[AISWorld] Less than 2 weeks to submit: 1st International Workshop on Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB 2013)

[Gregoris Mentzas]

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1st International Workshop on Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB 2013)

Workshop co-located with the
11th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing Berlin, Germany,
December 2-5, 2013, http://www.icsoc.org/

https://sites.google.com/site/cloudbrokerworkshop/

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Abstract submission deadline:      23 August 2013
Deadline for Paper Submission:     30 August 2013 
Paper Acceptance Notification:     14 October 2013 
Camera Ready Paper & Copyright:    31 October 2013
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ABOUT CSB 2013
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The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB 2013) looks
to a future in which a multi-cloud ecosystem exists, within which many cloud
providers and consumers interact to discover, negotiate and use software
services.   Supporting this ecosystem are cloud brokers, whose role is to
bring together providers and consumers, by offering service portals with
added value for all parties. 

A central feature of the broker's role will be to assure quality control
(both functional and non-functional), service continuity (failure prevention
and recovery; service substitution) and market competition (arbitrage;
service optimization; service customization).

In this workshop we invite contributions which tackle theoretical, technical
and application aspects of Cloud Service Brokerage.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to,methods and mechanisms
for:

Service specification - current service description languages are only up to
the task of describing the service interface; what is needed are abstract
languages to describe the complete behaviour and performance of services,
such that it can be determined whether one service is formally substitutable
by another;

Service functional testing - current service testing is mostly
developer-based and in-house; what is needed is a means of generating
standard test sets from functional specifications of services, which can be
grounded for each of the service protocol technologies described above;

Service performance monitoring - current service monitoring technology is
limited to SLAs for response-times and availability of end-points; what is
needed is a more sophisticated data fusion approach with trend prediction,
supporting service optimisation and substitution.

Service optimisation - current service platforms offer single-vendor
services with failover substitution, or manual selection from several
providers; what is needed is a means of offering multi-vendor services on a
competitive basis, with automatic arbitrage between different providers.

Service governance - current services and platforms are developed following
in-house software processes; what is needed are explicit standards and
methods for governing the whole service lifecycle, ensuring common quality
standards and interfaces, supporting convergent service development and
service customisation.

Other topics relevant to the Cloud Broker role will be considered; please
note that service security is out of scope, being a matter for the Cloud
Auditor role

IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission deadline:      23 August 2013
Deadline for Paper Submission:     30 August 2013 
Paper Acceptance Notification:     14 October 2013 
Camera Ready Paper & Copyright:    31 October 2013


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research
papers written in English. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members
of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation.
Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, and will be
published by Springer-Verlag. Full research papers should not exceed 12
pages in the Springer LNCS style format including all text, references,
appendices, and figures.

Please submit papers in PDF via EasyChair.

At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in
the workshop. 
Please see details at the ICSOC 2013 website. 

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Chaired by:  
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Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Anthony J H Simons, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield,
United Kingdom.
Iraklis Paraskakis, South-East European Research Centre, Thessaloniki,
Greece

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Programme Committee (partial list-others to be added)
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    Konstantinos Bratanis, SEERC, Greece
    Franck Fleurey, SINTEF, Norway
    Andreas Friesen, SAP Research, Germany
    Panagiotis Gouvas, SingularLogic, Greece
    Mariam Kiran, University of Sheffield, UK
    Dimitrios Kourtesis, SEERC, Greece
    Volker Kuttruff, CAS Software, Germany
    Brice Morin, SINTEF, Norway
    Antonia Schwichtenberg, CAS Software, Germany
    Yiannis Verginadis, ICCS NTUA, Greece
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Contact us
For any questions please use the contact information below:

Dr Anthony J H Simons
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 211 Portobello
Sheffield, S1 4DP
United Kingdom

email: A dot J dot Simons at shef dot ac dot uk
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