Topics of interest of CloudCom 2014 include, but are not limited to: Architecture · Cloud Services models · Cloud services reference models and standardization · Intercloud architecture models · Cloud federation and hybrid cloud infrastructure · Cloud services provisioning and management · Cloud services delivery models, campus integration and “last mile” issues · Networking technologies for data centers, intracloud and interclouds · Cloud powered services design · Programming models and systems/tools · Cloud system design with FPGA, GPU, APU · Monitoring, management and maintenance · Operational, economic and business models · Green data centers · Business processes, compliance and certification · Dynamic resource provisioning Big Data · Machine learning · Data mining · Approximate and scalable statistical methods · Graph algorithms · Querying and search · Data Lifecycle Management for Big Data · Frameworks, tools and their · Composition · Storage and analytic architectures · Performance and debugging · Hardware optimizations for Big Data · Data Flow management and scheduling Security and Privacy · Accountability and Audit in clouds · Authentication and authorization · Cloud integrity and binding issues · Cryptography for/ in the cloud · Hypervisor security · Identity/ Security as a Service · Prevention of data loss or leakage · Secure, interoperable identity in the Cloud · Security and privacy in clouds · Trust and credential management · Trusted Computing in Cloud Computing · Usability and security Services and Applications · Security services on the Cloud · Data management applications and services · Scheduling and application workflows on the Cloud · Cloud application benchmarks · Cloud-based services and protocols · Cloud model and framework · Cloud-based storage and file systems · Cloud scalability and performance · Fault-tolerance of cloud services and applications · Application development and debugging tools · Business models and economics of Cloud services · Services for improving Cloud application availability · Use cases of Cloud applications Virtualization · Server, storage, network virtualization · Resource monitoring · Virtual desktop · Resilience, fault tolerance · Modeling and performance evaluation · Security aspects · Enabling disaster recovery, job migration · Energy efficient issues HPC on Cloud · Load balancing for HPC clouds · Middleware framework for HPC clouds · Scalable scheduling for HPC clouds · HPC as a Service · Performance Modeling and Management · Programming models for HPC clouds · HPC cloud applications ; Use cases, experiences with HPC clouds · Cloud deployment systems for HPC clouds · GPU on the Cloud IoT and Mobile on Cloud · IoT cloud architectures, models · Cloud-based dynamic composition of IoT · Cloud-based context-aware IoT · Mobile cloud architectures and models · Green mobile cloud computing · Resource management in mobile cloud environments · Cloud support for mobility-aware networking protocols · Multimedia applications in mobile cloud environments · Security, privacy and trust in mobile IoT clouds · Cloud-based mobile networks and applications General Track Other emerging and new topics in the cloud, such as, · Software defined systems · Economics and market mechanisms · Renewable energy usage in data centers · Benchmarking and performance studies