<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>UCC 2012<br>The 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing<br>November 5-8, 2012<br>Chicago, Illinois, USA<br><a href="http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2012">http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2012</a><br><br><div>NEW (EXTENDED) Submission Deadline: July 9, 2012<br><br>Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as a service that are commoditized and delivered as in traditional utilities such as electricity, gas and water. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility. Submissions are invited to UCC 2012.<br><br>[Conference Scope]<br>Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):<br>- Pricing and Service Models for Utility Computing<br>- Cloud Computing Architectures and Middleware<br>- Cloud Programming Models, Languages and Frameworks<br>- Virtualization Technologies<br>- Formal Methods for Utility and Cloud Computing<br>- Cloud Management: Autonomic, Self-*, and Adaptive<br>- Energy Efficient Clouds<br>- Mobile Clouds<br>- Service Level Agreements <br>- Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds<br>- Scalability and Reliability in Cloud Services<br>- Security, Privacy, Trust and Jurisdiction<br>- Interoperability and Standardization for Federated Clouds<br>- Cloud Stack (*aaS): Infrastructure, Platform, Software as a Service<br>- Resource Management: Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity Planning and Elasticity<br>- Performance Models and Monitoring<br>- Case Studies and Applications including Games, Social Networks, Scientific Computing, and Business Intelligence<br><br>[Paper Submission]<br>Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through EasyChair. Manuscripts may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. <br><br>[Important Dates]<br>May 4: Workshop and Tutorial Proposals due<br>July 9: Regular Paper Submissions due (EXTENDED)<br>August 10: Notification of acceptance or rejection of papers<br>August 24: Posters and Demos Submissions due<br>September 7: Camera Ready versions due<br>November 5-8: Symposium<br><br>[Chairs and Committees]<br>Conference Chair: Gul Agha (University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign)<br>Program Co-Chairs: Carlos Varela (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Manish Parashar (Rutgers University)<br>Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Shrideep Pallickara (Colorado State University)<br>Cyber Chair: Mohammed AlRokayan (The University of Melbourne, Australia)<br><br>[Steering Committee Members]<br>Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair)<br>Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia<br>Bharadwaj Veeravalli, The National University of Singapore, Singapore<br>Cho Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China<br>Craig Lee, Open Grid Forum, USA<br>Geng Lin, Cisco Systems Inc., USA<br>Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA<br>Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA<br>Jane Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br>Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA<br>Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA<br>Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK<br>Steve Versteeg, Computer Associates, Australia<br>Walfredo Cirne, Google, USA<br>Wolfgang Gentzsch, Universities Regensburg (Germany); Duke and NC State (USA)<br>S.Thamarai Selvi, Anna University Chennai, India<br>Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA<br>Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<br>Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil<br><br><br>[Program Committee]<br>Jemal Abawajy<br>Arun Agarwal <br>David Anderson<br>David A. Bader </div><div>Thar Baker<br>Henri Bal<br>Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernandez <br>Siegfried Benkner <br>Nik Bessis <br>Milind Bhandarkar <br>Viraj Bhat <br>Rajkumar Buyya<br>Rodrigo N. Calheiros <br>Harold Castro <br>Simon Caton <br>Paolo Ciancarini <br>Ewa Deelman <br>Travis Desell <br>Marcos Dias De Assuncao <br>Zhihui Du <br>Kaoutar El Maghraoui <br>Erik Elmroth <br>Dick Epema <br>Jose Fortes <br>Pawel Garbacki <br>Saurabh Kumar Garg <br>Wolfgang Gentzsch <br>Cecile Germain <br>Rob Gillen <br>Andrzej Goscinski <br>Madhusudhan Govindaraju <br>Ken Hawick <br>Bo Hong <br>Marty Humphrey<br>Hai Jin <br>Thilo Kielmann <br>Kyong Hoon Kim <br>Bastian Koller <br>Derrick Kondo <br>Doug Lea <br>Craig Lee <br>Laurent Lefevre <br>Xiaorong Li <br>Thenalapadi S. Mohan <br>Marco A.S. Netto <br>Shrideep Pallickara <br>Sangmi Pallickara <br>Siani Pearson <br>Marlon Pierce <br>Radu Prodan<br>Benny Rochwerger </div><div>Bruno Schulze<br>Dongwan Shin <br>Alex Sim <br>Domenico Talia <br>Michela Taufer <br>Ruppa Thulasiram <br>Robert Van Engelen <br>Peter Van Roy <br>Carlos A. Varela <br>Jinesh Varia <br>Bharadwaj Veeravalli <br>Srikumar Venugopal <br>David Walker <br>Wei-Jen Wang <br>C.L. Wang <br>Paul Watson <br>Timothy Wood <br>Ramin Yahyapour </div><div>Qin Zheng<br>Albert Zomaya <br><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">- Carlos.<br><br>---<br>Carlos A. Varela <<a href="mailto:cvarela@cs.rpi.edu">cvarela@cs.rpi.edu</a>> <br>Associate Professor <br>Worldwide Computing Laboratory<br>Department of Computer Science <br>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<br>110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA<br><a href="http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/">http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/</a><br>Ph: +1 (518) 276-6912 Fax: +1 (518) 276-4033 Office: Lally 308<br><br>This summer visiting:<br><br>Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis<br>I3S - UMR7271 - Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis CNRS<br>2000, route des Lucioles - Les Algorithmes - bât. Euclide B - BP 121 - 06903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex - France<br>Tél. +33 4 92 94 27 01 - Fax : +33 4 92 94 28 98 - <a href="http://www.i3s.unice.fr/">www.i3s.unice.fr</a><br>---</div></span></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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