[AISWorld] Emerging Software as a Service and Analytics 2015 (ESaaSA 2015), May 20-22, 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal (papers due on Feb 27 2015)

[Chang V.I.]

Introduction (Apologies if you've received it from else where)

Our workshop presents a summary of Emerging Software as a Service and Analytics (ESaaSA), which offer innovative approaches of delivering services and making contributions to research and enterprise communities. Following the successful delivery of ESaaSA 2014, we oversee the importance of ESaaSA as a unique and rising field and all services in SaaS should always be designed, deployed and integrated. Emerging means innovative techniques and methods used for the traditional areas (finance, healthcare, education, security etc) or new areas (mobile apps, social networks, weather visualization, Big Data processing etc). We will seek papers to demonstrate proofs-of-concept, demonstrations, design and implementations, successful case studies and use cases of adopting ESaaSA.

The focus of this workshop is to demonstrate new techniques, demonstrations and innovative approaches in ESaaSA and analytics services. The impacts of research contributions are as follows.

- Explain how to implement analytics, and their added values.
- Demonstrate how ESaaSA can be used in different case studies.
- Describe how to resolve challenges in each Cloud Computing adoption scenario.
- Provide reproducible steps for anyone to follow, and support reproducibility, an important aspect in Cloud Computing science.
- Explain how their Cloud services can work effectively in production and real-time
- Present how their services can make contributions to users involved in the use of Cloud services and adoption.
- Sum up and disseminate all the lessons learned and recommendation to play an influential role in academia and industry

Website and submission: http://closer.scitevents.org/ESaaSA.aspx

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: February 27, 2015
Authors Notification: March 12, 2015
Camera Ready and Registration: March 26, 2015

Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  *   Health Informatics as a Service (HIaaS) for any type of health informatics, computation and services
  *   Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) including frameworks, empirical approaches and data processing techniques
  *   Big Data algorithm, methodology, business models and challenges
  *   Security as a Service including any algorithms, methodology and software proof-of-concepts
  *   Financial Software as a Service (FSaaS) including risk and pricing analysis; predictive modelling
  *   Education as a Service (EaaS) including e-Learning and educational applications
  *   Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) including workflows and supply chain in the Cloud
  *   Software Engineering approaches, including formal methods, agile methods and theoretical algorithms for Cloud
  *   Natural Science as a Service (NSaaS) including weather forecasting and weather data visualization
  *   System Design and Architecture
  *   Mobile System as a Service (MSaaS)
  *   Gaming as a Service (GaaS)
  *   Framework (conceptual, logical or software)
  *   Analytics as a Service (AaaS) for any types of analytics
  *   Electrical Platform as a Service (EPaaS)
  *   Energy-saving and Green IT applications
  *   Middleware and agents for Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing
  *   Integration as a Service (data; service; business; federated clouds)
  *   Scheduling, service duplication, fairness, load balance for SaaS and Analytics
  *   Tenant application development including customization, verification, simulation, and testing on SaaS and Analytics
  *   SaaS QoS, security, reliability, availability, service bus mechanisms
  *   Social Clouds and Analytics
  *   User Evaluations and Case Studies
  *   SaaS, Big Data and Analytics demonstrations and research discussions from computing scientists, business IS academics and industrial consultants
  *   e-Government, e-Commerce, e-Science and creative technologies for the Cloud
  *   Any emerging services

Main Chair: 
Dr. Victor Chang, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Co-Chairs: 
Dr. Muthu Ramachandran, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Dr. Gary Wills, University of Southampton, UK 
Dr. Robert Walters, University of Southampton, UK 
Dr. Verena Kantere, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Chung-Sheng Li, IBM, US

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Omar Abdul-Rahman, National Institute of Informatics, Japan 
Saad Alahmari, Princess Noura Bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia 
Mitra Arami, Arab Open University,, Kuwait 
Khin Mi Mi Aung, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Data Storage Institute, Singapore 
Reinhold Behringer, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom 
K Chandrasekaran, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India, India 
Tzu-chun Chen, TU Darmstadt, Germany 
Dickson Chiu, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Darren Chong, Singapore, Singapore 
Wendy Currie, Audencia, Nantes, France 
Michael Engel, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom 
Takahiro Hirofuchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan 
Ching Hsien Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan 
Natalia Kushik, Tomsk State University, Russian Federation 
Bu Sung Francis Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Tope Omitola, University of Southhampton, United Kingdom 
Siani Pearson, HP Labs, Bristol, United Kingdom 
Pethuru Raj, IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence, India 
Shuqin Ren, Data Storage Institute, Singapore 
Jose Simao, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal 
Luis M. Vaquero, HP Labs, United Kingdom 
Luís Veiga, Inesc-id / Ist, Portugal 
Yun Wan, University of Houston, United States 
Junbo Wang, University of Aizu, Japan 
Tomasz Wiktor Wlodarczyk, University of Stavanger, Norway 
Neil. Y Yen, University of Aizu, Japan 
Fan Zhang, MIT, United States 

Detail information: http://closer.scitevents.org/ESaaSA.aspx
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ES2014ECs2015
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Emerging-Software-as-Service-Analytics-8205624
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ES_ESaaSA_works

1-2 best papers will be invited for Future Generation Computer Systems (our special issue: Big Data processing in the Cloud) or International Journal of Information Systems (our special section). Extension and improvement of your workshop papers can be published in International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI) or Open Journal of Big Data (OJBD). Hope you can join us online and in Lisbon!