NordiCloud at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, http://nordicloud.net

Like in other areas of the world, Nordic countries have established several initiatives and networks to promote cloud computing research and education. An increasing number of companies from Nordic and Baltic regions have also started offering different types of cloud services.

Given the increasing relevance of cloud computing, Nordic and Baltic countries will greatly benefit from a network of excellence which aims to strengthen the local and international collaboration for achieving much-needed advances in both technical and socio-technical aspects of cloud computing. This will provide an excellent opportunity to harness the growing cloud computing knowledge and expertise to build an eco-system of cloud computing competency in Nordic and Baltic regions.

The Nordic Symposium on Cloud Computing and Internet Technologies (NordiCloud) aims to provide a forum for enhancing collaboration between industrial and academic communities from Nordic and Baltic countries in the area of cloud computing and Internet technologies. The symposium also aims to provide a bridge between cloud computing researchers and practitioners from Nordic and Baltic countries as well as other areas of the world. The target audience of the symposium is researchers and practitioners working on cloud computing or related research areas who are interested in identifying, developing or building upon existing synergies.

The symposium will enable exchanging ideas and experiences as well as discussing emerging research trends which could be of importance in the context of future projects.

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Submissions due: August 18, 2014

Notification: September 15, 2014

Camera-ready paper due: September 29, 2014

Early registration due: October 5, 2014

Late registration due: October 12, 2014

Symposium: November 12-13, 2014

 

SUBMISSIONS

 

NordiCloud seeks contributions on any topic related to cloud computing and

Internet technologies, including:

– Software engineering paradigms for cloud computing

– Programming paradigms for cloud computing

– Deployment and provisioning of cloud-based systems

– Monitoring and adaptation of cloud-based systems

– Evaluation of cloud-based systems

– Energy efficiency of cloud-based systems

– Mobile cloud computing

– Cloud-enabled Internet of Things

– Security and privacy in cloud computing

– Legal and social issues in cloud computing

– Economic and business perspectives on cloud computing

– Training and education programmes on cloud computing

 

NordiCloud seeks four types of papers for the peer-reviewed track:

– Full research papers and industrial experience reports (6-8 pages)

– Position papers (4-5 pages)

– Poster papers (1-2 pages)

– Abstract-only, for research project presentation

 

All contributions must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere.

All papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process by three PC members, and will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance.

All papers must conform to the ACM SIGs proceedings format and guidelines:

http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

All papers should be submitted as PDF via the EasyChair submission system:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=nordicloud2014

 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

 

General Chair

Åke Edlund, KTH/CSC/PDC, Sweden

 

Programme Chairs

 

Christian W Probst, Technical University of Denmark

Sasu Tarkoma , University of Helsinki, Finland

 

Steering Committee Coordinator

 

M. Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia & IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

Programme Committee

 

Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs)

Arnor Solberg, SINTEF

Boris Novikov, St. Petersburg University

Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara

Eila Ovaska, VTT

Ivan Porres, Åbo Akademi University

Johan Tordsson, Umeå University

Juan Manuel Murillo Rodríguez, University of Extremadura

M. Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia

Parastoo Mohagheghi, NAV

Pekka Lehtovuori, CSC – IT Center for Science

Romain Rouvoy, University Lille 1 – Inria

Satish Srirama, Tartu University

Sebastien Mosser, University Nice-Sophia Antipolis, I3S (UMR CNRS 7271)

Sherif Sakr, The University of New South Wales

Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University

Sören Bleikertz, IBM Research Zurich

Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology

Tommi Nyrönen, CSC – IT Center for Science

Vladimir Vlassov, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)