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Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

http://www.elsevier.com/locate/future Special Issue on "Management of Cloud Systems"

The vision of Cloud computing is becoming a reality because of the recent advances in several significant computer and communications research areas, spanning from grid/virtualization/utility computing to Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Computing (SOC). At the current stage, after the initial hype of enthusiasm, several ongoing research efforts are deeply focusing on the open management aspects of the Cloud, such as interoperability, scalability, reliability, power management, and confidentiality/auditabi- lity, with the final goal to make Cloud technologies and services more mature so to enable and boost a more widespread industrial uptake of Cloud systems. Despite several recent provisioning of Cloud systems, it is still unclear whether current solutions can withstand the abrupt and unpredictably changes imposed by the emergent Cloud application scenarios, where services de/activation and the whole software stacks (from the kernel upward) have to scale up and down fast by exploiting highly distributed and heterogeneous virtualized resources.

The mission of this Special Issue is to put on the foreground all the above issues and to disseminate the latest research result in this emergent research area, by providing a fresh snapshot of the current state-of-the-art in management of Cloud systems. Along that direction, this special issue will collect a mix of extended and updated versions of papers recently presented at the international Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2011), and of other papers submitted from this open call. In particular, all the authors of papers accepted for inclusion in the MoCS’11 proceedings are invited to submit extended versions of their workshop papers; in addition, we are asking for high-quality papers (from open call) reporting original research results.

Contributions should present practical experiences of system design/pro- totyping/deployment related to topics that include, but are not limited to: * Novel adaptive management solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost- effective Cloud provision, at all software stack layers; * New methods and tools able to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between performance, energy consumption, safety, and security;

* New models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the host level and within/between data centers (intra-/inter-domain);

* Emerging standards for interoperability (resource virtualization, specific computing interfaces, etc.), also between public and private Clouds; * Experimentation testbeds, field trials and empirical evaluations, and measurement studies; * Analytical and simulation models and tools to measure systems ability to scale and to achieve relevant energy savings.

Submission process: Authors should prepare and submit manuscripts according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal Web site at: http://www.elsevier.com/ wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505611/authorinstructions

Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. If a similar version of the paper has been published in a conference, including MoCS’11, the submitted version should contain significant additions/enhancements; in that case, authors are requested to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version.

Potential authors are encouraged to submit original and unpublished work through the submission system at the journal website: http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/.

Please choose the Article Type “SS: Cloud Systems – Corradi/Rana”. If you encounter any problems in the use of the online system, please do not hesitate to contact authorsupport@elsevier.com.

Important Dates (to be confirmed): * Paper submission deadline: November 13, 2011 (extended, hard deadline) * First revision notification to authors: December 15, 2011 * Revision submission: January 15, 2012 * Second revision notification to authors: February 15, 2012 * Submission of camera-ready versions of accepted manuscripts: March 15, 2012 * Special issue publication schedule (tentative): 3rd Quarter 2012

Guest Editors of the Special Issue: * Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy, antonio.corradi@unibo.it * Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, o.f.rana@cs.cardiff.ac.uk

If you have any questions about paper submission or the special issue, please contact one of the Guest Editors.

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Mario Fanelli, Ph.D. Student DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 209 3541 Fax: (+39) 051 209 3073. E-mail: mario.fanelli@unibo.it or mario.fanelli@gmail.com Web: http://www-lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/MarioFanelli/ _________________________________________