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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Call for Papers for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>=== The Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance ===<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(HotCloudPerf-2019)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>“Performance from the cloud datacenter to the edge”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>https://hotcloudperf.spec.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>VENUE: workshop held in conjunction with FAS*(ICAC/SASO) conferences, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>June 16 or 17, Umea, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Contact: hotcloudperf2019[at]easychair.org <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Feb 22, 2019 Abstracts due<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Mar 01, 2019 Papers due<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Apr 10, 2019 Author notification<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Apr 18, 2019 Camera-ready deadline, author registration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jun 16 or 17, 2019 Workshop Day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>WORKSHOP THEME AND BACKGROUND<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cloud computing is emerging as one of the most profound changes in the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>way we build and use IT. The use of global services in public clouds is increasing, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and the lucrative and rapidly growing global cloud market already supports over <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1 million IT-related jobs. However, it is currently challenging to make the IT services <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>offered by public and private clouds performant (in an extended sense) and efficient. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Emerging architectures, techniques, and real-world systems include hybrid deployment, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>serverless operation, everything as a service, complex workflows, auto-scaling and -tiering, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>It is unclear to which extent traditional performance engineering, software engineering, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and system design and analysis tools can help with understanding and engineering these <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>emerging technologies. The community also needs practical tools and powerful methods to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>address hot topics in cloud computing performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Responding to this need, the HotCloudPerf workshop proposes a meeting venue for academics and practitioners, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>from experts to trainees, in the field of cloud computing performance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The workshop aims to engage this community, and to lead to the development of new methodological aspects <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>for gaining deeper understanding not only of cloud performance, but also of cloud operation and behavior, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>through diverse quantitative evaluation tools, including benchmarks, metrics, and workload generators. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The workshop focuses on novel cloud properties such as elasticity, performance isolation, dependability, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and other non-functional system properties, in addition to classical performance-related metrics such <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>as response time, throughput, scalability, and efficiency.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Each year, the workshop chooses a focus theme to explore; for 2019, the theme is <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>“Performance from the cloud datacenter to the edge.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Articles focusing on this topic are particularly encouraged for HotCloudPerf-2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The HotCloudPerf workshop is technically sponsored by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)’s <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Research Group (RG), and is organized annually by the RG Cloud Group. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>HotCloudPerf has emerged from the series of yearly meetings organized by the RG Cloud Group, since 2013. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The RG Cloud Group group is taking a broad approach, relevant for both academia and industry, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>to cloud benchmarking, quantitative evaluation, and experimental analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>WORKSHOP SCOPE AND TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Topics of the focus-theme for 2019, “Performance from the cloud datacenter to the edge”:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1. Serverless/Function-as-a-Service(FaaS) computing platforms and micro-services in cloud datacenters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2. Understanding and engineering dependability and non-traditional performance requirements for cloud datacenters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>3. Studying performance variability in cloud datacenters and/or solutions for taming performance variability in clouds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>4. Running specialized services with performance guarantees, such as, Business Process as a Service, Data as a Service, business-critical workloads, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>5. Extending the cloud datacenter to support the non-functional requirements of converged workloads, including IoT, HPC, and big data services.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>6. Experience reports and use-cases with understanding and engineering performance in the cloud datacenter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Long-running topics of the HotCloudPerf workshop include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>1. Empirical performance studies in cloud computing environments, applications, and systems, including observation, measurement, and surveys.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2. Comparative performance studies and benchmarking of cloud environments, applications, and systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>3. Performance analysis using modeling and queueing theory for cloud environments, applications, and systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>4. Simulation-based studies for all aspects of cloud computing performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>5. Tuning and auto-tuning of systems operating in cloud environments, e.g., auto-scaling of resources and auto-tiering of data, optimized resource deployment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>6. Software patterns and architectures for engineering cloud performance, e.g., serverless.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>7. Experience with and analysis of performance of cloud deployment models, including IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/FaaS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>8. End-to-end performance engineering for pipelines and workflows in cloud environments, or of applications with non-trivial SLAs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>9. Tools for monitoring and studying cloud computing performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>10. General and specific methods and methodologies for understanding and engineering cloud performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ARTICLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>There are two ways to participate: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>i) present a talk without a respective paper published in the workshop proceedings, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ii) submit a paper to be presented at the workshop and published in the workshop (FAS*(ICAC/SASO) companion) proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We solicit the following types of contributions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Talk only: Extended abstract limited to 1 page (without formatting restrictions)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Full paper limited to 6 pages (double column, IEEE conference format)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> Short paper limited to 2 pages (double column, IEEE conference format)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Contributions in the 1st category (as Talk only) may have already been (partially) presented at other events <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>or in publications. Contributions in the 2nd and 3rd category (technical papers) must represent original <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Full papers may report on original research, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>lessons learned from realizing an approach, or experiences on transferring a research prototype into practice. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Short papers may report on work-in-progress, a tool/demo, or present a vision or position motivating <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>the community to address new challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Articles and talk only contributions are required to be submitted via the EasyChair system of HotCloudPerf-2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hotcloudperf2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Articles must use the IEEE conference format. Each valid submission will receive at least three (3) peer reviews. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Presented papers will be published by IEEE and included in IEEE Xplore. Adhering to IEEE guidelines for conferences, FAS*(ICAC/SASO) requires that at least one author of each accepted paper attends the workshop and presents the paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Nikolas Herbst (U. Würzburg, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cristina Abad (ESPOL, Ecuador)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Alexandru Iosup (VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Alexandru Uta (VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Web & Publicity Chair:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Erwin van Eyk (Platform9 Fission team, USA, and TU Delft, the Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cristina Abad (Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ahmed Ali-Eldin (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Marta Beltran (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Andre Bondi (Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, US)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Gunnar Brataas (SINTEF ICT, Norway)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Marco Cello (Rulex, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Lucy Cherkasova (ARM Research)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ian Foster (University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, US)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University, US)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Wilhelm Hasselbring (Kiel University, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>André van Hoorn (University of Stuttgart, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Shadi Noghabi (Microsoft)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Alessandro V. Papadopoulos (Mälardalen University, Sweden)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Josef Spillner (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Petr Tuma (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Abhishek Verma (Google)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Chen Wang (IBM Research)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Rich Wolski (University of California, Santa Barbara, US) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Xiaoyun Zhu (HyperPilot, CA, US)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>