[AISWorld] Data Center Systems Research, Teaching and Practice contributions are welcome! Deadline: April 15, 2017

[mmora at securenym.net]

The 2017 World Congress in Computer Science Computer Engineering & Applied
Computing | CSCE'17 -  July 17-20, 2017 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA


*********************   Featured Sessions   ************************

Engineering and Management of Data Centers Systems - Teaching, Research
and Practice

--- IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers ---  rescheduled to April 15,  2017
Notification of acceptance (+/- two days) ---  rescheduled to April 30, 2017
Final Papers + Copyright + Registration --- May 05, 2017
Conference  ---  July 17-20, 2017

--- PUBLICATION AND INDEXING
The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN),
imprinted by the American Council on Science and Education, and
distributed/published by CSREA (Computer Science Research, Education, and
Applications Press). The proceedings will also be made available online.
The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site
at the conference. The books will be indexed in science databases,
including EBSCO (www.ebsco.com), one of the largest subject index systems,
and others. ACM Digital Library is also including the titles into its
database) as well as ProQuest indexing database and others. Best selected
papers from the session will be invited to be published (extended
versions) in two journals with topics on Data Centers Topics:

(JCR)
    The Journal of Supercomputing
    http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/11227
(SCOPUS and Web of Science)
    International Journal of Information Technology and Systems
    http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-information-technologies-systems/1098


--- SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Type of Submissions/Papers for this session:

    Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages): Regular Research
Papers should provide detail original research contributions. They
must report new research results that represent a contribution to the
field; sufficient details and support for the results and conclusions
should also be provided. The work presented in regular papers are
expected to be at a stage of maturity that with minor advances can be
published as journal papers.
    Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages): Short Research Papers
report on ongoing research projects. They should provide overall
research methodologies with some results. The work presented in short
papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity that with further
advances can be published as regular papers.

--- SCOPE AND TOPICS
This session invites prospective authors to submit articles from the
academy and industry for sharing scientific and practice knowledge on the
engineering and management of Data Centers Systems (DCS). DCS are
considered mission-critical organizational assets whose availability,
performance, power efficiency, security, continuity, and overall
effectiveness must be guaranteed in order to avoid critical disruptions on
IT-based business services. Main categories of asked topics include, but
not limited to, planning-design, implementation and operation-control of
DCS. Emergent topics like Green DCS, ITSM process frameworks (e.g. ITIL,
ISO/IEC 2000), DevOps, IaaS, and Software-Defined Data Centers are also
welcome. In summary, articles from the academy and industry taking DCS as
core entity to be addressed are asked. A sample of topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following ones:

Foundations on data centers
•       Fundamental concepts
•       Overview of data centers
•       Evolution of data centers
•       Types of data centers (business vs scientific; centralized vs
distributed, tiers I, II, III or IV; private vs cloud vs ISP)
•       Organizational charts for  data centers
•       Taxonomies of services provided and consumed in data centers
•       The data center as a service system
•       Value of data centers

Data centers engineering
•       General and integrative design methodologies for data centers
•       Specific design methods for data center dimensions (e.g. for space
layout, for power design, for cooling design, etc)
•       Design tools applied to data centers
•       Design simulation tools applied to data centers
•       Data center architecture design
•       Data center design and ICT architecture design
•       Data center
•       Data centers and virtualization approaches
•       Data centers and ITSM tools (commercial ones)
•       Data centers and ITSM tools (open source ones)
•       Data centers equipment benchmarks
•       Data centers software systems benchmarks
•       Data centers performance simulation methods
•       Data centers reliability simulation methods

Data centers management
•       Data centers selection methods
•       Data centers planning methods
•       Data centers risk management methods
•       Data centers implementation methods
•       Data centers operation and control methods
•       Data centers security methods and approaches
•       Data centers disaster recovery planning methods
•       Data centers capacity planning methods
•       Data centers performance evaluation methods
•       Data centers retirement or re-allocation methods
•       Data centers maturity models
•       Data centers metrics (PUE, DCiE, DCP, DCeP, among others)
•       Data centers servers metrics (SPECvirt_sc2013, SPEC
CPU2006,SPECweb2009, SPECmail2009, etc)
•       Data centers dashboards and others DMSS
•       Data centers and automation services
•       Data centers backup methods and approaches
•       Data centers standards (TIA 942, Uptime Institute Framework, IEEE
493, etc)
•       Data centers certifications
•       Data center education in undergraduate and graduate programs
•       Data centers financial methods
•       Data centers equipment selection and evaluation methods
•       Human resource management in data centers
•       Data centers end-user satisfaction and quality of service surveys
•       Data centers and ITSM frameworks (ITIL, CobIT, CMMI-SVC, MOF 4,
ITUP, ISO 20K)

Data centers emergent topics, challenges and trends
•       Green data centers design approaches
•       DevOps methods
•       Cloud computing architectures for data centers
•       Centralized vs distributed data centers
•       Software-defined data center (SDDC)
•       Economic value of data centers
•       Economic models for allocation of data centers
•       Data centers for small organizations
•       Corporative data centers challenges and trends
•       Analytics for data centers
•       Data centers trends
•       Data centers challenges

--- SESSION CHAIRS


Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jorge Marx Gómez
Chair Business Information Systems
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
Fakultät II - Department für Informatik
Abt. Wirtschaftsinformatik / VLBA
Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118
26129 Oldenburg / Germany
https://www.uni-oldenburg.de/en/computingscience/vlba/team/prof-dr-ing-habil-jorge-marx-gomez/
email: jorge.marx.gomez at uni-oldenburg.de


Manuel Mora, EngD.
Full-time Professor and Researcher Level C
ACM Senior Member / SNI Level I
Department of Information Systems
Autonomous University of Aguascalientes
Ave. Universidad 940
Aguascalientes, AGS
Mexico, 20131
http://x3620a-labdc.uaa.mx:8080/web/drmora
email: mmora at correo.uaa.mx