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CfP: Special Issue Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing im Wiley-Journal Software: Experience and Practice (SPE)
24 February 2017, by Giselind Werner
There will be a special issue on Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing in the Wiley journal "Software: Experience and Practice" guest-edited by Leonard Heilig, Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Stefan Voß, and Rajkumar Buyya (CLOUDS Lab, University of Melbourne) Any question regarding this call for papers should be sent by e-mail to leonard.heilig@uni-hamburg.de
There will be a special issue on Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing in the Wiley journal "Software: Experience and Practice" guest-edited by Leonard Heilig, Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Stefan Voß, and Rajkumar Buyya (CLOUDS Lab, University of Melbourne). Please find the CfP here.
Any question regarding this call for papers should be sent by e-mail to leonard.heilig"AT"uni-hamburg.de
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Special Issue on Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing
Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press)
Call for Papers
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Guest Editors
Leonard Heilig (IWI, contact editor for submission queries)
Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz (IWI)
Stefan Voß (IWI)
Rajkumar Buyya (CLOUDS Lab, University of Melbourne)
Important Dates
Submission: September 15, 2017
Notification: November 15, 2017
Revision due: January 15, 2018
Notification of final acceptance: February 15, 2018
Notification of final revised paper: March 15, 2018
Link for submissions: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spe
(Select manuscript type Special Issue - Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing )
Topic
The cloud computing paradigm is increasingly becoming mainstream and a growing number of companies and research organizations seek to gain value from its unique characteristics, service models, and deployment forms. This gives rise to many different optimization problems both from the consumers’ and providers’ perspective.
Cloud service providers (CSPs) aim to reduce operational expenses and improve economies of scale to maximize profits and provide competitive prices in a highly competitive market. Therefore, CSPs are particularly concerned with a cost-effective, energy-efficient, fault-tolerant utilization and management of physical and virtual computing resources and services, whereby quality of service (QoS) requirements of consumers have to be satisfied. From the consumers’ point of view, particularly an efficient selection and utilization of cloud providers and cloud services as well as the management thereof is of interest. Several requirements in terms of costs and service quality as well as legal constraints need to be taken into account. This involves also specific characteristics of cloud computing, such as the options of scalability, load-balancing, and replication. Some of those consumers may also act as a provider of software applications hosted in a third-party cloud by using cloud infrastructure and platform services. In the context of this ecosystem, the role of cloud broker schemes has been intensively discussed, in particular with regard to decision support. That is, a cloud broker (e.g., in form of decision support or a third-party) can interact between consumers and providers as well as between consumers to increase the value creation.
We invite high quality papers either on the use of metaheuristics for solving related optimization problems or the application and assessment of metaheuristics within cloud environments for solving well-known optimization problems. Topics of interests include but are not limited to:
- Mathematical modeling and optimization of cloud-related problems (e.g., resource allocation, scheduling, redundancy allocation, (big) data management)
- Application of metaheuristics in cloud computing and fog computing environments
- Metaheuristics for energy management, (big) data management, security, and reliability
- Metaheuristics for cloud brokerage
- Application of metaheuristics to support decision making in different domains (e.g., logistics, smart cities, etc.)
- Design and development of cloud-based decision support systems
Special Issue Paper Submission
This special issue seeks submission of papers that present novel and innovative ideas. It also welcomes submissions of extended versions of the best selected papers presented in the related special track of the International Conference on Metaheuristics (MIC). All submissions including invited papers go under regular peer review process.
We seek submission of papers that present new, original and innovative ideas for the "first" time in SPE. Submission of "extended versions" of already published works (e.g., conference papers) is not encouraged unless they contain a significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 50% brand "new" material. If you are submitting an extended version, you must submit a cover letter/document detailing (1) the "Summary of Differences" between the SPE paper and the earlier paper, (2) a clear list of "new and original" ideas/contributions in the SPE paper (identifying sections where they are proposed/presented), and (3) confirming the percentage of new material. Otherwise, the submission will be "desk" rejected without being reviewed.
While submitting paper to this issue, please select “Special Issue – Metaheuristics in Cloud Computing” in the submission system. Link: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spe
Regular Issue Submission
If you have a paper on cloud computing which does not match the requirements of the Special Issue, we encourage you to submit it as a regular paper to Software: Practice and Experience. The journal has expanded its coverage to specifically include cloud computing.