Call for Book Chapters - Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures
Interested in submitting chapters for the book? For more information please contact the editors:
- Dr Zaigham Mahmood - z.mahmood@derby.ac.uk
- Dr Richard Hill -
r.hill@derby.ac.uk.
*This call is now closed*
Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures
To be published in "Computer Communications and Networks" book series by Springer, 2011.
With the development of data, applications and technical architectures deploying paradigms such as Service Oriented and Grid Infrastructures, Cloud Computing is becoming a reality for large enterprises.
Whilst Cloud Computing promises benefits such as reduced costs, on-demand availability of agile services and re-allocation of costs from capital investment to operational expenditure, there are also many challenges that hinder the full realisation of the potential that Cloud infrastructures promise to offer.
It is important that the necessary guidance is available to enterprise architects and business leaders to enable them to successfully utilise the relevant technologies to align the enterprise IT strategies with their business mission and long term objectives including developing appropriate strategies for Cloud infrastructures to implement enterprise architectures.
The objective of the book
In summary, the objectives of the book are to:
- capture the state-of-the-art in Enterprise Architecture approaches with respect to Cloud Computing models, frameworks, technologies and applications.
- identify potential research directions and technologies to facilitate the creation of a global market-place of cloud computing architectural solutions that support business and Information Technology alignment through consumer applications.
- provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings.
- clarify the present fast-advancing approaches and somewhat confusing literature on the current state of the art and knowledge in the subject area.
- advance the understanding and the newly emerging field of Enterprise Cloud Computing.
Target audience
The target audience includes:
- Enterprise architects and business analysts
- Business leaders and IT infrastructure managers
- Software developers, network specialists and practitioners of enterprise computing
- Lecturers and tutors of Enterprise Cloud Architecture
- Researchers and university level students.
Topics
The intension is that the book has six sections as follows:
- Section 1: Cloud Computing: Concepts, Principles and Technologies
- Section 2: Enterprise Data, Applications and Technical Architectures
- Section 3: Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures
- Section 4: Enterprise Cloud Computing: Issues and Limitations
- Section 5: Enterprise Cloud Computing: Governance and Control
- Section 6: Case Studies.
Submission information
Academics, researchers and industry practitioners are invited to submit two page manuscript proposals in the form of an abstract detailing the background, the objective and structure of their proposed chapter and abroad indication of the subject matter to be covered - by 15 Oct 2010.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 1 Nov 2010 and will be given instructions and guidelines for full chapter preparation. Full chapters are due by 20 Dec 2010 and should be about 10,000 words or 15-20 pages in length.
All chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind basis: emphasis will be on relevance, quality and originality. The book is scheduled to be published in the "Computer Communications and Networks" book series by Springer in 2011.
Proposals and final chapters (WORD or PDF format) should be sent to any of the following editors:
- Dr Zaigham Mahmood, University of Derby
Email: z.mahmood@derby.ac.uk - Dr Richard Hill, University of Derby
Email: r.hill@derby.ac.uk.
Important dates
- Proposal submission deadline: 15 October 2010 (extended)
- Notification of proposal acceptance: 1 November 2010
- Full chapter submission deadline: 20 December 2010
- Notification of full chapter acceptance: 31 January 2011
- Revised chapter submission deadline: 28 February 2011
- Final submission to publishers: 30 April 2011.
Further information
For more information, take a look at the document below:
For enquiries, please contact the editors
| Dr Zaigham Mahmood, University of Derby | z.mahmood@derby.ac.uk |
| Dr Richard Hill, University of Derby | r.hill@derby.ac.uk |
