Venue: Porto, Portugal Event date: 24 - 26 April, 2017 Regular Papers Paper Submission: November 21, 2016 Authors Notification: January 23, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: February 6, 2017 Position Papers Paper Submission: January 10, 2017 Authors Notification: February 13, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: February 24, 2017 Workshops Workshop Proposal: January 3, 2017 Paper Submission: January 17, 2017 Authors Notification: February 2, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: February 16, 2017 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: February 17, 2017 Authors Notification: March 3, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: March 15, 2017 Special Sessions Special Session Proposal: January 19, 2017 Tutorials Tutorial Proposal: February 22, 2017 Demos Demo Proposal: February 22, 2017 Panels Panel Proposal: February 22, 2017 Scope: The 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2017, focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market and study various aspects of Cloud Computing. CONFERENCE AREAS: Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. SERVICES SCIENCE 2. DATA AS A SERVICE 3. CLOUD OPERATIONS AND ANALYTICS 4. MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING 5. EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING 6. SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS 7. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS 8. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS 9. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY AREA 1: SERVICES SCIENCE • Business Process Management and Web Services • Business Services Realized by IT Services • Cloud Brokering • Enterprise Architectures and Services • Cloud Workflow Management Systems • Industrial Applications of Services Science • Information and Service Economy • Internet of Services • Model-driven Web Service Engineering • Semantic and Service Web • Microservices: Atomation Deployment and Management, Resource Allocation Elasticity, Service State and Resilience • Service Innovation • Service Lifecycle Management • Service-oriented Architecture • Web Services • Service Society • Service Management • Service Platforms • Big Data Cloud Services AREA 2: DATA AS A SERVICE • On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) services • NOSQL Services: Store, Visualization, Processing • Time Series Services: Databases, Dashboards AREA 3: CLOUD OPERATIONS AND ANALYTICS • Cloud Management Platforms • Cloud Analytics • Cloud Reliability and Resilience • Cloud Automation • Hybrid Clouds and their Integration • Compliance Management in the Cloud • Cloud Configuration and Capacity Management • Cloud Workload Profiling and Migration • Cloud Metering and Billing • Large-scale Monitoring • Operations Excellence • Cloud Performance Analytics AREA 4: MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING • Mobile and Energy-efficient use of Clouds • Mobile and Wearable Computing Systems and Services • Mobile Cloud Architectures and Models • Mobile Cloud Networking • Mobile Commerce, Handheld Commerce and e-markets on Cloud • High Performance Computing as a Service AREA 5: EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING • Edge Cloud Orchestration • Cluster Management • Edge Cloud Network Management • Edge Cloud Data Management • IoT-Cloud Integration AREA 6: SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS • Cloud Cost Analysis • Data and Service Analytics • Service Discovery • Service Modeling and Specification • Service Monitoring and Control • Services Security and Reliability • Service Ecosystems • Service Simulation • Service Performance Analytics • Analytics and Services AREA 7: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS • Cloud Application Portability • Cloud Computing Architecture • Cloud Delivery Models • Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud • Cloud Education • Cloud Interoperability • Cloud Risk, Challenges and Governance • Cloud Scenarios • Cloud Standards • QoS for Applications on Clouds • Energy Management • Resource Management • Privacy, Security and Trust • Federated Cloud AREA 8: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS • Access Control • Cloud Solution Design Patterns • Cloud for Enterprise Business Transformation • Cloud Application Architectures • Cloud Application Scalability and Availability • Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring • Cloud Economics • Cloud Middleware Frameworks • Engineering Mobile Clouds and Mobile-based Systems • Development Methods for Cloud Applications • XaaS • Cloud Services • Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Infrastructures and Approaches • Cloud Data Centers, Storage and Networking Technologies • Mobile-aware Cloud Data Management and Data Retrieval • High Performance Computing Cloud Applications ; Use cases , Experiences with HPC Clouds • Hybrid Cloud Integration AREA 9: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY • API Management • Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement • Cloud Quality and Performance • Cloud Optimization and Automation • Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition • Cloud Management and Operations • Green and Energy Management • High Performance Cloud Computing • Cloud Migration • Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements • Performance Development and Management • Security, Privacy and Compliance Management • Virtualization Technologies • Container Schedulers • Application Containers • Cloud-assisted Human-centered Applications based on Wearable Computing Devices • Energy-saving Mobile Cloud Protocols • Distributed and Cloud Networking • Energy Management in Cloud Centers KEYNOTE SPEAKER Stefan Tai, TU Berlin, Germany CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Donald Ferguson, Columbia University, United States Víctor Méndez Muñoz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal and Huawei European Research Center, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://closer.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx CLOSER Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq. 2910-595 Setúbal – Portugal Tel: +351 265 520 184 Fax: +351 265 520 186 e-mail: closer.s[email protected] Web: http://closer.scitevents.org/