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| IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing | |
|---|---|
| Title | IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing |
| Discipline | Cloud computing |
| Abbreviation | IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput. |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
| Country | United States |
| History | 2013–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Issn | 2168-7161 |
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal focused on research in cloud computing technologies and systems. The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, and special issues addressing infrastructure, services, security, and management of cloud environments. It serves researchers and practitioners associated with leading institutions and corporations worldwide.
The creation of the journal followed accelerating interest in virtualization and distributed systems catalyzed by developments at Google and Amazon (company), and influenced by earlier work at Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Research. Its launch coincided with major initiatives from National Science Foundation (United States), research programs at European Commission funding cloud projects under Horizon 2020, and contributions from consortia such as OpenStack Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Early editorial policy drew on precedent from serials like IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, while editorial leadership included scholars affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, and University of California, Berkeley. Major milestones include themed issues coordinated with conferences such as ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, and collaborations with workshops at NeurIPS, reflecting intersections with machine learning research from Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The journal covers topics spanning infrastructure, resource management, and application platforms with relevance to projects at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Typical areas include virtualization research connected to work from VMware and Xen Project, container orchestration influenced by Kubernetes, and network virtualization paralleling contributions from Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Security and privacy articles relate to standards from National Institute of Standards and Technology, cryptographic techniques from researchers at IBM Research and RSA Security, and policy implications tied to rulings in European Court of Justice. Performance and benchmarking studies reference community efforts like SPEC and initiatives at Intel and AMD. Emerging topics include edge computing with linkage to ARM Holdings and Nokia, serverless computing mirroring engineering at Netflix, federated learning associated with OpenAI and DeepMind, and sustainability research interacting with projects at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
The journal is published by the IEEE Computer Society, operating within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Editors are drawn from universities such as University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Toronto, Tsinghua University, and ETH Zurich as well as industry laboratories like Google Research, Microsoft Research, and IBM Research. The editorial board structure mirrors practices in prominent periodicals like Communications of the ACM and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, with associate editors overseeing special sections in cooperation with program committees from conferences including IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and ACM SIGCOMM.
Articles are indexed in major databases maintained by organizations such as Clarivate, Scopus (Elsevier), and DBLP. Metadata and abstracts are discoverable via services operated by Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef. Inclusion in citation indexes aligns the journal with tracked publications like Nature Communications and ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, enabling bibliometric analysis used by institutions like Shanghai Jiao Tong University and funding bodies such as European Research Council.
The journal follows a hybrid model consistent with IEEE publishing practices, offering subscription access through the IEEE Xplore digital library alongside options for open access under terms compatible with mandates from funders like the National Institutes of Health and Wellcome Trust. Article processing and copyright policies interact with institutional repositories at universities including Harvard University and University of Oxford. Special issues sometimes adopt open access sponsorship agreements negotiated with consortia such as Coalition S and university presses like MIT Press.
The journal has been cited in research from industrial labs at Facebook, Apple Inc., and Alibaba Group, and in policy reports by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Its articles contribute to standards and best practices referenced by bodies including IETF and ISO. Citation metrics place it among respected IEEE titles alongside IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing according to analyses used by Clarivate and academic assessment frameworks at institutions like University of Cambridge.
Notable contributions have addressed elastic scaling strategies influenced by research from University of California, San Diego and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, privacy-preserving computation aligned with work at Microsoft Research and IBM Research, and energy-aware scheduling with links to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Special issues have focused on topics originally presented at venues such as ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, and workshops co-located with NeurIPS. Influential articles have been cited by patents filed by Amazon (company), Google, and Microsoft Corporation, and have shaped academic curricula at institutions like Imperial College London and National University of Singapore.
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