[AISWorld] CfP HotTopiCS 2013: International Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Services

[Samuel Kounev (IPD)]

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HotTopiCS 2013: International Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Services
in conjunction with the
4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2013)

Co-located with SPEC Open Systems Group (OSG) and SPEC Research Group 
(RG) meetings
including the RG Cloud and IDS working groups.

Website: http://icpe2013.ipd.kit.edu/conference_workshops/hottopics/

Prague, Czech Republic, April 20-21, 2013

Organized by EU FP7 MarieCurie ITN "RELATE" (http://www.relate-itn.eu/)
Technically co-sponsored by SPEC Research Group (http://research.spec.org/)

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013
Proceedings: To be published by ACM in ACM Digital Library
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=== Overview ===

Cloud computing as a novel paradigm for providing data center resources 
(computing,
network and storage) as on demand services promises significant cost 
savings by
making it possible to consolidate workloads and share infrastructure 
resources
among multiple applications resulting in higher cost- and 
energy-efficiency. The
Cloud seems particularly well-suited for the service-oriented paradigm 
of software
development, which already hides a lot of implementation detail behind a 
service's
interface. Similarly, the Cloud hides details of data centre management and
maintenance such as resource management, location and allocation, or 
pricing
strategies behind a public interface. While there has been substantial 
research in
the field already, there still remain open challenges—for example in the 
areas of
resource management for elasticity, automated pricing strategies, or VM and
service migration.

Hot Topics in Cloud Services provides a platform for academics and 
industrial
practitioners to exchange novel research ideas and current problems from 
practice
and to identify new and "hot" topics in the field. As indicated by the 
co-location
with ICPE, we are particularly interested in work tackling 
performance-related
problems (understood in a very broad sense), but other work related to the
creation and management of service-based cloud applications (e.g., from an
economic perspective) are equally welcome.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following areas:

- Resource management in the Cloud for elasticity and/or cost-minimisation
- Virtualization platforms and management of virtual appliances
- Cloud storage architectures
- Network virtualization approaches for cloud computing
- Autonomic/self-managed cloud architectures
- Quality-of-service management including performance, reliability, 
availability,
   resilience, security and privacy aspects
- Power and energy efficiency
- Service-level agreement definition and enforcement
- Design-time analysis and prediction of non-functional properties of 
service-based
   Cloud applications
- Design and implementation of service-based Cloud applications
- Design of scalable cloud applications
- Provision and design of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS systems
- Cloud programming models and interoperability
- Transition from traditional data center hosting into cloud-services
- Migrating traditional on-premise applications to the cloud
- Hybrid models (private & public cloud)
- Economic models of the Cloud and related pricing schemes and business 
models
- Technical & non-technical constraints (e.g., legal, privacy, security)
- Monitoring, reporting, and failure recovery
- Multi-tenant architectures and related aspects such as performance 
isolation
- Mobile clouds
- Big data applications
- Novel cloud applications and case studies
- Methods and metrics for quantitative evaluation of Cloud systems with 
respect
   to performance, elasticity, isolation, scalability, dependability 
(availability,
   reliability and resilience), power consumption and energy efficiency.
- Benchmarking methodologies
- Workload characterization and reproducibility

=== Submission format, publication ===
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not 
being
considered in another forum. Duplicate submissions will be rejected 
without review.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the 
workshop and
present the paper. Only the accepted and presented papers will be 
included in the
Workshop Proceedings which will be published by ACM in the ACM Digital 
Library.

Papers should be up to 8 pages in the standard ACM format for conference
proceedings and must be written in English. We explicitly invite 
work-in-progress
papers as well as position or vision papers. Papers can be submitted 
through
EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hottopics13 
until the
deadline. Papers will be made available to workshop participants and 
will be
published in the ACM DL after the workshop. Authors will be given an 
opportunity
to revise their papers after the workshop before final publication in 
the ACM DL.

=== Important Dates ===
     Submission of papers          February 1, 2013
     Notification of acceptance    February 18, 2013
     Workshop                      April 20-21, 2013

=== Workshop co-organisers ===
     Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
     Steffen Zschaler, King's College London
     Kai Sachs, SAP AG

=== Programme Committee === (More to be confirmed)

     Vasilios Andrikopoulos, IAAS, University of Stuttgart, Germany
     Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
     Spiros Alexakis, CAS Software AG, Germany
     Salman Baset, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, USA
     Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn, Germany
     Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland
     Tomas Bures, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
     Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
     Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
     Alexander Gebhart, SAP, Germany
     Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
     Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
     Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
     Noel Plouzeau, Universite de Rennes 1, France
     Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
     Stamatia Rizou, SingularLogic, Greece
     Jerry Rolia, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
     Stefan Tai, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
     Marco Vieira, DEI-CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal

This workshop is organized and sponsored by the Trans-European Research 
Training
Network (EU FP7 MarieCurie ITN) on Engineering and Provisioning of 
Service-based
Cloud Applications: www.relate-itn.eu. It is also technically 
co-sponsored by the
SPEC Research Group (http://research.spec.org/) and its Cloud Working Group
(http://research.spec.org/working-groups/rg-cloud-working-group.html).