The program will include invited keynotes, technical papers, position papers, workshops and a technology showcase. The technical papers portion of the conference program will feature experience reports and original research papers. The technology showcase will feature poster presentations and demonstrations on cloud computing research or implementations in progress. Selected papers from conference proceedings will be published as special issues of the International Journal of Cloud Computing / IJCC . 

ICA CON 2015 will be an excellent venue for presenting original work, exchanging new ideas, embracing cloud technologies, sharing results and experiences, and networking with other leading institutions who are already implementing cloud solutions.

Call for Papers  

We invite submission of papers and 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

• Business Intelligence for education and research purposes using cloud computing
• Natural language processing, analytics and predictive analytics in cloud environments
• Big Data in clouds
• Storage management and clouds 
• Mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) support in clouds

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

• 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)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) 
• Software development services with cloud computing

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

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

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

Important dates  

December 10, 2014 
Call for papers/posters; website open for submissions

March 6, 2015
Deadline - short papers (approx. 2 pages)/poster descriptions due

March 27, 2015
Acceptance notification to authors/presenters of papers/posters for conference

April 25, 2015
Full papers due for preliminary proceedings

May 20-22, 2015
ICA CON 2015 in Budapest, Hungary 

Review Procedure  

All submissions will be peer reviewed by appropriate domain experts among those listed on the Program Reviewers Committee. The reviewers know that the ICA CON 2015 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 special issues of the International Journal of Cloud Computing / IJCC.

Submission Format  

Paper and poster submissions should follow the guidelines below:

• For paper submissions, provide an initial short paper (extended abstract) up to 2 pages in length; final conference paper submissions should not exceed 10 pages (selected IJCC submissions can be longer)
• For poster submissions, provide an abstract up to 2 paragraphs in length 
• Anonymized (remove author names and affiliations) for the review process.
• To facilitate the subsequent publication of selected manuscripts, we suggest you check with the guidelines used by the International Journal of Cloud Computing at the outset: Submissions guidelines (http://www.    inderscience.com/mapper.php?    id=31)