DOA-Cloud and Trusted Computing 2014 is the fourth International Symposium on Cloud Computing, Trusted Computing and Secure Virtual Infrastructures, organized as a component conference of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops.
 
Current and future software needs remain focused towards the development and deployment of large and complex intelligent and networked information systems, required for the internet- and intranet-based systems in organizations, and cover a very wide range of application domains as well as technology and research issues. This has found realization through Cloud Computing. Vital element in such networked information systems are the notions of Trust, Security, Privacy and Risk.

This conference therefore is devoted to research in the topics of:
•    Cloud Computing
•    Trust, Security, Privacy and Risk

It also allows a special focus on the intersection of these two broad areas bringing together experts from the two communities to focus on the vital issue of trust, security, privacy and risk in Cloud Computing.
 
TOPICS OF INTEREST

For 2014, the following themes to be addressed by novel research have been identified:

Cloud Data Management:

•    Database as a Service, Multi-tenancy, Data management and analytics as a service
•    Elasticity and Scalability for Cloud Data Management Systems
•    Virtualization and Cloud databases, Storage Structures and Indexing
•    Big Data, Frameworks and Systems for Parallel and Distributed Computing
•    Data Science and Scalable Machine Learning
•    Resource and Workload Management in Cloud Databases
•    High Availability and Reliability
•    Transactional Models for Cloud Databases, Consistency and Replication
•    New Protocols, Interfaces and Data Models for Cloud Databases
•    Service Level Agreements
•    Interoperability between Clouds

Cloud Computing Infrastructures and Architectures:

•    Cloud Resource provisioning with QoS Guarantees
•    Virtualized Computing Infrastructures
•    Datacenter Architecture and Management
•    Cloud Operation and Resource Management
•    Cloud Performance Modeling and Benchmarks
•    Formal methods and Tools for Cloud computing
•    Infrastructures for Social Computing and Networking

Cloud Computing Applications:

•    Service Level Agreements and Performance Measurement
•    New Parallel / Concurrent Programming Models for Cloud Computing
•    Reliability, Fault Tolerance, Quality-of-Service
•    Service-Oriented Architectures, RESTful Services in Cloud Environments
•    Pervasive / Ubiquitous Computing in the Cloud
•    Large Scale Cloud Applications, Reality Mining
•    Clouds and Social Media, Network and Link Analysis
•    Cloud Business Applications and Case Studies
 
Trust, Security, Privacy and Risk

•    Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications
•    Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols
•    Network Security
•    Identity and Trust Management
•    Trust Evaluation and Prediction in Service oriented Environments
•    Security Models and Quantifications
•    Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, PaaS, etc.
•    Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security
•    DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection
•    Context-aware Access Control
•    Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software
•    Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War
•    Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems
•    Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing
•    Reliable Computing and Trusted Computing
•    Wireless Emergency and Security Systems
•    Multimedia Security Issues over Mobile and Wireless Networks
•    Software Architectures and Design for Trusted Emerging Systems
•    Risk evaluation and Management
•    Privacy
•    Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment

Security and Trust in Cloud Computing:

•    Algorithms and Computations on Encrypted Data
•    Cloud Trust, Security, Privacy and Confidentiality
•    Cloud Access Control and Authentication
•    Privilege Management Infrastructure
•    Networks of Trust, Clouds of Trust
•    Trusted Computing in virtualised environments
•    End-to-end security over complex cloud supply chain
 
MOTIVATION

Distributed computation is undergoing a radical paradigm shift, where users and developers alike are becoming fully decoupled from the technology infrastructure where their applications are executed. Computations details are abstracted by an increasingly deep virtualization layer, veiling distributed execution by means of the same "cloud" that supports it. Together, the notion of Cloud Computing and the related one of service-orientation are enabling new business models based on the seamless provision of dynamically scalable, virtualized resources as services made available “over the cloud”, to be accessed via a web browser.

For this vision to be realized, a number of problems need to be solved, involving the nuts-and-bolts of virtualization as well as the reliability, scalability, security and distribution transparency of cloud-based computations, and the abstractions leading their development (e.g. service composition versus on-line architectural transformations). Along with the rapid evolution of these fields, the Cloud vision requires a huge research and development effort in the underlying technologies, whose advances will broaden the scope of the Cloud's applicability.

DOA-Cloud and Trusted Computing 2014will investigate all issues related to the potential of the Cloud notion as a metaphor for the future Internet Services, providing semantically rich service descriptions and seamless interfaces to (virtual images of) locally held devices and other technologies such as the traditional Web, distributed datacenters and peer-to-peer systems.