The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers

Investigating the Tension Between Cloud- Related Actors and Individual Privacy Rights
Bob Duncan, Karen Renaud, Beverley Mackenzie

Cloud Compliance Risks
Bob Duncan, Yuan Zhao

Version Control Using Distributed Ledger Technologies for Internet of Things Device Software Updates
Magnus Westerlund, John Wickström, Göran Pulkkis

UnCle SAM: Modeling Cloud Attacks with the Automotive Security Abstraction Model
Markus Zoppelt, Ramin Tavakoli Kolagari

Risk Analysis of the Cloud Infrastructure of Smart Grid and Internet of Things
Katrin Neubauer, Sebastian Fischer, Rudolf Hackenberg

Anomaly Detection and Analysis for Clustered Cloud Computing Reliability
Areeg Samir, Claus Pahl

Efficient Virtual Machine Consolidation Approach Based on User Inactivity Detection
Jan Fesl, Vineet Gokhale, Marie Feslova

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

The Weaponization of Cloud-based Social Media: Prospects for Legislation and Regulation
Barry Cartwright, George Weir, Lutfun Nahar, Karmvir Padda, Richard Frank

Invisible Ubiquity - Cloud Security in UK Corporate Annual Reporting
Bob Duncan, Mark Whittington

Towards Trustworthy Financial Reports Using Blockchain
Van Thanh Le, Gianfranco D'Atri, Nabil El Ioini, Claus Pahl

Fighting Disinformation Warfare with Artificial Intelligence: Identifying and Combating Disinformation Attacks in C
Barry Cartwright, George Weir, Richard Frank

PLASMA – Platform for Service Management in Digital Remote Maintenance Applications
Natascha Stumpp, Doris Aschenbrenner, Manuel Stahl, Andreas Aßmuth

Security of Cloud Services with Low-Performance Devices in Critical Infrastructures
Michael Molle, Ulrich Raithel, Dirk Kraemer, Norbert Graß, Matthias Söllner, Andreas Aßmuth

BalloonJVM: Dynamically Resizable Heap for FaaS
Abraham Chan, Kai-Ting Amy Wang, Vineet Kumar

Relational Algebra for Heterogeneous Cloud Data Sources
Aspen Olmsted

Cloud-RAIR: A Cloud Redundant Array of Independent Resources
Abdelhamid Khiat