From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu  Wed Jan  4 13:45:02 2012
From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:45:02 -0700
Subject: [Storage-research-list] USENIX FAST '12 Registration Now Open
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From leitian.hust at gmail.com  Thu Jan  5 13:02:08 2012
From: leitian.hust at gmail.com (Lei Tian)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:02:08 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2nd CFP: 7th IEEE International Conference
	on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012)
Message-ID: <557D5678-A899-46A2-87E1-B7956A01BE89@gmail.com>

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.]

----------------------------------------------------------------------

IEEE NAS 2012 
Dates: June 28-30
Xiamen, Fujian, China

CALL FOR PAPERS

********************************************************************
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012)
http://www.nas-conference.org/
*********************************************************************

OVERVIEW
--------------------------------------------------------------
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012) will be held from June 28 ? 30, 2012 at Xiamen, Fujian, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2012 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas.

NAS has been successfully held in Dalian in 2011(NAS'11), Macau in 2010(NAS'10), Zhang Jia Jie in 2009 (NAS'09), Chongqing in 2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007 (NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006 (NAS'06).


IMPORTANT DATES
--------------------------------------------------------------
Submission Deadline: February 24th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2012
Camera-ready Paper: May 5th, 2012
Conference: June 28-30, 2012


TOPICS
--------------------------------------------------------------
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Network security and privacy
* Virtual and overlay networks
* Network applications and services
* Ad hoc and sensor networks
* Networks and protocols
* Network architectures
* Processor architectures
* Cache and memory systems
* Parallel and multi-core systems
* Impact of (emerging) technologies on architectures
* Network information theory & network coding
* Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques
* Storage management
* Storage performance and scalability
* File systems, object-based storage, and block storage
* Energy-aware storage
* Architecture and applications of solid state disks
* Performance evaluation
* Network Storage
* Innovative HW/SW tradeoffs

We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to NAS 2012. All 
submissions will be peer reviewed by our scientific committee and
the accepted papers will be included in Ei. Also we would like to
announce that a number of experts and leading researchers in the
field of Networking, Architecture, and Storage will be delivering 
keynote lectures.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZORS
--------------------------------------------------------------
Steering Committee
--------------------------------
Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Changsheng Xie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA
Andr? Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, Germany

Honorable General Chairs
--------------------------------
Ying Zhang, Xiamen University, China

General Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
Lin Wang, Xiamen University, China

Program Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA

Vice Program Chairs [Networking]
--------------------------------
Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Vice Program Chairs [Architecture]
--------------------------------
Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China
Yiran Chen, University of Pittsburgh

Vice Program Chairs [Storage]
--------------------------------
Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA
John Bent, EMC, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Lei Tian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Hanzi Wang, Xiamen University, China

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Cuihua Li, Xiamen University, China
Da Lu, Xiamen University, China

Publication Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Registration and Finance Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Yunqi Lei, Xiamen University, China
Suzhen Wu, Xiamen University, China


For more information regarding NAS 2012, please refer to the link below:

http://www.nas-conference.org/NAS-2012/index.html




From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu  Thu Jan 12 11:31:56 2012
From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:31:56 -0700
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012
	Tutorials and Workshops
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From mark.carlson at oracle.com  Thu Jan 12 21:59:28 2012
From: mark.carlson at oracle.com (Mark Carlson)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:59:28 -0700
Subject: [Storage-research-list] 6th International DMTF Workshop on Systems
 and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud - SVM 2012
Message-ID: <4F0F9E10.8070400@oracle.com>

============================================================
  6th International DMTF Workshop on Systems and
          Virtualization Management:
       Standards and the Cloud SVM 2012
http://dmtf.org/svm12
             October 2012
  Conference on Network and Service Management
               Las Vegas, Nevada USA


Call for Papers and Call for Posters


The DMTF Academic Alliance announces the creation of the sixth workshop 
dedicated to academic research on standards and new technologies for 
systems and virtualization management. This event comes in addition to 
the technical and developers' events organized for several years by the 
DMTF, and will take place the week of October 22 in Las Vegas, Nevada 
USA.  We will be holding a poster session in addition to the workshop.


The primary theme of SVM 2012 will be "Systems and Virtualization 
Management: Standards and the Cloud". With the advent and increasing 
popularity of Cloud Computing, systems management and virtualization 
management technology has taken on increasing importance. The goal of 
SVM 2012 is to illuminate related standards and research issues, 
covering areas such as: what are the implications of standards for 
virtualization in Cloud Computing, what advances in information models 
and protocols aid in managing Clouds, what new problems will we incur 
when managing Cloud offerings and services, and how management itself 
might benefit from virtualization and the Cloud. Submissions on topics 
related to managing Clouds, virtualization of distributed 
resources/services and work in management standardization are thus 
particularly encouraged.

Papers submitted to SVM'12 must not have been published, accepted for 
publication, or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    Virtualization
           Management of Compute Clouds
           Management of Storage Clouds
           Use of Virtualization for Management
    Management of Green Cloud Computing
    Virtualization Management
    Key management issues
        Infrastructure for management
        Managing IaaS infrastructure
        Use and extension of management standards
        System management techniques
        Network, Server, and Desktop management
        Information models for management
        Instrumentation and metrics for management
        Diagnostics and Fault management
        Management Behavior and State modeling
    Web services and SOA
        Managing SaaS infrastructure
        Web services based management
        Development and use of management protocols
        Use of SOA in management of distributed systems
    New management paradigms
        Management automation
        Policy-based management
    Experience implementing and deploying management technology
    Security
        Security management
        Cloud security
        Best practices for security metrics
        Privacy and Data Protection on Cloud Computing
    Monitoring Cloud Computing

Submission for Papers
==========

Authors are requested to submit either long or short papers via the 
conference submission software:

    Long papers presenting research results (up to 8 pages in IEEE 
2-column format, excluding references)
    Short papers describing research work-in-progress or position 
statements (up to 4 pages in IEEE 2-column format, excluding references)

Please submit your papers to the conference submission Web site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=svm12


Submission for Posters
==========

Authors of accepted papers to SVM 2012 are encouraged to submit a poster 
on the same topic as their paper.  People are also encouraged to submit 
a poster, even without submitting a paper to the workshop.

Presenters are requested to submit an abstract (250-1000 words) of their 
poster via the conference submission Web site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=svm12postersession

Tall posters can be 36" wide by 48" long
Wide posters can be 48" wide by 36" long



Important Dates
==========
Deadlines are the same for papers and posters.

Submission Deadline: 4 April 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 6 July 2012
Camera Ready Papers and Posters (Easy Chair + Proceedings): 3 August 2012




The DMTF values input from the academic world and is open to providing 
information to faculty and students who are studying and researching 
management standards. The Academic Alliance membership is a free 
membership for individuals of accredited institutions of higher 
learning. Academic Alliance Members have access to the DMTF members-only 
Web pages and member email lists. Academic Alliance Members are eligible 
to participate in DMTF working groups as non-voting members, and in the 
DMTF Marketing and Technical Committees as non-voting members.

For more information on how to become an Academic Alliance Member, 
please contact DMTF Administration 
<http://www.dmtf.org/about/contact?to=admin>.

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From ggrider at lanl.gov  Thu Jan 12 23:05:15 2012
From: ggrider at lanl.gov (Grider, Gary A)
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:05:15 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] HECFSIO 2012 Meeting Upate
Message-ID: <E784488775841C42850C47FA286F814A03419A5C@ECS-EXG-P-MB02.win.lanl.gov>

Apologies if you get more than one copy of this notice.

Colleagues, NSF has decided to sunset the HECURA program and thereby the HECFSIO NSF funded research going into the future.  This means there will not be another HECFSIO solicitation coming from NSF in the near future.  The purpose of the HECFSIO organizing committee was to develop and maintain a community around HECFSIO research, to convey HECFSIO research needs, and to inform government agencies about the overall national portfolio of research gaps and overlaps. Since we have not identified national level ongoing research funding, the need for the HECFSIO organization is in question.  This does not mean that all HECFSIO related  funding from the government has stopped, as agencies may at various times issue solicitations for this type of research.  Additionally, these potential funding agencies may conduct their own workshops/PI meetings etc.
 
We respect your time and we do not want to hold a workshop when we have no real identified ongoing funding streams for you to seek.  We have decided to pause the HECFSIO workshops at least for one year to have time to re-assess the government's needs and desires for the HECFSIO organization and the workshops.  It is possible that we may resume at a later date under the HECFSIO moniker or perhaps under other mechanisms.


We have enjoyed helping to build and maintain this community and we hope you continue to think about HECFSIO related problems and consider proposing to solicitations that may occur from time to time.  

 
Thanks

The HECFSIO Technical Advisory Committee 



From ezk at cs.sunysb.edu  Thu Jan 12 22:53:32 2012
From: ezk at cs.sunysb.edu (Erez Zadok)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:53:32 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: Annual Int'l Systems and Storage Conf.
	(SYSTOR 2012)
Message-ID: <AC7099E6-ABF3-4D26-9997-B6E0D8B60531@cs.sunysb.edu>

(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.)

SYSTOR 2012 - CFP - http://systor.org/2012
In cooperation with ACM (pending), IEEE, and USENIX

On behalf of the 2012 Annual International Systems and Storage
Conference (SYSTOR 2012), we invite you to submit original and
innovative papers. The conference will take place in June 4-6, 2012
Haifa, Israel; it is held in cooperation with ACM (pending), IEEE, and
USENIX.

SYSTOR has a broad scope, promoting experimental and practical
computer systems research encompassing the following topics:

* operating systems, computer architecture, and their interaction
* distributed, parallel, and cloud systems
* networking, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems
* runtime systems, compilers, and programming languages
* energy/power management
* file and storage systems
* security, privacy, and trust
* virtualization
* embedded and realtime systems
* fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
* deployment, usage, and experience
* performance evaluation and workload characterization

SYSTOR attempts to combine high-quality international systems research
of practical nature with interactions between the relevant industry
and academia communities. We therefore solicit paper submissions in
four separate tracks:

* full research papers
* short research papers
* highlight papers (a small number of exciting research results
    accepted to a recent top-tier systems conference or journal;
    accepted submissions will not be published in the proceedings)
* industry papers (describing the technologies behind real systems or
    products and the; authors of accepted paper decide if they
    would be included in the conference proceedings)

Proceedings including all (non-highlight) accepted papers will be
published by ACM. See more details at the conference web site
[http://systor.org/2012]. SYSTOR 2012 will host distinguished keynote
speakers, a posters session, and several social events at the
conference.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: Feb 13, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)
Paper notification: Mar 26, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)
Camera-ready: Apr 14, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)

Highlights submission: Mar 12, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)
Highlights notification: Mar 26, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)

Poster submission: Apr 30, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)
Poster notification: May 07, 2012 (11:59pm GMT)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Dan Tsafrir, Technion
Erez Zadok, Stony Brook U.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Irfan Ahmad, CloudPhysics
Jonathan Appavoo, Boston U.
Yariv Aridor, Intel
Eitan Bachmat, Ben-Gurion U.
Mary Baker, HP Labs
Emery Berger, UMass Amherst
Tsahi Birk, Technion
Bill Bolosky, Microsoft Research
Andre Brinkmann, JGU Mainz
Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins U.
Dilma Da Silva, IBM Watson
Eyal DeLara, U. of Toronto
Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern U.
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion U.
Matan Erez, UT Austin
Yoav Etsion, BSC
Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden
Roy Fridman, Technion
Tal Garfinkel, VMware
Sharon Goldberg, Boston U.
Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich
Maurice Herlihy, Brown U.
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, IBM India
Gokul Kandiraju, IBM Watson
Alexander Kipp, U. of Stuttgart
Avi Mendelson, Microsoft
Ethan Miller, UC Santa Cruz
Alan Mislove, Northeastern U.
Gilles Muller, Inria
Toshio Nakatani, IBM Tokyo
Yale Patt, UT Austin
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano
Donald Porter, Stony Brook U.
Raju Rangaswami, Florida Int'l U.
Luis Rodrigues, IST/INESC-ID
Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt
Sivan Toledo, Tel-Aviv U.
Eran Tromer, Tel-Aviv U.
Martin Vechev, ETH Zurich
Andy Wang, Florida State U.
Ric Wheeler, Redhat
Eran Yahav, Technion
Yuanyuan Zhou, UC San Diego



From butta at cs.vt.edu  Fri Jan 20 15:59:23 2012
From: butta at cs.vt.edu (Ali R. Butt)
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:59:23 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: MASCOTS 2012
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1201201554500.30987@ap1.cs.vt.edu>


                      Call for Papers - MASCOTS 2012

                The 20th IEEE* International Symposium on
Modeling, analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication  Systems
                   http://mascots.cs.vt.edu

                          August 7-9, 2012
                          Washington, DC, USA

* IEEE/ACM pending approval
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2012
------------------------------------------------------------------------

*** Scope and Topics

The MASCOTS conference is a well-established forum for state-of-the-art 
research on the measurement, modeling, and performance analysis of 
computer systems and networks, and is sponsored* by the IEEE and in 
technical cooperation with the ACM SIGSIM*. The 20th edition of this 
conference will take place August 7-9, 2012 in the Virginia Tech 
Arilington Research Center, located in the Washington DC metropolitan 
area. The conference will bring together academics and industry 
practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results. The 
technical program for the 3-day conference will include keynote talks, 
refereed full and work-in-progress papers, and posters.

We encourage researchers world-wide to submit original technical papers 
describing their latest research work in the areas of:

- Measurement studies;
- Performance evaluation methodologies;
- Industrial practice and experience; or
- Theoretical results

Topics of interest include:

- Computer Architecture
- Computer Networks
- Distributed/Parallel Systems
- Internetworking Protocols
- Multimedia Systems
- Pervasive Web and Mobility
- Sensor Networks
- Storage Systems
- Web-based Systems
- Wireless Networks

*** Full Papers

Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and 
references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 
no less than 10 point.

*** Work-in-Progress Papers

Work-in-progress papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or 
preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and 
practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to 
obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting.  Unsuccessful 
full paper submissions will be also automatically considered for as a 
work-in-progress paper where appropriate. Work-in-progress paper 
submissions may be up to 3 pages in length (including figures and 
references), with the option of purchasing one extra page upon acceptance.

*** Submission

Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted or under review for 
publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program 
Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high 
quality and relevance to the conference.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published 
by IEEE press.

IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY

*** Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 25, 2012
Paper Submission Deadline (for both Full and Work-in-Progress): April 1, 2012
Poster Submission Deadline: June 1, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: May 6, 2012
Camera Ready version due: May 27, 2012
Author Registration Deadline: June 10, 2012
Early Registration Deadline: July 3, 2012
Conference in Washington DC: August 7-9, 2012

*** Organizing Committee

General Chair:
Srinidhi Varadarajan, Virginia Tech, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
Kalyan Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
David Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Publicity Chair:
Ali Butt, Virginia Tech, USA

Web Chair:
Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

--------------
For additional information and updates, please visit
the conference Webpage at http://mascots.cs.vt.edu
--------------



From leitian.hust at gmail.com  Wed Jan 25 07:01:44 2012
From: leitian.hust at gmail.com (Lei Tian)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:01:44 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] 3rd CFP- 7th IEEE International Conference
	on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012)
Message-ID: <8891C520-4E94-4145-9CD0-7B25493EBF97@gmail.com>

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.]

----------------------------------------------------------------------

IEEE NAS 2012 
Dates: June 28-30
Xiamen, Fujian, China

CALL FOR PAPERS

********************************************************************
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012)
http://www.nas-conference.org/
*********************************************************************

OVERVIEW
--------------------------------------------------------------
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012) will be held from June 28 ? 30, 2012 at Xiamen, Fujian, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2012 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas.

NAS has been successfully held in Dalian in 2011(NAS'11), Macau in 2010(NAS'10), Zhang Jia Jie in 2009 (NAS'09), Chongqing in 2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007 (NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006 (NAS'06).


IMPORTANT DATES
--------------------------------------------------------------
Submission Deadline: February 24th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2012
Camera-ready Paper: May 5th, 2012
Conference: June 28-30, 2012


TOPICS
--------------------------------------------------------------
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Network security and privacy
* Virtual and overlay networks
* Network applications and services
* Ad hoc and sensor networks
* Networks and protocols
* Network architectures
* Processor architectures
* Cache and memory systems
* Parallel and multi-core systems
* Impact of (emerging) technologies on architectures
* Network information theory & network coding
* Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques
* Storage management
* Storage performance and scalability
* File systems, object-based storage, and block storage
* Energy-aware storage
* Architecture and applications of solid state disks
* Performance evaluation
* Network Storage
* Innovative HW/SW tradeoffs


SUBMISSION GUILDINES
--------------------------------------------------------------
NAS 2012 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. All papers submitted to this conference will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind manner and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and they will be included in the IEEE digital library and indexed by EI.
Please submit your papers through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nas2012 for NAS 2012.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZORS
--------------------------------------------------------------
Steering Committee
--------------------------------
Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Changsheng Xie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA
Andr? Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, Germany

Honorable General Chairs
--------------------------------
Ying Zhang, Xiamen University, China

General Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
Lin Wang, Xiamen University, China

Program Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA

Vice Program Chairs [Networking]
--------------------------------
Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Vice Program Chairs [Architecture]
--------------------------------
Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China
Yiran Chen, University of Pittsburgh

Vice Program Chairs [Storage]
--------------------------------
Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA
John Bent, EMC, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Lei Tian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Hanzi Wang, Xiamen University, China

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Cuihua Li, Xiamen University, China
Da Lu, Xiamen University, China

Publication Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Registration and Finance Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Yunqi Lei, Xiamen University, China
Suzhen Wu, Xiamen University, China


For more information regarding NAS 2012, please refer to the link below:

http://www.nas-conference.org/NAS-2012/index.html



From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu  Wed Jan 25 13:18:05 2012
From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:18:05 -0700
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: Second International Workshop on
 Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems (ERSS 2012)
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From ggrider at lanl.gov  Wed Jan 25 18:43:44 2012
From: ggrider at lanl.gov (Grider, Gary A)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:43:44 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] NSF HECURA program sunset
In-Reply-To: <48089A06A8D1A74C9BF1BE3D7C3D46D903D42868@NSF-BE-04.ad.nsf.gov>
References: <CE9F1FA5-4AED-4153-90BA-414A2C5362EA@cs.cmu.edu>
	<48089A06A8D1A74C9BF1BE3D7C3D46D903D42868@NSF-BE-04.ad.nsf.gov>
Message-ID: <E784488775841C42850C47FA286F814A05E8747C@ECS-EXG-P-MB01.win.lanl.gov>

Hello Almadena, hope you are well.

The job of the HECFSIO and HEC in general was to coordinate and promote HEC, so for HECFSIO it was to promote
HECFSIO, not just FSIO or storage.  After talking to the committee the consensus is that this message should not come from the HECFSIO team because it is promoting FSIO and storage without the HEC part, which is out of scope for our charter.

So the committee thinks it best that if you want this message to go to the community it should come from you and not us.
So the suggestion was that you send it to the storage research reflector, here is how:
Just email your message to storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu<mailto:storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu>   .

Thanks
Gary





From: Chtchelkanova, Almadena Y. [mailto:achtchel at nsf.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:01 PM
To: Bent, John M; Grider, Gary A
Cc: Chtchelkanova, Almadena Y.; Dion-Schwarz, Cynthia; Hambrusch, Susanne E.
Subject: NSF HECURA program sunset

Dear Gary and John,

Could you please share the list of storage-research-list and hec-fsio list recipients?
Or can you send them the following message on my behalf?

Best,
Almadena


Dear Colleagues,

Although there are no immediate plans to continue NSF HECURA  program, the topics of storage and FSIO  are (and always will be) accepted in core CISE programs: CSR and SHF. The HECURA was envisioned to stimulate the community in these areas and encourage participation in the core programs. We now see an increased number of proposals in these areas - we want to encourage you to submit your ideas to NSF core programs.

To find appropriate opportunities, search  the NSF website http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/ for currently active awards titles.  When the database is searched  for key words "storage", "I/O", "IO", and "file sys*", 108 active awards were produced in the total amount around $36,000,000.  There are 18 active HECURA awards in this list. This means that 90 awards were made in CISE and OCI core programs.  I hope that this number will assure you that storage and FSIO continue to be important and supported topics at the NSF.

Regards,

Almadena Chtchelkanova, Ph.D.
Program Director
Computing and Communication Foundations
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard Suite 1115
Arlington, VA 22230
703-292-8910
achtchel at nsf.gov<mailto:achtchel at nsf.gov>


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From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu  Mon Jan 30 18:28:56 2012
From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao)
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:28:56 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 9th International Conference on
	Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)
Message-ID: <20120131031957.AEA503680048@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)

September 17-21, 2012. San Jose, CA, USA
http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu/
-----------------------------------------------------------------

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper and Poster Submission: March 9, 2012, 11:59pm PST
Notification: May 18, 2012
Camera-ready Due: June 8, 2012
Workshop Proposal Submission: February 10, 2012
-----------------------------------------------------------------

OVERVIEW
ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, 
foundations, and applications. Autonomic computing refers to 
methods and means for automated management of performance, fault, 
security, and configuration with little involvement of users or 
administrators. Systems introducing new autonomic features are 
becoming increasingly prevalent, motivating research that spans 
a variety of areas, from computer systems, networking, software 
engineering, and data management to machine learning, control 
theory, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together 
researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to 
address multiple facets of adaptation and self-management in 
computing systems and applications from different perspectives. 
Autonomic computing solutions are sought for clouds, grids, 
data centers, enterprise software, internet services, data 
services, smart phones, embedded systems, and sensor networks. 
In these environments, resources and applications must be managed 
to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining 
predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying 
workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Papers are solicited 
from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not limited 
to):

* End-to-end techniques for management of resources, workloads, 
  performance, faults, power/cooling, security, and others.

* Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network 
  protocols, or specific application elements, and embedded and 
  mobile end systems such as smart phones.

* Decision and analysis techniques and their use, such as machine 
  learning, control theory, predictive methods, probability and 
  stochastic processes, queuing theory methodologies, emergent 
  behavior, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques.

* Monitoring systems for autonomic computing.

* Hypervisor, operating systems, hardware, or application support 
  for autonomic computing.

* Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic 
  systems.

* Management topics, such as specification and modeling of 
  service-level agreements, behavior enforcement and tie-in with 
  IT governance.

* Toolkits, frameworks, principles and architectures, from 
  software engineering practices and experimental methodologies 
  to agent-based techniques and virtualization.

* Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems: 
  understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to 
  enforce autonomic properties.

* Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with 
  prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in 
  science, engineering, business and society.

Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, 
correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. 
Papers should report on experiences, measurements, user studies, 
or other evaluations, as appropriate. Evaluations of a prototype 
or large-scale deployment of systems and applications is expected.

PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in the two-column ACM proceedings 
format) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of 
topics relating to autonomic computing. Submitted papers must be 
original work, and may not be under consideration for another 
conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission 
instructions can be found on the conference web site. Accepted 
papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the 
conference and available electronically. Relevant top ICAC'12 
papers will be invited for "fast-track" submissions to the 
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS).
 
WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION
ICAC'12 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on topics of 
interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshop proposals 
should be submitted to the Workshop Chair, Fred Douglis 
(f.douglis at computer.org) by February 10, 2012. Workshops are 
expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that 
complement the main program. ICAC'12 will also feature a 
demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and 
technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or 
autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a 
separate committee led by the demo/exhibit chair.
 
INDUSTRY SESSION
One of ICAC's important roles is to bring together researchers 
and practitioners from academia and industry. In its industry 
session, ICAC helps fulfill this role by presenting an industry 
viewpoint on technologies, products, and market needs. The 
industry session also addresses current challenges, and 
opportunities for academic and corporate research collaborations. 
We encourage industry leaders, including entrepreneurs, product 
developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users, 
to submit their papers and posters reflecting such industry 
perspectives as part of the regular submission process.
------------------------------------------------------------------

ORGANIZERS

GENERAL CHAIR
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs

INDUSTRY CHAIR
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Fred Douglis, EMC

POSTERS/DEMO/EXHIBITS CHAIR
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research

FINANCE CHAIR
Michael Kozuch, Intel

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Jessica Blaine

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Daniel Batista, University of S??Paulo 
Vartan Padaryan, ISP/Russian Academy of Sci. 
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology 
Jianfeng Zhan, ICT/Chinese Academy of Sci.
Ming Zhao, Florida Intl. University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC
Umesh Bellur, IIT, Bombay
Ken Birman, Cornell University
Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne
Rocky Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yuan Chen, HP Labs
Alva Couch, Tufts University
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
Fred Douglis, EMC
Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
Mohamed Hefeeda, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Joe Hellerstein, Google
Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs
Jeff Kephart, IBM Research
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research
Fabio Kon, University of S??Paulo
Michael Kozuch, Intel
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs
Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
Priya Narasimhan, CMU
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University
Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs
Hartmut Schmeck, KIT
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech
Onn Shehory, IBM Research
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware



--
Ming Zhao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University
Tel: (305) 348-2034, Fax: (305) 348-3549
Email: ming at cs.fiu.edu
Web: http://visa.cs.fiu.edu/ming



From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu  Sat Feb  4 18:40:11 2012
From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao)
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 18:40:11 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICAC2012 Call for Workshops (9th
	International Conference on Autonomic Computing)
Message-ID: <20120205033053.CEE413680051@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu>

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS 

The 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference in San Jose, CA, Sep 17-21, 2012.


Proposals

Workshops offer an excellent platform for meeting people, and for exploring and discussing emerging topics in the field of autonomic computing. Although workshop organizers are free to determine the format of their workshop, we ask that a workshop aims to foster discussion and encourage collaborations among participants, rather than having only formal presentation and short Q&A sessions.

Workshop proposals should include the following information (with a maximum length of 5 pages):

* The title and a description of the workshop, including a clear description of the topic, a motivation why the topic is of interest for the domain of autonomic computing, and the goal of the workshop. This should serve as a basis for the call for papers/participation.
* A draft schedule of the workshop, with a duration of either a half day or a full day. The schedule should highlight the interactive nature of the proposed workshop.
* A tentative workshop programme committee, presenters or keynote speakers.
* The complete contact information of the workshop organizers, incl. a brief biography and an overview of previous experiences with organizing workshops.
* An indication of the expected number of papers/attendees attracted for the workshop.
* A description of past versions of the event, including dates, organizers, submission and acceptance counts, attendance, sites, registration fees and summary budget information, if available/applicable.
* A description of the plans for publicity.
* The URL of the workshop web site, if available.
* Organization

The workshop organizers are responsible for:

* Setting up a website for the workshop
* Advertising the workshop and solicit submissions
* Handling the paper submission and reviewing process and collect the camera-ready copies
* Coordinating the workshop sessions and stimulate discussion
* Publication

The proceedings will be included in the ICAC proceedings (memory stick only). Pending ACM approval, this would be published by ACM. 


Submission

Workshop organizers should submit their proposals (in a single pdf file) directly to the workshop chair, Fred Douglis (f.douglis at computer.org). Please put "ICAC Workshop proposal" in the subject line.

The workshop chair will select workshops based on the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of workshop topics, and the capacity of the conference workshop program. 


Important Dates

* Deadline for workshop proposals: February 10, 2012
* Notification of acceptance: March 2, 2012
* Workshops: September 17 and Septermber 21



From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu  Thu Feb  9 12:41:19 2012
From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:41:19 -0700
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Second CFP: Annual Int'l Systems and
	Storage Conf. (SYSTOR 2012)
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From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu  Sat Feb 11 20:48:38 2012
From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao)
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:48:38 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: ICAC2012 due in one month (9th
	International Conference on Autonomic Computing)
Message-ID: <20120212053852.9B7113680050@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)

September 16-20, 2012. San Jose, CA, USA
http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu/
-----------------------------------------------------------------

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper and Poster Submission: March 9, 2012, 11:59pm PST
Notification: May 18, 2012
Camera-ready Due: June 8, 2012
Workshop Proposal Submission: February 10, 2012
-----------------------------------------------------------------

OVERVIEW
ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, 
foundations, and applications. Autonomic computing refers to 
methods and means for automated management of performance, fault, 
security, and configuration with little involvement of users or 
administrators. Systems introducing new autonomic features are 
becoming increasingly prevalent, motivating research that spans 
a variety of areas, from computer systems, networking, software 
engineering, and data management to machine learning, control 
theory, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together 
researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to 
address multiple facets of adaptation and self-management in 
computing systems and applications from different perspectives. 
Autonomic computing solutions are sought for clouds, grids, 
data centers, enterprise software, internet services, data 
services, smart phones, embedded systems, and sensor networks. 
In these environments, resources and applications must be managed 
to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining 
predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying 
workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Papers are solicited 
from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not limited 
to):

* End-to-end techniques for management of resources, workloads, 
  performance, faults, power/cooling, security, and others.

* Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network 
  protocols, or specific application elements, and embedded and 
  mobile end systems such as smart phones.

