The International Workshop on Clouds for Business and Business for Clouds (C4BB4C) will be held at the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA2012).

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HPC in the Cloud: Madrid Workshop Explores the Business Case for Clouds

HPC in the Cloud: International Workshop on Clouds for Business and Business for Clouds Now Accepting Paper Submissions

DSA-Research blog: International Workshop on Clouds for Business and Business for Clouds (C4BB4C)

Cloud Computing has acquired enough maturity to expand its field of application to business. Yet there are not only institutions which use this paradigm in their production line but there are also those which are offering services through the Cloud.

This workshop intends to put together efforts done from service producers and consumers in order to make Cloud Computing provide an added value to the economy of any kind of institution. Technologies, policies and heuristics will be shared, not discarding those coming from other areas that would benefit Cloud Computing.

The Workshop intends also to focus on how services are delivered through the cloud as a popular strategic technology choice for businesses that provides a flexible, ubiquitous and consistent platform accessible from anywhere at any time.

The interface of software services and cloud computing provides a rich area for research and experience to give a unique insight into how cloud-based service can be achieved in practice. We encourage submissions of research papers on work in the area of Cloud Computing, Service Engineering, and especially welcome papers describing developments in cloud-enabled business process management and all related areas, such as deployment techniques, business models for cloud-based enterprises and experience reports from practitioners.

Extended version of selected papers will be included in a special issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience.

• QoS
• SLAs
• Usability
• Efficient monitoring
• Reliability
• Security applied to Business
• Business process enablers
• Open Business model
• Business transaction engineering
• Event-driven architectures
• Model management for service systems
• Business service analysis and design
• Service governance and compliance
• Open source Solution for Cloud based solutions
• Smart service-networks
• Cloud based service networks
• BPM and Cloud Computing
• Best practices and experience report
• Asynchronous communication systems for the Cloud
• Cloud front-end interfaces
• Context-based message routing and delivery
• Data Management in the Cloud
• Marketplaces for Cloud-based services
• Other distributed paradigms: work on previous topics that could be applied to Cloud Computing.

• Deadline for contribution submissions: 28 February 2012 (CLOSED)
• Acceptance notification: 16 March 2012
• Deadline for camera ready contributions: 15 April 2012

This Workshop couldn't be possible without the following projects: MEDIANET (Comunidad de Madrid S2009/TIC-1468), HPCcloud (MICINN TIN2009-07146) and 4CaaSt (Gr. Agree. 258862).