Call for Paper

Submittals are encouraged from on-going research, completed research, and implementation experiences in the following areas and covering use cases, solution architecture and interfaces:

Cloud

Management of Compute and Storage Clouds
Managing service catalogs and selecting service templates
Managing SaaS, IaaS and PaaS
Orchestrating the cloud
Open source management (e.g. OpenStack)

Datacenter

Software Defined Networking, Storage and Compute
Software Defined Datacenter
NFV – network function virtualization
System virtualization
Managing network services and fabric topologies
Managing the datacenter facility

System Management

Managing compute, storage and network platforms
Managing desktop platforms and mobile devices
Managing the Internet of Things (IoT)
Telemetry, control and autonomics for management
Fault management and diagnostics

Protocols and Models

Managing with RESTful protocols
Managing with web-service protocols
Information models
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Paper Format

Authors are requested to submit either long or short papers via the conference submission software:

Long papers presenting research results (up to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column format, excluding references)
Short papers describing research work-in-progress or position statements (up to 4 pages in IEEE 2-column format, excluding references)