* Decision and analysis techniques and their use, such as machine 
  learning, control theory, predictive methods, probability and 
  stochastic processes, queuing theory methodologies, emergent 
  behavior, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques.

* Monitoring systems for autonomic computing.

* Hypervisor, operating systems, hardware, or application support 
  for autonomic computing.

* Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic 
  systems.

* Management topics, such as specification and modeling of 
  service-level agreements, behavior enforcement and tie-in with 
  IT governance.

* Toolkits, frameworks, principles and architectures, from 
  software engineering practices and experimental methodologies 
  to agent-based techniques and virtualization.

* Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems: 
  understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to 
  enforce autonomic properties.

* Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with 
  prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in 
  science, engineering, business and society.

Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, 
correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. 
Papers should report on experiences, measurements, user studies, 
or other evaluations, as appropriate. Evaluations of a prototype 
or large-scale deployment of systems and applications is expected.

PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in the two-column ACM proceedings 
format) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of 
topics relating to autonomic computing. Submitted papers must be 
original work, and may not be under consideration for another 
conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission 
instructions can be found on the conference web site. Accepted 
papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the 
conference and available electronically. Relevant top ICAC'12 
papers will be invited for "fast-track" submissions to the 
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS).
 
WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION
ICAC'12 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on topics of 
interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshop proposals 
should be submitted to the Workshop Chair, Fred Douglis 
(f.douglis at computer.org) by February 10, 2012. Workshops are 
expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that 
complement the main program. ICAC'12 will also feature a 
demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and 
technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or 
autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a 
separate committee led by the demo/exhibit chair.
 
INDUSTRY SESSION
One of ICAC's important roles is to bring together researchers 
and practitioners from academia and industry. In its industry 
session, ICAC helps fulfill this role by presenting an industry 
viewpoint on technologies, products, and market needs. The 
industry session also addresses current challenges, and 
opportunities for academic and corporate research collaborations. 
We encourage industry leaders, including entrepreneurs, product 
developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users, 
to submit their papers and posters reflecting such industry 
perspectives as part of the regular submission process.
------------------------------------------------------------------

ORGANIZERS

GENERAL CHAIR
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs

INDUSTRY CHAIR
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Fred Douglis, EMC

POSTERS/DEMO/EXHIBITS CHAIR
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research

FINANCE CHAIR
Michael Kozuch, Intel

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Jessica Blaine

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Daniel Batista, University of S??Paulo 
Vartan Padaryan, ISP/Russian Academy of Sci. 
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology 
Jianfeng Zhan, ICT/Chinese Academy of Sci.
Ming Zhao, Florida Intl. University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC
Umesh Bellur, IIT, Bombay
Ken Birman, Cornell University
Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne
Rocky Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yuan Chen, HP Labs
Alva Couch, Tufts University
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
Fred Douglis, EMC
Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
Mohamed Hefeeda, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Joe Hellerstein, Google
Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs
Jeff Kephart, IBM Research
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research
Fabio Kon, University of S??Paulo
Michael Kozuch, Intel
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs
Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
Priya Narasimhan, CMU
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University
Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs
Hartmut Schmeck, KIT
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech
Onn Shehory, IBM Research
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware



--
Ming Zhao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University
Tel: (305) 348-2034, Fax: (305) 348-3549
Email: ming at cs.fiu.edu
Web: http://visa.cs.fiu.edu/ming



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From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:47:53 -0700
Subject: [Storage-research-list] ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 Keynote
	Speakers
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Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012
	Tutorials and Workshops
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From vetter at ornl.gov  Mon Feb 13 11:05:44 2012
From: vetter at ornl.gov (Vetter, Jeffrey S.)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:05:44 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: SC12 Call for Technical Papers -
	abstracts due April 20
Message-ID: <614353E7E745E3479469A446FD95E75C12224C4848@EXCHMB.ornl.gov>

                     ==============================
                     SC12 Call for Technical Papers
                     ==============================

                        November 10 - 16, 2012
                         Salt Lake City, Utah
       Abstracts due April 20, 2012; full papers due April 27, 2012
              http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/papers

SC12, the premier annual international conference on high performance
computing, networking, and storage, will be held in Salt Lake City,
Utah, November 10-16, 2012. The Technical Papers Program at SC is the
leading venue for presenting the highest-quality original research, from
the foundations of HPC to its emerging frontiers. The conference
committee solicits submissions of excellent scientific merit that
introduce new ideas to the field and stimulate future trends on topics
such as applications, systems, parallel algorithms, and performance
modeling. SC also welcomes submissions that make significant
contributions to the "state of practice" by providing compelling
insights on best practices for provisioning, using, and enhancing high
performance computing systems, services, and facilities.


New in 2012
===========
 - Reorganized and new topic areas
 - "State of Practice" track integrated with regular papers
 - Later deadlines (end of April)
 - Review rebuttal period


Technical Paper Topic Areas
===========================
Submissions will be considered on any topic related to high performance
computing including, but not limited to, the nine topical areas below.

1.   Algorithms
2.   Applications
3.   Architectures and Networks
4.   Clouds and Grids
5.   Performance, Energy, and Dependability
6.   Programming Systems
7.   Storage, Visualization, and Analytics
8.   System Software
9.   State of Practice

** Algorithms

Concerns the development, evaluation and optimization of scalable, high
performance algorithms for problems that are typically common to
multiple disciplines. Topics include:

 - Data assimilation, model refinement, and reduced-order models
 - Discrete and combinatorial problems
 - Grid and mesh-based methods
 - Inverse problems
 - Numerical methods, linear and non-linear systems
 - Particle, N-body, and molecular/coarse-grained methods
 - Uncertainty quantification

** Applications

Concerns the development and enhancement of algorithms, models,
software, and problem solving environments for domain-specific
applications that require high performance computing, networking, and
storage. Topics include:

 - Bioinformatics and computational biology
 - Computational earth and atmospheric sciences
 - Computational materials science and engineering
 - Computational astronomy, chemistry, fluid dynamics, physics, mechanics, etc.
 - Computation and data enabled social science
 - Computational design optimization for aerospace, energy, 
   manufacturing, and industrial applications
 - Computational medicine and bioengineering

** Architecture and Networks

Concerns all aspects of high performance hardware including the
optimization and evaluation of processors and networks. Topics include:

 - Processor architecture, chip multiprocessors, GPUs, cache, and memory 
   subsystems 
 - Interconnect technologies (InfiniBand, Myrinet, Quadrics, Ethernet, 
   Routable PCI etc.), switch/router architecture, network topologies, 
   on-chip or optical networks, and network fault tolerance 
 - Internet protocol (TCP, UDP, sockets), quality of service, congestion 
   management, and collective communication 
 - Power-efficient architectures, high-availability architectures, 
   stream or vector architectures, embedded and reconfigurable 
   architectures, and emerging technologies 
 - Innovative hardware/software co-design
 - Parallel and scalable system architectures
 - Performance evaluation and measurement of real systems

** Clouds and Grids

Concerns all aspects of grids and clouds. Topics include:

 - Security and identity management
 - Virtualization and overlays
 - Scheduling, load balancing, workflows, and resource provisioning
 - Data management and scientific applications
 - Self-configuration, management, information services, and monitoring
 - Compute and storage cloud architectures
 - Programming models and tools for computing on clouds and grids
 - Quality of service and service-level agreement management
 - Problem solving environments and portals
 - Service-oriented architectures and tools for integration of clouds, 
   clusters, and grids

** Performance, Energy, Dependability

Concerns the crosscutting subjects of performance, energy, and
dependability (PED) that typically span multiple areas of expertise and
are crucial factors in the design of scalable HPC systems. Topics
include:

 - Analysis, modeling, or simulation for PED
 - Empirical measurement of PED on real-world systems
 - Tools, code instrumentation, and instrumentation infrastructure 
   for measurement and monitoring of PED
 - New opportunities or challenges for PED made possible by emerging 
   HPC technologies
 - PED workload characterization and benchmarking
 - PED studies of HPC subsystems, such as processor, network, memory, 
   and I/O
 - Impact of PED on applications and their design
 - Impact of application design on PED
 - Methodologies and formalisms for PED

** Programming Systems

Concerns technologies that support parallel programming for large-scale
systems as well as smaller-scale components that will plausibly serve as
building blocks for next-generation HPC architectures. Topics include:

 - Compiler analysis and optimization; program transformation
 - Parallel programming languages and notations; programming models
 - Runtime systems
 - Libraries (in support of end users or other aspects of the 
   programming environment)
 - Parallel application frameworks
 - Tools (e.g., debuggers, performance analysis, integrated development 
   environments, data analysis, visualization)
 - Software engineering for parallel programming
 - Productivity-oriented programming environments and studies
 - Solutions for parallel programming challenges: interoperability, 
   memory consistency, determinism, race detection, work stealing, load 
   balancing, etc.

** Storage, Visualization, and Analytics

Concerns all aspects of storage, visualization, and analysis. Topics
include:

 - Databases for HPC, scalable structured storage
 - Data mining, analysis, and visualization for modeling and simulation
 - Parallel file, storage, and archival systems
 - Scalable storage, metadata, and data management
 - I/O performance tuning, benchmarking, and middleware
 - Next generation storage systems and media
 - Storage systems for data intensive computing
 - Storage networks
 - Reliability and fault tolerance in HPC storage
 - Visualization and image processing

** System Software

Concerns the design and development of operating systems, runtime
systems, and other low- level software that enables allocation and
management of hardware resources for high performance computing
applications and services. Topics include:

 - Alternative and specialized operating systems and runtime systems 
   for many-core processors
 - Support for fault tolerance and resilience
 - Management of complex memory hierarchies and transactional memory
 - Enhancements for attached and integrated accelerators
 - Distributed memory and shared memory systems
 - Communication optimization
 - Interactions between the OS, runtime, compiler, middleware, and tools
 - Strategies for managing and reducing energy consumption
 - Virtualization and virtual machines
 - Approaches for enabling adaptive and introspective system software

** State of Practice

Concerns all aspects related to the pragmatic practices of HPC,
including infrastructure, services, facilities, large-scale application
executions, etc. Submissions that develop best practices, optimized
designs, or benchmarks are of particular interest. Although concrete
case studies within a conceptual framework would likely serve as the
basis for submitted papers, efforts to generalize the experience for
wider applicability will be highly valued. Topics include:

 - Deployment experiences of large-scale infrastructures and facilities
 - Long-term infrastructural management experiences
 - Comparative benchmarks of actual machines over a wide spectrum of 
   workloads
 - Pragmatic resource management strategies and experiences
 - Facilitation of "big data" associated with supercomputing
 - User support experiences with large-scale and novel machines
 - Multi-center infrastructures and their management
 - Pragmatic bridging of cloud data centers and supercomputing centers
 - Education, training, and dissemination activities and their 
   quantitative results
 - Procurement, technology investment, and acquisition of best practices
 - Infrastructural policy issues, especially international experiences


Review Process
==============
The SC12 Technical Papers Committee will rigorously review all
submissions with the goal of selecting the best technical contributions
across both established and emerging areas of HPC. In an effort to
enhance the review process and to create an exceptional program, SC12
will introduce a review rebuttal option for the authors. The review
process acceptance criteria will concentrate on originality, technical
soundness, presentation quality, timeliness, impact, and relevance to
SC. Some papers may present principles, results, and discussions in the
context of a single node, core, thread, or GPU. To be accepted, these
papers must measurably improve upon the state of the art along
dimensions that are relevant for SC.

Awards will be presented for Best Paper and Best Student Paper. Extended
versions of papers selected as finalists for the Best Paper and Best
Student Paper Awards may be published in the journal Scientific
Programming. With our focus on quality and the observed trend towards
substantial increases in submissions from year to year, the committee
expects a 20% acceptance rate for SC12 Technical Papers.


** How to submit

SC follows a two-part submission process, with abstracts due by April
20, 2012 and full papers by April 27, 2012. Abstracts and papers must be
submitted electronically via the website
https://submissions.supercomputing.org/. A sample submission form is
also available at that site (click on the tab "Sample Submission Forms"
at the login page).

Format: Submissions are limited to 10 pages in the IEEE format (see
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.
html ) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but
does not include references, for which there is no page limit.

Selecting areas of contribution: All submissions must indicate one of
the nine areas as the primary area of contribution. One of the remaining
eight areas may be indicated as a secondary area of contribution.

Dual Submission: Submission material cannot overlap substantially with
any paper previously accepted for publication or under review by any
conference or journal during the SC review process. Authors should
follow IEEE publication policies (see
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/Multi_Sub_Guidelines_Intro.html).


Important SC12 Information
==========================
Location       : Utah Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Information    : http://sc12.supercomputing.org/
Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/
Email Contact  : papers at info.supercomputing.org

** Important Dates

Submissions Open: February 15, 2012
Abstracts Due   : April 20, 2012 (Abstracts are required in order to 
                                  submit a full paper.)
Full Papers Due : April 27, 2012
Review Rebuttal : June 15--19, 2012
Notifications   : July 15, 2012
Conference Dates: November 10-16, 2012


SC12 Technical Papers Committee
===============================

** SC12 Technical Papers Chairs

Padma Raghavan, The Pennsylvania State University
Jeffrey S. Vetter,  Georgia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

** SC12 Technical Papers Areas Chairs

Algorithms                       : Edmond Chow, Georgia Tech
Applications                     : Martin Berzins, University of Utah
Architecture and Networks        : Steve Keckler, NVIDIA and The University 
                                   of Texas at Austin
Clouds and Grids                 : Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia
Performance, Power, Dependability: David Lowenthal, University of Arizona
Programming Systems              : Brad Chamberlain, Cray Inc.
Storage, Visualization, Analytics: Hank Childs, Lawrence Berkeley National 
                                   Laboratory
System Software                  : Ron Brightwell, Sandia National 
                                   Laboratories
State of Practice                : Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute 
                                   of Technology

The complete list of members of the technical papers committee is
available online at http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/committees.

# # #



From leitian.hust at gmail.com  Sat Feb 18 14:27:49 2012
From: leitian.hust at gmail.com (Lei Tian)
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:27:49 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Submission Deadline Fast Approaching - 7th
	IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture,
	and Storage (NAS 2012)
Message-ID: <D90303F7-24DF-46FA-A442-C945EA238A32@gmail.com>

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.]

----------------------------------------------------------------------

IEEE NAS 2012 
Dates: June 28-30
Xiamen, Fujian, China

CALL FOR PAPERS

********************************************************************
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012)
http://www.nas-conference.org/
*********************************************************************

OVERVIEW
--------------------------------------------------------------
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012) will be held from June 28 ? 30, 2012 at Xiamen, Fujian, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2012 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas.

NAS has been successfully held in Dalian in 2011(NAS'11), Macau in 2010(NAS'10), Zhang Jia Jie in 2009 (NAS'09), Chongqing in 2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007 (NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006 (NAS'06).


IMPORTANT DATES
--------------------------------------------------------------
Submission Deadline: February 24th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2012
Camera-ready Paper: May 5th, 2012
Conference: June 28-30, 2012


TOPICS
--------------------------------------------------------------
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Network security and privacy
* Virtual and overlay networks
* Network applications and services
* Ad hoc and sensor networks
* Networks and protocols
* Network architectures
* Processor architectures
* Cache and memory systems
* Parallel and multi-core systems
* Impact of (emerging) technologies on architectures
* Network information theory & network coding
* Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques
* Storage management
* Storage performance and scalability
* File systems, object-based storage, and block storage
* Energy-aware storage
* Architecture and applications of solid state disks
* Performance evaluation
* Network Storage
* Innovative HW/SW tradeoffs


SUBMISSION GUILDLINES
--------------------------------------------------------------
NAS 2012 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. All papers submitted to this conference will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind manner and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and they will be included in the IEEE digital library and indexed by EI.
Please submit your papers through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nas2012 for NAS 2012.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZORS
--------------------------------------------------------------
Steering Committee
--------------------------------
Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Changsheng Xie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA
Andr? Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, Germany

Honorable General Chairs
--------------------------------
Ying Zhang, Xiamen University, China

General Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
Lin Wang, Xiamen University, China

Program Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA

Vice Program Chairs [Networking]
--------------------------------
Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Vice Program Chairs [Architecture]
--------------------------------
Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China
Yiran Chen, University of Pittsburgh

Vice Program Chairs [Storage]
--------------------------------
Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA
John Bent, EMC, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Lei Tian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Hanzi Wang, Xiamen University, China

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Cuihua Li, Xiamen University, China
Da Lu, Xiamen University, China

Publication Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Registration and Finance Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Yunqi Lei, Xiamen University, China
Suzhen Wu, Xiamen University, China


For more information regarding NAS 2012, please refer to the link below:

http://www.nas-conference.org/NAS-2012/index.html



From raju at cs.fiu.edu  Mon Feb 20 19:20:08 2012
From: raju at cs.fiu.edu (Raju)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:20:08 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] HotStorage '12 Submissions Deadline
	Approaching
Message-ID: <E8394AB3-45A6-4EB8-A6ED-733604B90446@cs.fiu.edu>

Dear Storage Researcher,

I'm writing to remind you that the submissions deadline for the 4th
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems 
(HotStorage '12) is approaching. Please submit your work by March 12, 
2012, 9:00 p.m. PST.

http://www.usenix.org/hotstorage12

The HotStorage workshop aims to provide a forum for the cutting edge in
storage research, a venue where researchers can exchange ideas and engage 
in discussions with their colleagues. We expect that workshop submissions
will advocate fresh, unorthodox approaches advancing the state of the
art in file and storage systems design. Ideas presented in the workshop
are expected to lead to work that will appear in top-tier systems
conferences in the future.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Archival storage
* Cloud storage
* Caching, replication, and data consistency
* Energy-efficient storage
* File system design
* Key-value and NoSQL storage
* Mobile storage
* New memory hierarchies
* New storage architectures
* Solid-state storage
* Storage at home
* Storage security
* Storage performance modeling and prediction
* Storage quality of service
* Storage usability
* The challenges of "Big Data"
* Transactional database storage

For more details on the submission process, please see the complete
Call for Papers at http://www.usenix.org/events/hotstorage12/cfp/

HotStorage '12 will be part of USENIX Federated Conferences Week,
which will take place June 12-15, 2012.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
HotStorage '12 Program Chair
hotstorage12chair at usenix.org

---------------------------------
Call for Papers
4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems 
(HotStorage '12)
June 13-14, 2012
Boston, MA
Part of USENIX Federated Conferences Week, June 12-15, 2012
http://www.usenix.org/events/hotstorage12/cfp/
Submissions deadline: March 12, 2012, 9:00 p.m. PST.
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From meghan at lanl.gov  Tue Feb 21 18:41:01 2012
From: meghan at lanl.gov (McClelland, Meghan W)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:41:01 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Fwd: Computer Journal CFP
References: <201202212213.q1LMDOex003015@DSX4000-4.tagadab.com>
Message-ID: <4381E034-171C-42ED-BF63-5E69B0E3B9C5@lanl.gov>



Begin forwarded message:

From: PMBS11 <pmbs11 at easychair.org<mailto:pmbs11 at easychair.org>>
Date: February 21, 2012 3:13:24 PM MST
To: Meghan Wingate <meghan at lanl.gov<mailto:meghan at lanl.gov>>
Subject: Computer Journal CFP

Please see the following open call:

Computer Journal Special Issue on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High
Performance Computing Systems


This special issue is concerned with the comparison of high-performance computing systems through
performance modeling, benchmarking or through the use of tools such as simulators.

We are particularly interested in research that reports the ability to measure and make tradeoffs in
software/hardware co-design to improve sustained application performance. We are also keen to
capture the assessment of future systems, for example through work that ensures continued application
scalability through peta- and exa-scale systems.

The aim of this special issue is to present work from industry and academia concerned with the
qualitative and quantitative evaluation and modeling of high-performance computing systems. Authors
are invited to submit novel research in all areas of performance modeling, benchmarking and
simulation, and we welcome research that brings together current theory and practice. We recognise
that the coverage of the term 'performance' has broadened to include power consumption and
reliability, and that performance modeling is practiced through analytical methods and approaches
based on software tools and simulators.

We encourage submissions in the following areas:

- Performance modeling, analysis, and prediction of applications and high-performance computing
systems
- Novel techniques and tools for performance evaluation and prediction
- Advanced simulation techniques and tools
- Micro-benchmarking, application benchmarking and tracing
- Performance-driven code optimisation, scalability analysis
- Verification and validation of performance models
- Benchmarking and performance analysis of novel hardware
- Performance concerns in software/hardware co-design
- Tuning and auto-tuning of HPC applications and algorithms
- Benchmark suites
- Performance visualisation
- Real-world case studies

**Instructions for authors**

Paper submissions should conform to the guidelines provided in the Computer Journal?s manuscript
preparation instructions and should be submitted via the journal web submission system
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/compj

Please indicate that the submission is for the special issue on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and
Simulation of HPC Systems in the cover letter.

A PDF version of the submitted manuscript should also be emailed to Professor Stephen Jarvis.
Submitted papers will be peer reviewed on the basis of originality, quality and relevance according to
the usual standards of The Computer Journal.

**Important dates**

The deadline for submission is 31 March 2012.

**Guest editor**

Professor Stephen Jarvis, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick , Coventry CV4 7AL,
UK.

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From leitian.hust at gmail.com  Thu Feb 23 03:06:10 2012
From: leitian.hust at gmail.com (Lei Tian)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:06:10 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Deadline Extension - 7th IEEE International
	Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012)
Message-ID: <B2C999AB-1924-42CA-8FA6-FF9B1C5F8172@gmail.com>

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.]

----------------------------------------------------------------------

IEEE NAS 2012 
Dates: June 28-30
Xiamen, Fujian, China

CALL FOR PAPERS

********************************************************************
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012)
http://www.nas-conference.org/
*********************************************************************

Submission deadline is extended to March 16, 2012.


OVERVIEW
--------------------------------------------------------------
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012) will be held from June 28 ? 30, 2012 at Xiamen, Fujian, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2012 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas.

NAS has been successfully held in Dalian in 2011(NAS'11), Macau in 2010(NAS'10), Zhang Jia Jie in 2009 (NAS'09), Chongqing in 2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007 (NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006 (NAS'06).


IMPORTANT DATES
--------------------------------------------------------------
Submission Deadline: March 16, 2012
Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2012
Camera-ready Paper: May 5th, 2012
Conference: June 28-30, 2012


TOPICS
--------------------------------------------------------------
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Network security and privacy
* Virtual and overlay networks
* Network applications and services
* Ad hoc and sensor networks
* Networks and protocols
* Network architectures
* Processor architectures
* Cache and memory systems
* Parallel and multi-core systems
* Impact of (emerging) technologies on architectures
* Network information theory & network coding
* Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques
* Storage management
* Storage performance and scalability
* File systems, object-based storage, and block storage
* Energy-aware storage
* Architecture and applications of solid state disks
* Performance evaluation
* Network Storage
* Innovative HW/SW tradeoffs


SUBMISSION GUILDLINES
--------------------------------------------------------------
NAS 2012 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. All papers submitted to this conference will be peer-reviewed in a single-blind manner and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and they will be included in the IEEE digital library and indexed by EI.
Please submit your papers through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nas2012 for NAS 2012.


CONFERENCE ORGANIZORS
--------------------------------------------------------------
Steering Committee
--------------------------------
Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Changsheng Xie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA
Andr? Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, Germany

Honorable General Chairs
--------------------------------
Ying Zhang, Xiamen University, China

General Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA
Lin Wang, Xiamen University, China

Program Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA

Vice Program Chairs [Networking]
--------------------------------
Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Murat Yuksel, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Vice Program Chairs [Architecture]
--------------------------------
Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China
Yiran Chen, University of Pittsburgh

Vice Program Chairs [Storage]
--------------------------------
Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA
John Bent, EMC, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Lei Tian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Hanzi Wang, Xiamen University, China

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Cuihua Li, Xiamen University, China
Da Lu, Xiamen University, China

Publication Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Registration and Finance Co-Chairs
--------------------------------
Yunqi Lei, Xiamen University, China
Suzhen Wu, Xiamen University, China


For more information regarding NAS 2012, please refer to the link below:

http://www.nas-conference.org/NAS-2012/index.html



From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu  Tue Mar  6 17:20:09 2012
From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 17:20:09 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: ICAC2012 deadline extended to Mar 16
	(9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing)
Message-ID: <20120307020851.144913680046@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)

September 17-21, 2012. San Jose, CA, USA
http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu/
-----------------------------------------------------------------

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper and Poster Submission: March 16, 2012, 11:59pm PST (EXTENDED)
Notification: May 18, 2012
Camera-ready Due: June 8, 2012
-----------------------------------------------------------------

OVERVIEW
ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, 
foundations, and applications. Autonomic computing refers to 
methods and means for automated management of performance, fault, 
security, and configuration with little involvement of users or 
administrators. Systems introducing new autonomic features are 
becoming increasingly prevalent, motivating research that spans 
a variety of areas, from computer systems, networking, software 
engineering, and data management to machine learning, control 
theory, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together 
researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to 
address multiple facets of adaptation and self-management in 
computing systems and applications from different perspectives. 
Autonomic computing solutions are sought for clouds, grids, 
data centers, enterprise software, internet services, data 
services, smart phones, embedded systems, and sensor networks. 
In these environments, resources and applications must be managed 
to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining 
predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying 
workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Papers are solicited 
from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not limited 
to):

* End-to-end techniques for management of resources, workloads, 
  performance, faults, power/cooling, security, and others.

* Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network 
  protocols, or specific application elements, and embedded and 
  mobile end systems such as smart phones.

* Decision and analysis techniques and their use, such as machine 
  learning, control theory, predictive methods, probability and 
  stochastic processes, queuing theory methodologies, emergent 
  behavior, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques.

* Monitoring systems for autonomic computing.

* Hypervisor, operating systems, hardware, or application support 
  for autonomic computing.

* Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic 
  systems.

* Management topics, such as specification and modeling of 
  service-level agreements, behavior enforcement and tie-in with 
  IT governance.

* Toolkits, frameworks, principles and architectures, from 
  software engineering practices and experimental methodologies 
  to agent-based techniques and virtualization.

* Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems: 
  understanding, controlling or exploiting system behaviors to 
  enforce autonomic properties.

* Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with 
  prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in 
  science, engineering, business and society.

Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, 
correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. 
Papers should report on experiences, measurements, user studies, 
or other evaluations, as appropriate. Evaluations of a prototype 
or large-scale deployment of systems and applications is expected.

PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSIONS
Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in the two-column ACM proceedings 
format) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of 
topics relating to autonomic computing. Submitted papers must be 
original work, and may not be under consideration for another 
conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission 
instructions can be found on the conference web site. Accepted 
papers and posters will appear in proceedings distributed at the 
conference and available electronically. Relevant top ICAC'12 
papers will be invited for "fast-track" submissions to the 
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS).
 
INDUSTRY SESSION
One of ICAC's important roles is to bring together researchers 
and practitioners from academia and industry. In its industry 
session, ICAC helps fulfill this role by presenting an industry 
viewpoint on technologies, products, and market needs. The 
industry session also addresses current challenges, and 
opportunities for academic and corporate research collaborations. 
We encourage industry leaders, including entrepreneurs, product 
developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users, 
to submit their papers and posters reflecting such industry 
perspectives as part of the regular submission process.
------------------------------------------------------------------

ORGANIZERS

GENERAL CHAIR
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs

INDUSTRY CHAIR
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Fred Douglis, EMC

POSTERS/DEMO/EXHIBITS CHAIR
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research

FINANCE CHAIR
Michael Kozuch, Intel

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Jessica Blaine

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Daniel Batista, University of S?o Paulo 
Vartan Padaryan, ISP/Russian Academy of Sci. 
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology 
Jianfeng Zhan, ICT/Chinese Academy of Sci.
Ming Zhao, Florida Intl. University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC
Umesh Bellur, IIT, Bombay
Ken Birman, Cornell University
Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne
Rocky Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yuan Chen, HP Labs
Alva Couch, Tufts University
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
Fred Douglis, EMC
Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
Mohamed Hefeeda, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Joe Hellerstein, Google
Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs
Jeff Kephart, IBM Research
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research
Fabio Kon, University of S?o Paulo
Michael Kozuch, Intel
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs
Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
Priya Narasimhan, CMU
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University
Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs
Hartmut Schmeck, KIT
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech
Onn Shehory, IBM Research
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware




From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu  Mon Mar 12 10:51:57 2012
From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:51:57 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] USENIX HotStorage '12 Submission Deadline
	Next Week
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From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:50:37 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation ICPE 2012 - April
	22-25, 2012
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Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final Reminder: SDC 2012 Call for
	Presentations
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From butta at cs.vt.edu  Mon Mar 19 13:12:44 2012
From: butta at cs.vt.edu (Ali R. Butt)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:12:44 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP Reminder: Submission deadline in 2
	weeks: The 20th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling,
	analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication  Systems
Message-ID: <02f001cd05f3$802829c0$80787d40$@cs.vt.edu>

                    Call for Papers - MASCOTS 2012

              The 20th IEEE* International Symposium on
Modeling, analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication  Systems
                 http://mascots.cs.vt.edu

                        August 7-9, 2012
                        Washington, DC, USA

* IEEE/ACM pending approval
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2012
------------------------------------------------------------------------

*** Scope and Topics

The MASCOTS conference is a well-established forum for state-of-the-art
research on the measurement, modeling, and performance analysis of computer
systems and networks, and is sponsored* by the IEEE and in technical
cooperation with the ACM SIGSIM*. The 20th edition of this conference will
take place August 7-9, 2012 in the Virginia Tech Arilington Research Center,
located in the Washington DC metropolitan area. The conference will bring
together academics and industry practitioners to present and discuss their
latest research results. The technical program for the 3-day conference will
include keynote talks, refereed full and work-in-progress papers, and
posters.

