Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS
2. SERVICES SCIENCE
3. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS
4. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
5. DATA AS A SERVICE

AREA 1: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS

• Cloud Application Portability
• Cloud Computing Architecture
• Cloud Delivery Models
• Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud
• Cloud Education
• Cloud Interoperability
• Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance
• Cloud Scenarios
• Cloud Standards
• QoS for Applications on Clouds
• Energy Management
• Resource Management
• Privacy, Security and Trust
• Federated Cloud

AREA 2: SERVICES SCIENCE

• Business Process Management and Web Services
• Business Services Realized by IT Services
• Cloud Brokering
• Cloud Cost Analysis
• Data and Service Analytics
• Enterprise Architectures and Services
• Cloud Workflow Management Systems
• Industrial Applications of Services Science
• Information and Service Economy
• Internet of Services
• Model-driven Web Service Engineering
• Semantic and Service Web
• Microservices: Atomation Deployment and Management
• Microservices: Resource Allocation Elasticity
• Microservices: Service State and Resilience
• Service Discovery
• Service Innovation
• Service Lifecycle Management
• Service Modeling and Specification
• Service Monitoring and Control
• Service-oriented Architecture
• Services Security and Reliability
• Web Services
• Service Society
• Service Management
• Service Platforms

AREA 3: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS

• Access Control
• Cloud Solution Design Patterns
• Cloud for Enterprise Business Transformation
• Cloud Application Architectures
• Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
• Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
• Cloud Economics
• Cloud Middleware Frameworks
• Engineering Mobile Clouds and Mobile-based Systems
• Development Methods for Cloud Applications
• XaaS
• Cloud Services
• Mobile Cloud Computing Models, Infrastructures, and Approaches

AREA 4: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

• API Management
• Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement
• Cloud Quality and Performance
• Cloud Optimization and Automation
• Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition
• Cloud Management and Operations
• Green and Energy Management
• High Performance Cloud Computing
• Cloud Migration
• Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
• Performance Development and Management
• Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management
• Virtualization Technologies
• Container schedulers
• Application containers

AREA 5: DATA AS A SERVICE

• Big Data Cloud Services
• On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) services
• On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) services
• NOSQL services: store, visualization, processing
• Time Series Services: Databases, dashboards