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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>Submission deadline: December 10, 2012 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:30.0pt'>Call for Papers </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:30.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:20.0pt'>‘Cloud Computing and Virtualization’ track</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:20.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt'>2013 International Conference on Information Resources Management (CONF-IRM)</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'>An AIS Affiliated Conference - Natal, Brazil, May 22-24, 2013 -</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="http://www.conf-irm2013.org">www.conf-irm2013.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'>Important Dates</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Submission deadline: <b>December 10, 2012 </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: <b>February 4, 2013 </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Final Submission and Early Registration due date: <b>March 4, 2013</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt'>TRACK COVERAGE </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt'>RECOMMENDED TOPICS </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>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): <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-bottom:1.9pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Research on different “layers” of clouds and their interplay (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, BPaaS) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-bottom:1.9pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Cloud Federation, Hybrid Clouds, and Cloud Bridging <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Cloud Computing and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Virtualization of hardware and software resources <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Business process strategy in cloud environments <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Social control implications for cloud applications <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Management and Monitoring of X-as-a-Service infrastructures <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Level Agreement (SLA) management in cloud environments <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Evaluation of Cloud Architectures <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Impact of cloud computing and servitization on the software value chain <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Value-added services for the provision of cloud services <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Cloud computing and outsourcing governance <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>New software market roles such as brokers, integrators, and certification authorities <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.85pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>“War” between software platforms, standardization strategies, and multi-homing of developers and users <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Application of economic theories on cloud and platform market behavior and standardization trends <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt'>Track Chairs </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Daniel Beimborn, University of Bamberg, Germany, <a href="mailto:daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de">daniel.beimborn@uni-bamberg.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Rui Dinis Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal, <a href="mailto:rds@dsi.uminho.pt">rds@dsi.uminho.pt</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Jairo Simeão Dornelas, UFPE, Brazil</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>, <a href="mailto:jairo@ufpe.br">jairo@ufpe.br</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>