We encourage researchers world-wide to submit original technical papers
describing their latest research work in the areas of:

- Measurement studies;
- Performance evaluation methodologies;
- Industrial practice and experience; or
- Theoretical results

Topics of interest include:

- Computer Architecture
- Computer Networks
- Distributed/Parallel Systems
- Internetworking Protocols
- Multimedia Systems
- Pervasive Web and Mobility
- Sensor Networks
- Storage Systems
- Web-based Systems
- Wireless Networks

*** Full Papers

Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and
references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size no
less than 10 point.

*** Work-in-Progress Papers

Work-in-progress papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or
preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to
obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting.  Unsuccessful full
paper submissions will be also automatically considered for as a
work-in-progress paper where appropriate. Work-in-progress paper submissions
may be up to 3 pages in length (including figures and references), with the
option of purchasing one extra page upon acceptance.

*** Submission

Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted or under review for
publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program
Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high
quality and relevance to the conference.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by
IEEE press.

IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY

*** Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: March 25, 2012
Paper Submission Deadline (for both Full and Work-in-Progress): April 1,
2012
Poster Submission Deadline: June 1, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: May 6, 2012
Camera Ready version due: May 27, 2012
Author Registration Deadline: June 10, 2012
Early Registration Deadline: July 3, 2012
Conference in Washington DC: August 7-9, 2012

*** Organizing Committee

General Chair:
Srinidhi Varadarajan, Virginia Tech, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
Kalyan Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
David Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Publicity Chair:
Ali Butt, Virginia Tech, USA

Web Chair:
Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

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the conference Webpage at http://mascots.cs.vt.edu
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From meghan at lanl.gov  Mon Mar 19 16:55:42 2012
From: meghan at lanl.gov (McClelland, Meghan W)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:55:42 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] LANL filesystems data release
Message-ID: <51EDB1FF-1677-447B-AB4C-AE98147501BF@lanl.gov>


In order to enable open computer science research access to archive file data and usage is desperately needed. Today Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) publicly released a metadata walk of some of our archive and NFS filesystems.  These data are provided by LANL under universal release to any computer science researcher to use to enable computer science work.

The data set is about 19G and consists of roughly 112 million lines of archive data and roughly 9 million lines of home/project space data.

More information and the data are available from the archive data release webpage:

http://institutes.lanl.gov/data/archive-data/
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From Mi_Mi_AUNG at dsi.a-star.edu.sg  Tue Mar 20 09:28:53 2012
From: Mi_Mi_AUNG at dsi.a-star.edu.sg (Khin Mi Mi Aung (DSI))
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:28:53 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Research Scientist positions are available
 in the Storage Security Research group
Message-ID: <234F3F5EF513924D831C741D95E9D04402A019@S3-EXCHMB04.shared-svc.local>

Hello All,

I'd like to introduce Research Scientist positions in the Storage Security Research group, Singapore.
Position Details
A *STAR- Data Storage Institute



Research Scientist


You will be involved in research and development of large scale storage security solutions including access control policies, data security and privacy. Research topics include but not necessary limited to file system security, memory encryption, and privacy preserving security controls. Candidates are expected to have thorough understanding of the state-of-the-art research in this field, and with breadth of knowledge of the current issues and recent technology advancements.
Requirement
*         A demonstrated potential to excel in collaborative research spanning multiple research areas
*         Strong understanding of operating systems design and implementation
*         Demonstrated skills of C/C++, and programming under Linux
*         Experience in developing prototypes in a research environment
*         Highly self-motivated and willing to learn new technology
*         PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering



View description and apply online at:

http://sg.dimension.jobsdb.com/career/Default.asp?PID=3&AC=ContactSG&EC=CONSG&GC=G1&JobID=26881&LID=1&SP=1&GID=118&SGB164881533384323


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OR


A cover letter and CV can be sent through email to Mi_Mi_AUNG at dsi.a-star.edu.sg<mailto:Mi_Mi_AUNG at dsi.a-star.edu.sg>

About Us: The Institute maintains a strong research program with significant funding from the major federal research agencies and private industries. The Institute has a diverse full-time Researcher of 200+, with approximately 100 undergraduates and post graduate students.

More information can be found at the following website:

http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg

________________________________
This email and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately. Please do not copy or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email does not constitute a contract offer, a contract amendment, or an acceptance of a contract offer. Thank you.
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From yong.chen at ttu.edu  Fri Mar 23 00:57:49 2012
From: yong.chen at ttu.edu (Chen, Yong)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:57:49 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: The 5th P2S2'12 workshop with Parallel
 Computing journal special issue
Message-ID: <CB916CFD.22006%yong.chen@ttu.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

The extended submission deadline (Apr. 6th, 2012) of the 5th International
Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end
Computing (P2S2), in conjunction with ICPP-2012, is approaching. We
welcome  you submit your high-quality research work there. The best papers
of P2S2'12  will be included in a **dedicated special issue of the
Parallel Computing (by Elsevier, impact factor: 1.086)**. Please find a
detailed CFP below.

Thank you.

P2S2-2012 Co-chairs


CALL FOR PAPERS
===============

Fifth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models
and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2)
Sept. 10th, 2012

To be held in conjunction with ICPP-2012: The 41st International
Conference on Parallel Processing, Sept. 10-13, 2012, Pittsburgh, USA

Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2012/

SCOPE
-----
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for
high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas,
experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
------------------
The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing
architectures
o Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing
o High-performance file and storage systems
o Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations
o Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other
management mechanisms for high-end computing

* Programming models and their high-performance implementations
o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel,
Fortress and others
o Hybrid Programming Models

* Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization
o Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern
Architectures o Job scheduling libraries
o Management libraries for large-scale system
o Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms

* Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing
platforms


PROCEEDINGS
-----------
Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be
available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference
proceedings). The
accepted papers will be included in and indexed by the IEEE digital
library.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
---------------------
The best papers of P2S2-2012 will be included in a Special Issue on
Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Parallel Computing
(ParCo), edited by Yong Chen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu.

This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the P2S2
workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only, and
the submission deadline is August 17th, 2012.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
-----------------------
Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They should
not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on
relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Please
visit workshop website at:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/
for the submission link.


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Paper Submission: April 6th, 2012
Author Notification: June 8th, 2012
Camera Ready: June 27th, 2012
Workshop Date: Sept 10th, 2012


PROGRAM CHAIRS
--------------
* Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
* Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
* Yong Chen, Texas Tech University

PUBLICITY CHAIR
---------------
* Qichang Liang, University of Otago


STEERING COMMITTEE
------------------
* William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
* Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------
* Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University
* George Almasi, IBM Research
* Taisuke Boku, Tsukuba University
* Darius Buntinas, Argonne National Laboratory
* Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
* Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory
* Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
* Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China
* Paul Hargrove, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
* Torsten Hoefler, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
* Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
* Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
* Darren J. Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Lab
* Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego
* Heshan Lin, Virginia Tech
* Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
* Sonia Sachs, Department of Energy
* Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences
* Gabriel Tanase, IBM Research
* Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory
* Vinod Tipparaju, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
* Jesper Traff, University of Vienna, Austria
* Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs at mcs.anl.gov



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From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
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 2012)
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From xmountr at ju.edu  Mon Mar 26 13:14:24 2012
From: xmountr at ju.edu (Xenia Mountrouidou)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:14:24 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Extended Submission Deadline - April 9th:
 The Second International Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of
 Storage Systems (ERSS 2012)
Message-ID: <CAGbuO8UJw-JbWkDPuK+nEJ6uLi3ckg05RG2zLtOvvQq0WNw_gg@mail.gmail.com>

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]

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             The Second International Workshop on
     Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems
                        (ERSS 2012)

                 Held in conjunction with the
     International Green Computing Conference - IGCC 2012
            June 5, 2012, San Jose, California, USA

            http://research.cs.vt.edu/dssl/wer/
 =====================================================================

IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------
   * Submission deadline:      *April 9, 2012, 11:59 PDT*  *(extended)*
   * Author Notification:          April 23, 2012
   * Camera-ready deadline:   May 7, 2012

 CALL FOR PAPERS
 -------------------------------
 Large-scale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on
 information storage capacity, performance, energy consumption,
 reliability, and manageability. The increasing use of computers for
 saving valuable data imposes stringent energy consumption and
 reliability constraints on storage systems. As the disk capacity
 improves, advanced techniques are being employed to proactively conserve
 energy while improving the reliability of the storage systems.

 To this end, the Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of
 Storage Systems is being organized to bring together researchers and
 practitioners to explore the challenges, opportunities, and approaches
 of energy-aware and reliable storage systems. This workshop focuses on
 the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in large-scale
 scientific and enterprise computing environments, with special attention
 to the issues concerning energy consumption and reliability of the
 storage systems.

 SUBMISSIONS
 -------------------------------
 We solicit papers on all aspects of energy efficient and reliable
 storage systems. The topics include (but are not limited to):

 * Cloud storage system.
 * Cluster and data center storage system.
 * Energy efficient storage system.
 * Reliable storage system.
 * Algorithms for energy and reliability-aware storage.
 * Models for collective optimization of energy and reliability.
 * Monitoring tools for energy and/or reliability-aware storage.
 * Experiences with real storage systems concerning energy and reliability.
 * Reliability and energy efficiency in mobile storage systems.
 * Factors affecting energy and/or reliability.

 The workshop invites authors to submit papers describing original,
 unpublished, work in all areas of energy consumption and reliability
 storage systems that is not concurrently under review elsewhere. All
 submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee.

 The papers should not exceed five single-spaced pages (IEEE Computer
 Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, 11-point fonts, IEEE
 8.5 x 11 inch) including everything, e.g., abstract, research
 description, figures, tables, and references.

 Each paper will be refereed by independent reviewers. Submission is a
 definite commitment for at least one of the authors to register to
 attend IGCC (workshops are included) and present the paper if it is
 accepted.

 The workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society
 along with the IGCC conference proceedings.

 WORKSHOP CHAIRS
 -------------------------------
 Xenia Mountrouidou, Jacksonville University
 Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech
 Chris Gniady, University of Arizona

 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 -------------------------------
Jichuan Chang, HP Labs
Canturk Isci, IBM TJ Watson
Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University
Prasenjit Sarkar, IBM Almaden Research
Peter J. Varman, Rice U.
Tao Xie, San Diego State U.
Yifeng Zhu, U. Maine
Mustafa Uysal, Vmware
Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research
Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs
Wes Felter, IBM Austin Research
Sriram Sankar, Microsoft

 STEERING COMMITTEE
 -------------------------------
Sudhanva Gurumurthi, U. Virginia
Jun Wang, U. Central Florida
Hari Cadambi, NEC Labs
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State
Canturk Isci, IBM TJ Watson

 WEBSITE
 -------------------------------
http://research.cs.vt.edu/dssl/wer/

 CONTACT
 -------------------------------
 If you have any questions, please contact us:


Xenia Mountrouidou xmountr at ju.edu, or
 Ali R. Butt butta at cs.vt.edu, or
 Chris Gniady gniady at cs.arizona.edu


-- 
Best regards,

Xenia Mountrouidou
Visiting Assistant Professor
Jacksonville University,
Department of Computing Sciences
http://www.xeniamountrouidou.net/
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Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation ICPE 2012 - Hotel
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From butta at cs.vt.edu  Tue Mar 27 12:31:44 2012
From: butta at cs.vt.edu (Ali R. Butt)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:31:44 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Storage-research-list] *Extended Submission Deadline* -- MASCOTS
 2012 -- The 20th International Symposium on Modeling,
 analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1203271225290.16383@ap1.cs.vt.edu>


The 20th IEEE* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and 
Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems

                               MASCOTS'12
                     http://mascots.cs.vt.edu
                            August 7-9, 2012
                       Washington, DC, USA

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Submission Deadline: April 8, 2012 (extended from April 1, 2012)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

*** Scope and Topics

The MASCOTS conference is a well-established forum for state-of-the-art
research on the measurement, modeling, and performance analysis of
computer systems and networks, and is sponsored* by the IEEE and
in technical cooperation with the ACM SIGSIM*.
The 20th edition of this conference will take place August 7-9, 2012 in
the Virginia Tech Arlington Research Center, located in the Washington DC
metropolitan area. The conference will bring together academics and
industry practitioners to present and discuss their latest research
results. The technical program for the 3-day conference will include
keynote talks, refereed full and work-in-progress papers, and posters.

We encourage researchers world-wide to submit original technical papers
describing their latest research work in the areas of:

- Measurement studies;
- Performance evaluation methodologies;
- Industrial practice and experience; or
- Theoretical results

Topics of interest include:

- Computer Architecture
- Computer Networks
- Distributed/Parallel Systems
- Internetworking Protocols
- Multimedia Systems
- Pervasive Web and Mobility
- Sensor Networks
- Storage Systems
- Web-based Systems
- Wireless Networks

*** Full Papers
Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and
references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size
no less than 10 point.

*** Work-in-Progress Papers

Work-in-progress papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or
preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to
obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting.  Unsuccessful
full paper submissions will be also be given consideration as a
work-in-progress paper where appropriate. Work-in-progress paper
submissions may be up to 3 pages in length (including figures and
references), with the option of purchasing one extra page upon acceptance.
Please see the conference webpage for additional details.

*** Submission

Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted or under review for
publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by program
committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high
quality and relevance to the conference.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published
by IEEE press.

IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY

*** Important Dates

Abstract submission (main track): April 1, 2012 (extended from March 25)
Paper submission (main track): April 8, 2012 (extended from April 1)
Notification of acceptance (main track): May 6, 2012
Poster paper submission: May 13, 2012
Poster paper acceptance: May 20, 2012
Camera-ready due (main and poster tracks): May 27, 2012
Author registration (main and poster tracks): June 10, 2012
Early registration (main and poster tracks): July 3, 2012
Conference in Washington DC: August 7-9, 2012

*** Organizing Committee

General Chair:
Srinidhi Varadarajan, Virginia Tech, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
Kalyan Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
David Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Publicity Chair:
Ali Butt, Virginia Tech, USA

Web Chair:
Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

--------------
For additional information and updates, please visit
the conference webpage at http://mascots.cs.vt.edu
--------------

* IEEE/ACM pending approval



From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu  Fri Mar 30 11:53:08 2012
From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:53:08 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: SC12 Call for Technical Papers -
	abstracts due April 20
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From meghan at lanl.gov  Wed Apr  4 14:42:56 2012
From: meghan at lanl.gov (McClelland, Meghan W)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:42:56 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] LANL fsstats (Filesystem Statistics) data
	release
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To enable computer science research Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is releasing static file tree data (fsstats) for some of our parallel filesystems. These data include aggregate information on capacity, file and directory sizes, filename lengths, link counts, etc. The fsstats cover 9 anonymous parallel filesystems ranging from 16 TB to 439 TB total capacity used and file counts range from 2,024,729 to 43,605,555.

The following sets of data are provided by Los Alamos National Laboratory under universal release to any computer science researcher to use to enable computer science work.

If you use these data in your research please recognize Los Alamos National Laboratory for providing these data.

More information and the data may be found on the fsstats data release page:

http://institutes.lanl.gov/data/fsstats-data/
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From mark.carlson at oracle.com  Sun Apr  8 20:28:21 2012
From: mark.carlson at oracle.com (Mark Carlson)
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:28:21 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Submission deadline extended - SVM 2012
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We have decided to extend the paper submission deadline to April 22, 2012.


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  6th International DMTF Workshop on Systems and
          Virtualization Management:
       Standards and the Cloud SVM 2012
http://dmtf.org/svm12
             26 October 2012
  Conference on Network and Service Management
               Las Vegas, Nevada USA


Call for Papers and Call for Posters


The DMTF Academic Alliance announces the creation of the sixth workshop 
dedicated to academic research on standards and new technologies for 
systems and virtualization management. This event comes in addition to 
the technical and developers' events organized for several years by the 
DMTF, and will take place the week of October 22 in Las Vegas, Nevada 
USA.  We will be holding a poster session in addition to the workshop.


The primary theme of SVM 2012 will be "Systems and Virtualization 
Management: Standards and the Cloud". With the advent and increasing 
popularity of Cloud Computing, systems management and virtualization 
management technology has taken on increasing importance. The goal of 
SVM 2012 is to illuminate related standards and research issues, 
covering areas such as: what are the implications of standards for 
virtualization in Cloud Computing, what advances in information models 
and protocols aid in managing Clouds, what new problems will we incur 
when managing Cloud offerings and services, and how management itself 
might benefit from virtualization and the Cloud. Submissions on topics 
related to managing Clouds, virtualization of distributed 
resources/services and work in management standardization are thus 
particularly encouraged.

Papers submitted to SVM'12 must not have been published, accepted for 
publication, or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    Virtualization
           Management of Compute Clouds
           Management of Storage Clouds
           Use of Virtualization for Management
    Management of Green Cloud Computing
    Virtualization Management
    Key management issues
        Infrastructure for management
        Managing IaaS infrastructure
        Use and extension of management standards
        System management techniques
        Network, Server, and Desktop management
        Information models for management
        Instrumentation and metrics for management
        Diagnostics and Fault management
        Management Behavior and State modeling
    Web services and SOA
        Managing SaaS infrastructure
        Web services based management
        Development and use of management protocols
        Use of SOA in management of distributed systems
    New management paradigms
        Management automation
        Policy-based management
    Experience implementing and deploying management technology
    Security
        Security management
        Cloud security
        Best practices for security metrics
        Privacy and Data Protection on Cloud Computing
    Monitoring Cloud Computing

Submission for Papers
==========

Authors are requested to submit either long or short papers via the 
conference submission software:

    Long papers presenting research results (up to 8 pages in IEEE 
2-column format, excluding references)
    Short papers describing research work-in-progress or position 
statements (up to 4 pages in IEEE 2-column format, excluding references)

Please submit your papers to the conference submission Web site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=svm12


Submission for Posters
==========

Authors of accepted papers to SVM 2012 are encouraged to submit a poster 
on the same topic as their paper.  People are also encouraged to submit 
a poster, even without submitting a paper to the workshop.

Presenters are requested to submit an abstract (250-1000 words) of their 
poster via the conference submission Web site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=svm12postersession

Tall posters can be 36" wide by 48" long
Wide posters can be 48" wide by 36" long



Important Dates
==========
Deadlines are the same for papers and posters.

Paper Registration: 15 April 2012
Submission Deadline: 22 April 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 6 July 2012
Camera Ready Papers and Posters (Easy Chair + Proceedings): 3 August 2012




The DMTF values input from the academic world and is open to providing 
information to faculty and students who are studying and researching 
management standards. The Academic Alliance membership is a free 
membership for individuals of accredited institutions of higher 
learning. Academic Alliance Members have access to the DMTF members-only 
Web pages and member email lists. Academic Alliance Members are eligible 
to participate in DMTF working groups as non-voting members, and in the 
DMTF Marketing and Technical Committees as non-voting members.

For more information on how to become an Academic Alliance Member, 
please contact DMTF Administration (http://dmtf.org/contact).
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From xmountr at ju.edu  Tue Apr 10 07:23:16 2012
From: xmountr at ju.edu (Xenia Mountrouidou)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:23:16 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Extended Submission Deadline - April 15th:
 The Second International Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of
 Storage Systems (ERSS 2012)
Message-ID: <CAGbuO8XxSx4nZe=oi_pdEDf0CgBGANN27-N2zguw8ga3zN9YUw@mail.gmail.com>

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]

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=======================================
             The Second International Workshop on
     Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems
                        (ERSS 2012)

                 Held in conjunction with the
     International Green Computing Conference - IGCC 2012
            June 5, 2012, San Jose, California, USA

            http://research.cs.vt.edu/dssl/wer/
 =====================================================================

IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------
   * Submission deadline:      *April 15, 2012, 11:59 PDT*  *(extended)*
   * Author Notification:          April 23, 2012
   * Camera-ready deadline:   May 7, 2012

 CALL FOR PAPERS
 -------------------------------
 Large-scale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on
 information storage capacity, performance, energy consumption,
 reliability, and manageability. The increasing use of computers for
 saving valuable data imposes stringent energy consumption and
 reliability constraints on storage systems. As the disk capacity
 improves, advanced techniques are being employed to proactively conserve
 energy while improving the reliability of the storage systems.

 To this end, the Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of
 Storage Systems is being organized to bring together researchers and
 practitioners to explore the challenges, opportunities, and approaches
 of energy-aware and reliable storage systems. This workshop focuses on
 the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in large-scale
 scientific and enterprise computing environments, with special attention
 to the issues concerning energy consumption and reliability of the
 storage systems.

 SUBMISSIONS
 -------------------------------
 We solicit papers on all aspects of energy efficient and reliable
 storage systems. The topics include (but are not limited to):

 * Cloud storage system.
 * Cluster and data center storage system.
 * Energy efficient storage system.
 * Reliable storage system.
 * Algorithms for energy and reliability-aware storage.
 * Models for collective optimization of energy and reliability.
 * Monitoring tools for energy and/or reliability-aware storage.
 * Experiences with real storage systems concerning energy and reliability.
 * Reliability and energy efficiency in mobile storage systems.
 * Factors affecting energy and/or reliability.

 The workshop invites authors to submit papers describing original,
 unpublished, work in all areas of energy consumption and reliability
 storage systems that is not concurrently under review elsewhere. All
 submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee.

 The papers should not exceed five single-spaced pages (IEEE Computer
 Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, 11-point fonts, IEEE
 8.5 x 11 inch) including everything, e.g., abstract, research
 description, figures, tables, and references.

 Each paper will be refereed by independent reviewers. Submission is a
 definite commitment for at least one of the authors to register to
 attend IGCC (workshops are included) and present the paper if it is
 accepted.

 The workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society
 along with the IGCC conference proceedings.

 WORKSHOP CHAIRS
 -------------------------------
 Xenia Mountrouidou, Jacksonville University
 Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech
 Chris Gniady, University of Arizona

 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 -------------------------------
Jichuan Chang, HP Labs
Canturk Isci, IBM TJ Watson
Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University
Prasenjit Sarkar, IBM Almaden Research
Peter J. Varman, Rice U.
Tao Xie, San Diego State U.
Yifeng Zhu, U. Maine
Mustafa Uysal, Vmware
Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research
Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs
Wes Felter, IBM Austin Research
Sriram Sankar, Microsoft

 STEERING COMMITTEE
 -------------------------------
Sudhanva Gurumurthi, U. Virginia
Jun Wang, U. Central Florida
Hari Cadambi, NEC Labs
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State
Canturk Isci, IBM TJ Watson

 WEBSITE
 -------------------------------
http://research.cs.vt.edu/dssl/wer/

 CONTACT
 -------------------------------
 If you have any questions, please contact us:


Xenia Mountrouidou xmountr at ju.edu, or
 Ali R. Butt butta at cs.vt.edu, or
 Chris Gniady gniady at cs.arizona.edu

-- 
Best regards,

Xenia Mountrouidou
Visiting Assistant Professor
Jacksonville University,
Department of Computing Sciences
http://www.xeniamountrouidou.net/
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Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation ICPE 2012 - April 15
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From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu  Wed Apr 11 07:12:16 2012
From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:12:16 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 7th International Workshop on Feedback
	Computing
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==================================================
Feedback Computing 2012
The 7th International Workshop on Feedback Computing
http://www.feedbackcomputing.org

In conjunction with ICAC 2012
http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu
San Jose, California, USA
September 17, 2012

(Paper Submission Date: June 15, 2012)
===================================================

Following the success of the FeBID workshops over the past six years, we debut the Feedback Computing workshop: a unique forum built around the concepts and technologies of applying, analyzing, designing, and exploiting feedback in computing systems. The creation of this new workshop represents the growing use of feedback in a broader agenda and is a timely response to the following two trends: (1) Computing systems are growing larger, smarter, and more complex, and encompass new fields such as cyber-physical systems, social networks, and mobile applications. While much existing work focuses on individual components and systems, it is time to take a more systematic approach and address the dynamical complexity of interactions that arise system-wide with much large scale. (2) Many research disciplines such as machine learning, mathematical optimization, automatic control, cyber-physical systems, and autonomic computing rely on feedback to achieve goals such as autonomy, learni
 ng, adaptation, stabilization, robustness, or performance optimization. However, much of existing work focuses on isolated disciplines. It is time to take a more holistic approach and address the foundations and use of feedback, broadly defined, in computing.

Feedback Computing calls for a holistic and systematic technology to study both feedback-based design patterns as well as theoretical foundations of feedback in computing. Aiming to raise community awareness and to promote the fusion of multiple disciplines and practices, this workshop might lay out the ground work for building a new generation of collaborative computing systems that are adaptive, resilient, and agile, while remaining stable and robust. Application topics include but are not limited to:  
	
- Internet services 
- Virtualized environments 
- Cloud computing 
- IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments
- Data center resource, power, and cooling management
- Mobile applications
- Sensor networks
- Cyber-physical systems
- Social networks
- Software performance engineering 
- Data management systems
- High performance computing environments

The workshop seeks original contributions on foundations or applications of feedback in computing systems. We encourage both research paper submissions expressing new research directions with the promise of producing a pipeline of papers, and application paper submissions elaborating the challenges and experiences from real systems. In addition, the workshop will leverage extended coffee breaks and lunch break to arrange special meetings and to discuss collaborative research agenda built among the participants. 

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit both research papers and application papers to emphasize the bi-fold focuses of this workshop. 

[Research Papers] Paper submissions must represent original, unpublished contributions. All submissions should be formatted according to the standard ACM two-column proceeding guidelines and not exceed 6 pages in length. Manuscript templates are available for download at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.

[Application Papers] Paper submissions must be based on real experience and working systems. All submissions should be formatted as annotated slides - a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half ? and not exceed 15 slides in length.

All papers are to be submitted through the workshop website (http://www.feedbackcomputing.org)  in PDF files. There will be NO copyright-transferred formal proceedings for the workshop. Accepted papers will be available on the workshop website under authors? permission.

One Best Paper Award and one Best Application Paper Award will be announced at the end of workshop to recognize the current best work in Feedback Computing. 


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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 	Jun 15, 2012
Author notification: 	Jul 27, 2012
Final paper due:  	Aug 24, 2012
Workshop:		Sep 17, 2012

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
	Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Program Co-Chairs
	Yixin Diao (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
	Zhikui Wang (HP Labs)

Publicity Co-Chairs
	Xiaoyun Zhu (VMWare)
	Matina Maggio (Lund University)

Steering Committee
	Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
	Yixin Diao (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
	Joseph L. Hellerstein (Google)
	Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis)
	Anders Robertsson (Lund University)
	Xiaoyun Zhu (VMWare)

Program Committee
       Sherif Abdelwahed (Mississippi State University)
       Karl-Erik Arzen (Lund University)
       Christos Cassandras (Boston University) 
       Anton Cervin (Lund University)
       Chris Gill (Washington University in St. Louis)
       Maria Kihl (Lund University)
       Jeffrey Kephart (IBM Research)
       Charles R Lefurgy (IBM Research)
       Jie Liu (Microsoft Research)
       Xue Liu (McGill University)
       Ying Lu (University of Nebraska at Lincoln) 
       Arif Merchant (Google) 
       Pradeep Padala (VMWare)
       Sharad Singhal (HP Labs)
       Raj Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University)
       Eric Rutten (INRIA Grenoble)
       Mark Squillante (IBM Research)
       Eduardo Tovar (Polytechnic Institute of Porto)
       Qian Wang (Pennsylvania State University)
______________________________________________________________________
Feedback Computing 2012: The 7th International Workshop on Feedback Computing
17 September 2012, San Jose, California, USA
http://www.feedbackcomputing.org




From vetter at ornl.gov  Sun Apr 15 08:32:30 2012
From: vetter at ornl.gov (Vetter, Jeffrey S.)
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 08:32:30 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: SC12 Call for Technical Papers -
 submission deadlines extended to April 27 for abstract,
 May 4 for full papers
Message-ID: <614353E7E745E3479469A446FD95E75C125F8CB11D@EXCHMB.ornl.gov>

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*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED ***

SC12 has extended the technical paper submission deadlines. Abstracts are 
now due on April 27, 2012, and full papers on May 4, 2012. This new deadline
is firm and there will be no further extensions. 

