International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC)

An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Shadi Aljawarneh (Isra University, Jordan) and Hong Cai (IBM China Software Development Lab, China)

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DOI: 10.4018/IJCAC, ISSN: 2156-1834, EISSN: 2156-1826

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Aljawarneh, Shadi and Hong Cai. "International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC)." (2011). Web. 24 May. 2012. doi:10.4018/IJCAC

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Aljawarneh, S., & Cai, H. (2011). International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC). doi:10.4018/IJCAC

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The International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC) focuses on practical applications and the theoretical foundations of Cloud Computing, through presentation of the most up-to-date advances and new directions of research in the field from various scholarly, professional, and practitioner perspectives. An interdisciplinary look at Cloud Computing, including engineering and business aspects, IJCAC covers and encourages high-quality research exposition on such topics as virtualization technology, utility computing, SaaS, and Grid Computing, as well as web services, SOA, Web 2.0, and Services Computing.

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Mission

The main mission of the International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC) is to be the premier and authoritative source for the most innovative scholarly and professional research and information pertaining to aspects of Cloud Applications and Computing. IJCAC presents advancements in the state-of-the-art, standards, and practices of Cloud Computing, in an effort to identify emerging trends that will ultimately define the future of “the Cloud.” Topics such as Cloud Infrastructure Services, Cloud Platform Services, Cloud Application Services (SaaS), Cloud Business Services, Cloud Human Services are discussed through original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, and conference reports for reference use by academics and practitioners alike.

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Topics Covered

Application

Cloud based industry applications, such as cloud based search, cloud based e-business and mobile commerce, wireless cloud

Architecture

Cloud middleware and toolkits
Cloud reference architectures and service models

Business

Cloud computing economics including ROI, TCO, purchasing models, pricing models of cloud computing
Scientific, industrial and social implications of cloud computing

Cloud engineering

Cloud programming models, such as MapReduce/e.g., Hadoop, coordination for distributed computing/e.g., ZooKeeper, Web scale NOSQL database/e.g., Cassandra
Practice of using open source cloud computing technologies
Method, model, and process for creating and deploying virtual images, defining the patterns and parts for application middleware and applications
Technologies to support high availability, scalability, and caching to enhance runtime in cloud platform

Green

Technologies for green data centers (e.g., algorithms and technologies that could help save power in data centers)

Management and optimization

Cloud service management
Monitoring and automatic scaling of cloud computing resources
Optimization, dynamic sharing and provisioning of virtual resources such as virtual machines, virtual storage, and VLAN
Standards
Cloud computing standards (such as those derived from OVF,)
Interoperability among format of different virtual machines (e.g., VMware, Xen, KVM)

Technologies and services

Architecting cloud computing with enabling technologies, such as Web services and semantic Web
IaaS technologies, especially virtual technologies and their application in dynamic resource provisioning
Key characteristics of cloud programming, such as agility, cost, device and location independence, reliability, security, sustainability, scalability, and maintenance
Open API and service orchestration on cloud platform
Other cloud services (connectivity services, and persistence services, including NOSQL technologies)
PaaS technologies, especially cloud platform management technologies including fast provisioning of complex topologies
SaaS technologies (such as multi-tenancy, management of applications and tenants in multi-tenant environment)
Theoretical model of cloud computing
Workload characters and performance evaluation and modeling of cloud computing

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Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Shadi Aljawarneh
Shadi Aljawarneh is a researcher and an assistant professor, Software Engineering, at Isra University. He holds a BSc degree in Computer Science from Jordan Yarmouk University, a MSc degree in Information Technology from Western Sydney University and a PhD in Software Engineering from Northumbria University-England. He is currently assistant professor in faculty of IT in Isra University, Jordan, where he has worked since 2008. His research is centered in web and network security, e-learning, bioinformatics, Cloud Computing and ICT fields. Aljawarneh has presented at and been on the organizing committees for a number of international conferences and is a board member of the International Community for ACM, Jordan ACM Chapter, ACS and others. A number of his papers have been selected as "Best Papers" in conferences and journals.

Hong Cai
Hong Cai has been a senior software engineer at IBM China Software Development Lab (IBM CDL) since 2008. He is the technical lead of Cloud/SaaS incubation projects in IBM CDL. His current research areas include Commerce as a Service, SaaS multi-tenancy, Cloud Platform as a Service. Before that, he worked at IBM China Research Lab from 1997-2008 as technical lead of various projects. He was IBM China’s technical lead of promoting Service Science, Management and Engineering from 2005-2007. Dr. Cai received his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 1997. He is currently Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing and Editorial Review Board Member of the International Journal of Web Services Research.

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Editorial Board

Associate Editors
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Anna Goy, Universita' di Torino, Italy
Chun Ming Hu, BeiHang University, China
Ryan K. L. Ko, HP Labs Singapore, Singapore
Maik A. Lindner, SAP Research, UK
Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA
Kwang Mong Sim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Yuzhong Sun, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Rama Prasad V. Vaddella, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, India
Qian Xiang Wang, Peking University, China
Song Wu, HuaZhong University of Science and Technology, China

International Editorial Review Board
Mohd Abdul Ahad, Jamia Hamdard, India
Sanjay P. Ahuja, University of North Florida, USA
Faisal Alkhateeb, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Shadi Al-Masadeh, Applied Science University, Jordan
Junaid Arshad, University of Leeds, UK
Juan Caceres, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Spain
Jeffrey Chang, London South Bank University, UK
Kamal Dahbur, NYIT, Jordan
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, France
Seny Kamara, Microsoft, USA
Gregory Katsaros, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Sarat Maharana, MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
Saurabh Mukherjee, Banasthali University, India
Giovanna Petrone, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Vanessa Ratten, Deakin University, Australia
Jin Shao, Peking University, China
Deshmukh Sudarshan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Luis Miguel Vaquero Gonzalez, HP, Spain
Yongqiang Zou, Tencent Corporation, China

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