Hi, We are pleased to announce that our recent paper "Model-Driven Configuration Management of Cloud Applications with OCCI" was accepted at the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER'18). Title: Model-Driven Configuration Management of Cloud Applications with OCCI Abstract: To tackle the cloud-provider lock-in, the Open Grid Forum (OGF) is developing the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), a standardized interface for managing any kind of cloud resources. Besides the OCCI Core model, which defines the basic modeling elements for cloud resources, the OGF also defines extensions that reflect the requirements of different cloud service levels, such as IaaS and PaaS. However, so far the OCCI PaaS extension is very coarse grained and lacks of supporting use cases and implementations. Especially, it does not define how the components of the application itself can be managed. In this paper, we present a model-driven framework that extends the OCCI PaaS extension and is able to use different configuration management tools to manage the whole lifecycle of cloud applications. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach by presenting four different use cases and prototypical implementations for three different configuration management tools. The camera-ready version is available at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01678945/document. For more information, have a look at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01678945. Best regards Philippe Merle -- Philippe Merle Inria researcher http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~pmerle/