See http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/papers and 
https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ for more details.
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                     ==============================
                     SC12 Call for Technical Papers
                     ==============================

                        November 10 - 16, 2012
                         Salt Lake City, Utah
            Abstracts due April 27, 2012 (Extended from April 20)
	        Full papers due May 4, 2012 (Extended from April 27)
              http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/papers 

SC12, the premier annual international conference on high performance
computing, networking, and storage, will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah,
November 10-16, 2012. The Technical Papers Program at SC is the leading
venue for presenting the highest-quality original research, from the
foundations of HPC to its emerging frontiers. The conference committee
solicits submissions of excellent scientific merit that introduce new ideas
to the field and stimulate future trends on topics such as applications,
systems, parallel algorithms, and performance modeling. SC also welcomes
submissions that make significant contributions to the "state of practice"
by providing compelling insights on best practices for provisioning, using,
and enhancing high performance computing systems, services, and facilities.


New in 2012
===========
 - Reorganized and new topic areas
 - "State of Practice" track integrated with regular papers
 - Later deadlines (end of April)
 - Review rebuttal period


Technical Paper Topic Areas
===========================
Submissions will be considered on any topic related to high performance
computing including, but not limited to, the nine topical areas below.

1.   Algorithms
2.   Applications
3.   Architectures and Networks
4.   Clouds and Grids
5.   Performance, Energy, and Dependability
6.   Programming Systems
7.   Storage, Visualization, and Analytics
8.   System Software
9.   State of Practice

** Algorithms

Concerns the development, evaluation and optimization of scalable, high
performance algorithms for problems that are typically common to multiple
disciplines. Topics include:

 - Data assimilation, model refinement, and reduced-order models
 - Discrete and combinatorial problems
 - Grid and mesh-based methods
 - Inverse problems
 - Numerical methods, linear and non-linear systems
 - Particle, N-body, and molecular/coarse-grained methods
 - Uncertainty quantification

** Applications

Concerns the development and enhancement of algorithms, models, software,
and problem solving environments for domain-specific applications that
require high performance computing, networking, and storage. Topics include:

 - Bioinformatics and computational biology
 - Computational earth and atmospheric sciences
 - Computational materials science and engineering
 - Computational astronomy, chemistry, fluid dynamics, physics, mechanics,
etc.
 - Computation and data enabled social science
 - Computational design optimization for aerospace, energy, 
   manufacturing, and industrial applications
 - Computational medicine and bioengineering

** Architecture and Networks

Concerns all aspects of high performance hardware including the optimization
and evaluation of processors and networks. Topics include:

 - Processor architecture, chip multiprocessors, GPUs, cache, and memory 
   subsystems
 - Interconnect technologies (InfiniBand, Myrinet, Quadrics, Ethernet, 
   Routable PCI etc.), switch/router architecture, network topologies, 
   on-chip or optical networks, and network fault tolerance
 - Internet protocol (TCP, UDP, sockets), quality of service, congestion 
   management, and collective communication
 - Power-efficient architectures, high-availability architectures, 
   stream or vector architectures, embedded and reconfigurable 
   architectures, and emerging technologies
 - Innovative hardware/software co-design
 - Parallel and scalable system architectures
 - Performance evaluation and measurement of real systems

** Clouds and Grids

Concerns all aspects of grids and clouds. Topics include:

 - Security and identity management
 - Virtualization and overlays
 - Scheduling, load balancing, workflows, and resource provisioning
 - Data management and scientific applications
 - Self-configuration, management, information services, and monitoring
 - Compute and storage cloud architectures
 - Programming models and tools for computing on clouds and grids
 - Quality of service and service-level agreement management
 - Problem solving environments and portals
 - Service-oriented architectures and tools for integration of clouds, 
   clusters, and grids

** Performance, Energy, Dependability

Concerns the crosscutting subjects of performance, energy, and dependability
(PED) that typically span multiple areas of expertise and are crucial
factors in the design of scalable HPC systems. Topics
include:

 - Analysis, modeling, or simulation for PED
 - Empirical measurement of PED on real-world systems
 - Tools, code instrumentation, and instrumentation infrastructure 
   for measurement and monitoring of PED
 - New opportunities or challenges for PED made possible by emerging 
   HPC technologies
 - PED workload characterization and benchmarking
 - PED studies of HPC subsystems, such as processor, network, memory, 
   and I/O
 - Impact of PED on applications and their design
 - Impact of application design on PED
 - Methodologies and formalisms for PED

** Programming Systems

Concerns technologies that support parallel programming for large-scale
systems as well as smaller-scale components that will plausibly serve as
building blocks for next-generation HPC architectures. Topics include:

 - Compiler analysis and optimization; program transformation
 - Parallel programming languages and notations; programming models
 - Runtime systems
 - Libraries (in support of end users or other aspects of the 
   programming environment)
 - Parallel application frameworks
 - Tools (e.g., debuggers, performance analysis, integrated development 
   environments, data analysis, visualization)
 - Software engineering for parallel programming
 - Productivity-oriented programming environments and studies
 - Solutions for parallel programming challenges: interoperability, 
   memory consistency, determinism, race detection, work stealing, load 
   balancing, etc.

** Storage, Visualization, and Analytics

Concerns all aspects of storage, visualization, and analysis. Topics
include:

 - Databases for HPC, scalable structured storage
 - Data mining, analysis, and visualization for modeling and simulation
 - Parallel file, storage, and archival systems
 - Scalable storage, metadata, and data management
 - I/O performance tuning, benchmarking, and middleware
 - Next generation storage systems and media
 - Storage systems for data intensive computing
 - Storage networks
 - Reliability and fault tolerance in HPC storage
 - Visualization and image processing

** System Software

Concerns the design and development of operating systems, runtime systems,
and other low- level software that enables allocation and management of
hardware resources for high performance computing applications and services.
Topics include:

 - Alternative and specialized operating systems and runtime systems 
   for many-core processors
 - Support for fault tolerance and resilience
 - Management of complex memory hierarchies and transactional memory
 - Enhancements for attached and integrated accelerators
 - Distributed memory and shared memory systems
 - Communication optimization
 - Interactions between the OS, runtime, compiler, middleware, and tools
 - Strategies for managing and reducing energy consumption
 - Virtualization and virtual machines
 - Approaches for enabling adaptive and introspective system software

** State of Practice

Concerns all aspects related to the pragmatic practices of HPC, including
infrastructure, services, facilities, large-scale application executions,
etc. Submissions that develop best practices, optimized designs, or
benchmarks are of particular interest. Although concrete case studies within
a conceptual framework would likely serve as the basis for submitted papers,
efforts to generalize the experience for wider applicability will be highly
valued. Topics include:

 - Deployment experiences of large-scale infrastructures and facilities
 - Long-term infrastructural management experiences
 - Comparative benchmarks of actual machines over a wide spectrum of 
   workloads
 - Pragmatic resource management strategies and experiences
 - Facilitation of "big data" associated with supercomputing
 - User support experiences with large-scale and novel machines
 - Multi-center infrastructures and their management
 - Pragmatic bridging of cloud data centers and supercomputing centers
 - Education, training, and dissemination activities and their 
   quantitative results
 - Procurement, technology investment, and acquisition of best practices
 - Infrastructural policy issues, especially international experiences


Review Process
==============
The SC12 Technical Papers Committee will rigorously review all submissions
with the goal of selecting the best technical contributions across both
established and emerging areas of HPC. In an effort to enhance the review
process and to create an exceptional program, SC12 will introduce a review
rebuttal option for the authors. The review process acceptance criteria will
concentrate on originality, technical soundness, presentation quality,
timeliness, impact, and relevance to SC. Some papers may present principles,
results, and discussions in the context of a single node, core, thread, or
GPU. To be accepted, these papers must measurably improve upon the state of
the art along dimensions that are relevant for SC.

Awards will be presented for Best Paper and Best Student Paper. Extended
versions of papers selected as finalists for the Best Paper and Best Student
Paper Awards may be published in the journal Scientific Programming. With
our focus on quality and the observed trend towards substantial increases in
submissions from year to year, the committee expects a 20% acceptance rate
for SC12 Technical Papers.


** How to submit

SC follows a two-part submission process, with abstracts due by April 20,
2012 and full papers by April 27, 2012. Abstracts and papers must be
submitted electronically via the website
https://submissions.supercomputing.org/. A sample submission form is also
available at that site (click on the tab "Sample Submission Forms"
at the login page).

Format: Submissions are limited to 10 pages in the IEEE format (see
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not
include references, for which there is no page limit.

Selecting areas of contribution: All submissions must indicate one of the
nine areas as the primary area of contribution. One of the remaining eight
areas may be indicated as a secondary area of contribution.

Dual Submission: Submission material cannot overlap substantially with any
paper previously accepted for publication or under review by any conference
or journal during the SC review process. Authors should follow IEEE
publication policies (see
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/Multi_Sub_Gui
delines_Intro.html).


Important SC12 Information
==========================
Location       : Utah Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Information    : http://sc12.supercomputing.org/
Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/
Email Contact  : papers at info.supercomputing.org

** Important Dates

Submissions Open: February 15, 2012
Abstracts Due   : April 27, 2012 (Extended from April 20)
Full Papers Due : May 4, 2012 (Extended from April 27)
Review Rebuttal : June 15--19, 2012
Notifications   : July 15, 2012
Conference Dates: November 10-16, 2012


SC12 Technical Papers Committee
===============================

** SC12 Technical Papers Chairs

Padma Raghavan, The Pennsylvania State University 
Jeffrey S. Vetter, Georgia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

** SC12 Technical Papers Areas Chairs

Algorithms                       : Edmond Chow, Georgia Tech
Applications                     : Martin Berzins, University of Utah
Architecture and Networks        : Steve Keckler, NVIDIA and The University 
                                   of Texas at Austin
Clouds and Grids                 : Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia
Performance, Power, Dependability: David Lowenthal, University of Arizona
Programming Systems              : Brad Chamberlain, Cray Inc.
Storage, Visualization, Analytics: Hank Childs, Lawrence Berkeley National 
                                   Laboratory
System Software                  : Ron Brightwell, Sandia National 
                                   Laboratories
State of Practice                : Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute 
                                   of Technology

The complete list of members of the technical papers committee is available
online at http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/committees.

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From meghan at lanl.gov  Mon Apr 16 17:44:00 2012
From: meghan at lanl.gov (McClelland, Meghan W)
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:44:00 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] UPDATE: LANL fsstats (Filesystem
 Statistics) data	release
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These data files have been updated.  Please download the files again to get correct entries per directory data.  The rest of the information in each file remains unchanged.

More details:

The "directory size (entries)" histogram was incorrect - everything was always 1 entry. This is fixed - thanks to Yifan Wang and the CMU PDL team for finding and reporting this issue!

All filesystems used to have:
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histogram,directory size (entries)
count,<some#>,items
average,1.000000,ents
min,1,ents
max,1,ents
bucket min,bucket max,count,percent,cumulative pct,val count,percent,cumulative pct
0,1,<some#>,1.000000,1.000000,<some#>,1.000000,1.000000
------------------------

The histogram is now updated to reflect the correct information.

If you have any questions about this fix or these data in general, please contact meghan at lanl.gov<mailto:meghan at lanl.gov>


On Apr 4, 2012, at 12:42 PM, McClelland, Meghan W wrote:



To enable computer science research Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is releasing static file tree data (fsstats) for some of our parallel filesystems. These data include aggregate information on capacity, file and directory sizes, filename lengths, link counts, etc. The fsstats cover 9 anonymous parallel filesystems ranging from 16 TB to 439 TB total capacity used and file counts range from 2,024,729 to 43,605,555.

The following sets of data are provided by Los Alamos National Laboratory under universal release to any computer science researcher to use to enable computer science work.

If you use these data in your research please recognize Los Alamos National Laboratory for providing these data.

More information and the data may be found on the fsstats data release page:

http://institutes.lanl.gov/data/fsstats-data/
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:18:07 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] [Call for Paper] Storage System,
 Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit
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From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:17:23 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2012 Call for
	Student Posters
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From carns at mcs.anl.gov  Fri Apr 20 10:02:22 2012
From: carns at mcs.anl.gov (Phil Carns)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:02:22 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 4th Workshop on Interfaces and
 Abstractions for Scientific Data Storage (IASDS 2012)
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Call for Papers:

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4th Workshop on Interfaces and Architectures for Scientific Data Storage (IASDS)
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds12
September 24 2012, held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2012 in Beijing, China
---------------------------------------
Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2012
---------------------------------------

High-performance computing simulations and large scientific experiments generate tens of terabytes of data, and these data sizes grow each year. Existing systems for storing, managing, and analyzing data are being pushed to their limits by these applications, and new techniques are necessary to enable efficient data processing for future simulations and experiments.

This workshop will provide a forum for engineers and scientists to present and discuss their most recent work related to the storage, management, and analysis of data for scientific workloads. Emphasis will be placed on forward-looking approaches to tackle the challenges of storage at extreme scale or to provide better abstractions for use in scientific workloads.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * parallel file systems
    * scientific databases
    * active storage
    * scientific I/O middleware
    * extreme scale storage

Past Workshops:

    IASDS 2011, Austin: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds11/agenda.php
    IASDS 2010, Crete: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds10/agenda.php
    IASDS 2009, New Orleans: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds09/agenda.php

Important Dates:

    Paper Submission Deadline: May 25, 2012
    Author Notification: June 22, 2012
    Final Manuscript Due: July 7, 2012
    Workshop: September 24, 2012

Submission Info:

    See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds12/submissions/

Workshop Chairs:

    Philip Carns, Mathematics and Computer Science Division,  Argonne National Laboratory (carns at mcs.anl.gov)
    Osamu Tatebe, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba (tatebe at cs.tsukuba.ac.jp)

Program Committee:

    Francisco Javier Garc?a Blas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
    Philip Carns, Argonne National Laboratory
    Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba
    Hiroya Matsuba, Hitachi
    Carlos Maltzahn, UCSC & Ultra-scale Research Center at New Mexico Consortium
    Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory
    Yoshihiro Oyama, University of Electro-Communications
    Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu
    Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba
    Andrew Uselton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Pete Wyckoff, NetApp, Inc.


From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu  Mon Apr 23 10:14:08 2012
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:14:08 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] MBDS Workshop on Management of Big Data
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From vetter at ornl.gov  Wed Apr 25 22:38:13 2012
From: vetter at ornl.gov (Vetter, Jeffrey S.)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:38:13 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] FINAL CFP: SC12 Call for Technical Papers -
 mandatory abstracts due on Friday, April 27 at 11:59PM ET
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Colleagues: 

This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for mandatory abstracts for SC12 technical papers is 

	Friday, April 27, 2012 at 11:59PM ET.

You must submit an abstract in order to submit a full paper by May 4.

Please see the http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/papers and https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ for more details.

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*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED ***

SC12 has extended the technical paper submission deadlines. Abstracts are 
now due on April 27, 2012, and full papers on May 4, 2012. This new deadline
is firm and there will be no further extensions. 

See http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/papers and 
https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ for more details.
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                     ==============================
                     SC12 Call for Technical Papers
                     ==============================

                        November 10 - 16, 2012
                         Salt Lake City, Utah
            Abstracts due April 27, 2012 (Extended from April 20)
	        Full papers due May 4, 2012 (Extended from April 27)
              http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/papers 

SC12, the premier annual international conference on high performance
computing, networking, and storage, will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah,
November 10-16, 2012. The Technical Papers Program at SC is the leading
venue for presenting the highest-quality original research, from the
foundations of HPC to its emerging frontiers. The conference committee
solicits submissions of excellent scientific merit that introduce new ideas
to the field and stimulate future trends on topics such as applications,
systems, parallel algorithms, and performance modeling. SC also welcomes
submissions that make significant contributions to the "state of practice"
by providing compelling insights on best practices for provisioning, using,
and enhancing high performance computing systems, services, and facilities.


New in 2012
===========
 - Reorganized and new topic areas
 - "State of Practice" track integrated with regular papers
 - Later deadlines (end of April)
 - Review rebuttal period


Technical Paper Topic Areas
===========================
Submissions will be considered on any topic related to high performance
computing including, but not limited to, the nine topical areas below.

1.   Algorithms
2.   Applications
3.   Architectures and Networks
4.   Clouds and Grids
5.   Performance, Energy, and Dependability
6.   Programming Systems
7.   Storage, Visualization, and Analytics
8.   System Software
9.   State of Practice

** Algorithms

Concerns the development, evaluation and optimization of scalable, high
performance algorithms for problems that are typically common to multiple
disciplines. Topics include:

 - Data assimilation, model refinement, and reduced-order models
 - Discrete and combinatorial problems
 - Grid and mesh-based methods
 - Inverse problems
 - Numerical methods, linear and non-linear systems
 - Particle, N-body, and molecular/coarse-grained methods
 - Uncertainty quantification

** Applications

Concerns the development and enhancement of algorithms, models, software,
and problem solving environments for domain-specific applications that
require high performance computing, networking, and storage. Topics include:

 - Bioinformatics and computational biology
 - Computational earth and atmospheric sciences
 - Computational materials science and engineering
 - Computational astronomy, chemistry, fluid dynamics, physics, mechanics,
etc.
 - Computation and data enabled social science
 - Computational design optimization for aerospace, energy, 
   manufacturing, and industrial applications
 - Computational medicine and bioengineering

** Architecture and Networks

Concerns all aspects of high performance hardware including the optimization
and evaluation of processors and networks. Topics include:

 - Processor architecture, chip multiprocessors, GPUs, cache, and memory 
   subsystems
 - Interconnect technologies (InfiniBand, Myrinet, Quadrics, Ethernet, 
   Routable PCI etc.), switch/router architecture, network topologies, 
   on-chip or optical networks, and network fault tolerance
 - Internet protocol (TCP, UDP, sockets), quality of service, congestion 
   management, and collective communication
 - Power-efficient architectures, high-availability architectures, 
   stream or vector architectures, embedded and reconfigurable 
   architectures, and emerging technologies
 - Innovative hardware/software co-design
 - Parallel and scalable system architectures
 - Performance evaluation and measurement of real systems

** Clouds and Grids

Concerns all aspects of grids and clouds. Topics include:

 - Security and identity management
 - Virtualization and overlays
 - Scheduling, load balancing, workflows, and resource provisioning
 - Data management and scientific applications
 - Self-configuration, management, information services, and monitoring
 - Compute and storage cloud architectures
 - Programming models and tools for computing on clouds and grids
 - Quality of service and service-level agreement management
 - Problem solving environments and portals
 - Service-oriented architectures and tools for integration of clouds, 
   clusters, and grids

** Performance, Energy, Dependability

Concerns the crosscutting subjects of performance, energy, and dependability
(PED) that typically span multiple areas of expertise and are crucial
factors in the design of scalable HPC systems. Topics
include:

 - Analysis, modeling, or simulation for PED
 - Empirical measurement of PED on real-world systems
 - Tools, code instrumentation, and instrumentation infrastructure 
   for measurement and monitoring of PED
 - New opportunities or challenges for PED made possible by emerging 
   HPC technologies
 - PED workload characterization and benchmarking
 - PED studies of HPC subsystems, such as processor, network, memory, 
   and I/O
 - Impact of PED on applications and their design
 - Impact of application design on PED
 - Methodologies and formalisms for PED

** Programming Systems

Concerns technologies that support parallel programming for large-scale
systems as well as smaller-scale components that will plausibly serve as
building blocks for next-generation HPC architectures. Topics include:

 - Compiler analysis and optimization; program transformation
 - Parallel programming languages and notations; programming models
 - Runtime systems
 - Libraries (in support of end users or other aspects of the 
   programming environment)
 - Parallel application frameworks
 - Tools (e.g., debuggers, performance analysis, integrated development 
   environments, data analysis, visualization)
 - Software engineering for parallel programming
 - Productivity-oriented programming environments and studies
 - Solutions for parallel programming challenges: interoperability, 
   memory consistency, determinism, race detection, work stealing, load 
   balancing, etc.

** Storage, Visualization, and Analytics

Concerns all aspects of storage, visualization, and analysis. Topics
include:

 - Databases for HPC, scalable structured storage
 - Data mining, analysis, and visualization for modeling and simulation
 - Parallel file, storage, and archival systems
 - Scalable storage, metadata, and data management
 - I/O performance tuning, benchmarking, and middleware
 - Next generation storage systems and media
 - Storage systems for data intensive computing
 - Storage networks
 - Reliability and fault tolerance in HPC storage
 - Visualization and image processing

** System Software

Concerns the design and development of operating systems, runtime systems,
and other low- level software that enables allocation and management of
hardware resources for high performance computing applications and services.
Topics include:

 - Alternative and specialized operating systems and runtime systems 
   for many-core processors
 - Support for fault tolerance and resilience
 - Management of complex memory hierarchies and transactional memory
 - Enhancements for attached and integrated accelerators
 - Distributed memory and shared memory systems
 - Communication optimization
 - Interactions between the OS, runtime, compiler, middleware, and tools
 - Strategies for managing and reducing energy consumption
 - Virtualization and virtual machines
 - Approaches for enabling adaptive and introspective system software

** State of Practice

Concerns all aspects related to the pragmatic practices of HPC, including
infrastructure, services, facilities, large-scale application executions,
etc. Submissions that develop best practices, optimized designs, or
benchmarks are of particular interest. Although concrete case studies within
a conceptual framework would likely serve as the basis for submitted papers,
efforts to generalize the experience for wider applicability will be highly
valued. Topics include:

 - Deployment experiences of large-scale infrastructures and facilities
 - Long-term infrastructural management experiences
 - Comparative benchmarks of actual machines over a wide spectrum of 
   workloads
 - Pragmatic resource management strategies and experiences
 - Facilitation of "big data" associated with supercomputing
 - User support experiences with large-scale and novel machines
 - Multi-center infrastructures and their management
 - Pragmatic bridging of cloud data centers and supercomputing centers
 - Education, training, and dissemination activities and their 
   quantitative results
 - Procurement, technology investment, and acquisition of best practices
 - Infrastructural policy issues, especially international experiences


Review Process
==============
The SC12 Technical Papers Committee will rigorously review all submissions
with the goal of selecting the best technical contributions across both
established and emerging areas of HPC. In an effort to enhance the review
process and to create an exceptional program, SC12 will introduce a review
rebuttal option for the authors. The review process acceptance criteria will
concentrate on originality, technical soundness, presentation quality,
timeliness, impact, and relevance to SC. Some papers may present principles,
results, and discussions in the context of a single node, core, thread, or
GPU. To be accepted, these papers must measurably improve upon the state of
the art along dimensions that are relevant for SC.

Awards will be presented for Best Paper and Best Student Paper. Extended
versions of papers selected as finalists for the Best Paper and Best Student
Paper Awards may be published in the journal Scientific Programming. With
our focus on quality and the observed trend towards substantial increases in
submissions from year to year, the committee expects a 20% acceptance rate
for SC12 Technical Papers.


** How to submit

SC follows a two-part submission process, with abstracts due by April 20,
2012 and full papers by April 27, 2012. Abstracts and papers must be
submitted electronically via the website
https://submissions.supercomputing.org/. A sample submission form is also
available at that site (click on the tab "Sample Submission Forms"
at the login page).

Format: Submissions are limited to 10 pages in the IEEE format (see
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not
include references, for which there is no page limit.

Selecting areas of contribution: All submissions must indicate one of the
nine areas as the primary area of contribution. One of the remaining eight
areas may be indicated as a secondary area of contribution.

Dual Submission: Submission material cannot overlap substantially with any
paper previously accepted for publication or under review by any conference
or journal during the SC review process. Authors should follow IEEE
publication policies (see
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/Multi_Sub_Gui
delines_Intro.html).


Important SC12 Information
==========================
Location       : Utah Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Information    : http://sc12.supercomputing.org/
Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/
Email Contact  : papers at info.supercomputing.org

** Important Dates

Submissions Open: February 15, 2012
Abstracts Due   : April 27, 2012 (Extended from April 20)
Full Papers Due : May 4, 2012 (Extended from April 27)
Review Rebuttal : June 15--19, 2012
Notifications   : July 15, 2012
Conference Dates: November 10-16, 2012


SC12 Technical Papers Committee
===============================

** SC12 Technical Papers Chairs

Padma Raghavan, The Pennsylvania State University 
Jeffrey S. Vetter, Georgia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

** SC12 Technical Papers Areas Chairs

Algorithms                       : Edmond Chow, Georgia Tech
Applications                     : Martin Berzins, University of Utah
Architecture and Networks        : Steve Keckler, NVIDIA and The University 
                                   of Texas at Austin
Clouds and Grids                 : Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia
Performance, Power, Dependability: David Lowenthal, University of Arizona
Programming Systems              : Brad Chamberlain, Cray Inc.
Storage, Visualization, Analytics: Hank Childs, Lawrence Berkeley National 
                                   Laboratory
System Software                  : Ron Brightwell, Sandia National 
                                   Laboratories
State of Practice                : Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute 
                                   of Technology

The complete list of members of the technical papers committee is available
online at http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/committees.

# # #




From ychu at purdue.edu  Sun Apr 29 12:12:37 2012
From: ychu at purdue.edu (Y. Charlie Hu)
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:12:37 -0700
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation: ACM
	SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012
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	<4F381388.6040702@purdue.edu> <4F66E2C4.6020600@purdue.edu>
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		       CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
                  REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION

                   ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012
           Joint International Conference on Measurement
                 and Modeling of Computer Systems

             http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/

                           11-15 June 2012
                       Imperial College London
                           United Kingdom

We cordially invite you to attend ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 and its co-located workshops and tutorials. Registration is now open, for further information please visithttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/registration.php; the discounted early registration period ends on May 18 (May 25 for students).

HIGHLIGHTS
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* A strong technical programhttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/program.php

* Keynote Lectureshttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/keynotes.php

* A broad tutorial programhttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/tutorials.php

  - Micro and macro views of discrete state Markov models and their application to efficient simulation with Phase-type distributions, by Philipp Reinecke, Mikl---s Telek,Katinka Wolter
  - PoTrA: A framework for Building Power Models For Next Generation Multicore Architectures, by Ramon Bertran, Marc Gonzalez
  - Basic Theory and some Applications of Martingales, by Richard A. Hayden (three hours)
  - Applications of Machine Learning to Performance Evaluation, by Edmundo de Souza e Silva and Daniel Sadoc Menasche
  - Introduction to Network Experiments using the GENI CyberInfrastructure, by Jay Aikat, Kevin Jeffay

* Four affiliated workshops, still open for submissionshttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/workshops.php
  - MAMA 2012, Submission deadline: 4 May 2012
  - GreenMetrics 2012, Submission deadline: 1 May 2012
  - W-PIN, Submission deadline: 1 May 2012
  - PADE, Submission deadline: 1 May 2012

*  A new Hands-on Tutorial-Workshop, NetFPGAhttp://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/netfpga/workshop/sigmetrics2012/index.html

* Student activities and opportunitieshttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/student_info.php
  - Research Lab Visit
  - Student Industry Fair
  - Student Poster Competition, submission deadline:  30 April 2012
  - Student Travel Support, application deadline: 30 April 2012

* Presentation of SIGMETRICS Awards:
  - The 9th Achievement Award
  - The 5th Rising Star Award

Full details are on the conference Web site.


HOTEL INFORMATION
-----------------
We have reserved rooms at preferential rates at two hotels close to Imperial College, The Regency and the NH Harrington Hall.  The cut-off date is 10th May for both hotels; after this date the rooms will be released and you will have to pay the hotels' own rates at the time, if not sold out.  You are urged to book soon because London is likely to have a large number of visitors at that time in view of the Queen's celebrations the previous week and also pre-Olympic events.

The booking arrangements are different for each hotel as follows:

REGENCY HOTEL (http://www.londonregency.com/)
This is the preferred conference hotel but preference will be given to guests wishing to stay all five nights 10-14 June inclusive.  Delegates must contact Imperial College Reservations and quote group reference 472563:  Fu Mei Chen, Reservation Sales Agent, Tel. +44 (0) 20 7594 9507, Fax +44 (0) 20 7594 9505, Emailreservations at imperial.ac.uk.  Cancellation up to 2 days prior to the arrival date will be without charge.  The guaranteed rate is ?125 (single occupancy) or ?145 (double occupancy) per night.

NH HARRINGTON HALL (http://www.harringtonhallhotel.co.uk/)
Delegates must call the hotel directly and quote group reference 170909882: Tel. +44 (0) 207 396 9696, Fax +44 (0) 207 3969090, Emailnhharringtonhall at nh-hotels.com.  Cancellation up to 7 days prior to the arrival date will be without charge.  The guaranteed rate is ?132 (single occupancy) or ?152 (double occupancy) per night.

NOTES
1.  Payment will be made at the hotel (in both cases), no pre-payment is required.

2.  If you check*very*  soon, you may find better rates on the internet than the Imperial College rates given above.  However, these are likely to inflate rapidly.


