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Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms
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Call for Book Chapters
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Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in
the ICT industry. Several IT vendors are promising to offer
computation, data/storage, and application hosting services, and
provide coverage in several continents, offering Service-Level
Agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime promises for their
services. While these 'clouds' are the natural evolution of
traditional clusters and data centers, they are distinguished by
following a 'utility' pricing model where customers are charged
based on their utilisation of computational resources, storage and
transfer of data. They offer subscription-based access to
infrastructure, platforms, and applications that are popularly
termed as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a
Service), and SaaS (Software as a Service). Whilst these emerging
services have reduced the cost of computation, application hosting
and content storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude,
there is significant complexity involved in ensuring applications,
services and data can scale when needed to ensure consistent and
reliable operation under peak loads.

The primary purpose of this book is to capture the
state-of-the-art in Cloud Computing technologies and applications.
The book will also aim to identify potential research directions
and technologies that will facilitate creation a global
market-place of cloud computing services supporting scientific,
industrial, business, and consumer applications. We expect the
book to serve as a reference for larger audience such as systems
architects, practitioners, developers, new researchers and
graduate level students. It is expected that one of the
prestigious international publishers (e.g., Wiley or Prentice
Hall) will publish the proposed book.

Topics for potential chapters include, but are not limited to:

- Novel architectural models for cloud computing
- Service and Utility-oriented platforms for Cloud computing
- Types of Clouds and Services
- Security, Privacy, and Trust management issues
- Cloud Economics and Business Models
- Resource management and scheduling
- QoS (Quality of Service) and Resource Allocation
- Virtual Machines Provisioning and migration services
- Support for Market-Aware Cloud Services
- Pricing Schemes and Risk Management
- SLA (Service Level Agreements) negotiation and management
- Accounting, Billing and Verification Infrastructure
- New programming models for cloud computing
- Tools and technologies building different types of Clouds
- Interoperability between Clouds
- Internetworking between Clouds (InterClouds)
- Building and Deploying Social Network Applications on Clouds
- Portability of applications and data between different cloud providers
- Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud
- Performance monitoring for cloud applications
- Content Delivery Networks using Storage Clouds
- Building and Hosting Internet Service Applications on Cloud
- Scientific computing in the cloud
- Workflows for cloud computing
- Experience with Building and Using Cloud Infrastructure
- Legal issues in Cloud Computing
- Business Computing on Clouds
- Consumer computing on Clouds
- Novel applications of cloud computing

Important Dates
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Chapter Proposal: You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal
describing the topic of your chapter. The proposal should include
the chapter organization, anticipated number of pages of the final
manuscript and brief biography of authors. We plan to follow the
timeline given below:

* Proposal Deadline: 30th June 2009
* Notification of proposal acceptance: 30th July 2009
* Full draft chapter submission: 15th Oct 2009
* Chapter review report to authors: 15th Nov 2009
* Final version submission: 15th Dec 2009

However, early submission is highly appreciated as the editors
would like to have progressive dialogue and work with prospective
authors to bring out a book of wide appeal.

If we receive more than one proposal for a chapter on the same
topic, the editors may request authors to collaborate to develop
an integrated chapter.

Manuscript Submission
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Each accepted chapter should be about 20-35 A4 pages. We expect to
deliver CRC of the book to the publisher, a MS Word template will
be provided later.

Primary Editor's Contact Details:
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Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Email: raj@...
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