Message from the General and Program Co-Chairs

Abstract

Welcome to the 2011 International Conference on Cloud and Service Computing (CSC2011) and the city of Hong Kong. In the past several years, cloud and service computing have attracted a lot of attention from both academics and industrial communities. Cloud computing is an important transition and paradigm shift in IT service delivery driven by economies of scale. It enables a shared pool of virtualized, dynamically configurable, and managed computing resources to be delivered on demand to customers over the Internet and other available networks. As such and with the “pay-asyou-go” business model, cloud computing also leads to changes and transformation of many other industries. Closely related to cloud computing, service computing has become a cross-discipline area bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services.