CLOSER 2026: Call for Papers

The International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) focuses on the highly important area of Cloud Computing, inspired by latest advances in infrastructure, operations, and services, with a strong link to Services Science. The conference explores how Cloud Computing can catalyze creativity and produce competitive advantage, covering topics related to 'Externalization of IT', such as anything as a service (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), On Demand delivery, outsourcing, and edge cloud.

Conference Areas

1. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

   • API Management
   • Virtualization Technologies
   • Containers, Containerization and Enablement
   • Container Composition and Orchestration
   • Container Performance
   • Microservices
   • Multi-Cloud Solutions Enablement
   • Cloud Quality and Performance
   • Cloud Optimization and Automation
   • Cloud Management and Operations
   • High Performance Cloud Computing
   • Cloud Migration
   • Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements
   • Function-as-a-Service and Serverless Computing

2. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS

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

3. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS

   • Development Methods for Cloud Applications
   • XaaS
   • Cloud Services
   • Cloud Data Centers, Storage and Networking Technologies
   • Cloud Workflow Management Systems
   • Cloud Solution Design Patterns
   • Native Cloud Applications
   • Cloud Application Architectures
   • Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
   • Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring
   • Cloud Middleware Frameworks
   • Digital Twinning
   • Blockchains
   • Metaverse, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
   • Web 3.0 / Spatial Web
   • Mobile Cloud Architectures and Models
   • Mobile Cloud Networking
   • Cloud Cost Analysis

4. EDGE CLOUD AND FOG COMPUTING

   • Edge Cloud Orchestration
   • Cluster Management
   • Edge Cloud Network Management
   • Edge Cloud Data Management
   • IoT-Cloud Integration
   • AI-enabled Edge Cloud
   • Multi-access Edge Cloud
   • Cloud Continuum

5. SERVICES

   • Service Modeling and Specification
   • Service Monitoring and Control
   • Service Ecosystems
   • Service Simulation
   • Service Performance Analytics
   • Analytics and Services
   • Business Process Management and Web Services
   • Service Innovation
   • Service Lifecycle Management
   • Service-Oriented Architecture
   • Service Management
   • Service Platforms
   • Enterprise Architectures and Services
   • Industrial Applications of Services Science
   • Internet of Services
   • Microservices: Automation, Deployment and Management, Resource Allocation Elasticity, Service State and Resilience

6. CLOUD SECURITY AND PRIVACY

   • Container Security and Isolation
   • Security, Privacy and Compliance Management
   • Privacy, Security and Trust
   • Access Control
   • Services Security and Reliability
   • (Multi Factor) Authorization
   • Privacy and Privacy Assurance
   • (Decentralized) Trust
   • Intrusion Detection

Keynote Speakers

• Aaron Ding, TU Delft, Netherlands
• Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS CNRS, France
• Philipp Leitner, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Paper Submission

Authors can submit their work as a complete paper (Regular Paper or Position Paper) or an abstract. Accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings.

• Regular Paper: Represents completed and validated research.
• Position Paper: Portrays a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion.
• Submissions must be in English, carefully checked for grammar and spelling.
• Papers should clearly indicate their technical/scientific contribution and applicability.
• Double-blind paper evaluation method: Authors must NOT include author details, acknowledgments, or any reference that may disclose identity.
• Only original papers should be submitted. Adhere to INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism.
• All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS.
• Follow instructions and templates found under Guidelines and Templates.

Publications

• All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings with an ISBN reference, on paper and digital support.
• SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef, and papers are given a DOI.
• Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI, and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
• A short list of best papers will be invited for a post-conference special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science Journal.
• Revised and extended versions of presented papers are planned for publication with Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending).

Important Dates (2026)

• Regular Paper Submission: January 5, 2026
• Position/Regular Paper Submission: February 17, 2026
• Workshop Proposal: January 20, 2026
• Special Session Proposal: January 20, 2026
• Tutorial Proposal: April 10, 2026
• Demo Proposal: April 10, 2026
• Panel Proposal: April 10, 2026

Note: All dates refer to AOE time, i.e. "Anywhere on Earth".

Secretariat

• Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C, 2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
• Tel.: +351 265 520 185
• Fax: +351 265 520 186
• Email: closer.secretariat@insticc.org
• Web: https://closer.scitevents.org

Venue

• Location: Vila Galé Porto hotel, Porto, Portugal

Chairs

• Conference Chair: Maarten van Steen, Digital Society Institute, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Program Chair: Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Program Committee Members

• Luca Abeni, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
• Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Robert Morris University, United States
• Marco Anisetti, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
• Atakan Aral, University of Vienna, Austria
• Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Claudio Ardagna, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• Benjamin Aziz, Buckinghamshire New University, United Kingdom
• Sadoon Azizi, Department of Computer Engineering and IT, University of Kurdistan, Iran, Islamic Republic of
• Marcos Barreto, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil
• Nicola Bena, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• Filippo Berto, University of Milan, Italy
• Luiz F. Bittencourt, IC/UNICAMP, Brazil
• Agustin C. Caminero, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
• Roberto Canonico, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
• Manuel Isidoro Capel-Tuñón, University of Granada, Spain
• Eddy Caron, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
• Thierry Coupaye, Orange, France
• Dimitrios Dechouniotis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Atakan Dogan, Eskisehir Technical University, Turkey
• Patricia Takako Endo, Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil
• Somchart Fugkeaw, Thammasat University, Thailand
• Vinicius Cardoso Garcia, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
• Martin Gilje Gilje Jaatun, Software Engineering, Safety and Security, SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway
• Sukhpal Singh Gill, Queen Many University of London, United Kingdom
• Nils Gruschka, University of Oslo, Norway
• Marco Guazzone, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
• Carlos Guerrero, Universitat De Les Illes Balears, Spain
• Wolfgang John, Ericsson Research, Sweden
• Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Eleni Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Attila Kertesz, University of Szeged, Hungary
• Sunirmal Khatua, University of Calcutta, India
• Nane Kratzke, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Adam Krechowicz, Kielce University of Technology, Poland
• Riccardo Lancellotti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Xiaodong Liu, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
• Shijun Liu, School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, China
• Thomas Loruenser, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Joseph P. Loyall, BBN Technologies, United States
• Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece
• Andre Miede, Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes, Germany
• Antonio Montieri, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
• Kamran Munir, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
• Juan Manuel Murillo Rodríguez, Department of Information Technology and Telematic Systems Engineering, University of Extremadura, Spain
• Hidemoto Nakada, Health Data Science Division, Juntendo University, Japan
• Matteo Nardelli, Bank of Italy, Italy
• Joan Navarro, La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain
• Philippe Navaux, UFRGS - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Michael A. Palis, Rutgers University, United States
• Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Christian Prehofer, DENSO Automotive Germany, Germany
• Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
• Antonio Puliafito, Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy
• Gleb Radchenko, Silicon Austria Labs, Austria
• António Miguel Rosado da Cruz, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
• Gabriele Russo Russo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Richard O. Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Frank Siqueira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Ellis Solaiman, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
• Jacopo Soldani, Università di Pisa, Italy
• Gaurav Somani, Central University of Rajasthan, India
• Georgios L. Stavrinides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden
• Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
• Gilbert Tekli, Nobatek, France, Lebanon
• Orazio Tomarchio, University of Catania, Italy
• Ashok Kumar Turuk, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India
• Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Robert Alexander van Engelen, Independent Researcher, United States
• Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy
• Yiannis Verginadis, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece
• Monica Vitali, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Chrysostomos Zeginis, ICS-FORTH, Greece
• Christian Zirpins, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany