Message from the CGC2012 Chairs

The 2nd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2012) was held in Xiangtan, China, November 1-3, 2012. CGC2012 consists of the main conference and three workshops/symposiums: The 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2012), The 2012 International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks (PriSecCSN2012), and the 2012 International Symposium on Big Data and MapReduce (BigDataMR2012). We greatly thank the Workshop Chairs for their valuable time and effort in organizing the workshops. CGC2012 is held jointly with the 2nd International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA2012). CGC2012 received 102 submissions from United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Pakistan, Malaysia, New Zealand, India, Croatia, Greece, Taiwan and Mainland China. Each paper was peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. The final decision has been taken after a high quality review process. There are 48 papers accepted and the acceptance rate of regular paper is about 30%.