================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Management of resources and services in Cloud and Sky computing MICAS'2012 September 26, 2012, Timisoara, Romania in conjunction with SYNASC 2012 http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/first-workshop-in-september-2012/ ================================================================= * Full paper submissions: 22 Jun 2012 * Notifications: 22 Jul 2012 * Revised papers and registrations: 1 Sep 2012 * Event: 26 Sep 2012 * Publication of selected papers in IEEE proceedings of SYNASC 2012 Jan 2013 * Extensions of selected papers for SCPE: Feb 2013 * Notifications: Mar 2013 * Publication of selected papers in SCPE: Apr 2013 The event intends to be an open forum for discussions about the state-of-the-art, the recent achievements and the future in breaking the barriers of Cloud adoption on large scale, barriers that are related to vendor lock-in, lack of common interfaces and standards and so on, shortly the ones hindering the vision of InterCloud or Sky computing. Original contributions are invited to be reported to the event. The suggested topics are the followings (but not restricted to): * self-management in Clouds and federation of Clouds * applications using multiple Clouds * interoperability between Clouds * portability of Cloud based applications * run-time selection of Cloud services * reliability of Cloud services * auto-scaling techniques * scheduling over heterogeneous Clouds * dynamic load balancing between multiple Clouds * architectures for automatic management of applications based on multiple Clouds * model-driven architectures for multiple Cloud usage scenarios * open-source support for Cloud computing Programme Chairs: Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politehnico Di Milano, Italy Dana Petcu, West University and Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Programme Committee: Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Francesco D’Andria, ATOS, Spain Danilo Ardagna, Politehnico Di Milano, Italy Sébastian Mosser, SINTEF, Norway Andrey Sadovykh, Softteam, France Harald Kühn, BOC, Austria Anke Gericke, BOC, Germany Peter Matthews, CA Technologies, Spain Marc Frîncu, West University and Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania