CCSA workshop has been formed to promote research and development activities focused on enabling and scaling scientific applications using distributed computing paradigms, such as cluster, Grid, and Cloud Computing. To address the growing needs of both applications and Cloud computing paradigm, CCSA brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world to share their experiences, to focus on modelling, executing, and monitoring scientific applications on Clouds.

In this workshop, we are interested in receiving innovative work on enabling and scaling computing systems to support the execution of scientific applications. The target audience include researchers and industry practitioners who are interested in distributed systems, particularly focusing on scaling of applications using Cloud computing.

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

• Big data analytics on Clouds

• Enabling applications using distributed systems

• Architectural Models for scaling of applications

• Novel applications for cloud computing, including games and social networks

• Novel cloud programming models

• Innovative cloud service models

• Support for scalable and elastic cloud services

• Cloud support for mobile applications and Content Delivery Networks

• Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud

• Performance monitoring for cloud applications

• Cloud use-case studies

• Scientific computing in the cloud

• Business computing in the cloud

• Social computing in the cloud

Authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit the revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in special issues of well-known international journals, such as:

• IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (IF=2.46)

• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (IF=0.845)

• International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)