IBM Cloud Academy Conference - Call for paper

Call for Papers

ICACON 2018 will be the 6th event in the "International IBM Cloud Academy Conference" series, established to bring together academics and practitioners working on methods and tools to address problems around the development, deployment, management and use of cloud infrastructures.

Of particular interest will be submissions featuring original research or experience reports that address how the transition to cloud computing is transforming education, healthcare and government. The submissions should aim to communicate best practices with real-world examples illustrating improvements in quality, outcomes, lessons learned and return-on-investment.

Topics of Interest

A range of topics relevant to cloud computing in education, government and research are of interest, including (but not limited to) the ones below.

Institutional Strategy and Organization Design for Cloud Computing

Building the institution's future infrastructure on a cloud
Management and organization design impacts by clouds
Value chain redesign, culture change and skill shift challenges in transitioning to cloud computing
Economic Models of, and Economic Development through, Cloud Computing
Financial impact and benefits of cloud computing
Roadmap for adoption, integration and transition to cloud computing

Data Management and Analytics on the Cloud

Cognitive computing through cloud
Business Intelligence for education and research purposes using cloud computing
Analytics and predictive analytics in cloud environments
Big Data in clouds
Storage management and clouds

User Productivity with Cloud Computing

Collaboration using cloud computing
Enhancing accessibility through cloud services
Workloads and Use Cases of cloud for education and research

Cloud Computing Implementation Strategies

Data Center migration to cloud computing
Energy Management Considerations
Integration and workflow of cloud services
Impact on IT Infrastructure Management with cloud computing
IT Service and Relationship Management (Business and IT)
Software development services with cloud computing

Research Computing in the Cloud

High Performance Computing and cloud computing
Research computing models using cloud computing

Pedagogical Impact of Cloud Computing

Impact on learning and teaching with cloud computing
Delivering educational resources via a cloud
New and Innovative Pedagogical Approaches with cloud
Service Sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME)

Standards and Open Source Strategies for Cloud Computing

Innovations in IP (especially as relates to Open Source)
Open standards for cloud computing

Systems Management in a Cloud Computing Environment

Service level agreements and clouds
Security, identity, trust and privacy on clouds
Software licensing in education for cloud computing

Call for papers

At least one author for each accepted paper should register and present at the conference.

Short papers (extended abstracts) initially submitted for review should be 2-4 pages long. The author(s) should indicate the preferred mode of presentation, i.e., as a sesssion talk or as a poster. Submissions will be managed through EasyChair and peer reviewed by at least three domain experts from among those listed on the Technical Committee.

The best presented papers will then be selected for publication in special issues of the International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC) and International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC) . The final selected papers should follow the IJCC format.

Important dates

March 10, 2018 (extended)
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline

April 7, 2018
Notification of Paper Acceptance

April 30, 2018
Camera Ready Paper Submission and Authors Registration Deadline

May 24-26, 2018
Conference Dates

To submit

To submit your extended abstract for consideration, please go to: Abstract/paper submission

For more information, contact conference co-chairs Andy Rindos (rindos@us.ibm.com) or Kozo Kitamura (kitamuk@ism.ac.jp)