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for Papers***</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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and Privacy Protection on Clouds</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Special
Issue in <b>IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing</b></font></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-justify:inter-ideograph" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:10pt">The emerging paradigm of cloud computing
provides a new way to address the constraints of limited energy, capabilities,
and resources. Researchers and practitioners have embraced cloud computing as a
new approach that has the potential for a profound impact in our daily life and
world economy. However, security and privacy protection is a critical concern
in the development and adoption of cloud computing. To avoid system fragility and
defend against vulnerabilities exploration from cyber attacker, various cyber
security techniques and tools have been developed for cloud systems. This
special issue will focus on the challenging topic—“Security and Privacy
Protection on Clouds” and invites the state-of-the-art research results to be
submitted here. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Topics </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-justify:inter-ideograph" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:10pt">This special issue calls for original,
high-quality, high-impact research papers related to the following broad
topics, but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt 50.25pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">·</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:10pt">Cloud
Security in New Paradigms</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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cloud security</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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cloud privacy protection</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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hacking and virus protection</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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browser security</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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generation fire wall for clouds</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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monitoring</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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incident response</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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forensics in clouds</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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data security in clouds</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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data center security</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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security for cloud systems</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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threats and models in clouds</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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spear phishing in clouds</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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threat intelligence for cloud systems</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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and fault tolerance for cloud systems</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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tele-health and medical security and privacy protection</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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security in clouds</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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and performance trade-off</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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security in clouds</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt 50.25pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">·</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:7pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:10pt">Infrastructure
security for clouds</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Schedule </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Submission due date: Sep. 15, 2014 </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Notification of acceptance: Dec. 15,
2015 </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Submission of final manuscript: Feb.
15, 2015 </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:10pt">Publication date: 2nd Quarter, 2015
(Tentative)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Submission & Major Guidelines </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;text-justify:inter-ideograph" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">The special issue invites original research manuscripts
which have significant contributions to the various topics in “Security and
Privacy Protection on Cloud”. The manuscripts submitted first time are
encouraged and they must not have been previously published or submitted for
journal or conference elsewhere. Extended work must have significant number of
"new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 49% brand
"new" material. Every submitted paper will receive at least three
reviews. The editorial review committee will include well known experts in the
area. Submissions must be directly submitted via the IEEE </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">TCC</span></font><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">
submission web site at </font><i><a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcc-cs" target="_blank"><span><font color="#0000ff">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcc-cs</font></span></a></i><font color="#000000">,
and must follow instructions for formatting and length listed there. </font></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">For additional information, please
contact Meikang Qiu, qiumeikang</font><i><font color="#000000">@</font><a href="http://gmail.com/" target="_blank"><span><font color="#0000ff">gmail.com</font></span></a><font color="#000000">.</font></i></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Selection and Evaluation Criteria </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">- Relevance to the topics of this
special issue </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">- Significance to the areas of IEEE
Transactions on Cloud Computing</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">- Novelty, new techniques, and
impact of the research</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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related work </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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submission </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Editor-in-Chief </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p>
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:9pt">Rajkumar Buyya, The University of
Melbourne, Australia </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Meikang Qiu, <span> </span></font></span><u><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:mqiu@Pace.edu"><font color="#0000ff">mqiu@Pace.edu</font></a></span></u><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">, <span> </span>Pace University, New
York City, USA </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:normal" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Sun-Yuan Kung, </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:kung@Princeton." target="_blank"><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">kung@Princeton.</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">edu, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"></span></font></p>
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