1st International
IBM Cloud Academy Conference
ICA CON 2012

Call for Papers

We invite submission of papers / presentations or posters on the use of cloud computing for educational and research purposes. Of particular interest will be submissions featuring original research or experience reports that address how the transition to cloud computing is helping to transform education. The latter is intended to facilitate the sharing of best practices with real-world examples illustrating improvements in quality, outcomes, lessons learned and return-on-investment.

A range of topics relevant to cloud computing in education and research will be considered. Here are some areas to show the range of interests and possibilities:

Institutional Strategy and Planning for Cloud Computing

• Building the institution's future infrastructure on a cloud
• Culture change challenges in transitioning to cloud computing
• Economic Models of, and Economic Development through, Cloud Computing
• Financial impact and benefits of cloud computing
• Roadmap for adoption, integration and transition to cloud computing

Data Management and Analytics on the Cloud

• Business Intelligence for education and research purposes using cloud computing
• Analytics and predictive analytics in cloud environments
• Big Data in clouds
• Storage management and clouds

User Productivity with Cloud Computing

• Collaboration using cloud computing
• Enhancing accessibility through cloud services
• Workloads and Use Cases of cloud for education and research

Cloud Computing Implementation Strategies

• Building Green Data Centers
• Data Center migration to cloud computing
• Energy Management Considerations
• Integration and workflow of cloud services
• Impact on IT Infrastructure Management with cloud computing
• IT Service and Relationship Management (Business and IT)
• Service Oriented Architecture and cloud computing
• Software development services with cloud computing

Research Computing in the Cloud

• High Performance Computing and cloud computing
• Research computing models using cloud computing

Pedagogical Impact of Cloud Computing

• Impact on learning and teaching with cloud computing
• Delivering educational resources via a cloud
• New and Innovative Pedagogical Approaches with cloud
• Service Sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME)

Standards and Open Source Strategies for Cloud Computing

• Innovations in IP (especially as relates to Open Source)
• Open standards for cloud computing

Systems Management in a Cloud Computing Environment

• Service level agreements and clouds
• Security, identity, trust and privacy on clouds
• Software licensing in education for cloud computing

Call for papers

Papers / presentations proposals on the implementation and research issues associated with the virtualization technology, management and security policies and user applications that underlie or utilize solutions like the Virtual Computing Lab and SPSS Decision Management for Education are also encouraged, as here is a significant interest in these areas within the academy presently.

Important dates

October 14, 2011
Call for papers; website open for acceptance

February 3, 2012
Deadline - abstracts for papers/posters due

REVISED: March 2, 2012
Acceptance notification to authors/presenters of papers/posters for conference

REVISED: March 23, 2012
Full papers due for preliminary proceedings
* If a problem in meeting this date, please notify Andy Rindos: rindos@us.ibm.com

April 19-20, 2012
ICA CON 2012 in Research Triangle Park, NC

Review Procedure

All submissions will be peer reviewed by appropriate domain experts among those listed on the Program Committee.. The reviewers know that the ICA CON 2012 conference aims to produce innovative as well as quality work, and that authors of selected papers / presentations will be selected and invited to have work published in a special issue of the International Journal of Cloud Computing / IJCC.

Submission Format

Submissions should follow the guidelines below:

• Abstract of 500 to 750 words should be submitted. Initially, a full paper submission is not required. Upon acceptance of the proposed abstract by the review committee, a full paper submission not exceeding 5,000 to 7,000 words will be expected. (Papers further selected for IJCC publication can subsequently be longer)
• Anonymized (remove author names and affiliations) for the review process.
• To facilitate the subsequent publication of selected manuscripts, we suggest you keep in mind the guidelines of the International Journal of Cloud Computing: Submissions guidelines

Submission implies willingness of at least one author to register and present at the conference.

To submit
To submit your extended abstract for consideration, please do so by clicking here and using the following tool:

For authors, reviewers and committee members