The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2014) will be held at Imperial College, London September 8-12, 2014. The organizers of CAC 2014 call for proposals for workshops to be held with CAC 2014. The workshops will run on September 8 (tentatively), preceding the main conference. The workshops aim to explore special topics or emerging research themes and provide international forums for scientists and engineers to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results.


Submission Guidelines and Publication:

Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, possibly including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, fully peer-reviewed papers, or some combination. Workshops could be scheduled for half-day or full-day, depending on interest, space constraints, and organizer preference. Organizers should design workshops for approximately 20-40 participants, to balance impact and effective discussion. The proceedings of the workshops program will be published, as the CAC 2014 main conference, by IEEE. Please send a workshop proposal to the CAC 2014 Workshops Chair, Xiaolin (Andy) Li, at andyli@ece.ufl.edu. Please do not hesitate to send emails to the workshops chair if you have any questions.

The workshop proposal should include following information::

• The complete title and acronym of the proposed workshop
• A description (0.5-1 page) of the theme of the workshop
• A description (one paragraph) of the relation between the theme of the workshop and of CAC
• A list of topics of interest
• Workshop organizer(s): name, affiliation, address, e-mail, with the indication of the main contact person
• Short bio of the main workshop organizers
• Draft Call for paper of the workshop with tentative list of program committee members if available
• Data about previous offerings of the workshop (if any), including the attendance, the numbers of papers or presentations submitted and accepted, and the links to the corresponding websites
• A publicity plan for attracting submissions and attendees

Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the approval notification. Papers submitted to each workshop should be original, and, be peer reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop (if available). An accepted paper must be registered and presented at the conference venue and must be limited to 8 pages in IEEE format.

Due to publication deadlines, workshops should operate within roughly the following timeline: papers due April 5th, notification by May 5th, and final paper due by May 15th, 2014.


Important Dates

Workshop Proposals Due: Mar. 31, 2014
Notifications: Apr. 15, 2014