Abstract
This book contains the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2024). This year, CLOSER was held in Angers, France, from May 2 - 4, 2024. It was sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). CLOSER 2024 was also organized in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems and the ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and Web. The International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science aims at bringing together engineers, researchers and practitioners interested in advances and applications concerning the cloud infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations, and provides a forum for discussing how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market and study various aspects of Cloud Computing. CLOSER 2024 received 48 paper submissions from 20 countries of which 17% were accepted and published as full papers. A double-blind paper review was performed for each submission by at least 2 but usually 3 or more members of the International Program Committee, which is composed of established researchers and domain experts. The high quality of the CLOSER 2024 program is enhanced by the keynote lectures delivered by distinguished speakers who are renowned experts in their fields: Valeria Cardellini (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy), Lydia Chen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, and recently also Université de Neufchâtel) and Pascal Felber (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland). All presented papers will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library and will be submitted for evaluation for indexing by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Engineering Index and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index. As recognition for the best contributions, several awards based on the combined marks of paper reviewing, as assessed by the Program Committee, and the quality of the presentation, as assessed by session chairs at the conference venue, are conferred at the closing session of the conference. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for inclusion in a forthcoming book of CLOSER Selected Papers to be published by Springer, as part of the CCIS Series. Some papers will also be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in the special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science Journal. The program for this conference required the dedicated effort of many people. Firstly, we must thank the authors, whose research efforts are herewith recorded. Next, we thank the members of the Program Committee and the auxiliary reviewers for their diligent and professional reviewing. We would also like to deeply thank the invited speakers for their invaluable contribution and for taking the time to prepare their talks. Finally, a word of appreciation for the hard work of the INSTICC team; organizing a conference of this level is a task that can only be achieved by the collaborative effort of a dedicated and highly capable team. We wish you all an exciting and inspiring conference. We hope to have contributed to the development of our research community, and we look forward to having additional research results presented at the next edition of CLOSER, details of which are available at https://closer.scitevents.org.