Call for Ph.D. Consortium

A Ph.D. consortium will be held in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2018 in Nicosia, Cyprus. The Ph.D. consortium aims to provide an opportunity for Ph.D. students in the early stage of their dissertation and Master students planning to advance their study in a doctoral program to present their research results and receive feedback from experienced scholars and industry experts.

We invite papers on any topic related to a broad set of research and application areas covered by IEEE CloudCom.

Topics of interest of CloudCom 2018 include (but are not limited to):

  • Architecture, Storage and Virtualization
  • Cloud Services and Applications
  • Security, Privacy and Trust
  • Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud

The detailed list of relevant topics can be found here.

Accepted Ph.D. consortium papers will be published in the Proceedings of IEEE CloudCom 2018 and archived in IEEE Xplore.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair submission system.

Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format. The page limit is four pages.

PhD Consortium Papers chair

Important Dates

PhD Consortium Papers submission 31 August 2018
Notification of acceptance 14 September 2018
Camera Ready Paper 08 October 2018
Authors registration deadline 15 October 2018