The 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2018 (CLOSER)

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
4. EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING
5. SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS
6. MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING 
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
• Service Innovation
• Service Lifecycle Management
• Service-oriented Architecture
• Service Society
• Service Management
• Service Platforms
• Business Services Realized by IT Services
• Enterprise Architectures and Services
• 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

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

• Cloud Management Platforms
• Cloud Reliability and Resilience
• Cloud Automation
• Hybrid Clouds and their Integration

AREA 4: EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING

• Edge Cloud Orchestration
• Cluster Management
• Edge Cloud Network Management
• Edge Cloud Data Management
• IoT-Cloud Integration

AREA 5: SERVICE MODELLING AND ANALYTICS

• Cloud Cost Analysis
• 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 6: 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

AREA 7: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS

• Cloud Application Portability
• Privacy, Security and Trust
• Federated Cloud
• Web Services
• Consistency and Consensus
• Cloud Computing Architecture
• Cloud Delivery Models
• Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
• Cloud Interoperability
• Cloud Risk, Challenges and Governance
• Cloud Standards
• QoS for Applications on Clouds
• Resource Management

AREA 8: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS

• Access Control
• 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
• Cloud Brokering
• Cloud Workflow Management Systems
• Cloud Solution Design Patterns
• Native Cloud Applications
• 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

AREA 9: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

• API Management
• Security, Privacy and Compliance Management
• Virtualization Technologies
• Application Containers
• Microservices and Lambda Functions
• Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement
• Cloud Quality and Performance
• Cloud Optimization and Automation
• Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition
• Cloud Management and Operations
• High Performance Cloud Computing
• Cloud Migration
• Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements