Services Conference Federation (SCF 2025)
International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2025)
https://www.servicessociety.org/cloud , September 27 - 30, 2025, Hong Kong, China
Theme: Services Agent for Cloud Computing
Introduction of CLOUD
Being the first conference dedicated on cloud computing, International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of cloud computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of cloud computing. All topics regarding cloud computing align with the theme of CLOUD.
Sponsored by Services Society and Springer, CLOUD 2018, CLOUD 2019, CLOUD 2020, and CLOUD 2021 were successfully held on June 25 - 30, 2018, in Seattle, June 25 - 30, 2019, in San Diego, USA, as well as September 18 - 20, 2020 and December 10 - 14, 2021 online & Satellite Session in Shenzhen, China. CLOUD 2022 and CLOUD 2023 were successfully held on December 10 - 14, 2022, in Hawaii, USA, and December 17 - 18, 2023, in Shenzhen, China. CLOUD 2024 was successfully held on November 16 - 19, 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2025, we will celebrate our 2025 version of gathering, to strive to advance the largest international professional forum on cloud computing.
Cloud Computing has become a scalable services consumption and delivery platform in the field of Services Computing. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualizations of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. The resource sharing at various levels results in various cloud offerings such as infrastructure cloud (e.g., hardware, IT infrastructure management), software cloud (e.g. SaaS focusing on middleware as a service, or traditional CRM as a service), application cloud (e.g., Application as a Service, UML modeling tools as a service, social network as a service), and business cloud (e.g., business process as a service).
CLOUD 2025 is is a member of the Services Conference Federation (SCF). SCF 2025 will have the following 10 collocated service-oriented sister conferences: 2025 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2025), 2025 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2025), 2025 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2025), 2025 International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2025), 2025 International Conference on AI & Multimodal Services (AIMS 2025), and 2025 International Conference on Metaverse (METAVERSE 2025), 2025 International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT 2025), 2025 International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC 2025), 2025 International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2025), and 2025 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2025).
As the founding member of the Services Conference Federation (SCF), the first International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) was held in June 2003 in Las Vegas, USA. Meanwhile, the First International Conference on Web Services - Europe 2003 (ICWS-Europe 2003) was held in Germany in October 2003. ICWS-Europe'03 is an extended event of the 2003 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2003) in Europe. In 2004, ICWS-Europe was changed to the European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), which was held in Erfurt, Germany.
To celebrate its 22-year-old birthday, SCF 2025 will be held on September 27 - 30, 2025, in Hong Kong, China.
Conference Proceedings
The Proceedings of CLOUD 2025 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer International Publishing AG. For all 10 collocated conferences of SCF 2025, the content of this proceedings volume will be made freely accessible to anyone in Springer’s digital library after four years upon publication.
Currently, the Abstracting and Indexing services covered by Springer’s data feeds for LNCS proceedings include ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in Web of Science), Engineering Index EI (Compendex and Inspec databases), DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and ZBlMath.
The Best Paper Awards will be sponsored by Services Society and Springer, which is a leading global scientific, technical, and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions, and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative information, products, and services.
Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for special issues in the Services Transactions on Internet of Things (STIOT), Services Transactions on Big Data (STBD), Services Transactions on Services Computing (STSC), Services Transactions on Cloud Computing (STCC), International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). IJBPIM is indexed by Scopus and IJWSR is indexed by SCI and EI [Link].
Extended versions of selected papers about security, privacy, and trust will be invited for special issues in Electronics (SCI, IF=2.6), Mathematics (SCI, IF=2.3), Sustainability (SCI, SSCI, IF=3.3), Remote Sensing (SCI, IF=5.0), ISPRS (SCI, IF=2.8), Cryptography (SCI, IF=1.8), Blockchains, etc. The details of the SI can be referred to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/topics/ELY82W061L
Extended versions of selected papers about artificial intelligence will be invited for special issues in AI (SCI, IF=3.1), Applied Sciences (SCI, IF=2.5), Designs, Electronics (SCI, IF=2.6), Mathematics (SCI, IF=2.3), Remote Sensing (SCI, IF=4.2), Sensors (SCI, IF=3.4), etc. The details of the SI can be referred to the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/topics/FZ0U795IB1
Topics
The technical program of CLOUD 2025 will include a Research Track, an Application Track, and a Short Paper Track. The CLOUD 2025 tracks seek original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of cloud computing services. Research Track papers MUST clearly indicate their contributions to the field of cloud computing technologies, applications, and solutions. All papers MUST properly cite related work in the field, such as those published in the proceedings of ICWS, SCC, CLOUD, BigData, METAVERSE, EDGE, ICIOT, ICCC, AIMS, ICBC, SERVICES, APSCC, ECOWS, and related journals including IJWSR and IJBPIM (see Literature Recommendations page).
Contributions addressing all areas related to cloud computing technology, systems, applications, and business innovations are solicited. CLOUD 2025 will organize refereed paper reviews in the following research areas :
- Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS)
- Platform As A Service (PaaS)
- Software As A Service (SaaS)
- Cloud Security and Privacy
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud Application Development
- Cloud Performance Management
- Industry-Specific Clouds
- Business Models in Cloud
- Serverless
- 5G Cloud
- Cloud Security, Privacy and Trust
Paper Submissions
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted and presented papers from all CLOUD tracks will appear in the conference proceedings.
Submitted Research Track and Application Track manuscripts will be limited to 15 pages and REQUIRED to be formatted using the LNCS Proceedings template ( WORD, Latex ). Submitted Short Paper track manuscripts will be limited to 8 pages (LNCS Proceedings style). The authors can extend a maximum of 2 pages for each paper but will have to pay extra fees for each extra page. Unformatted papers and papers beyond the maximum page limit may not be reviewed.
Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, workshop proposals, and review process can be found at the conference site.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and present the paper (See registration page). One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at CLOUD 2025. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student.
Manuscripts submitted to the Research Track focusing on applications or solutions may be recommended to the Application Track or other tracks for further consideration if the session slots are available.
Please submit all the track papers to the corresponding tracks:
CLOUD 2025 Research Track
CLOUD 2025 Application and Industry Track
CLOUD 2025 Short Paper Track
For other co-located conferences, you can find detailed submission instructions and links on the Submission page.
Important Dates
Research Track/Application Track/Short Paper Track:
Early-birds paper submission due: March 20, 2025
Review comments to Early-birds paper submission: April 20, 2025
Regular paper submission due: June 21, 2025
Review comments to Regular paper submission: July 20, 2025
Camera-ready manuscripts due: July 27, 2025
Conference dates: September 27 - 30, 2025
Organizing Committee
CLOUD 2025 Organizing Committee
Program Chairs
Prof. Zongda Wu, Shaoxing University
Operations Committee
Dr. Jing Zeng, China Gridcom Co., Ltd.
Dr. Yishuang Ning, Tsinghua University
Dr. Sheng He, Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd.
Dr. Zhuolin Mei, Jiujiang University
CLOUD 2025 Program Committee
TBD
Contact Information
For any inquiries regarding the CLOUD conference, please feel free to reach out to us: cloud AT ServicesSociety DOT org
For other questions about the SCF conferences: confs AT ServicesSociety DOT org
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