The Third International Workshop on inter-Clouds and Collective Intelligence (iCCI-2014)

The third International Workshop on inter-Clouds and Collective Intelligence (iCCI-2014) is dedicated to the theories, practices and concepts of utilizing inter-operable and inter-cooperative clouds towards a collective intelligence approach for the benefit of business and science. Clouds become a mature e-infrastructure for performing and delivering business and science. In particular, clouds are becoming popular by providing a new supplement, consumption, delivery and efficient model for the future Internet; where virtualized, scalable and energy‐efficient resource management approaches are provided to integrate loose‐coupled resources, and improve their utility. By having several data centers around the globe cloud providers aim to optimally serve their clients in a worldwide scale. However, each cloud provider has established their own systems, which are not necessarily inter-operable with each other for effective data portability, service sharing, discovery, scheduling and integration. Thus, it is apparent that clouds require coming together on an on-demand basis as to further improve QoS and become even more energy and cost efficient. To achieve these, the inter-cloud initiative has been emerged with the view of developing mechanisms to enable the interaction between “isolated” cloud systems. Apart from the inter-cloud initiative there is also a notable opportunity namely, the current trend in which a collectively shared and generated content is emerged from end-users. iCCI-2014 will discuss advances about utilizing and exploiting data generated from within inter-cooperative clouds towards a collective intelligence approach leading to the advancements of virtual organizations and their user communities. This is because, inter-cooperative clouds will store and continuously generate a vast amount of data, which if combined and analyzed through a synergetic, collaborative and collective intelligence manner will make a difference in the organizational settings and their user communities. Thus, the scope of iCCI-2014 is to discuss inter-clouds enabling methods and strategies as well methods and practices to bring these together to capture, integrate, analyze, mine, annotate and visualize data – made available from various cloud community users – in a meaningful manner. Finally, iCCI-2014 aims to provide a forum for original discussion and prompt future directions.