CALL FOR PAPERS - Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2024)

In conjunction with: 36th IEEE/SBC International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2024)

Website: https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/gppd/wcc/2024/

About the Workshop

The Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2024) is an international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange fundamental advances in the state of art and practice of cloud computing, identify emerging research topics and define the future of cloud computing. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE/SBC 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2024) from November 13th to 15th, 2024, in Hilo, Hawaii.

We invite authors to submit papers with original research, practical application papers, Ph.D. and Master Thesis ongoing work.

Topics of interest (but are not limited to): 

• High performance computing in the cloud 
• Computational resources, storage and network virtualization 
• Cloud capacity planning 
• Cloud services models and frameworks 
• Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs and/or APUs 
• Cryptography in the Cloud 
• Energy, cost, efficiency, and security in the Cloud
• Fog computing 
• Green data centers 
• IoT cloud architectures and models 
• Blockchain cloud services 
• Management in edge computing 
• Modeling and performance evaluation 
• Networking technologies network virtualization, software-defined networking 
• Operational, economic and business cloud models 
• Privacy protection in Cloud platforms 
• Resilience, fault-tolerance, disaster recovery 
• Resource provisioning, monitoring, management and maintenance 
• Scalability, performance, and Cloud elasticity 
• Virtual desktops
• Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels, and microservices

Important Dates (Anywhere on Earth)

• Paper deadline: September 23rd, 2024
• Author notification: October 14th, 2024
• Camera-ready submission: October 21st, 2024
• Workshop dates: November 13th - 15th, 2024

Paper Submission Guidelines

The workshop will receive submissions of research papers and will carry out a single-blind peer review process to select high-quality papers to be presented in the workshop. Paper submissions must be in English, have from 6 up to 8 pages (including references), and follow the IEEE conference manuscript formatting guidelines for double-column text using a single-spaced 10-point font on 8.5 × 11-inch pages. Templates are available from http://www. ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. To be published in the conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, one of the authors must register at the full rate and present his/her work at the conference. 

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcc20240

Workshop Organization

General Chairs:

• Márcio Castro (UFSC)
• Philippe O. A. Navaux (UFRGS) 

Program Committee (in construction):

• Alfredo Goldman (USP), Brazil
• Cristiano Costa (Unisinos), Brazil
• César De Rose (PUCRS), Brazil
• Claude Tadonki (ENSMP), France
• Dalvan Griebler (PUCRS), Brazil
• Fábio D. Rossi (IFRS), Brazil
• Francisco Brasileiro (UFCG), Brazil
• Jesus Carretero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Spain
• Jorge Barbosa (U. Porto), Portugal
• Laurent Lefèvre (INRIA), France
• Lucas Schnorr (UFRGS), Brazil
• Luciana Arantes (UPS), France
• Luiz Bittencourt (Unicamp), Brazil
• Lúcia Drummond (UFF), Brazil
• Marco Vieira (UC), Portugal
• Matthias Diener (UIUC), EUA
• Pierre Sens (UPS), France
• Rafael Mayo (CIEMAT), Spain
• Rodrigo Righi (Unisinos), Brazil
• Rosa Badia (BSC), Spain
• Tiago Ferreto (PUCRS), Brazil