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Subject:    [Tccc] IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management -- Special Issue on Management of Cloud S
From:       Gregorio Martinez <gregorio () um ! es>
Date:       2012-10-31 18:13:48
Message-ID: 50916A5C.504 () um ! es
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IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Special Issue on Management of Cloud Services


Motivation

Cloud computing is becoming recognized as a revolutionary new way to use co=
mputing and storage services more efficiently.  Revenues for public cloud =

services for one company, Amazon Web Services, have reached almost $1 billi=
on a year. Yet cloud computing is challenging traditional management =

methods as it encompasses the business support, provisioning, configuration=
, portability, and interoperability of cloud providers supporting cloud =

consumers and brokers as outlined in the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Arc=
hitecture. Business support includes the management of customers, =

contracts, and inventory as well as accounting, billing, reporting, auditin=
g, pricing, and rating. Provisioning and configuration must consider rapid =

provisioning, resource changing, monitoring, reporting, metering, and servi=
ce level agreements (SLA).  Portability and interoperability concerns both =

efficient and inexpensive data and application migration across multiple cl=
oud environments. This can include data portability, data object migration, =

bulk data transfer; a unified management interface to support service inter=
operability across multiple cloud providers; and the migration of =

applications, services, machine images or virtual machine instances from on=
e cloud provider to another. Cloud provisions like multi-tenancy, =

interoperability, scalability, reliability, efficiency, support of on-deman=
d service composition, privacy, security and advanced audit are posing a =

set of challenges to the management field still largely to be addressed.

This special issue is intending to serve as a work of reference compiling t=
he major achievements in the management of cloud services with emphasis on =

the field of network and service management. The final objective is to make=
 cloud services and technologies more mature so as to boost and to =

facilitate a higher widespread uptake of cloud systems in the industry.


About the issue

Topics of interest, include, but are not limited to the following:

=95 Cloud service orchestration, APIs and usage control.
=95 Cloud service auditing, monitoring, and metering.
=95 Design of components of a management as a service layer.
=95 Management of cloud federations.
=95 Mobility management in cloud scenarios.
=95 Multi-cloud applications.
=95 New models and paradigms for cloud service management.
=95 Novel and emerging standards for interoperability between clouds.
=95 QoS/QoE and SLA management in the cloud.
=95 Secure and private management of cloud data.


Submission format

Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, relevanc=
e and contribution to the field of cloud computing management, as well as =

their overall quality and suitability for the special issue. The submitted =
papers must be written in a good English and describe original research =

which has not been published nor currently under review by other journals o=
r conferences. Previously published conference papers should be clearly =

identified by the authors (at the submission stage) and an explanation shou=
ld be provided of how such papers have been extended in order to be =

considered for this special issue. Guest editors will make an initial deter=
mination of the suitability and scope of all submissions. Papers that =

either lack originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope =
of the special issue will not be sent for review and the authors will be =

promptly informed in such cases.

Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at http://dl.c=
omsoc.org/tnsm/authorgud.html

For more information, please contact the guest editors at IEEE.TNSM.Cloud.S=
ervices@googlegroups.com


Submission Guideline

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through =
the IEEE ManuscriptCentral service located at: =

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnsm

Authors must make clear in an enclosing letter that the submission is for t=
he =93Management of Cloud Services=94 Special Issue.


Guest editors

Prof. Gregorio Martinez
University of Murcia, Spain

Prof. Roy Campbell
University of Illinois, USA

Dr. Jose M. Alcaraz Calero
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK


Important dates

Paper submission date: January 31, 2013 (extended deadline)
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2013
Final paper due: October 15, 2013

-- =

Gregorio Martinez, PhD
University of Murcia, Spain
http://webs.um.es/gregorio/

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