Dear colleague, we would like to invite you to submit your paper to the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020) https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/ that will be held in Beijing, China, on July 7-11, 2020. We apology if you got multiple copies of it. Best regards, Shangguang Wang and Claudio Ardagna on behalf of CLOUD 2020 Organizing Committee ================================================== 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2020) July 7-11, 2020 - Beijing, China Website: https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2020 ================================================== Important Dates * Early paper submissions due: December 2, 2019 * Review comments to authors of early submission papers: January 17, 2020 * Normal paper submission due: February 13, 2020 (5:00 am, UTC) * Final notification to authors: April 6, 2020 * Camera ready manuscripts due: April 20, 2020S Context and Scope IEEE CLOUD is a flagship conference focusing on innovative cloud computing across all "as a service" categories, including Network, Infrastructure, Platform, Software, and Function. IEEE CLOUD 2020 invites original papers addressing all aspects of cloud computing technology, systems, applications, and business innovations. Technical topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Cloud as a Service * IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS * Function as a Service * Network as a Service * Storage as a Service * Everything as a Service Cloud Infrastructure * Cloud Computing System & Architectures * Edge Computing System & Architectures * Cloud-centric Network Architectures * Storage & Data Architectures * Hybrid-clouds & Multi-clouds Integration Cloud Applications * Large Scale Cloud Applications * Terminal-Edge-Cloud Applications * 5G/6G Enhanced Edge/Cloud Applications * Social & Mobile Cloud Applications * Innovative Cloud Applications Cloud Management and Operations * Distributed & Parallel Query Processing * Resource, Energy & Data Management * Cloud Metering & Monitoring * Containers & Serverless Computing * SDN, NFV, & Data Center Network * Cloud Service Adaptation & Automation * Cloud Federation & Service Composition Cloud Trustworthiness * Access Control, Authorization, & Authentication * Assurance, Audit, Certification, Compliance * Fault Tolerance, High Availability, & Reliability * Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols * Cloud Security and Privacy * Trusted Cloud Environments Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Language: English Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style Page limit: Up to eight pages for peer review for regular papers; Up to three pages for a "work in progress" paper Abstract Length: 1500 characters for a regular paper, and 500 characters for "work in progress" papers Number of Keywords: between five to eight keywords for each paper File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6MB Note: Authors of the accepted regular papers will have available up to 10 pages for the final version of papers. Anonymous Submissions: All conferences implement a double-blind reviewing process. Author names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. The authors should make a reasonable effort not to reveal their identities of institutional affiliations in the text, figures, photos, links, or other data that is contained in the paper. Authors' prior work should be preferably referred to in the third person; if this is not feasible, the references should be blinded. Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. The list of authors cannot be changed after the acceptance decision is made unless approved by the Program Chairs. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers with confirmed registration and committed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. Submitted Regular and Workshop Papers will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Submitted Work-In-Progress Papers will be limited to 3 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the page limit may not be reviewed. Please submit your paper at EasyChair.org: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2020 Please visit website at https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/cfp/ for more information. Organization General Chairs: Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas Gang Huang, Peking University Program Chairs: Claudio Ardagna, University of Milan Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications Technical Program Committee https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2020/committee/ =============================================