Computing Journal (Springer) - Cloud Computing Call for Papers

Call for Papers Topic Issue on "Cloud Computing" "Computing", a journal published by Springer Verlag, is focusing on research in all areas of scientific computing. With a goal of stimulating focused publication on emerging and ground breaking questions, a small number of topic issues shall be published every year. Presently, we are looking for submissions for a topic issue on “Cloud Computing”. Cloud Computing has been increasingly used in solving business and research problems in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). Although there is no agreed upon definition of Cloud Computing so far, Cloud Computing is considered as an emerging model. It allows customers to utilize computational resources and software hosted by service providers, thus shifting the complex and tedious resource and software management tasks typically done by the customers to the service providers. To date, many cloud computing providers exist to offer different functionalities. With respect to the utilization of Cloud Computing for CSE, only few CSE research groups have reported their experiences in using Cloud omputing. Furthermore, Cloud Computing has become a services delivery platform in the field of Service‐oriented Computing. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include Service‐Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualizations of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure cloud (e.g., hardware, IT infrastructure management), software cloud (e.g., SaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application cloud (e.g. Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business cloud (e.g., business process as a service). We would like to encourage submissions which deal with various aspects related to Cloud Computing. For further questions, interested authors are encouraged to contact Schahram Dustdar dustdar@infosys.tuwien.ac.at or Clemens Cap clemens.cap@uni‐rostock.de . Information on manuscript submission can be obtained at the websites of Computing: http://www.springerlink.com/content/103076/ http://www.springer.com/springerwiennewyork/computer+science/journal/607 Deadline for uploading a manuscript for this issue is: 15. February 2010. -- Schahram Dustdar Full Professor Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distributed Systems Group (DSG), Information Systems Institute A-1040 Wien, Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1 Tel +43-1-58801-18414 Fax +43-1-58801-18491 URL: http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/sd/