Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Programming Journal Special Issue on Science-driven Cloud Computing http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/SPJ_ScienceCloud_2011/ Overview --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cloud computing first established in the business computing domain is now a topic of research in computer science and an interesting execution platform for science applications. Today there are a number of commercial and science cloud deployments, including those provided by Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and others. Campus and national labs are also deploying their own cloud solutions. The ability to control the resources and the pay-as-you go usage model enables new approaches to application development and resource provisioning. Science applications are looking towards the cloud to provide a stable and customizable execution environment. This special issue of the Scientific Programming Journal is dedicated to the computational challenges and opportunities of cloud computing. Topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite the submission of original work that is related to the topics below. Topics of interest include (in the context of Cloud Computing): * Scientific cloud applications * Novel programming models * High-performance computing * Many-task computing * Resource scheduling * Compute resource management * Resource provisioning and configuration (compute, data, and network) * Adaptive computing and resource usage * Power-aware use of clouds computing * Storage cloud architectures and implementations * Cloud scalability and elasticity * Performance Evaluations and Benchmarks * Quality of service and SLA management * Cloud heterogeneity * Charging models * Models, frameworks and systems for cloud security and privacy * Monitoring Paper Submission --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by other journals. The manuscript must follow the formatting instructions found at the Scientific Programming site at http://www.iospress.nl/html/10589244_ita.html. Papers should be not more than 25 pages of single column text using double spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages and 1" margins (including all text, figures, and references). A 250 word abstract (PDF format) must be submitted online at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SPJ_ScienceCloud_2011/ before the deadline of October 22nd, 2010 at 11:59PM PST; the final 25 page papers in PDF format will be due on October 29th, 2010 at 11:59PM PST. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the IOS Press. Notifications of the paper decisions will be sent out by December 1st, 2010. Accepted papers will be published by IOS Press without any fees to the authors. Important dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Abstract Due: October 22nd, 2010 * Papers Due: October 29th, 2010 * Reviews Completed: December 1st, 2010 * Publication Date: Early 2011 Guest Editors: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, ivona@infosys.tuwien.ac.at Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, deelman@isi.edu Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, iraicu@cs.iit.edu For more information on this special issue in Scientific Programming Journal, please visit http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/SPJ_ScienceCloud_2011/.