[AISWorld] CFP: Conf-IRM 2013 - Cloud Computing and Virtualization track

[Rui Dinis Sousa]

Call for Papers 

‘Cloud Computing and Virtualization’ track

2013 International Conference on Information Resources Management (CONF-IRM)

An AIS Affiliated Conference - Natal, Brazil, May 22-24, 2013 - www.conf-irm2013.org

 

Important Dates

Submission deadline: December 10, 2012 

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: February 4, 2013 

Final Submission and Early Registration due date: March 4, 2013

 

TRACK COVERAGE 

Cloud Computing has become a major paradigm for providing and sharing IT resources. It is based on a service-oriented usage model and on virtualization of IT resources and aims at offering infrastructures, platforms, applications, and even business functionality as services which can be accessed via the Internet (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, BPaaS etc.). Major internet firms like Google or Amazon have set up tremendous efforts to leverage their IT infrastructures and to tap into these new markets; other firms have set up “firm-internal clouds” to benefit from the efficiency potentials of virtualization and servicing. 

However, there are a number of substantial challenges that come with operating clouds and sharing of IT resources that affect different applications, consumers, and firms. Beside the technical aspects of optimal resource allocation, peak handling, security and privacy issues, or managing the interplay between public clouds and private clouds, there are organizational issues as well as economic questions that have to be addressed. Concepts such as SaaS or PaaS, which are driven by the cloud computing paradigm, tremendously change the way how software is produced and distributed, therefore requiring new economic mechanisms, new pricing and billing models, and new inter-organizational governance modes. 

 

RECOMMENDED TOPICS 

This track encourages the submission of research papers, research-in-progress papers, teaching cases, and panel proposals in the following areas (but not limited to): 

Research on different “layers” of clouds and their interplay (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, BPaaS) 

Cloud Federation, Hybrid Clouds, and Cloud Bridging 

Cloud Computing and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) 

Virtualization of hardware and software resources 

Business process strategy in cloud environments 

Social control implications for cloud applications 

Management and Monitoring of X-as-a-Service infrastructures 

Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) management in cloud environments 

Evaluation of Cloud Architectures 

Impact of cloud computing and servitization on the software value chain 

Value-added services for the provision of cloud services 

Cloud computing and outsourcing governance 

New software market roles such as brokers, integrators, and certification authorities 

“War” between software platforms, standardization strategies, and multi-homing of developers and users 

Application of economic theories on cloud and platform market behavior and standardization trends 

 

Track Chairs 

Daniel Beimborn, University of Bamberg, Germany, daniel.beimborn at uni-bamberg.de

Rui Dinis Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal, rds at dsi.uminho.pt

Jairo Simeão Dornelas, UFPE, Brazil, jairo at ufpe.br

 

 

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