IMPORTANT DATES
----------------
* Early Registration Deadline: 18 May 2012  (25 May for students)
* Main Conference: 11-15 June 2012
* Student activities: 14 June 2012
* Tutorials: 11 June 2012
* Workshops:   GreenMetrics  11 June 2012
                W-PIN	     11 June 2012
	       MAMA          15 June 2012
	       PADE	     15 June 2012
	       NetFPGA 	     15 June 2012

SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2012 ORGANIZERS
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GENERAL CHAIR:
Peter G. Harrison, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

CONFERENCE PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Martin Arlitt, HP Labs, USA and University of Calgary, Canada
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

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From jfineman at cs.georgetown.edu  Mon May  7 12:45:56 2012
From: jfineman at cs.georgetown.edu (Jeremy Fineman)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 12:45:56 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] SPAA 2012 Call for Participation
Message-ID: <D7979561-7E4F-4DA0-974F-7EF1B9011294@cs.georgetown.edu>

Early registration deadline is May 25. Please check http://www.spaa-conference.org 
  .

=======================================================================

                    SPAA 2012 Call for Participation

   24th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures

                   Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
	                    June 25-27, 2012
                 http://www.spaa-conference.org

=======================================================================

SCOPE:
Contributed papers are sought in all areas of parallel algorithms and
architectures. SPAA defines the term "parallel" broadly, encompassing
any computational system that can perform multiple operations or tasks
simultaneously.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Applications
- Parallel and Distributed Data Structures
- Green Computing and Power-Efficient Architectures
- Management of Massive Data Sets
- Parallel Complexity Theory
- Parallel and Distributed Architectures
- Multi-Core Architectures
- Instruction Level Parallelism and VLSI
- Compilers and Tools for Concurrent Programming
- Supercomputer Architecture and Computing
- Transactional Memory Hardware and Software
- The Internet and the World Wide Web
- Game Theory and Collaborative Learning
- Routing and Information Dissemination
- Resource Management and Awareness
- Peer-to-Peer Systems
- Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks
- Robustness, Self-Stabilization, and Security
- Synergy of parallelism in algorithms, programming and architecture

=======================================================================
REGISTRATION and CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Please check at


                 http://www.spaa-conference.org

=======================================================================
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

SPAA Program Chair
   Maurice Herlihy (Brown University)

SPAA Conference Chair
   Guy Blelloch (Carnegie Mellon University)

SPAA Secretary
   Christian Scheideler (University of Paderborn)

SPAA Treasurer
   David Bunde (Knox College)

SPAA Publicity Chair
   Jeremy Fineman (Georgetown University)

SPAA Local Arrangements
   Guy Blelloch (Carnegie Mellon University)

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From: ychu at purdue.edu (Y. Charlie Hu)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:12:28 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation: ACM
 SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012*** EARLY REGISTRATION PERIOD ENDS FRIDAY ***
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: *** EARLY REGISTRATION PERIOD ENDS FRIDAY ***
REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION

ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012
Joint International Conference on Measurement
and Modeling of Computer Systems

http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/

11-15 June 2012
Imperial College London
United Kingdom

We cordially invite you to attend ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 and 
its co-located workshops and tutorials. Registration is now open, for 
further information please visit 
http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/registration.php

**********************************************************************************
* The discounted early registration period ends on May 18 (May 25 for 
students). *
**********************************************************************************

HIGHLIGHTS
----------
* A strong technical program 
http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/program.php
* Keynote Lectures http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/keynotes.php
* A broad tutorial program 
http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/tutorials.php

- Micro and macro views of discrete state Markov models and their 
application to efficient simulation with Phase-type distributions, by 
Philipp Reinecke, Mikl?s Telek,Katinka Wolter
- PoTrA: A framework for Building Power Models For Next Generation 
Multicore Architectures, by Ramon Bertran, Marc Gonzalez
- Basic Theory and some Applications of Martingales, by Richard A. 
Hayden (three hours)
- Applications of Machine Learning to Performance Evaluation, by Edmundo 
de Souza e Silva and Daniel Sadoc Menasche
- Introduction to Network Experiments using the GENI 
CyberInfrastructure, by Jay Aikat, Kevin Jeffay

* Four affiliated workshops, still open for submissions 
http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/workshops.php
- MAMA 2012, Submission deadline: 4 May 2012
- GreenMetrics 2012, Submission deadline: 1 May 2012
- W-PIN, Submission deadline: 1 May 2012
- PADE, Submission deadline: 1 May 2012

* A new Hands-on Tutorial-Workshop, NetFPGA 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/netfpga/workshop/sigmetrics2012/index.html

* Student activities and opportunities 
http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/student_info.php
- Research Lab Visit
- Student Industry Fair
- Student Poster Competition, submission deadline: 30 April 2012
- Student Travel Support, application deadline: 30 April 2012

* Presentation of SIGMETRICS Awards:
- The 9th Achievement Award
- The 5th Rising Star Award

Full details are on the conference Web site.


HOTEL INFORMATION
-----------------
PREFERENTIAL RATES AT THE CONFERENCE HOTELS ENDED ON 10TH MAY. HOWEVER:

Both of the recommended hotels still have rooms available and the 
increase in rate over the expired preferential rates is only about 10% 
... you may find better deals on the internet. The recommended hotels are:

REGENCY HOTEL (http://www.londonregency.com/)
You may contact Imperial College Reservations and quote group reference 
472563: Fu Mei Chen, Reservation Sales Agent, Tel. +44 (0) 20 7594 9507, 
Fax +44 (0) 20 7594 9505, Email reservations at imperial.ac.uk. 
Alternatively contact the hotel directly: Tel. +44 (0) 20 7373 7878, Fax 
+44 (0) 20 7370 5555, Email info at londonregency.com

NH HARRINGTON HALL (http://www.harringtonhallhotel.co.uk/)
You may call the hotel directly: Tel. +44 (0) 20 7396 9696, Fax +44 (0) 
20 73969090, Email nhharringtonhall at nh-hotels.com.

Please check the internet for better rates, e.g. at www.booking.com. 
There are many other nice hotels in the Kensington/Chelsea area.



IMPORTANT DATES
----------------
* Early Registration Deadline: 18 May 2012 (25 May for students)
* Main Conference: 11-15 June 2012
* Student activities: 14 June 2012
* Tutorials: 11 June 2012
* Workshops: GreenMetrics 11 June 2012

W-PIN 11 June 2012
MAMA 15 June 2012
PADE 15 June 2012
NetFPGA 15 June 2012

SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2012 ORGANIZERS
--------------------------------------

GENERAL CHAIR:
Peter G. Harrison, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

CONFERENCE PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Martin Arlitt, HP Labs, USA and University of Calgary, Canada
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, United Kingdom




From carns at mcs.anl.gov  Mon May 21 10:26:49 2012
From: carns at mcs.anl.gov (Phil Carns)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:26:49 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Deadline extended: 4th Workshop on
 Interfaces and Abstractions for Scientific Data Storage (IASDS 2012)
Message-ID: <4FBA50A9.50006@mcs.anl.gov>

Call for Papers:

---------------------------------------
4th Workshop on Interfaces and Architectures for Scientific Data Storage (IASDS)
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds12
September 24 2012, held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2012 in Beijing, China
---------------------------------------
Paper submission deadline extended to June 1, 2012
---------------------------------------

High-performance computing simulations and large scientific experiments generate tens of terabytes of data, and these data sizes grow each year. Existing systems for storing, managing, and analyzing data are being pushed to their limits by these applications, and new techniques are necessary to enable efficient data processing for future simulations and experiments.

This workshop will provide a forum for engineers and scientists to present and discuss their most recent work related to the storage, management, and analysis of data for scientific workloads. Emphasis will be placed on forward-looking approaches to tackle the challenges of storage at extreme scale or to provide better abstractions for use in scientific workloads.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * parallel file systems
    * scientific databases
    * active storage
    * scientific I/O middleware
    * extreme scale storage

Past Workshops:

    IASDS 2011, Austin: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds11/agenda.php
    IASDS 2010, Crete: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds10/agenda.php
    IASDS 2009, New Orleans: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds09/agenda.php

Important Dates:

    Paper Submission Deadline: EXTENDED to June 1, 2012
    Author Notification: June 22, 2012
    Final Manuscript Due: July 7, 2012
    Workshop: September 24, 2012

Submission Info:

    See http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/iasds12/submissions/

Workshop Chairs:

    Philip Carns, Mathematics and Computer Science Division,  Argonne National Laboratory (carns at mcs.anl.gov)
    Osamu Tatebe, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba (tatebe at cs.tsukuba.ac.jp)

Program Committee:

    Francisco Javier Garc?a Blas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
    Philip Carns, Argonne National Laboratory
    Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba
    Hiroya Matsuba, Hitachi
    Carlos Maltzahn, UCSC & Ultra-scale Research Center at New Mexico Consortium
    Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory
    Yoshihiro Oyama, University of Electro-Communications
    Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu
    Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba
    Andrew Uselton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Pete Wyckoff, NetApp, Inc.


From ychu at purdue.edu  Tue May 29 08:36:58 2012
From: ychu at purdue.edu (Y. Charlie Hu)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 08:36:58 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final Call for Participation: ACM
 SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 Registration and Hotel Information
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             **** FINAL ****  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
                  REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION

                   ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012
           Joint International Conference on Measurement
                 and Modeling of Computer Systems

             http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/

                           11-15 June 2012
                       Imperial College London
                           United Kingdom

We cordially invite you to attend ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 and its co-located workshops and tutorials. Registration is still open, for further information please visithttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/registration.php

HIGHLIGHTS
----------
* A strong technical programhttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/program.php

* Keynote Lectureshttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/keynotes.php

* A broad tutorial programhttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/tutorials.php

  - Micro and macro views of discrete state Markov models and their application to efficient simulation with Phase-type distributions, by Philipp Reinecke, Mikl?s Telek,Katinka Wolter
  - PoTrA: A framework for Building Power Models For Next Generation Multicore Architectures, by Ramon Bertran, Marc Gonzalez
  - Basic Theory and some Applications of Martingales, by Richard A. Hayden (three hours)
  - Applications of Machine Learning to Performance Evaluation, by Edmundo de Souza e Silva and Daniel Sadoc Menasche
  - Introduction to Network Experiments using the GENI CyberInfrastructure, by Jay Aikat, Kevin Jeffay

* Four affiliated workshops, still open for submissionshttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/workshops.php
  - MAMA 2012, Submission deadline: 4 May 2012
  - GreenMetrics 2012, Submission deadline: 1 May 2012
  - W-PIN, Submission deadline: 1 May 2012
  - PADE, Submission deadline: 1 May 2012

*  A new Hands-on Tutorial-Workshop, NetFPGAhttp://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/netfpga/workshop/sigmetrics2012/index.html

* Student activities and opportunitieshttp://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/student_info.php
  - Research Lab Visit
  - Student Industry Fair
  - Student Poster Competition, submission deadline:  30 April 2012
  - Student Travel Support, application deadline: 30 April 2012

* Presentation of SIGMETRICS Awards:
  - The 9th Achievement Award
  - The 5th Rising Star Award

Full details are on the conference Web site.


HOTEL INFORMATION
-----------------
The recommended hotels are:

REGENCY HOTEL (http://www.londonregency.com/)
You may contact Imperial College Reservations and quote group reference 472563:  Fu Mei Chen, Reservation Sales Agent, Tel. +44 (0) 20 7594 9507, Fax +44 (0) 20 7594 9505, Emailreservations at imperial.ac.uk.  Alternatively contact the hotel directly:  Tel. +44 (0) 20 7373 7878, Fax +44 (0) 20 7370 5555, Emailinfo at londonregency.com

NH HARRINGTON HALL (http://www.harringtonhallhotel.co.uk/)
You may call the hotel directly: Tel. +44 (0) 20 7396 9696, Fax +44 (0) 20 73969090, Emailnhharringtonhall at nh-hotels.com.

Please check the internet for better rates, e.g. atwww.booking.com.

There are many other nice hotels in the Kensington/Chelsea area too.


IMPORTANT DATES
----------------
* Main Conference: 12-14 June 2012
* Student-industry fair: 14 June 2012
* Tutorials: 11 June 2012
* Workshops:   GreenMetrics  11 June 2012
                W-PIN	     11 June 2012
	       MAMA          15 June 2012
	       PADE	     15 June 2012
	       NetFPGA 	     15 June 2012

SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2012 ORGANIZERS
--------------------------------------

GENERAL CHAIR:
Peter G. Harrison, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

CONFERENCE PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Martin Arlitt, HP Labs, USA and University of Calgary, Canada
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, United Kingdom



From leitian.hust at gmail.com  Thu Jun 14 05:53:48 2012
From: leitian.hust at gmail.com (Lei Tian)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:53:48 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation - IEEE NAS 2012 - in
	Xiamen, China
Message-ID: <D550703B-9472-42BE-B07C-1E6BCB2DA2EF@gmail.com>

***********************************************************************************
 
[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Participation (CFP).]
 
***********************************************************************************
                             CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
                                 IEEE NAS 2012
       7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage                  
                          http://www.nas-conference.org/
 
                    June 28-30, 2012 - Xiamen, Fujian, China
***********************************************************************************
 

We invite you to attend the 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, 
and Storage (NAS 2012). The conference will be held from June 28-30, 2012 at Xiamen, 
Fujian, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and 
practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, 
high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. 
NAS 2012 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas.

Program:
http://www.nas-conference.org/NAS-2012/program.html

Conference Organizers:
http://www.nas-conference.org/NAS-2012/organization.html

Local Information:
http://www.nas-conference.org/NAS-2012/local_info.html
 
Registration:
http://www.nas-conference.org/NAS-2012/registration.html


Keynote Speakers:

* Professor Yuanyuan Yang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Talk: Exploring Server Redundancy in Nonblocking Multicast Data Center Networks

* Professor Xian-He Sun
Department of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
Talk: Memory System for Extreme-Scale Computing

* Dr. Krishna Kant
George Mason University
Talk: Energy Adaptive Computing

* Professor Trieu-Kien Truong
Department of Information Engineering, I-Shou University, Taiwan
Joint Appointment Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Talk: Error-Correcting Codes for Flash Memory


Main Program:

Day 1:		Thursday, June 28, 2012

9:00 - 10:00:	* Keynote Talk: Exploring Server Redundancy in Nonblocking Multicast Data Center Networks
                Yuanyuan Yang, Stony Brook University

10:00 - 10:30:  Coffee/Tea Break

10:30 - 12:00	Session 1A : Reliability and Fault Tolerance (Chair: Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA)
		
		* Integrated System and Process Crash Recovery in the Loris Storage Stack
		David C. van Moolenbroek, Raja Appuswamy and Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit

		* A Reliability Optimization method Using Disk Reliability Degree and Data Heat Degree
		Yin Yang, Zhihu Tan, Jiguang Wan, ChangSheng Xie, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech

		* Two Efficient Partial-Updating Schemes for Erasure-Coded Storage Clusters
		Fenghao Zhang, Jianzhong Huang, Shiyi Li, Qiang Cao and Changsheng Xie. Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech

10:30 - 12:00	Session 1B: Network Security (Chair: TBD)

		* An Anomaly Detection Algorithm Based on Lossless Compression
		Nan Wang, Jizhong Han, Jinyun Fang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

		* Designing Click-Draw Based Graphical Password Scheme for Better Authentication
		Yuxin Meng, City University of Hong Kong

		* A General Framework of Trojan Communication Detection Based on Network Traces
		Shicong Li, Xiaochun Yun, Yongzheng Zhang, Jun Xiao and Yipeng Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

10:30 - 12:00	Session 1C: Many-Cores and GPU (Chair: Zhenyu Liu, Tsinghua University, China)

		* Parallel Sparse Matrix Multiplication for Preconditioning and SSTA on a Many-Core Architecture
		Keliang Zhang, Baifeng Wu. Fudan University

		* Implementing the Jacobi Algorithm for Solving Eigenvalues of Symmetric Matrices with CUDA
		Tao Wang, Longjiang Guo, Guilin Li, Jinbao Li, Renda Wang, Meirui Ren, Jing (Selena) He. Heilongjiang University, Xiamen University and Georgia State University

12:00 - 13:30	Lunch

13:30 - 14:30	* Keynote Talk: Memory System for Extreme-Scale Computing
		Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology

14:30 - 15:30	Session 2A : Cloud Storage (Chair: TBD)

		* C-IRR: An Adaptive Engine for Cloud Storage Provisioning Determined by Economic Models with Workload Burstiness Consideration
		Jianzong Wang, Rui Hua, Yifeng Zhu, Changsheng Xie, Peng Wang and Weijiao Gong. Huazhong University of Science and Technology and University of Maine

		* Investigating an Open Source Cloud Storage Infrastructure for CERN-Specific Data Analysis
		Salman Zubair Toor, Rainer Toebbicke, Maitane Zotes Resines and Sverker Holmgren. Uppsala University and European Organization for Nuclear Research

		* Magicube: High Reliability and Low Redundancy Storage Architecture for Cloud Computing
		Qingqing Feng, Jizhong Han, Yun Gao and Dan Meng. Chinese Academy of Sciences

		* CHAC: An Effective Attribute Clustering Algorithm for Large-scale Data Processing
		Xiaoyan Gu, Xiufeng Yang, Weiping Wang, Yan Jin and Dan Meng. Chinese Academy of Sciences

14:30 - 15:30	Session 2B: Performance Analysis (Chair: Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA)

		* INBI: An Improved Network-Based Inference Recommendation Algorithm
		Jianxun Xia, Fei Wu, Changsheng Xie and Jianwei Tu. Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech

		* Optimizing bandwidth by employing MPLS AToM with QoS support
		Rashid Hassani, Amirreza Fazely and Peter Luksch. University of Rostock

		* Bitline Leakage Current Compensation Circuit for High-performance SRAM Design
		Ruixing Li, Na Bai, Baitao Lv, Jiafeng Zhu and Xiulong Wu. Anhui University and Southeast University

15:30 - 16:00:  Coffee/Tea Break

16:00 - 17:30	Session 3A : Solid State Drives (Chair: Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Lab, USA)

		* Making Garbage Collection Wear Conscious for Flash SSD
		Jonathan Tjioe, Andres Blanco, Tao Xie and Yiming Ouyang. San Diego State University

		* An Empirical Study on the Interplay Between Filesystems and SSD
		Ping Huang, Ke Zhou, Chunhua Li and Hua Wang. Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech

		* GC-ARM: Garbage Collection-Aware RAM Management for Flash based Solid State Drives
		Jian Hu, Hong Jiang, Lei Tian and Lei Xu. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

16:00 - 17:30	Session 3B: TCP/IP (Chair: TBD)

		* IVI-based Locator/ID Separation Architecture for IPv4/IPv6 Transition
		Wentao Shang, Congxiao Bao and Xing Li. Tsinghua University

		* A Hardware-based TCP Stream State Tracking and Reassembly Solution for 10G Backbone Traffic
		Yanrong Zhao, Ruan yuan, Wang Weiping, Meng Dan, Zhang Shubin, Li Jun. Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tencent
		
		* An In-depth analysis of TCP and RDMA Performance on Modern Server Platform
		Yong Wan, Dan Feng, Fang Wang, Liang Ming and Yulai Xie. Huazhong University of Science and Technology

16:00 - 17:30	Session 3C: Architecture (Chair: Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China)

		* Novel O-GEHL Based Hyperblock Predictor for EDGE Architectures
		Pengfei Gou, Bing Yang, Mingyan Yu and Zhigang Mao. Harbin Institute of Technology
		
		* PSA-NUCA: A Pressure Self-Adapting Dynamic Non-Uniform Cache Architecture
		Anwen Huang, Jiang Jiang, Jun Gao, Wei Guo, Wenqiang Shi and Minxuan Zhang. National University of Defense Technology and Shanghai Jiao Tong University

		* A Transparent Control-flow Based Approach to Record-Replay Non-deterministic Bugs
		Nan Wang, Jizhong Han and Jinyun Fang. Chinese Academy of Sciences



Day 2:		Friday, June 29, 2012

8:30 - 9:30:	* Keynote Talk: Energy Adaptive Computing
                Krishna Kant, George Mason University

9:30 - 10:00:  Coffee/Tea Break

10:00 - 12:00	Session 4A : File Systems (Chair: Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA)

		* Co-located Compute and Binary File Storage in Data-intensive Computing
		Qiangju Xiao, Pengju Shang and Jun Wang. University of Central Florida

		* Efficient and Accurate Anomaly Identification Using Reduced Metric Space in Utility Clouds
		Qiang Guan, Ziming Zhang and Song Fu. University of North Texas

		* A Quantitative Evaluation Model for Choosing Efficient Redundancy Strategies over Clouds
		Jianzong Wang, Weijiao Gong and Changsheng Xie. Huazhong University of Science and Technology

		* Performance Evaluation of Traditional Caching Policies on A Large System with Petabytes of Data
		Ribel Fares, Brian Romoser, Ziliang Zong, Mais Nijim, and Xiao Qin. Texas State University, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Auburn University

10:00 - 12:00	Session 4B: Wireless Networks and Applications (Chair: Lei Xie, Nanjing University, China)

		* Towards Energy Optimization Using Joint Data Rate Adaptation for BSN and WiFi Networks
		Yantao Li, Ge Peng, Xin Qi, Gang Zhou, Di Xiao, Shaojiang Deng and Hongyu Huang. Chongqing University and College of William and Mary

		* MOLTS: Mobile Object Localization and Tracking System Based on Wireless Sensor Networks
		Tao Liu, Xiaozong Cui, Guangsheng Xu, Jie Tong, Yi Liu, Depei Qian. Beihang University

		* A Queue-length-based Detection Scheme for Urban Traffic Congestion by VANETs
		Yuwei Xu, Ying Wu, Jingdong Xu, Dongying Ni, Gongyi Wu and Lin Sun. Nankai University

		* Wide-area 100Gb Networking at the SCinet Research Sandbox
		Richard Knepper, William Johnson, Scott Michael, Robert Henschel and Matthew Link. Indiana University

12:00 - 13:30	Lunch

13:30 - 14:30	* Keynote Talk: Error-Correcting Codes for Flash Memory
		Trieu-Kien Truong, National Sun Yat-Sen University

14:30 - 15:30	Session 5A : Processors and Cache (Chair: Tao Wang, Peking University, China)

		* Wear-Resistant Hybrid Cache Architecture with Phase Change Memory
		Sanchuan Guo, Zhenyu Liu, Dongsheng Wang, Haixia Wang and Guohong Li. Tsinghua University

		* A Novel HW/SW Partitioning with SIMD Instructions for AVS Video Decoder
		Liwei Chen, Ming Cong, Jing Huang, Ling Li, Hongwei Liu and Cheng Qian. Chinese Academy of Sciences

		* Self-Aligning Return Address Stack
		Wang Guopeng, Hu Xiangdong, Zhu Ying and Zhang Yingnan. National High Performance IC Design Center and University of Science and Technology of China

14:30 - 15:30	Session 5B: Solid-State Drives and I/O (Chair: Ben He, Virginia Commonwealth University)

		* Improving the Performance of On-Board Cache for Flash-based Solid-State Drives
		Miaoqing Huang and Liang Men. University of Arkansas

		* Dataset Management Aware Software Architecture for Storage Systems Based On SSDs
		Nikolaus Jeremic, Gero M?hl, Anselm Busse and Jan Richling. University of Rostock

		* A Parity Scheme to Enhance Reliability for SSDs
		Yi Qin, Dan Feng, Jingning Liu, Wei Tong, Yang Hu and Zhiming Zhu. Huazhong University of Science and Technology

		* Measurements Study on the I/O Performance of Virtualized Cloud System
		Lingjun Pu, Jingdong Xu, Xing Jin, Ying Wu and Jianzhong Zhang. Nankai University

15:30 - 16:00:  Coffee/Tea Break

16:00 - 17:30	Session 6A: High-Performance Systems (Chair: Meilin Liu, Wright State University)

		* Aesop: Expressing Concurrency in High-Performance System Software
		Dries Kimpe, Philip Carns, Kevin Harms, Justin Wozniak, Samuel Lang and Robert Ross. Argonne National Laboratory

		* TDWS: a Job Scheduling Algorithm based on MapReduce
		Zhao Yanrong, Wang Weiping, Meng Dan, Zhang Shubin, Li Jun. Chinese Academy of Sciences

		* A Multi-VC Dynamically Shared Buffer with Prefetch for Network on Chip
		Heying Zhang, Kefei Wang, Yi Dai and Lu Liu. National University of Defense Technology

16:00 - 17:30	Session 6B: Deduplication and Analysis (Chair: David Chang, National Cheng Kung University)

		* SAR: SSD Assisted Restore Optimization for Deduplication-based Storage Systems
		Bo Mao, Hong Jiang, Suzhen Wu, Yinjin Fu and Lei Tian. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Xiamen University, and National University of Defense Technology

		* P-Dedupe: Exploiting Parallelism in Data Deduplication System
		Wen Xia, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Lei Tian, Min Fu and Zhongtao Wang. Huazhong University of Science and Technology and University of Nebraska-Lincoln
		
		* On accuracy of early traffic classification
		Buyun Qu, Zhibin Zhang, Li Guo and Dan Meng. Chinese Academy of Sciences

18:00 - 21:00	Industrial Panel and Banquet




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From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:37:09 -0600
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From Mi_Mi_AUNG at dsi.a-star.edu.sg  Mon Jul  9 05:03:22 2012
From: Mi_Mi_AUNG at dsi.a-star.edu.sg (Khin Mi Mi Aung (DSI))
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:03:22 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] [Call for Paper] Storage System,
 Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit
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Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit
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Call for papers

The Inaugural Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit will be held in conjunction with the APMRC 2012 on November 1, 2012. It serves as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share and discuss cutting-edge research on storage devices and systems.


Topics

Papers that illustrate novel ideas, real system experiences, as well as detailed analyses and evaluations, are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Large Scale Storage System
* Storage Subsystem
* Storage System Performance, Scalability and Reliability
* Storage Security and Data Protection
* Shingled Write Disk
* Architecture and Applications of Solid State Storage
* Hybrid Hard Drive
* Data Centre Network
* Cloud Storage

The length of each submission is limited to 8 pages, inclusive of figures and references, and formatted in standard IEEE two-column conference style<http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/authors_journals.html> with 11-pt font size. A submission may present preliminary results, propose a new research direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative viewpoint on an important systems topic. Papers will be selected based on their originality, technical merit, clarity, and technical relevance. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the APMRC conference, which will be published in the IEEE Explore. Selected papers will be published in the journal of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics based on peer review. The authors should not have substantially similar work in review anywhere else.

Papers must be submitted by email to apmrc2012 at dsi.a-star.edu.sg<mailto:apmrc2012 at dsi.a-star.edu.sg>.


For more information, click on the following links:

Important Deadlines<http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/events/microsite/Pages/dct.aspx#deadlines>
Summit Organizing Committee<http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/events/microsite/Pages/dct.aspx#committee>
Keynote Speaker<http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/events/microsite/Pages/dct.aspx#keynote>
Invited Speakers<http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/events/microsite/Pages/dct.aspx#invited>
Summit Program<http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/events/microsite/Pages/dct.aspx#program>
Registration<http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/events/microsite/Pages/dct.aspx#registration>
Registration Fees<http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/events/microsite/Pages/dct.aspx#fees>

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Important Deadlines

Full paper submission deadline: 10 August, 2012

Notification of acceptance date: 21 September, 2012

Camera ready submission deadline: 28 September, 2012
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Summit Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair:
Hu Yoshida, CTO, Hitachi Data System

Conference Co-chairs:
Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan
Yong Khai Leong, Data Storage Institute

Technical Program Chair:
Feng Dan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Program Committee:
Chunxiao Xing, Tsinghua University, China
Dean Hildebrand, IBM Research, Almaden
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA
Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA
Koh Eng Kiat, Data Storage Institute
LingFang Zeng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University
Sorin Faibish, EMC
Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Yafei Dai, Peking University, China
Zhenquan Xu, Wuhan University, China
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Keynote Speaker

To be announced later...

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Invited Speakers
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Katsuhiko Nishikawa
Senior Director, IT Systems Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

Katsuhiko Nishikawa has been with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. for about 30 years, and has been engaged in many research and development activities on information system technology. The fastest CG accelerator and a single chip 10GbE switch were his research results. He received IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Industrial Achievement Award on the 10GbE switch in 2004. His recent research area is about large scale storage system. He is a member of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE) of Japan.




Title: Dynamic Storage Platform for Accumulating and Utilizing Huge-scale Data

Abstract: The environment which surrounds storage system has been dramatically changing. Emergence of huge-scale data analysis and new storage devices such as storage class memories is its example. Looking these phenomena from a storage platform viewpoint, movement of an all-in-one storage platform including from storage devices to analytical middleware has been getting popularity. This topic will cover our research activity about new storage platform based on our resource pool technology by which a system can be flexibly configured according to user applications. Distributed object storage technology that efficiently accumulates and utilizes huge-scale data will also be covered.

