 and IoTBD 2016. 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. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS 2. SERVICES SCIENCE 3. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS 4. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY 5. BIG DATA AS A SERVICE AREA 1: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS • Cloud Application Portability • Cloud Computing Architecture • Cloud Delivery Models • Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud • Cloud Education • Cloud Interoperability • Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance • Cloud Scenarios • Cloud Standards • QoS for Applications on Clouds • Energy Management • Resource Management • Privacy, Security and Trust • Federated Cloud AREA 2: SERVICES SCIENCE • Business Process Management and Web Services • Business Services Realized by IT Services • Cloud Brokering • Cloud Cost Analysis • Data and Service Analytics • Enterprise Architectures and Services • Cloud Workflow Management Systems • 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 • Microservices: Resource Allocation Elasticity • Microservices: Service State and Resilience • Service Discovery • Service Innovation • Service Lifecycle Management • Service Modeling and Specification • Service Monitoring and Control • Service-oriented Architecture • Services Security and Reliability • Web Services • Service Society • Service Management • Service Platforms AREA 3: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS • Access Control • Cloud Solution Design Patterns • 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 • Development Methods for Cloud Applications • XaaS • Cloud Services • Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Infrastructures, and Approaches AREA 4: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY • API Management • Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement • Cloud Quality and Performance • Cloud Optimization and Automation • Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition • Cloud Management and Operations • Green and Energy Management • High Performance Cloud Computing • Cloud Migration • Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements • Performance Development and Management • Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management • Virtualization Technologies • Container schedulers • Application containers AREA 5: BIG DATA AS A SERVICE • On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) services • On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) services • Big Data Cloud Services • NOSQL services: store, visualization, processing • Time Series Services: Databases, dashboards KEYNOTE LECTURES Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany CONFERENCE CHAIR Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Huawei European Research Center, Germany Donald Ferguson, Dell, United States Víctor Méndez Muñoz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://www.closer.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx CLOSER Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq. 2910-595 Setubal - Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 184 Fax: +44 203 014 8813 e-mail: closer.secretar[email protected] Website: http://closer.scitevents.org/