Message from the General and Program Co-Chairs

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.