Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference

On behalf of the organizing and program committees, we welcome you to the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC 2013). The initial conference in this new series is being held in Miami, Florida, a city rich in culture, history, finance, commerce, technology, and fourth-largest urban area in the United States. The CAC 2013 Conference, organized in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is a spin-off of the previous and ongoing International Conference on Autonomic Computing with an additional emphasis on cloud topics to address the emerging cyberspace and cloud technology aspects of autonomic computing that we strongly believe will become pervasive and ubiquitous and that will eventually grow to touch all aspects of life and economic activity. As these new technologies start to be developed and deployed, we are experiencing major research and technological challenges in how we manage and secure cyberspace resources and services. The Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference series will be the main international forum to present the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and use of cloud and autonomic systems and services. This conference, the kickoff event of the new series, will focus on four important areas: Autonomic Cloud Computing, Autonomics for Extreme Scales, Autonomic Cybersecurity, and Autonomic Computing Tools and Applications. We are looking forward to lively discussions about CAC emerging technologies, applications and their challenges.