Hitachi, Huawei, ... in progress
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Summit Program

Thursday, 1st November 2012
0800-0900        Registration
0900-1000        Opening Speech and Keynote
1000-1030        Tea break
1030-1200        Invited Speaker and Technical papers
1200-1330        Lunch
1330-1500        Invited Speaker and Technical papers
1500-1530        Tea break
1530-1700        Invited Speaker and Technical papers
1830-2200        DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner
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Registration

Click here<http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/events/microsite/Documents/APMRC%20Summit%20Conference%20Registration%20Form.pdf> to download the Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit registration form.

Please fill out the registration form and
- fax it to  [Description: chrome-extension://lifbcibllhkdhoafpjfnlhfpfgnpldfl/numbers_button_skype_logo.png] 65-6512-7796,
or
- email the scanned copy to apmrc2012 at dsi.a-star.edu.sg<mailto:apmrc2012 at dsi.a-star.edu.sg>.
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Registration Fees

Advanced registration (by 15 October 2012):
- S$350 for IEEE/DSI Corp. member
- S$450 for Non-member
- S$100 for Student



Regular registration (after 15 October 2012):
- S$450 for IEEE/DSI Corp. member
- S$550 for Non-member
- S$200 for Student



Entitlements:
- DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner (1 November 2012) **
- Admission to Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit
- Daily Coffee Breaks and Lunch
- Conference Digests



**OPTIONAL:
- A fee of S$200 is chargeable for each spouse/partner who wishes to attend the DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner.
- A fee of S$150 is chargeable for each student who wishes to attend the DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner.
- A fee of S$80 is chargeable for each additional Conference Digest.


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From garth at cs.cmu.edu  Mon Jul 16 12:16:48 2012
From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:16:48 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Mike Kazar wins 2013 IEEE RBJ Information
	Storage Systems Award
Message-ID: <67378974-D21C-4996-971B-185B504E4FA1@cs.cmu.edu>

http://www.ieee.org/ucm/groups/public/@ieee/@web/@org/@about/documents/file/42122664.pdf 

IEEE REYNOLD B. JOHNSON INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEMS AWARD - for outstanding contributions to information storage systems with emphasis on computer storage systems ? sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems?to

MICHAEL KAZAR (Nonmember) - Founder of Transarc Corporation and Chief Technology Officer, Avere Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

?For developments in networked global file systems and clustered data storage that shaped commercial networked file access and the emergence of cloud storage.?

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Congratulations to Mike!  From AFS to Spinnaker to NetApp and now Avere, quite a list of influential storage systems.

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Nominations for the 2014 IEEE RBJ Information Storage Systems Award are open until Jan 31 2013.  Instructions on submitting a nomination, the process, committee and past winners, can be found at:

http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/tfas/johnson.html

From butta at cs.vt.edu  Tue Jul 24 14:34:57 2012
From: butta at cs.vt.edu (Ali R. Butt)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:34:57 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: IEEE MASCOTS 2012
Message-ID: <20120724143457.Horde.uUrOY4sJzKZQDurRCwySc1A@webmail.cs.vt.edu>


                       CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                          IEEE MASCOTS 2012

                  The 20th IEEE International Symposium on
   Modeling, analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems

                     http://mascots.cs.vt.edu

                          August 7-9, 2012
                        Washington, DC, USA

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The MASCOTS conference is a well-established forum for  
state-of-the-art research on the measurement, modeling, and   
performance analysis of computer systems and networks.

The 20th edition of this conference, sponsored by the IEEE, will take  
place August 7-9, 2012 in the Virginia Tech Arlington Research Center,  
located in the Washington, DC metropolitan area in the USA.

We would like to cordially invite researchers world-wide to attend and  
participate in the conference.

The technical program for the 3-day conference includes:
   * Two keynote talks, by Dr. Namburu (ARL) and Prof. Chandy (Caltech)
   * 16 sessions of full papers, and a best papers session
   * a poster session, reception, and banquet

The conference brings together academics and industry practitioners to  
present and discuss their latest research results in the areas of:

- Measurement studies;
- Performance evaluation methodologies;
- Industrial practice and experience; or
- Theoretical results

Topics of interest in the conference include:

- Computer Architecture
- Computer Networks
- Distributed/Parallel Systems
- Internetworking Protocols
- Multimedia Systems
- Pervasive Web and Mobility
- Sensor Networks
- Storage Systems
- Web-based Systems
- Wireless Networks

Questions on the conference may be directed to the General Chair and  
the Program Co-Chairs.

General Chair:
Srinidhi Varadarajan, Virginia Tech, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
Kalyan Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
David Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Publicity Chair:
Ali Butt, Virginia Tech, USA

Web Chair:
Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

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For additional information and updates, please visit the conference Webpage:
  http://mascots.cs.vt.edu
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From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu  Tue Jul 24 20:39:46 2012
From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:39:46 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 13th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated
	Network and Service Management (IM 2013)
Message-ID: <20120725044902.9055B36800BC@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu>

IM 2013

The 13th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management 

Ghent, Belgium, 27-31 May 2013

http://www.im2013.org/

(Paper Submission Date: 16 August 2012)

"Smart Management in a Virtualized World"


The 13th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2013) will be held 27-31 May 2013 in the beautiful city center of Ghent, Belgium and hosted by Ghent University. Held in odd-numbered years since 1989, IM 2013 follows the 25 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. IM 2013 will focus on the theme "Smart Management in a Virtualized World" presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical solutions for dealing with future cloud, network and ICT infrastructures, as well as with novel services provided on top of these infrastructures. IM 2013 will offer five types of sessions: technical, application, poster, panel and dissertation. High quality will be assured through a well qualified Technical Program Committee and stringent pe
 er review of paper submissions. A special call for demonstrations is organized to allow industry partners and researchers to demonstrate early products and prototypes.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to the topic areas that are listed below. In addition, we invite submissions of proposals for demonstrations, exhibits, technical panels, tutorials and workshops. Papers can be submitted as technical session full papers, technical session short papers, experience session papers and dissertation papers.

Network Management & Operational Experience

- Wireless & mobile networks
- Broadband access networks
- Future Internet
- Content distribution networks
- Data Centers
- Home networks
- Smart Grids
- Automotive and Vehicular  Networks
- Cognitive Radio networks
- IP/MPLS networks
- Optical networks
- Overlay networks
- Ad-hoc networks
- Sensor networks
- M2M networks
- Personal Area networks
- P2P networks
- Heterogeneous networks
- Management of Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Management Approaches

- Centralized management
- Distributed management
- Autonomic and self-management
- Policy-based management
- Integrated management
- Management architectures

Service Management

- Multimedia service management
- Managed service provisioning
- OTT service management
- Data service management
- IT service management
- Hosting
- Data center management
- Cloud computing
- Virtualized infrastructure management
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Platform as a Service
- Software as a Service
- Management as a Service

Management Enablers & Technologies

- Protocols
- Middleware
- Web Services
- Mobile agents
- Data, information, and semantic modeling
- Virtualization
- Message and software buses
- Social networking
- Network programmability
- Software product lines
- Software engineering for clouds

Management Functions

- Deployment
- Service Fulfillment
- Service Assurance
- Service Level Management
- Diagnostics, Tracing, Troubleshooting
- Fault management
- Security Management, IDS, IPS
- Billing
- Energy management

Methodologies for Network Operations and Management

- Control theory
- Optimization theory
- Economic theory
- Machine learning
- Data mining
- Probability, stochastic processes, and queuing theory
- Design and simulation
- Experimental approaches
- Visualization
- Data collection and aggregation
- Software engineering methodologies


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format through the IM 2013 web site. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission will be limited to 8 pages (full papers) or 4 pages (short papers) in IEEE 2-column style. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. The authors of the IM 2013 top papers will be encouraged to extend their work and submit to IEEE TNSM (IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. These extended papers will undergo the normal TNSM peer-review process.
To be published in the IFIP/IEEE IM 2013 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore?, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full or limited (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented at the conference. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full or limited registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IFIP/IEEE IM 2013 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore?.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: August 16, 2012
Notification of acceptance: November 5, 2012
Camera ready submission: January 15, 2013


GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
- Alexander Clemm, Cisco, USA
- Piet Demeester, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium

TPC CO-CHAIRS
- Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University, Korea
- Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University-IBBT, Belgium

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Osamu Akashi, NTT
- Ehab Al-Shaer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
- Nikos Anerousis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Shingo Ata, Osaka City University
- Remi Badonnel, University of Nancy - LORIA
- Javier Baliosian, University of the Republic
- Arosha Bandara, The Open University
- Claudio Bartolini, HP Laboratories
- Joseph Betser, The Aerospace Corporation
- Thomas Bocek, University of Zurich
- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo
- David Breitgand, IBM - Haifa Research Lab
- Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd.
- Seraphin Calo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Ritu Chadha, Applied Communication Sciences 
- Marinos Charalambides, University College London
- Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs
- Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal
- Lucy Cherkasova, Hewlett Packard Labs
- Mi-Jung Choi, Kangwon National University
- Piotr Cholda,  AGH University of Science and Technology
- Isabelle Chrisment, LORIA - University of Nancy 1
- Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems
- Hermann De Meer, University of Passau
- Jose De Souza, UFC
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University - IBBT
- Bart De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel-Lucent
- Luca Deri, ntop.org
- Yixin Diao, IBM Research
- Aldri dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Parana
- Guillaume Doyen, UTT
- Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich
- Elias P. Duarte Jr., UFPR
- Tamar Eilam, IBM
- Liam Fallon, Ericsson
- Metin Feridun, IBM Research
- Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est
- Joel Fleck II, Hewlett Packard
- Jerome Francois, University of Luxembourg
- Stephane Frenot, INRIA Amazones
- Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS
- Kurt Geihs, Universitaet Kassel
- Yacine Ghamri-Doudane , ENSIIE & Universite Paris-Est (LIGM lab)
- Alberto Gonzalez, Cisco Systems
- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS
- Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland
- Go Hasegawa, Osaka University
- Peer Hasselmeyer, NEC Laboratories Europe
- David Hausheer, TU Darmstadt
- James Hong, POSTECH
- Brendan Jennings, TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology
- Hongtaek Ju, Keimyung University
- Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente
- Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo
- Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services
- Jinho Kim, NTT DOCOMO, INC.
- Myung-Sup Kim, Korea University
- Yoonhee Kim, Sookmyung Women's Univ.
- Young-Tak Kim, Yeungnam University
- Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Osaka University
- Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC
- Steven Latre, Ghent University
- David Lewis, Trinity College Dublin
- Noura Limam, University of Waterloo
- Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Jorge Lobo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
- Jorge Lopez de Vergara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
- Emil Lupu, Imperial College
- Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario
- Leonidas Lymberopoulos, National Technical University of Athens
- Edmundo Madeira, UNICAMP
- Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS
- Clarissa Marquezan, Paluno, University of Duisburg-Essen
- Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, EPFL
- Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Michael Menth, University of Tuebingen
- Jose-Marcos Nogueira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Michele Nogueira, Universidade Federal do Paran??
- Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin
- Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS
- Gerard Parr, University of Ulster
- George Pavlou, University College London
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente
- Bruno Quoitin, Universite de Mons
- Danny Raz, Technion
- Helmut Reiser, Leibniz-Supercomputing Centre
- Ramin Sadre, University of Twente
- Jacques Sauve, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
- Thomas Schaaf, MNM Team
- Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen
- Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University
- Joan Serrat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- Adarsh Sethi, University of Delaware
- Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra
- Morris Sloman, Imperial College London
- Anna Sperotto, University of Twente
- Rolf Stadler, KTH
- Radu State, University of Luxembourg
- Malgorzata Steinder, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
- John Strassner, Huawei
- Makoto Takano, NTT
- Vanish Talwar, HP Laboratories
- Yoshiaki Tanaka, Waseda University
- Toshio Tonouchi, NEC
- Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara
- Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College
- Sven van der Meer, Ericsson
- Zhikui Wang, HP Laboratories 
- Christopher Ward, SiriusXM
- Carlos Westphall, Federal Uiversity of Santa Catarina
- S. Felix Wu, University of California at Davis
- Jiahai Yang, Tsinghua University
- Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware Inc.
- Artur Ziviani, LNCC



From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu  Tue Aug  7 08:06:41 2012
From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 08:06:41 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICAC2012 Call for Participation (9th ACM
	International Conference on Autonomic Computing)
Message-ID: <20120807161610.025173680088@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu>

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                       CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                       ======================

     The 9th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012)

                         San Jose, California, USA    
                          September 17-21, 2012
                     	http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu

                          Sponsored by ACM

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Online registration is open at 
http://icac2012.cs.fiu.edu/registration.shtm
Reduced fees are available for those registering by September 2, 2012.

This year's technical program features: 

- 3 distinguished keynote speakers:
	* Dr. Amin Vahdat, Google/UCSD
     	* Dr. Subutai Ahmad (VP Engineering), Numenta
        * Dr. Eitan Frachtenberg, Facebook

- 24 outstanding technical papers (15 full + 9 short):
	* covering core and emerging topics such as clouds, virtualization,
	  control, monitoring and diagnosis, and energy 
	* Half of the papers involve authors from industry or government labs
	
- 4 co-located workshops covering hot topics in:
	* Feedback Computing
	* Self-Aware Internet of Things
	* Management of Big Data Systems
	* Federated Clouds 
	


The Conference will be held at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose, CA, USA.


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                         IMPORTANT DATES
                         ===============

            Early registration deadline: September 2, 2012
            Hotel special rate deadline: September 7, 2012
                                 
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                        CORPORATE SPONSORS
                        ==================

Gold Level Partner: IBM
Conference partners: VMware, HP, Neustar
PhD Student Sponsor: Google
Other Sponsor: NEC Labs

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                         PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
                         ===================

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 - WORKSHOPS

Feedback Computing 2012
Self-Aware Internet of Things 2012

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 - MAIN CONFERENCE

8:00AM - 8:45AM
Registration

8:45AM - 9:00AM
Welcome Remarks

9:00AM - 10:00AM
Keynote Talk I

Symbiosis in Scale Out Networking and Data Management
Amin Vahdat, Google and University of California, San Diego

10:00AM - 10.30AM 
Break

10:30AM - 12:00PM
Session : Virtualization

Net-Cohort: Detecting and Managing VM Ensembles in Virtualized Data Centers
Liting Hu, Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology); 
Ajay Gulati (VMware); Junjie Zhang, Chengwei Wang (Georgia Institute 
of Technology)

Application-aware Cross-layer Virtual Machine Resource Management
Lixi Wang, Jing Xu, Ming Zhao (Florida International University)

Shifting GEARS to Enable Guest-context Virtual Services
Kyle Hale, Lei Xia, Peter Dinda (Northwestern University)

12:00PM-1:30PM
Lunch

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1:30PM - 3:30PM
Session: Performance and Resource Management

When Average is Not Average: Large Response Time Fluctuations in N-tier Systems
Qingyang Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology); Yasuhiko Kanemasa, 
Motoyuki Kawaba (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.); Calton Pu (Georgia Institute 
of Technology)

Provisioning Multi-tier Cloud Applications Using Statistical Bounds on 
Sojourn Time
Upendra Sharma, Prashant Shenoy, Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Automated Profiling and Resource Management of Pig Programs for Meeting 
Service Level Objectives
Zhuoyao Zhang (University of Pennsylvania); Ludmila Cherkasova (Hewlett-Packard Labs); 
Abhishek Verma (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); 
Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania)

AROMA: Automated Resource Allocation and Configuration of MapReduce Environment 
in the Cloud
Palden Lama, Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)  

3:30PM - 4:00PM
Break

4:00PM - 5:15PM
Short Papers I

Locomotion at Location: When the Rubber hits the Road
Gerold Hoelzl, Marc Kurz, Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) 

An Autonomic Resource Provisioning Framework for Mobile Computing Grids
Hariharasudhan Viswanathan, Eun Kyung Lee, Ivan Rodero, Dario Pompili (Rutgers University) 

A Self-Tuning Self-Optimizing Approach for Automated Network Anomaly Detection Systems
Dennis Ippoliti, Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) 

Offline and On-Demand Event Correlation for Operations Management of Large Scale IT Systems
Chetan Gupta (Hewlett-Packard Labs)

PowerTracer: Tracing Requests in Multi-tier Services to Diagnose Energy Inefficiency
Gang Lu, Jianfeng Zhan (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences); 
Haining Wang (College of William and Mary); Lin Yuan (Institute of Computing Technology, 
Chinese Academy of Sciences); Chuliang Weng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

6:00PM - 9:00PM
Conference Dinner

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 - MAIN CONFERENCE

8:00AM - 9:00AM
Registration

9:00AM - 10:00AM
Keynote Talk II

Automated Machine Learning For Autonomic Computing
Subutai Ahmad, VP Engineering, Numenta 

10:00AM - 10:30AM
Break

10:30AM - 12:00PM
Session: Control-Based Approaches

Budget-based Control for Interactive Services with Adaptive Execution
Yuxiong He, Zihao Ye, Qiang Fu, Sameh Elnikety (Microsoft Research)

On the Design of Decentralized Control Architectures for Workload Consolidation in 
Large-Scale Server Clusters
Rui Wang, Nagarajan Kandasamy (Drexel University)

Transactional Auto Scaler: Elastic Scaling of In-Memory Transactional Data Grids
Diego Didona, Paolo Romano (Instituto Superior Tecnico/INESC-ID); Sebastiano Peluso, 
Francesco Quaglia (Sapienza, Universita di Roma)  

12:00PM - 1:30PM
Lunch

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1:30PM - 2:30PM
Session: Energy

Adaptive Green Hosting
Nan Deng, Christopher Stewart, Jaimie Kelley (The Ohio State University); Daniel Gmach, 
Martin Arlitt (Hewlett Packard Labs) 

Dynamic Energy-Aware Capacity Provisioning for Cloud Computing Environments
Qi Zhang, Mohamed Faten Zhani (University of Waterloo); Shuo Zhang (National University 
of Defense Technology); Quanyan Zhu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); 
Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo); Joseph L. Hellerstein (Google, Inc.) 

2:30PM - 3:30PM
Short Papers II

VESPA: Multi-Layered Self-Protection for Cloud Resources
Aurelien Wailly, Marc Lacoste (Orange Labs); Herve Debar (Teleom SudParis) 

Usage Patterns in Multi-tenant Data Centers: a Temporal Perspective
Robert Birke, Lydia Y. Chen (IBM Research Zurich Lab); Evgenia Smirni (College of 
William and Mary)

Toward Fast Eventual Consistency with Performance Guarantees
Feng Yan (College of William and Mary); Alma Riska (EMC Corporation); Evgenia Smirni (College 
of William and Mary)

Optimal Autoscaling in the IaaS Cloud
Hamoun Ghanbari, Bradley Simmons, Marin Litoiu, Cornel Barna (York University); 
Gabriel Iszlai (IBM Toronto) 

3:30PM - 4:00PM
Break

4:00PM - 6:00PM
Poster and Demo Session

6:00PM - 9:00PM
Conference Outing (tentative)

======================================================================

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 - MAIN CONFERENCE

8:00AM - 9:00AM
Registration

9:00AM - 10:00AM
Keynote Talk III

High Efficiency at Web Scale
Eitan Frachtenberg, Facebook 

10:00AM - 10:30AM
Break

10:30AM - 12:00PM
Session: Diagnosis and Monitoring
Chair: TBD

3-Dimensional Root Cause Diagnosis via Co-analysi
Ziming Zheng, Li Yu, Zhiling Lan (Illinois Institute of Technology); Terry Jones 
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

UBL: Unsupervised Behavior Learning for Predicting Performance Anomalies in Virtualized Cloud Systems
Daniel J. Dean, Hiep Nguyen, Xiaohui Gu (North Carolina State University) 

Evaluating Compressive Sampling Strategies for Performance Monitoring of Data Centers
Tingshan Huang, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Harish Sethu (Drexel University) 

12:00PM
Adjourn

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 - WORKSHOPS

Management of Big Data Systems 2012
Federated Clouds 2012

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ORGANIZERS
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GENERAL CHAIR
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
Vanish Talwar, HP Labs

INDUSTRY CHAIR
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Fred Douglis, EMC

POSTERS/DEMO/EXHIBITS CHAIR
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research

FINANCE CHAIR
Michael Kozuch, Intel

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Jessica Blaine

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Daniel Batista, University of Sao Paulo 
Vartan Padaryan, ISP/Russian Academy of Sci. 
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology 
Jianfeng Zhan, ICT/Chinese Academy of Sci.
Ming Zhao, Florida Intl. University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC
Umesh Bellur, IIT, Bombay
Ken Birman, Cornell University
Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne
Rocky Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yuan Chen, HP Labs
Alva Couch, Tufts University
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
Fred Douglis, EMC
Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
Mohamed Hefeeda, QCRI
Joe Hellerstein, Google
Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs
Jeff Kephart, IBM Research
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research
Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paulo
Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs
Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs
Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
Priya Narasimhan, CMU
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Inst. of Technology
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida Intl. University
Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs
Hartmut Schmeck, KIT
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech
Onn Shehory, IBM Research
Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware
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From meghan at lanl.gov  Tue Aug  7 16:04:21 2012
From: meghan at lanl.gov (McClelland, Meghan W)
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 20:04:21 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] PMBS12 Call for Papers
Message-ID: <96476038CF6EFA4599CA1830B208D87E26F62B10@ECS-EXG-P-MB05.win.lanl.gov>

3rd International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and
Simulation of High Performance Computing Systems (PMBS12)

in cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS and held as part of The
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking,
Storage and Analysis (SC12), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, November
10-16, 2012

http://www.pmbsworkshop.org

PMBS12 - Call For Papers

This workshop is concerned with the comparison of high-performance
computing systems through performance modeling, benchmarking or the
use of tools such as simulators. We are particularly interested in
research which reports the ability to measure and make tradeoffs in
software/hardware co-design to improve sustained application
performance. We are also keen to capture the assessment of future
systems, for example through work that ensures continued application
scalability through peta- and exa-scale systems.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, from
industry and academia, concerned with the qualitative and quantitative
evaluation and modeling of high-performance computing systems. Authors
are invited to submit novel research in all areas of performance
modeling, benchmarking and simulation, and we welcome research that
brings together current theory and practice. We recognize that the
coverage of the term 'performance' has broadened to include power
consumption and reliability, and that performance modeling is
practiced through analytical methods and approaches based on software
tools and simulators.

Workshop Focus

We encourage submissions in the following areas:

- Performance modeling, analysis, and prediction of applications and
high-performance computing systems;
- Novel techniques and tools for performance evaluation and prediction;
- Advanced simulation techniques and tools;
- Micro-benchmarking, application benchmarking and tracing;
- Performance-driven code optimization and scalability analysis;
- Verification and validation of performance models;
- Benchmarking and performance analysis of novel hardware;
- Performance concerns in software/hardware co-design;
- Tuning and auto-tuning of HPC applications and algorithms;
- Benchmark suites;
- Performance visualization;
- Real-world case studies.

Work which examines related topics will also be considered.

Important Dates and Submission Instructions:

- September 9th 2012 (23:59 PST) - Full Paper Submissions
- September 30th 2012 - Full Paper Notification of Acceptance
- October 10th 2012 (23:59 PST) - Late Breaking Research Submissions
- October 17th 2012 - Late Breaking Research Notification of Acceptance
- November 12th 2012 - PMBS12 Workshop

Authors are invited to submit full papers with unpublished, original
work of not more than 10 pages of double column text using single
spaced fonts on pages of 8.5 x 11 inches (this limit includes all
figures, content etc but does not include references). The paper
should be formatted to use the IEEE manuscript guidelines available
at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

A separate Late-Breaking Research and Preliminary Techniques stream is
also available for authors to submit 4-page papers describing initial
research or early first-of-a-kind results (this page limit does not
include references but includes all technical content and figures).
These papers will be presented in a dedicated, interactive session at
PMBS12 enabling open discussion with industry and domain experts.
All accepted papers (subject to post-review revisions) will be
published in the IEEE digital library as part of the SC12 proceedings.

Authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit revised
manuscripts for inclusion in special issues of The Computer Journal
and IEEE Computer Architecture Letters.

Papers should be submitted using EasyChair at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmbs12
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From rross at mcs.anl.gov  Fri Aug 17 10:06:54 2012
From: rross at mcs.anl.gov (Rob Ross)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:06:54 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Parallel Data Storage Workshop 2012
	(Co-located with SC'12): Call for Papers
Message-ID: <6BF801A3-C795-4979-A771-56AA93560E80@mcs.anl.gov>

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The 7th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW12)
held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC) 2012
Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday, November 12, 2012
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URL: http://www.pdsw.org

Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. This workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to:

- performance and benchmarking
- failure tolerance problems and solutions
- APIs for high performance features
- parallel file systems
- high bandwidth storage architectures
- wide area file systems
- metadata intensive workloads
- autonomics for HPC storage
- virtualization for storage systems
- archival storage advances
- resource management innovations
- storage systems for big data and analytics
- incorporation of emerging storage technologies

Paper Submissions:

The Parallel Data Storage Workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting short papers. Submit a not previously published short paper of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Final papers must not be longer than 5 pages. Selected papers and associated talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site; the papers will also be published in the digital library of the IEEE or ACM.

Paper Submission Deadline: Sun, Sept. 30, 2012, 11:59 p.m. EDT (no extensions)
Paper Notification: Wed, Oct. 17, 2012
Camera Ready Due: Wed, Nov. 7, 2012
Softcopy and Slides Due: November 10, 2012, 5:00 pm ET, BEFORE the workshop

Poster Submissions:

There will also be a poster session at the workshop; accepted papers will ALWAYS be accepted for a poster. Others interested in presenting a related technical poster (posters with technical results for storage products are also encouraged) should submit a short poster abstract as instructed on the workshop web site.

Poster Submission Deadline: Thursday, November 6, 2012
Poster Notification: November 8, 2012

Program Committee:

Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory (PC Chair)
Ahmed Amer, University of California, Santa Clara
John Bent, EMC
Yong Chen, Texas Tech University
Matthew Curry, Sandia National Laboratories
Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc.
Dean Hildebrand, IBM
Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory
Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz
Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University
Brad Settlemyer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Matthew Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sage Weil, DreamHost
Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



From ggrider at lanl.gov  Tue Aug 21 23:27:18 2012
From: ggrider at lanl.gov (Grider, Gary A)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:27:18 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Scalable File Systems Research Job at Los
	Alamos National Lab
Message-ID: <E784488775841C42850C47FA286F814A09BE9CA7@ECS-EXG-P-MB01.win.lanl.gov>

Los Alamos National Laboratory has a job opening for a File System Engineer/Scientist to both support existing infrastructure and be involved in research and development efforts supporting parallel file system and supporting infrastructure as we move to support exascale requirements. The High-Performance Computing Systems Group (HPC-3) at Los Alamos National Laboratory provides production supercomputing and storage resources. The Infrastructure team within HPC-3 is responsible for providing NFS and parallel file system, network and development runtime tool support for HPC's production environment.  The current environment supports Panasas, Lustre, GPFS, data movement and archival tools, and drives development of PLFS (Parallel log-structured File system) and burst buffer management software.

Reference the complete listing under Careers/Employment Opportunities at http//:www.lanl.gov - job number IRC9749 (link below)

https://jobs.lanl.gov/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?akRegionCode=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY_PAGE&akRegionApplicationId=800&OASF=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY&OAHP=IRC_EXT_SITE_VISITOR_APPL&transactionid=1212337192&retainAM=N&addBreadCrumb=RP&p_svid=9749&p_spid=375169&oapc=12&oas=cFDrd059D0SI_LgY5EBL3w
Thanks
Gary Grider
LANL
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From Mi_Mi_AUNG at dsi.a-star.edu.sg  Thu Aug 23 22:54:57 2012
From: Mi_Mi_AUNG at dsi.a-star.edu.sg (Khin Mi Mi Aung (DSI))
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:54:57 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] FINAL CALL FOR PAPER: Storage Summit
Message-ID: <234F3F5EF513924D831C741D95E9D0442CFAD1@S3-EXCHMB04.shared-svc.local>

Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit
http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/events/microsite/Pages/dct.aspx
November 1, 2012
Singapore

Call for papers
The Inaugural Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit will be held in conjunction with the APMRC 2012 on November 1, 2012. It serves as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share and discuss cutting-edge research on storage devices and systems.

Topics
Papers that illustrate novel ideas, real system experiences, as well as detailed analyses and evaluations, are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Large Scale Storage System
* Storage Subsystem
* Storage System Performance, Scalability and Reliability * Storage Security and Data Protection * Shingled Write Disk * Architecture and Applications of Solid State Storage * Hybrid Hard Drive * Data Centre Network * Cloud Storage

The length of each submission is limited to 8 pages, inclusive of figures and references. Please use the template for submission. A submission may present preliminary results, propose a new research direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative viewpoint on an important systems topic. Papers will be selected based on their originality, technical merit, clarity, and technical relevance. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the APMRC conference, which will be published in the IEEE Explore. Selected papers will be published in the journal of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics based on peer review. The authors should not have substantially similar work in review anywhere else.

