Joint Extended Call for papers: CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website: http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, 1~3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website:(http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/sca2012) Key dates: Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012 Authors Notification: July 30, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2012 Registration Due: August 18, 2012 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing): Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Future Generation Computer Systems; or International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications): Selected papers will be published in international SCI-indexed high quality journals: World Wide Web Journal; The Computer Journal; or Journal of Systems and Software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Volumn, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud · Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud · Big Data mining and analytics · Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud · Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud · MapReduce for Big Data processing · Distributed file storage of Big Data on Cloud · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Peter Brezany, University of Vienna , Austria Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Program Vice-Chairs Ivona Brandic,Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): * Fundamentals of social computing * Modelling of social behaviour * Social network analysis and mining * Computational models of social simulation * Web 2.0 and semantic web * Innovative HCI and touch-screen models * Modelling of social conventions and social contexts * Social cognition and social intelligence * Social media analytics and intelligence * Group formation and evolution * Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts * Social system design and architectures * Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology * Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling * Handheld/mobile social computing * Service science and service oriented interaction design * Cultural patterns and representation * Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process * Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets * Connected e-health in social networks * Social policy and government management * Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum * Business social software systems * Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments * Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction * Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Honorary General Chairs Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea General Chairs Irwin King, the Chinese University of HongKong, Hong Kong Wolfgan Nejdl, L3S, Germany Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China General Vice Chairs V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea Program Chairs Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Tim Butcher, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Akiyo Nadamoto, Konan University, Japan Tiejian Luo, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA