IEEE ICFP 2011 Call for Papers

The 2nd IEEE Cloud Forum for Practitioners (ICFP 2011)

ICFP 2011 organizing committee invites you to participate in the 2nd edition of ICFP, to be held in Washington DC, USA, 2011.
 

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Due Date: 5/5/2011
Decision Notification (Electronic):  5/8/2011
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due:  5/8/2011

The 2nd Annual IEEE Cloud Forum for Practitioners (ICFP'11) will be held in Washington, DC as part of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2011). ICFP aims to serve as a prime international forum to bring researchers, practitioners, vendors, and others together to exchange the latest practical advances and thought-leadership in cloud computing. In particular, ICFP'11 will showcase speakers bringing discussions and opinions related to the numerous reliability and security issues facing the large scale migration to cloud computing and its adoption.

While the first ICFP event in Monterey, CA (http://www.ieeereliability.com/ICFP2010) in 2010 sought to provide insights to the question concerning when, how, and whether an organization should consider moving their
IT resources into clouds, ICFP'11 starts from the premise that computing as a commodity market is no longer
questionable. Even today we are beginning to see the emergence of computing being delivered using spot-market pricing.  Hence cloud computing is quickly becoming woven into every service that is data-related.
 
The bottom line is that we are already "in clouds" on a daily basis, whether voluntary or involuntary. For example, getting driving directions from your handheld will likely use mapping from a source like Google, and calculating the route
will be done wherever handheld app finds the best computing deal. This is all cloud. Thus ICFP'11 seeks to offer recommendations and suggestions on the questions concerning how to move IT resources into clouds, especially when faced with security and reliability concerns.

ICFP 2011 seeks original, UNPUBLISHED 2-5 page papers reporting practical results and approaches on the technical, legal (e.g., Service-level agreements), and economic aspects of clouds (public, private, hybrid, community, etc.) that are security and reliability focused. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the the Proceedings of 2011 World Congress on Services Computing (CONGRESS) published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 2-5 (IEEE Proceedings template) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template in WORD or in Latex. The submitted papers can only be in the format of PDF or WORD. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. An electronically submitted abstract will be required prior to the submission of the full paper. Submissions should include paper title, abstract, name of authors, their affiliations, and emails addresses. 

Please use the ICFP 2011 Online Paper Submission System at http://www.confhub.com/conf.php?id=205 to submit your  papers. Please follow the below steps:

The IEEE Reliability Society (RS) is engaged in the engineering disciplines of hardware, software, and human interface aspects.  The Reliability Society is focused on the broad aspects of reliability, allowing the Reliability Society to be seen as the IEEE Specialty Engineering organization.  These disciplines are design engineering fields which apply scientific knowledge so that their specific attributes are designed into the system / product / device / process to assure that it will perform its intended function for the required duration within a given environment, including the ability to test and support it throughout its total life cycle.  This is accomplished concurrently with other design disciplines by contributing to the planning and the selection of the system architecture, design implementation, materials, processes, and components; followed by verifying the selections made by thorough analysis and test and then sustainment.  When you consider the broad aspects of Cloud Computing, the importance of Reliability Society aspects are great.  Cloud Computing has to be available, dependable, reliable, testable, maintainable, secure, private, and trustworthy -- all of which are direct focuses of the Reliability Society.