Papers must be submitted by email to apmrc2012 at dsi.a-star.edu.sg.

Important Deadlines
Full paper submission deadline: 26 August, 2012

Notification of acceptance date: 21 September, 2012

Camera ready submission deadline: 30 September, 2012

Summit Organizing Committee
Honorary Chair:
Hu Yoshida, CTO, Hitachi Data System

Conference Co-chairs:
Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan
Yong Khai Leong, Data Storage Institute

Technical Program Chair:
Feng Dan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Program Committee:
Chunxiao Xing, Tsinghua University,
China Dean Hildebrand, IBM Research, Almaden Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA Koh Eng Kiat, Data Storage Institute LingFang Zeng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Sorin Faibish, EMC Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Yafei Dai, Peking University, China Zhenquan Xu, Wuhan University, China

Keynote Speaker
Garth A. Gibson
Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Panasas Inc.

Garth Gibson holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. His research on Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) has been awarded the 1998 SIGMOD Test of Time Award, the 1999 Allan Newell Award for Research Excellence, the 1999 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award for outstanding contributions in the field of information storage, 2011 entrance into the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame and the 2012 IFIP WG10.4 Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Computing. Gibson founded Carnegie Mellon University's Parallel Data Laboratory (www.pdl.cmu.edu) and was a founding member of the Technical Council of the Storage Networking Industry Association and the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology Steering Committee. At Panasas (www.panasas.com) Gibson led the development of high-performance, scalable, parallel, file-system appliances in use in High-Performance Computing in national labs, academic clouds, energy research, engineered manufacturing and life sciences. Gibson instigated standardizing key features of parallel file systems in NFSv4.1 (parallel NFS), now adopted and deployed in Linux. His 1995 Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASD) led to the ANSI T10 (SCSI) Object Storage Device (OSD) command set now adopted and deployed in Linux. His students have gone on to co-author influential systems such as the Google File System and BigTable, and to lead the technology development of influential products such as EMC's Data Domain. His collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) led to the Parallel Log-structured File System (PLFS), an open source project speeding up highly concurrent file writing by up to two orders of magnitude and in production use at LANL.

Title: Storage Systems Issues for Shingled Magnetic Recording

Abstract: A promising strategy for increasing the areal density of magnetic disk drives through the coming decade is to shingle (partially overlap) adjacent tracks, imposing significant restrictions on where data can be written without incurring multi-track read-modify-write penalties. These restrictions and penalties can be 1) fully hidden from system software using techniques familiar in NAND Flash disks; 2) minimally exposed as multi-track, shingled bands of predetermined size that can be read normally, but only appended to or trimmed (erased); or 3) maximally exposed as dynamically sized bands of shingles separated by guard regions of previously erased tracks, allowing maximal capacity to be obtained by the most sophisticated system software. While the latter options require significant changes in system software, there is a rich history of demonstrations of log-structured file systems that should be able to do this, and a profusion of write-once cloud storage and archive systems that could provide the economic "killer applications." Now is a good time for systems software experts to take interest and weigh in as magnetic disk technologists are experimenting with shingled disks. Experience shows that the interface model for magnetic disks can take decades to change (for example, 512B to 4096B sectors) unless device vendors and systems software developers work together toward mutually desirable principles of operation.

Invited Speakers


Katsuhiko Nishikawa
Senior Director, IT Systems Laboratories, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

Katsuhiko Nishikawa has been with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. for about 30 years, and has been engaged in many research and development activities on information system technology. The fastest CG accelerator and a single chip 10GbE switch were his research results. He received IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Industrial Achievement Award on the 10GbE switch in 2004. His recent research area is about large scale storage system. He is a member of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE) of Japan.

Title: Dynamic Storage Platform for Accumulating and Utilizing Huge-scale Data
Abstract: The environment which surrounds storage system has been dramatically changing. Emergence of huge-scale data analysis and new storage devices such as storage class memories is its example. Looking these phenomena from a storage platform viewpoint, movement of an all-in-one storage platform including from storage devices to analytical middleware has been getting popularity. This topic will cover our research activity about new storage platform based on our resource pool technology by which a system can be flexibly configured according to user applications. Distributed object storage technology that efficiently accumulates and utilizes huge-scale data will also be covered.


Naoto Matsunami
General Manager of Information Platform Research Center, Yokohama Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

Naoto Matsunami has more than 20 years of experience in researching and developing storage systems. He developed a disk storage system based on RAID technology for the first time in Japan, and also developed a midrange-class storage system in 1998 which led to the global expansion of its business. Additionally, Matsunami contributed to an enterprise-class storage system in 2004 with Hitachi's original crossbar switch storage architecture and world's first enterprise-class storage virtualization feature. Now he leads research efforts in the area of information platform for creating sophisticated social infrastructure based on information technology. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).

Huawei ... in progress

Summit Program
Thursday, 1st November 2012
0800-0900        Registration
0900-1000        Opening Speech and Keynote
1000-1030        Tea break
1030-1200        Invited Speaker and Technical papers
1200-1330        Lunch
1330-1500        Invited Speaker and Technical papers
1500-1530        Tea break
1530-1700        Invited Speaker and Technical papers
1830-2200        DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner

Registration
Click here to download the Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit registration form.
Please fill out the registration form and
- fax it to 65-6512-7796,
or
- email the scanned copy to apmrc2012 at dsi.a-star.edu.sg.

Registration Fees
Advanced registration (by 15 October 2012):
- S$350 for IEEE/DSI Corp. member
- S$450 for Non-member
- S$100 for Student

Regular registration (after 15 October 2012):
- S$450 for IEEE/DSI Corp. member
- S$550 for Non-member
- S$200 for Student

Entitlements:
- DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner (1 November 2012) **
- Admission to Storage System, Hard Disk and Solid State Technologies Summit
- Daily Coffee Breaks and Lunch
- Conference Digests

**OPTIONAL:
- A fee of S$200 is chargeable for each spouse/partner who wishes to attend the DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner.
- A fee of S$150 is chargeable for each student who wishes to attend the DSI 20th Anniversary Dinner.
- A fee of S$80 is chargeable for each additional Conference Digest.


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From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu  Fri Aug 24 23:28:40 2012
From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:28:40 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation: The 9th ACM
 International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2012) - September
 17-21, 2012 in San Jose, California, USA
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From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:29:53 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: DataCloud2012 - The Third
 International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds --
 Co-located with SC12
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:33:55 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Extended Deadline: 5th Workshop on
 Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2012 -- at IEEE/ACM
 Supercomputing 2012
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Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE DataCloud 2012 -- at
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From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu  Mon Sep 17 11:22:27 2012
From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:22:27 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Symposium on Cloud Computing in October
Message-ID: <50574033.7050008@cs.cmu.edu>

A note from  Al Spector:


I'm writing to you as General Chair of the Symposium on Cloud Computing.

I took on this conference, because of the truly enormous impact and
potential of this area, in both research and engineering. While one could
argue that Cloud Computing is "just distributed computing/distributed
databases on steroids," many things make the area much more interesting:
There are quite a few orders of magnitude in scale. There are vast number
of emerging applications (e.g., most of us who worked on traditional OLTP
never anticipated the data, transaction, and processing requirements of
web-scale AI/machine learning...). There are enormously interesting
economic implications on both the cost and pricing side. And, many more...

So, on October 15-17th in San Jose, we'll have the first ACM-sponsored,
independent Cloud Computing Conference, and I am hoping that we will
establish SOCC in the best tradition of SOSP, SIGMOD, and the other great
systemsy conferences. The Program Committee, under the leadership of
Michael Carey and Steven Hand accepted ~25 papers, out of 160 submissions,
so we have a great start. We've also gotten excellent sponsorships, so the
conference should be a most pleasant experience.

The program for The Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2012) is now online.

Why this note? It is to encourage you and/or some of your team
members/colleagues to attend the conference. For those unable to register
before the original, early bird deadline, we have extended the early bird
registration deadline to September 24, 2012.  I'd like to see diverse
attendance from the many relevant areas of academe and industry, and I'd
appreciate your help.

Thanks for your attention.

Alfred

PS --  For details on the exciting things happening at SoCC 2012, continue
reading below.

What's new at SoCC 2012?
This will be an exciting year for SoCC because it's the first time it
will run independently from SIGMOD and SOSP.  In addition, its Silicon
Valley location should make it easy for the large local cloud computing
community to participate.  Program details are in the works, but it will
include a keynote address, two full days of single-track technical talks,
and then a day of optional tutorials.  Below are a few of the anticipated
highlights:

Keynote
The accomplished Scott Shenker (Berkeley) will be keynoting at SoCC 2012 on
"Software-Defined Networking: Overview and Implications". In addition
to teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he is also the chief
scientist and leader of the Networking Group at the International Computer
Science Institute, where he was a founding member of the ICSI Center for
Internet Research. Scott has received awards from both SIGCOMM and IEEE and
serves as a leader in the movement toward Software-Defined Networking.

Tutorials
We will have two tracks of informative Tutorials available the day after
the main conference:

     "Designing Good Algorithms for Map-Reduce and Beyond" (Full Day)
         Speakers: Foto N. Afrati (NTUA and Google), Magdalena Balazinska
(University of Washington), Anish Das Sarma (Google), Bill Howe (University
of Washington), Semih Salihoglu (Stanford University), and Jeffrey D.
Ullman (Stanford University)
     "Distributed Programming and Consistency: Principles and Practice"
(Half Day)
         Speakers: Peter Alvaro (UC Berkeley), Neil Conway (UC 
Berkeley), and Joseph
M. Hellerstein (UC Berkeley)
     "Open Source Cloud Technologies" (Half Day)
         Speaker: Salman A. Baset (IBM Research)


Papers
We received over 160 paper submissions covering a variety of topics. As
mentioned, The program committee accepted ~25 papers, which equates to a
selective 15.33% acceptance rate, so you can look forward to a very high
quality technical program.

Networking
In addition to the high-caliber technical participation at the conference,
there will also be opportunities to mingle with world-class leaders in
cloud computing in a more informal setting (i.e accompanied by excellent
food, wine, and cocktails). Monday evening, October 15th,  we will host a
banquet exclusively for SoCC attendees at the Tech Museum, which houses
many innovative exhibits.

The SoCC 2012 organizing committee is excited to hear about all the latest
work being done in cloud computing and to bringing together all of the
fantastic thought leaders in this field. We hope to see you there!
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From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:23:19 -0600
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call-for-Nominations: SPEC Distinguished
	Dissertation Award 2012
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From rross at mcs.anl.gov  Mon Sep 24 19:01:49 2012
From: rross at mcs.anl.gov (Rob Ross)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:01:49 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Parallel Data Storage Workshop 2012
	(Co-located with SC'12): Call for Papers
Message-ID: <BECCD11C-C7EE-4736-9E05-095B58736A91@mcs.anl.gov>

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The 7th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW12)
held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC) 2012
Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday, November 12, 2012
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URL: http://www.pdsw.org

Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. This workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to:

- performance and benchmarking
- failure tolerance problems and solutions
- APIs for high performance features
- parallel file systems
- high bandwidth storage architectures
- wide area file systems
- metadata intensive workloads
- autonomics for HPC storage
- virtualization for storage systems
- archival storage advances
- resource management innovations
- storage systems for big data and analytics
- incorporation of emerging storage technologies

Paper Submissions:

The Parallel Data Storage Workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting short papers. Submit a not previously published short paper of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Final papers must not be longer than 5 pages. Selected papers and associated talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site; the papers will also be published in the digital library of the IEEE or ACM.

Paper Submission Deadline: Sun, Sept. 30, 2012, 11:59 p.m. EDT (no extensions)
Paper Notification: Wed, Oct. 17, 2012
Camera Ready Due: Wed, Nov. 7, 2012
Softcopy and Slides Due: November 10, 2012, 5:00 pm ET, BEFORE the workshop

Poster Submissions:

There will also be a poster session at the workshop; accepted papers will ALWAYS be accepted for a poster. Others interested in presenting a related technical poster (posters with technical results for storage products are also encouraged) should submit a short poster abstract as instructed on the workshop web site.

Poster Submission Deadline: Thursday, November 6, 2012
Poster Notification: November 8, 2012

Program Committee:

Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory (PC Chair)
Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University
John Bent, EMC
Yong Chen, Texas Tech University
Matthew Curry, Sandia National Laboratories
Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc.
Dean Hildebrand, IBM
Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory
Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz
Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University
Brad Settlemyer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Matthew Wolf, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sage Weil, Inktank
Bill Kramer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications/University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



From kai.sachs at gmail.com  Tue Sep 25 14:45:13 2012
From: kai.sachs at gmail.com (Kai Sachs)
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:45:13 +0200
Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICPE 2013 Prague: CFP (Research Papers
	extension 5th October)
Message-ID: <64AE09BA-2B24-4FA1-A5B8-5D53DA147BF3@gmail.com>

 
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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
 
                              ICPE 2013
                     http://icpe2013.ipd.kit.edu/
   4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
                  
                Prague, Czech Republic, April 21-24, 2013
 
              A Joint Meeting of WOSP/SIPEW sponsored by
       ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGSOFT in Cooperation with SPEC.
 
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IMPORTANT DATES
 
Research Papers                       Extended to 5th October 2012
Industrial / Experience Papers        23 October 2012
Poster and Demo Papers                13 November 2012
Tutorial Proposals                    10 November 2012
Work-in-Progress and Vision Papers    14 January 2013
 
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SCOPE AND TOPICS
 
The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. ICPE is established as a joint meeting of the ACM Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP) and the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop (SIPEW). The conference brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time performance management.
 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
Performance and software development processes
  *  Techniques to elicit and incorporate performance, availability, power and other extra-functional requirements throughout the software and system lifecycle
  *  Agile, performance-test-driven development
  *  Performance engineering in Commercial-of-the-Shelf (COTS) system, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), web-based systems and services, smart systems, automated control systems, transport systems, embedded, real-time, and mobile systems
  *  Performance-requirement reengineering and design for software performance predictability
  *  Software performance modeling, patterns and anti-patterns
 
Performance modeling and prediction
  *  Languages, annotations, tools and methodologies to support model-based performance engineering
  *  Analytical, simulation, statistical, AI-based, and hybrid modeling/prediction methods
  *  Automated model discovery and model building
  *  Model validation and calibration techniques
 
Performance measurement, and experimental analysis
  *  Performance measurement, monitoring, and workload characterization techniques
  *  Test planning, tools for performance, load testing, measurement, profiling and tuning
  *  Automated model extraction for functional or partially functional systems
  *  Methodologies for performance testing and for functional testing
  *  Reproduction and reproducibility of performance studies
 
Benchmarking, configuration, sizing, and capacity planning
  *  Benchmark design and benchmarking methods, metrics, and suites
  *  Development of new, configurable, and/or scalable benchmarks
  *  Use of benchmarks in industry and academia
  *  System configuration, sizing and capacity planning techniques
 
System management/optimization
  *  Use of models for run-time configuration/management
  *  Online performance prediction and model parameter estimation
  *  Adaptive resource management
 
Performance in Cloud, Virtualized and multi-core systems
  *  Modeling, monitoring, and testing of cloud computing platforms and applications
  *  Performance/management of virtualized machines, storage and networks
  *  Performance engineering of multi-core and parallel systems
 
Performance and Power
  *  Algorithms for combined power and performance management
  *  Instrumentation, profiling, modeling and measurement of power consumption
  *  Power/performance engineering in grid/cluster/cloud/mobile computing systems
 
Performance modeling and evaluation in other domains such as:
  *  Web-based systems, e-business, web services, SOAs
  *  Transaction-oriented and event-based systems
  *  Embedded and autonomous systems
  *  Real-time and multimedia systems
  *  Peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems
 
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. A variety of contribution styles for papers are solicited including: basic and applied research, industrial experience reports, and work-in-progress/vision papers. Different acceptance criteria apply for each category, please refer to the website for details. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Only the accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICPE 2013 conference proceedings that will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. 
 
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
 
Papers will be thoroughly reviewed for novelty, technical quality, scientific soundness and relevance. Research track submissions should be clearly indicated in the text either as "Full Research Paper" or "Short Research Paper". Submissions must be in the standard ACM format for conference proceedings (http://www.acm.org/chapters/policy/toolkit/template.html). Full research papers should not exceed 12 pages double column including figures and tables; short research papers are limited to 6 pages. Industrial/Experience papers are limited to 8 pages double column including figures and tables. Work-in-Progress and Vision papers should not exceed 4 pages double column including figures and tables. Research track papers, Industry and Experience papers and Work-in-Progress and Vision papers should be submitted via EasyChair. Tutorial proposals and Poster and Demonstration submissions must not exceed 2 pages and should be sent directly to the relevant chair. Detailed submission instructions are available on the conference website.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
 
GENERAL CHAIRS
Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK
 
PROGRAM CHAIRS
J. Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada
Tony Field, Imperial College London, UK
 
INDUSTRIAL CHAIR
Seetharami R. Seelam, IBM Research, USA
 
TUTORIAL CHAIR
Mirco Tribastone, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
 
DEMOS AND POSTERS CHAIRS
Kaustubh Joshi, AT&T Labs Research, USA
 
PUBLICATION CHAIR
Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA
 
FINANCE CHAIR
Lubomir Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic
 
PUBLICITY CHAIRS
John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
Kai Sachs, SAP Research, Germany
 
AWARD CHAIRS
Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, USA
Vittorio Cortellessa, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Research Track
 
Martin Arlitt, HP Labs, USA, and University of Calgary, Canada
Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn, Germany
Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon ? LIP, France
Steve Blackburn, ANU, Australia
Andre Bondi, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Edson Borin, Universidade de Campinas, Brazil
Jeremy Bradley, Imperial College London, UK
Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich, Switzerland
Lucy Cherkasova, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
Lawrence Chung, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Susanna Donatelli, Universita' di Torino, Italy
Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester, USA
Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Dror Feitelson, Hebrew University, Israel
Sebastian Fischmeister, University of Waterloo, Canada
Stephen Gilmore, University of Edinburgh, UK
Lars Grunske, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Wilhelm Hasselbring, University of Kiel, Germany
Michael Hind, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Robert Hundt, Google Inc., USA
Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick, UK
Carlos Juiz, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
David Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA
William Knottenbelt, Imperial College London, UK
Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia
Pat Martin, Queen?s University, Canada
Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
David Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, N. Zealand
Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada
Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA
Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M University, USA
Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Alma Riska, EMC, USA
Jerry Rolia, HP Labs, USA
Peter Sweeney, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Mirco Tribastone, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
Catia Trubiani, Universita? dell?Aquila, Italy
Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada
Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada
Peng Wu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware, USA
 
Industrial Track
Walter Bays, Oracle Corporation, USA
Andrew Bond, Red Hat, USA
Winnie Cheng, American Express, USA
Pankaj K. Garg, ZeeSource, USA
Klaus-Dieter Lange, HP, USA
Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Intel, USA
Meikel Poess, Oracle Corporation, USA
Kai Sachs, SAP AG, Germany
Connie U. Smith, Performance Engineering Services, USA
Ian Whalley, Google, USA
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From jfineman at cs.georgetown.edu  Sun Oct  7 17:10:01 2012
From: jfineman at cs.georgetown.edu (Jeremy Fineman)
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:10:01 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] SPAA 2013 - First Call for Papers
Message-ID: <42C15BE9-ECBB-404F-A0B9-A657B0268784@cs.georgetown.edu>

Apologies for multiple postings

======================================================
SPAA 2013 First Call for Papers
======================================================

25th ACM Symposium on
Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2013)
July 23-25, 2013 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.spaa-conference.org

This year SPAA will be co-located with the ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium  
on
Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2013)

======================================================

Important Dates:

Submission deadlines:
- Abstract: February 11, 2013, 11:59pm EST
- Full versions: February 13, 2013, 11:59pm EST

Notification: April 15, 2013

Camera-ready: May 14, 2013

======================================================

Contributed papers are sought in all areas of parallel algorithms and
architectures, encompassing any computation system that can perform  
multiple
operations or tasks simultaneously. Topics of interest include, but  
are not
limited to:

- parallel and distributed algorithms
- parallel and distributed data structures
- green computing & power-efficient architectures
- management of massive data sets
- parallel complexity theory
- parallel and distributed architectures
- multi-core architectures
- instruction level parallelism and VLSI
- compilers and tools for concurrent programming
- supercomputing architecture and computing
- transactional memory hardware and software
- the internet and the world wide web
- game theory and collaborative learning
- routing and information dissemination
- resource management and awareness
- peer-to-peer systems
- mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks
- robustness, self-stabilization, and security
- synergy of parallelism in algorithms, programming, and architecture

Conference presentations will have two formats:

Regular presentations will be allotted a 25-minute talk and up to 10
pages in the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions
reporting original research, submitted exclusively to this conference.

Brief announcements will be allotted a 10-minute talk and a 2-page
abstract in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief
communications, which may be published later in other conferences.

Every regular paper is eligible for the best paper award. The program
committee may decline to make this award or may split the award among
multiple papers.

Submission:

Authors of contributed papers are encouraged to submit their manuscript
electronically. To submit electronically, visit http://www.spaa-conference.org
for instructions. This is the preferred method of submission.  Authors  
unable
to submit electronically should contact the program chair Berthold  
Vocking at
voecking at cs.rwth-aachen.de to receive instructions.

The cover page should include (1) title, (2) authors and affiliation,
(3) postal and email address of the contact author, (4) a brief abstract
describing the content of the paper, and (5) an indication if this is a
regular presentation or a brief announcement. If requested by the  
authors, an
extended abstract that is not selected for a regular presentation will  
also be
considered for the SPAA brief announcements session. Such a request  
will not
affect the consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.

Submissions for regular presentations should include an introduction
understandable to a nonspecialist including motivation and previous  
work, and
a technical exposition directed to a specialist. A submission should not
exceed 10 printed pages in 11-point type or larger (excluding cover,  
figures,
and references). More details may be supplied in a clearly marked  
appendix to
be read at the discretion of the program committee. A submission for  
brief
announcements should be no longer than three pages (excluding the cover
page) using at least 11-point font.

======================================================

Program Committee:

Matthew Andrews (Bell Labs) Hagit Attiya (Technion) Zhao jun Bai (UC  
Davis)
Michael Bender (Stony Brook U.) George Bosilca (U. of Tennessee) Michael
Dinitz (Weizmann Inst.) Robert Elsasser (Salzburg U.) Thomas Erlebach
(Leicester U.) Magnus M. Halldorsson (Reykjavik U.) Torsten Hoefl?er  
(TU Berlin
& T-Labs) Giuseppe Persiano (U. Salerno) Cynthia A. Phillips (Sandia  
Labs)
Rajmohan Rajaraman (Northeastern U.) Andrea W. Richa (Arizona State U.)
Andre Schiper (EPFL Lausanne) Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin) Ravi Sundaram
(Northeastern U.) Peter Varman (Rice U.) Berthold Vocking (RWTH Aachen  
U.)
Jennifer L. Welch (Texas A&M U.) Norbert Zeh (Dalhousie U.)

======================================================

Conference Committee:

Program Chair
  Berthold Vocking (RWTH Aachen U.)

Conference Chair
  Guy Blelloch (Carnegie Mellon University)

Secretary
  Christian Scheideler (University of Paderborn)

Treasurer
  David Bunde (Knox College)

Publicity Chair
  Jeremy Fineman (Georgetown University)

SPAA Local Arrangements
  Lata Narayanan (Concordia University)

From oralhs at ornl.gov  Thu Oct 11 14:02:56 2012
From: oralhs at ornl.gov (Oral, H. Sarp)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:02:56 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Postdoctoral Research Associate position
	available at OLCF ORNL
Message-ID: <CC9C8210.2101D%oralhs@ornl.gov>

[Apologies if you get duplicate copies]

Postdoctoral Research Associate position available at OLCF ORNL


The Technology Integration (TechInt) Group at Oak Ridge Leadership
Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is
seeking applicants for the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate in
HPC Storage Systems.  The TechInt Group is responsible for updating and
integrating the networks, files systems, and archival storage
infrastructure into the OLCF computing systems. The group researches and
evaluates emerging technologies and provides system programming to
seamlessly integrate new technologies and tools into the infrastructure as
they are adopted. As the OLCF computing resources continue to scale up,
the TechInt group works to develop tools that allow users to take full
advantage of the leadership-class systems.

The successful candidate will work with a team at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory to conduct research on existing and emerging high-performance
scalable parallel file and object storage systems, such as Lustre and
Ceph. The applicant will also be responsible for characterizing and
analyzing high-performance computing (HPC) I/O workloads and developing
I/O benchmarks, performance evaluation tools, and techniques mimicking
these workloads.


Required Qualification:_______________________

Candidate should have a Ph.D. in computer engineering or science, or
related discipline.

The following qualifications are also required:
? C/C++ programming under Unix.
? Shell and Perl or Python programming.
? Technical comprehension of networking, and system software for HPC
platforms.
? Knowledge on high-performance networking technologies such as Infiniband
or SAS and in-depth understanding of the TCP/IP stack.
? Knowledge in performance analysis.
? In-depth understanding in operating system kernels (Linux in
particular), parallel tools, distributed computing and/or software
development.
? Collaborative skills, including the ability to work well with others.
? Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
_________________________

? Understanding of HPC computer architecture issues including CPU, memory,
interconnect and parallel I/O.
? Considerable expertise in parallel programming, multi-core systems, data
flow analysis, and scientific application codes.
? Considerable expertise in creating high-quality software.
? Understanding in one or more of scalable parallel file systems, such as
Lustre, Ceph, GPFS, PVFS.
? Understanding in I/O middleware in HPC platforms.
? Expertise in I/O performance evaluation and benchmarking techniques,
tools, and methodology.
? Expertise in storage area networking.
? Knowledge of and familiarity with NoSQL databases, Key-Value stores,
? Knowledge in Map-Reduce and scalable data analysis techniques.




Please apply at https://www3.orau.gov/ORNL_TOppS/Posting/Details/392

Thanks,


Sarp


-- 
Sarp Oral, PhD

National Center for Computational Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
oralhs at ornl.gov
865-574-2173






From amrocha at ufp.edu.pt  Thu Oct 11 17:09:52 2012
From: amrocha at ufp.edu.pt (amrocha at ufp.edu.pt)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:09:52 +0100
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: WorldCIST'13 - 2013 World Conference
 on Information Systems and Technologies
In-Reply-To: <506DA47D.6070602@ufp.edu.pt>
References: <506DA47D.6070602@ufp.edu.pt>
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Apologies if you are receiving this mail more than once...

Please disseminate by colleagues, researchers, students, etc. Thanks a lot!


**********************************************************************************
WorldCIST'13
The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
March 27 - 30, Algarve, Portugal
http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/
**********************************************************************************

SCOPE

The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
(WorldCIST'13: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/) is a global forum for
researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent
innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several
perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'13. All
submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality,
importance and clarity.


THEMES

Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes
proposed for the Conference:

A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM);

B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS);

C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS);

D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT);

E) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS);

F) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).


TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS

Four types of papers can be submitted:

Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of
the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit.

Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to
discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit.

Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion.
These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D,
tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are
assigned to a 4-page limit.

Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent
Systems and Computing Series (see
http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/springerformat.doc) be written in
English, must not have been published before, not be under review for
any other conference or publication and not include any information
leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names,
affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the
version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should
only be included in the camera-ready version.

All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two
members of the Program Committee.

Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or
accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted
as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers
can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short
papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the
authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the
camera-ready version.

The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster
to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or
A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these
posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per
poster.

The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present
their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of
discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short
papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in
a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will
follow each presentation.

PUBLICATION AND INDEXING

To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper
is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be
fully registered by the 11th of January 2013, and the paper must comply
with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended
changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the
camera-ready version.

No more than one paper per registration will be published in the
Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of
additional papers, with a maximum of two additional papers per registration.

Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company
papers will be published in Proceedings by AISTI.

Published full and short papers will be indexed by ISI, EI-Compendex,
SCOPUS, DBLP and EBSCO, among others, and will be available in the
SpringerLink Digital Library. Published poster and company papers will
be indexed in EI-Compendex and EBSCO.

The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them
for publication in edited books and in international journals indexed by
ISI/JCR, SCOPUS and/or DBLP, among others, such as:

- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
- Online Information Review (OIR)
- Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS)
- Telecommunication Systems Journal (TSJ)
- INFORMATION - An International Interdisciplinary Journal
- Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)
- Information Researh (IR)
- International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT)
- Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI)
- Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent
Informatics (JACIII)
- Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (JECE): Special Issue
in Advances in Radar Technology
- WSEAS Transactions on Systems (TS)
- Library Review (LR)
- Education for Information (EI)
- International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG)
- International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)
- International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial
Intelligence (IJIMAI)


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: November 18, 2012

Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2012

Camera-ready Submission: January 9, 2013

Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in
the conference proceedings: January 11, 2013.

