Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as services that are commoditised and delivered as in traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. High Utility with Cloud services can already be achieved for compute, storage and communication resources but also for hosted software and data. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these model could be used to provide utility for both users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers will also be of interest for this conference.

This will be the 6th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), and Chicago, USA (UCC 2012). UCC 2013 happens while cloud providers worldwide add new services and increase utility at a high pace and is therefore of high relevance for both academic and industrial research.

Submissions are invited to UCC 2013. Please consult the Call for Papers and the complementary calls for Workshops, Tutorials and Industry Track Papers for formatting and submission details.

News and Updates
15.12.2013: The conference has ended successfully with 133 registered participants. Pictures and slides are now being made available from this site. new!
04.12.2013: The UCC 2013 conference and workshop technical programmes have been finalised.
08.11.2013: More industry talks and one more confirmed tutorial have been added to the website.
14.10.2013: The preliminary programme has been published.
14.10.2013: A Call for Participation is now available which summarises the conference highlights.
09.10.2013: The best 29 papers out of 120 submissions (24.1%) were accepted as full papers which will be presented at UCC 2013. Additionally, 14 short papers and 8 posters with highly interesting emerging research will be presented. The five co-located workshops feature a selection of about 35 papers.
25.09.2013: UCC 2013 Keynotes and Tutorials are announced.
09.09.2013: Registration is now possible.
30.08.2013: Due to the extended submission deadline, the reviews and subsequent notifications will also be delayed for a couple of days.
09.08.2013: All calls are now closed after having received a considerable number of submissions. The conference programme will be shaped in the coming weeks. Some workshop calls are still open.
15.07.2013: An extended deadline for the Call for Papers has been announced.
26.06.2013: The Call for Tutorials has been updated with more details.
30.05.2013: Five Six Workshops are going to be co-located with UCC. They cover the emerging topics of green, scientific, autonomic and distributed cloud computing as well as crowdsourcing, gamification and networked things. The workshop websites will become available soon.
29.05.2013: UCC welcomes Tutorial submissions and Industry Track Papers for greater in-depth coverage of practical research matters.
25.04.2013: A UCC poster is now available.
04.03.2013: Please note: UCC has been moved by one week to December 9-12.
04.03.2013: A detailed Call for Workshops is now available.
28.01.2013: The UCC 2013 website has been updated with the Calls for Papers and Workshops as well as keynotes and venue information.