---

Kind regards,

WorldCIST'13
http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/

-- 
?lvaro Rocha                       |
Professor Associado com Agrega??o  |  Presidente da AISTI
Universidade Fernando Pessoa       |  http://www.aisti.eu
Faculdade de Ci?ncia e Tecnologia  |
http://homepage.ufp.pt/~amrocha/   |  Skype: amrrocha







From dkimpe at mcs.anl.gov  Fri Oct 12 14:48:29 2012
From: dkimpe at mcs.anl.gov (Dries Kimpe)
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:48:29 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Postdoctoral position at Argonne National
	Laboratory
Message-ID: <20121012184829.GA4672@today>


[Please forward to potential candidates]

Hi,

The Mathematics and Computer Science division (MCS) of Argonne National
Laboratory is looking to fill in a postdoctoral position in the area of 
tools for data movement and storage in large-scale HPC and data intensive
computing systems.

For more information, and to apply, please use the following URL:
http://web.anl.gov/jobsearch/detail.jsp?userreqid=319050+MCS&lsBrowse=POSTDOC

Please don't hesitate to contact me for more information.

Job Description

Basic Purpose

Will perform work focusing on the research and development of novel
techniques and tools for data movement and storage in large-scale HPC and
data intensive computing systems. This work will involve working with new
and existing I/O system software to improve performance and reliability of
storage systems at large scale, for a variety of use cases

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

* Comprehensive expertise in system software for supercomputers.

* Considerable knowledge in one or more of the following areas: HPC
and/or data intensive storage systems; simulation of complex systems at
high fidelity; techniques and algorithms for fault detection and/or fault
tolerance; computational science or data intensive computing applications.

Other

Should be able to create, maintain, and support high-quality software.

Ph.D. in computer science or a related discipline. Ability to work well
with other laboratories and universities.  Minimum Education/Experience
Requirements Years Since Ph.D. -- 0-1, 1-2, 2-3


    Thanks,
    Dries




From marialemos72 at gmail.com  Thu Oct 18 08:23:05 2012
From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Maria Lemos)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:23:05 +0100
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: WorldCIST'13 - 2013 World Conference
 on Information Systems and Technologies
Message-ID: <20121018122913.A4E42120@osgood.ece.cmu.edu>

Apologies if you are receiving this mail more than once...

Please disseminate by colleagues, researchers, students, etc. Thanks a lot!


**********************************************************************************
                             WorldCIST'13
The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
                   March 27 - 30, Algarve, Portugal
                   http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/
**********************************************************************************

SCOPE

The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'13: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/) is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'13. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.


THEMES

Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference:

A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM);

B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS);

C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS);

D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT);

E) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS);

F) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).


TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS

Four types of papers can be submitted:

Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit.

Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit.

Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/springerformat.doc) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version.

All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee.

Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version.

The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster.

The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation.

PUBLICATION AND INDEXING

To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 11th of January 2013, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version.

No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of two additional papers per registration.

Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published in Proceedings by AISTI.

Published full and short papers will be indexed by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and EBSCO, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Published poster and company papers will be indexed in EI-Compendex and EBSCO.

The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in edited books and in international journals indexed by ISI/JCR, SCOPUS and/or DBLP, among others, such as:

- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
- Online Information Review (OIR)
- Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS)
- Telecommunication Systems Journal (TSJ)
- INFORMATION - An International Interdisciplinary Journal
- Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)
- Information Researh (IR)
- International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT)
- Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI)
- Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII)
- Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (JECE): Special Issue in Advances in Radar Technology
- WSEAS Transactions on Systems (TS)
- Library Review (LR)
- Education for Information (EI)
- International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG)
- International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)
- International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI)


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: November 18, 2012

Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2012

Camera-ready Submission: January 9, 2013

Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 11, 2013.

---

Kind regards,

Maria Lemos
WorldCIST'13
http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/






From calendarsites at insticc.org  Fri Oct 19 13:38:23 2012
From: calendarsites at insticc.org (CalendarSites)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:38:23 +0100
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP ICSOFT-PT 2013 - 8th International
	Conference on Software Paradigm Trends
Message-ID: <048301cdae20$94a23fa0$bde6bee0$@insticc.org>

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

8th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - ICSOFT-PT 2013

 

Website: http://www.icsoft-pt.org

 

July  29 - 31, 2013

 

Reykjav?k, Iceland

 

Important Deadlines: 

 

Regular Paper Submission: February 6, 2013

Authors Notification (regular papers): April 4, 2013

Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 23, 2013 

 

 

 

ICSOFT-PT is part of ICSOFT, the International Conference on Software
Paradigm Trends

Registration to ICSOFT-PT allows free access to all other ICSOFT conferences

 

ICSOFT 2013 will be held in conjunction with DATA 2013 and SIMULTECH 2013  

Registration to ICSOFT allows free access to the DATA and SIMULTECH
conferences (as a non-speaker) 

 

 

 

 

The purpose of the ICSOFT-PT 2013, the 8th International Conference on
Software Paradigm Trends, is to bring together researchers, engineers and
practitioners interested on information technology and software development.
This eighth edition will focus in priority on the four main paradigms that
have been intensively studied during the last decade for software and system
design, namely: Models, Aspects, Services and Context.

 

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is an approach to the design and development
of software and systems that relies on exploiting high-level models and
computer-based automation to achieve significant improvements in both
productivity and quality. Model Driven Engineering has been popularized
during the last decade by a specific incarnation, model-driven architecture
(MDA) of OMG (Object management group).

 

Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is an established technology for
separation of concerns (SOC) in software development. The techniques of AOSD
make it possible to modularize crosscutting aspects of a system. Like
objects, aspects may arise at any stage of the software lifecycle, including
requirements specification, design, implementation, etc. In recent years,
AOSD has been applied successfully for developing complex modern systems -
particularly software and software-intensive systems.

 

Services are autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can
be described, published, discovered, orchestrated and programmed using XML
artifacts for the purpose of developing massively distributed interoperable
applications. During the last decade, Service Oriented Computing (SOC) has
been introduced as a new paradigm for distributed computing and e-business
processing that has evolved from object-oriented and component computing to
enable building agile networks of collaborating business applications
distributed within and across organizational boundaries.

 

The term context awareness was first coined by Schilit in 1994. Context
encompasses all of the information relevant to an interaction between a
service and its set of users including the participants as well. In the
scope of pervasive computing, a context aware application is a class of
application that has raised increasing interest in the research community.
These applications can capture dynamically and take advantage of contextual
information.

 

These four paradigms will drive the design and development of future
software systems encompassing a large number of research topics and
applications: from programming issues to the more abstract theoretical
aspects of software engineering; from models and services to the most
complex management information systems; Distributed systems, ubiquity, data
interoperability; context understanding and many other topics are included
in the scope of ICSOFT-PT. Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by
combining these paradigms, either in the scope of R&D projects, engineering
or business applications, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or
technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general
survey papers indicating future directions around these paradigms are also
encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas
listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the
authors, will be published on the Proceedings of ICSOFT-PT, with an ISBN.
Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full
research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be
both oral and poster sessions.

 

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as
well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also
envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies
or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session
are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference
website.

 

 

 

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Jos? Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Set?bal / INSTICC, Portugal 

 

PROGRAM CHAIR

Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, Netherlands

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

ICSOFT 2013 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are
internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet
confirmed. 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the
conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM
support. 

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). 

SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). 

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and
extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a
CCIS Series book. 

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier
Index).

 

AWARDS

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.


Please check the website for further information
(http://www.icsoft.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).

 

Program Committee 

 

http://www.icsoft-pt.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

 

(list not yet complete)

 

Please check further details at the conference website
(http://www.icsoft-pt.org).

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From: calendarsites at insticc.org (CalendarSites)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:38:23 +0100
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP ICSOFT-EA 2013 - 8th International
	Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
Message-ID: <048801cdae20$966d89c0$c3489d40$@insticc.org>

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

8th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications -
ICSOFT-EA 2013

 

Website: http://www.icsoft-ea.org

 

July  29 - 31, 2013

 

Reykjav?k, Iceland

Important Deadlines: 

 

Regular Paper Submission: February 6, 2013

Authors Notification (regular papers): April 4, 2013

Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 23, 2013 

 

 

 

ICSOFT-EA is part of ICSOFT, the International Conference on Software
Paradigm Trends

Registration to ICSOFT-EA allows free access to all other ICSOFT conferences

 

ICSOFT 2013 will be held in conjunction with DATA 2013 and SIMULTECH 2013  

Registration to ICSOFT allows free access to the DATA and SIMULTECH
conferences (as a non-speaker) 

 

 

 

The purpose of the ICSOFT-EA 2013, the 8th International Conference on
Software Engineering and Applications, is to bring together researchers,
engineers and practitioners interested on information technology, with a
practical focus on software engineering and applications. The conference
tracks are "Enterprise Software Technologies", "Software Engineering and
Systems Security", "Distributed Systems", and "Software Project Management".

 

Software technologies are essential for developing any enterprise
information system, encompassing a large number of research topics and
applications: from programming issues to the more abstract theoretical
aspects of software engineering; from software security to mobile
applications; Distributed systems, ubiquity, software quality as well as
project management and other related topics are included in the scope of
ICSOFT-EA. Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by combining
software development and data technologies, either in the scope of R&D
projects, engineering or business applications, are welcome. Papers
describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools
and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are
also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the
areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of
the authors, will be published on the Proceedings of ICSOFT, with an ISBN.
Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full
research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be
both oral and poster sessions.

 

The best papers will be selected to appear either in an international
journal or in a book to be published by Springer-Verlag. Additional
information can be found at http://www.icsoft-ea.org.

 

ICSOFT 2013 will be held in conjunction with DATA 2013 and SIMULTECH 2013  

Registration to ICSOFT allows free access to the DATA and SIMULTECH
conferences (as a non-speaker) 

 

 

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Jos? Cordeiro, Polytechnic Institute of Set?bal / INSTICC, Portugal 

 

PROGRAM CHAIR

David Marca, University of Phoenix, United States

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

ICSOFT 2013 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are
internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet
confirmed. 

 

Conference Areas

 

1. Enterprise Software Technologies

2. Software Engineering Methods and Techniques

3. Distributed and Mobile Software Systems

4. Software Project Management 

 

AREA 1: ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES

 

    Business Process Modelling

    Client/Server Computing

    IT Service Management

    Customer Relationship Management

    Enterprise Resource Planning

    Interoperability

    Middleware

    Business Intelligence

    Decision Support Systems

    Intelligent Problem Solving

    User Modelling and HCI

    Virtual Organizations

 

AREA 2: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

 

    Requirements Elicitation and Specification

    Software Integration

    Software Testing and Maintenance

    Model-driven Engineering

    Software Quality

    Software and Information Security

    User Identification and Intrusion Detection

    Web Services

    Formal Methods

    Programming Languages

 

AREA 3: DISTRIBUTED AND MOBILE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

 

    Distributed Architectures

    Cloud Applications

    Web-based Software Development

    Mobile Technologies and Applications

    Pervasive Computing and Communications

    Ambient Intelligence

    Agents and Multi-agent Systems

    Communication Networks and Protocols

    Parallel and High Performance Computing

    Process Coordination and Synchronization

    Distributed Systems Privacy

 

AREA 4: SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

 

    Project Management Software

    Scheduling and Estimating

    Software Metrics

    Project Planning, Monitoring and Control

    Agile Methodologies

    Performance Evaluation

    Risk Management

    Quality Assurance

    Certification

    Case Studies of Project Management

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the
conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM
support.

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and
extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a
CCIS Series book.

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier
Index). 

 

 

AWARDS

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.


Please check the website for further information
(http://www.icsoft.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).

 

Program Committee 

 

Available soon.

 

Please check further details at the conference website
(http://www.icsoft-ea.org).

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From: calendarsites at insticc.org (CalendarSites)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:21:02 +0100
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP ICINCO 2013 - 10th International
	Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
Message-ID: <044201cdae1e$1f1fc4c0$5d5f4e40$@insticc.org>

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and
Robotics - ICINCO 2013

 

Website: http://www.icinco.org

 

July  29 - 31, 2013

Reykjav?k, Iceland

 

                                      

 

Important Deadlines: 

 

Regular Paper Submission: February 5, 2013

Authors Notification (regular papers): April 3, 2013

Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 22, 2013 

 

 

Sponsored by:

 

INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and
Communication

 

Co-Organized by:

 

Reykjavik University

 

INSTICC is Member of:

 

WFMC- Workflow Management Coalition

FIPA-  Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents

 

 

 

 

 

The purpose of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control,
Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) is to bring together researchers, engineers
and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to Control,
Automation and Robotics. Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering
Intelligent Control Systems, Optimization, Robotics, Automation, Signal
Processing, Sensors, Systems Modelling and Control, and Industrial
Engineering, Production and Management.

Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Control, Automation
and Robotics; This conference intends to emphasize this connection,
therefore, authors should highlight the benefits of Information Technology
(IT) in these areas. Ideas on how to solve problems using IT, both in R&D
and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced
prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers
indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original
work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers,
presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the
Proceedings of ICINCO, with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality,
relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress
reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as
well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also
envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies
or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session
are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference
website. 

 

 

CONFERENCE CHAIR

 

Jean-Louis Ferrier, Laboratoire D?ing?nierie Des Syst?mes Automatis?s,
France 

 

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

 

Oleg Gusikhin, Ford Research & Adv. Engineering, United States

Kurosh Madani, University of Paris-EST Cr?teil (UPEC), France

Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

ICINCO 2013 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are
internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet
confirmed.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the
conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM
support. 

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). 

SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). 

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and
extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a
LNEE Series book 

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier
Index).

 

AWARDS

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.


Please check the website for further information
(http://icinco.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).

 

 

CONFERENCE AREAS

 

   

1. INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND OPTIMIZATION

2. ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION

3. SIGNAL PROCESSING, SENSORS, SYSTEMS MODELLING AND CONTROL

4. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT

 

 

AREA 1: INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEMS AND OPTIMIZATION

 

    Genetic Algorithms

    Fuzzy Control

    Decision Support Systems

    Machine Learning in Control Applications

    Knowledge-based Systems Applications

    Hybrid Learning Systems

    Distributed Control Systems

    Evolutionary Computation and Control

    Optimization Algorithms

    Soft Computing

    Software Agents for Intelligent Control Systems

    Expert Systems for Industry

    Neural Networks based Control Systems

    Planning and Scheduling

    Affective Computing

    Fault Tolerant Control

    Intelligent Fault Detection and Diagnosis

    Engineering Applications

 

AREA 2: ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION

 

    Image Processing

    Vision, Recognition and Reconstruction

    Robot Design, Development and Control

    Control and Supervision Systems

    Telerobotics and Teleoperation

    Vehicle Control Applications

    Industrial Networks and Automation

    Human-Robots Interfaces

    Network Robotics

    Autonomous Agents

    Intelligent Transportation Technologies and Systems

    Space and Underwater Robots

    Modelling, Simulation and Architecture

    Human-Machine Interfaces

    Collective and Social Robots

    Humanoid Robots

    Mobile Robots and Intelligent Autonomous Systems

    Mechatronics Systems

    Virtual and Augmented Reality

    Perception and Awareness

    Surveillance, Fault detection and Diagnosis

    Social Impact of Automation

    Engineering Applications

 

AREA 3: SIGNAL PROCESSING, SENSORS, SYSTEMS MODELLING AND CONTROL

 

    Adaptive Signal Processing and Control

    Environmental Monitoring and Control

    Optimization Problems in Signal Processing

    Signal Reconstruction

    Computer and Microprocessor-based Control

    Real-Time Systems Control

    Information-based Models for Control

    Nonlinear Signals and Systems

    System Identification

    Instrumentation Networks and Software

    Change Detection Problems

    Time-frequency Analysis

    Force and Tactile Sensors

    Mechanical Sensors

    Biological Inspired Sensors

    Sensors Fusion

    Intelligent Components for Control

    System Modelling

    Modelling, Analysis and Control of Discrete-event Systems

    Modelling, Analysis and Control of Hybrid Dynamical Systems

    Telematics in Control

    Engineering Applications

 

AREA 4: INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT

 

    Lean Enterprise

    Supply Chain and Logistics Engineering

    Virtual Enterprises and Interoperability

    Production Planning, Scheduling and Control

    Computer-based Manufacturing Technologies

    Facilities Planning and Management

    Quality Control and Management

    Energy Efficiency and Green Manufacturing

    Product-service Systems

    Precision Engineering

    Industrial Automation and Robotics

   Intelligent Design and Manufacturing

    Knowledge Management in Industry

    Manufacturing Systems Engineering

    Virtual Manufacturing Technologies

    Facilities Design and Work Space Design

    Systems Modelling and Simulation

    Performance Evaluation and Optimization

    Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics

    Cost and Value Engineering

    Business Process Modelling

 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

Available soon.

 

 

Please check further details at the conference website (http://icinco.org).

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From: calendarsites at insticc.org (CalendarSites)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:21:02 +0100
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP SMARTGREENS 2013 - 2nd International
	Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems
Message-ID: <043d01cdae1e$1e38e730$5aaab590$@insticc.org>

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems -
SMARTGREENS 2013

 

Website: http://www.smartgreens.org/

 

May  9 - 10, 2013

Aachen, Germany

Important Deadlines: 

 

Regular Paper Submission: November 16, 2012

Authors Notification (regular papers): January 18, 2013

Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 8, 2013 

 

 

Sponsored by:

 

INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and
Communication 

 

Co-organized by:

 

RWTH Aachen University

 

INSTICC is Member of:

 

WFMC- Workflow Management Coalition

OMG- Object Management Group

 

 

 

The purpose of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT
Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers,
developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in
the field of Smart Grids, Green Information and Communication Technologies,
Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies.

 

Green Computing is nowadays one of the major challenges for most IT
organizations that involve medium and large scale distributed
infrastructures like Grids, Clouds and Clusters. The conference will focus
on solutions for all aspects of green computing such as energy efficiency,
carbon footprint reduction and cooling management. The tradeoffs between
energy efficiency and performance have become key challenges that must be
addressed in both, distributed and traditional performance-oriented
infrastructures. Particularly relevant is the so-called Smart Grid
technology, seeking to optimize distributed electricity generation,
especially from renewable sources, and to promote the use of smart devices
(including smart home and new vehicular energy approaches) that require
further research on distributed communications, energy storage and
integrations of various sources of energy.

 

Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and
general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged.
Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed
below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors,
will be published in the Proceedings of SMARTGREENS. Acceptance will be
based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and
work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster
sessions.

 

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as
well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also
envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies
or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session
are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the SMARTGREENS
conference website.

 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

Karl-Heinz Krempels,  RWTH Aachen University, Germany 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the
conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM
support.

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).

SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier
Index). 

 

AWARDS

 

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.


Please check the website for further information
(http://www.smartgreens.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).

 

 

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

Jo?o Martins, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

 

 

Conference Areas

 

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not
exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics,
although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related
sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following
main topic areas:

1. SMART GRIDS

2. ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES

3. SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

4. SMART CITIES

 

 

AREA 1: SMART GRIDS

 

    Real-Time Systems

    Architectures for Smart Grids

    Smart Grids Modeling

    Smart Grid Specific Protocols

    Scalable Infrastructures for Smart Grids

    Standards for Smart Grids

    Load Balancing in Smart Grids

    Smart Grid Security and Reliability

    Smart Grids and Renewable Technologies

    Sensors for Smart Grids

    Fault Tolerance and Disaster Recovery in Smart Grids

    Integration of Smart Appliances

    Smart Cities

    Smart Homes (Domotics)

 

AREA 2: ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES

 

    Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption

    Economic Models of Energy Efficiency

    Greener Systems Planning and Design

    Energy-Efficient Transmission Technologies

    Energy Monitoring

    Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption

    Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies

    Performance Evaluation of Green Computing Systems

    Energy Profiling and Measurement

    Renewable Energy Resources

    Embedded Sensor Networks

    Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

    Energy Management Systems (EMS)

 

AREA 3: SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS

 

    Green Data Centers

    Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat

    Qos and Green Computing

    Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools

    Virtualization Impact for Green Computing

    Pervasive Computing for Energy Efficiency

    Green Architectures for Grids, Clouds and Clusters

    Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms

    Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks

    Sustainable Wireless Communication

    Energy Efficient Network Hardware

    Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols

    Teleworking and Remote Collaboration

    Education on Green Computing and Communications

    Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications

 

AREA 4: SMART CITIES

 

    User-Centred and Participatory Design of Services and Systems for Smart
Cities

    Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments

    Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services

    Mechanisms for Motivating Behaviour Change

    Service Innovation and Design to Support Smart Cities

    Assessing Value and Impact of Smart Cities

    Cloud Computing and Service Models for Smart City Solutions

    e-Work and e-Business Applications

    Planning and Design Challenges for Smart Cities

    Mechanisms to Measure Quality of Life in Smart Cities

    Security and Privacy Implications

    Service Delivery and Logistics Planning for Smart Cities

    Standardisation and Open Interfaces of Smart City Systems, Platforms and
Applications

    Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management

    Smart Sensor-Based Networks and Applications

    IS Architecture Designs and Platforms for Smart Cities

    Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Smart(er) Cities

 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

http://www.smartgreens.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

 

 

Please check further details at the conference website
(http://www.smartgreens.org/Home.aspx).

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From calendarsites at insticc.org  Fri Oct 19 13:21:02 2012
From: calendarsites at insticc.org (CalendarSites)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:21:02 +0100
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP CLOSER 2013 - 3rd International
	Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
Message-ID: <044a01cdae1e$23940ed0$6abc2c70$@insticc.org>

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science -
CLOSER 2013

 

Website: http://closer.scitevents.org

 

May  8 - 10, 2013

Aachen, Germany

 

Important Deadlines: 

 

Regular Paper Submission: November 15, 2012

Authors Notification (regular papers): January 17, 2013

Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: February 7, 2013 

 

 

Sponsored by:

 

INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and
Communication 

 

INSTICC is Member of:

 

WFMC- Workflow Management Coalition

OMG-  Object Management Group

 

 

Technically sponsored by:

 

SINTEF

 

 

The 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science,
CLOSER 2013, focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by
some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and
available services through the global network. Further, the conference
considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the
service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference
is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but
about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science
can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage,
market etc. Cloud Computing.

 

Emerging Enterprise Technologies are profoundly changing the way we think of
IT - from economics and efficiency to process and usage models. Many
organizations look to the ?externalized? IT systems and services as a
potential cost-savings advantage by moving internally hosted IT services to
external providers. Other organizations view the ?external? IT as potential
disaster recovery systems or as on-demand capacity to boost business
continuity and customer service levels. We need to take a closer look,
discerning what emerging enterprise technologies are and how they can
catalyze creativity and produce a competitive advantage. There is hence a
new wave of interest in 'Externalization of IT' - anything as a service
(including Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a
Service), On Demand delivery, outsourcing, and so on. This emerging
facilitation and way of utilizing services through IT is what we are
referring to as Cloud Computing.

 

The four perspectives in which we are addressing the area of Cloud Computing
in this conference are: (i) Fundamentals of Cloud Computing; (ii) Services
Science foundations for Cloud Computing; (iii) Cloud Computing platforms and
applications; (iv) Cloud Computing enabling technology.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

 

Gottfried Vossen, WWU M?nster, Germany

Ivona Brandic, Vienna UT, Austria

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the
conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM
support. 

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). 

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and
extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a
SSRI Series book 

The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, DBLP and EI.

 

AWARDS

 

Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference closing session.


Please check the website for further information
(http://closer.scitevents.org/BestPaperAward.aspx).

 

Conference Co-Chairs

 

Matthias Jarke,  RWTH Aachen, Germany 

 

Program Co-Chairs

 

Fr?d?ric Desprez, LIP / INRIA, France

Donald Ferguson, CA Technologies, United States

Ethan Hadar, CA Technologies, Israel

Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany

 

CONFERENCE AREAS

 

1. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS

2. SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING

3. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS

4. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

 

 

AREA 1: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS

 

    Cloud Computing Architecture

    Cloud Standards

    Cloud Application Portability

    Cloud Interoperability

    Cloud Delivery Models

    Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud

    Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance

    Business Cloud vs. Software Cloud

 

AREA 2: SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING

 

    Semantic Web Technologies

    Web Services

    Service and Systems Design and QoS Network Security

    Service-Oriented Architecture

    Internet of Services

    Service Modeling and Specification

    Service Composition

    Service Discovery

    Service Monitoring and Control

    Business Services Realized by IT Services

    Service Innovation

    Service Operation

    Service Strategy

    Service Marketing and Management

    Information and Service Economy

    Human Beings in Service Systems

    Enterprise Architectures and Services

 

AREA 3: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS

 

    Mobility

    e-Banking

    Social Networks

    Cloud Middleware Frameworks

    Cloud Application Architectures

    Cloud Application Scalability and Availability

    SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

    COTS and Cloud

    Cloudsourcing

    Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring

    Development Methods for Cloud Applications

    Economics (ROI, Costs, CAPEX/OPEX,
)

    Outsourced Production Environments

    Collective Intelligence/Crowd Computing

    Context-aware Computing and Peer to Peer Computing

    e-Business

    e-Governance

    E-Health

    E-Learning

 

AREA 4: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

 

    Troubleshooting and Best Practices

    Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements

    Cloud Security

    Performance Development and Management

    Cloud Ilities (Scalability, Availability,Reliability)

    Load Balancing

    Autonomic Computing

    Virtualization Technologies

    Utility Computing vs. Cloud Computing

    Grid Computing vs. Cloud Computing

    Disaster Recovery

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

http://closer.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

 

 

Please check further details at the conference website
(http://closer.scitevents.org).

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From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu  Fri Oct 19 14:49:30 2012
From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:49:30 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] ACM/SPEC ICPE 2013: CALL FOR INDUSTRY &
	EXPERIENCE PAPERS
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References: <mailman.1250.1350578974.17580.storage-research-list@ece.cmu.edu>
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From haryadi at cs.uchicago.edu  Tue Oct 23 09:57:57 2012
From: haryadi at cs.uchicago.edu (Haryadi Gunawi)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:57:57 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Postdoctoral position in Operating Systems
 / Cloud Computing at the Univ. of Chicago
Message-ID: <CAMLu9zjm0AOxa83F3JJ18YpcnGgtZWCk9-6AN2mUpGwHA3XhiQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

Please forward to potential candidates.

Thank you,
Haryadi

---------------------


University of Chicago
Department of Computer Science
Postdoctoral Scholar in Operating Systems / Cloud Computing

We are recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work in the areas of OS-level
File Systems and Cloud Computing.  This research will involve
inter-disciplinary areas such as file/storage systems, operating systems,
distributed systems, databases, and software engineering.  This position
provides the opportunity to work with researchers in the UCARE group
(UChicago systems research on Availability Reliability and Elasticity) and
also the larger systems group in our department. The appointment is for two
years.

For more information on UCARE and the systems group, please visit:
http://ucare.cs.uchicago.edu
and
http://systems.cs.uchicago.edu

A recent PhD in Computer Science is required.  This position will be open
until filled.

Instruction:

Please send an email to Haryadi Gunawi (haryadi at cs.uchicago.edu)
that includes your:
1. CV (include references)
2. Research statement


From garth at cs.cmu.edu  Fri Oct 26 11:08:54 2012
From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:08:54 -0400
Subject: [Storage-research-list] call for nominations: IEEE Reynold B.
	Johnson Information Storage Systems Award
Message-ID: <6217DF0F-DE1A-41DE-853E-4534E56D5316@cs.cmu.edu>

Call for nominations: 

IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award

For outstanding contributions to information storage systems, with emphasis on computer storage systems.

The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award was established by the Board of Directors in 1992. It is named in honor of Reynold B. Johnson, who is renowned as a pioneer of magnetic disk technology and was founding manager of the IBM San Jose Research and Engineering Laboratory, San Jose, California in 1952, where IBM research and development in the field was centered.

PRESENTED TO - An individual, multiple recipients or team of up to three in number.

Nomination Deadline: 31 January (Annually)

Selection criteria include:
(a) Computer storage is emphasized
(b) Achievement may relate to materials, concepts, design, hardware or software, may be theoretical or experimental, but will be judged on the impact and the historical significance on the evolution of computer storage systems.

PRIZE - Recipient will receive a bronze medal, certificate, and US$10,000 honorarium.

SPONSOR ? Hitachi Data Systems

Nomination guidelines and forms can be downloaded from the IEEE Awards Web site at: http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/tfas/johnson.html


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From marialemos72 at gmail.com  Wed Oct 31 06:33:46 2012
From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Maria Lemos)
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:33:46 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] WorldCIST'13 - Submission deadline:
	November 18, 2012
Message-ID: <20121031103314.460A84A@hazard.ece.cmu.edu>

Apologies if you are receiving this mail more than once...

Please disseminate by colleagues, researchers, students, etc. Thanks a lot!


**********************************************************************************
                             WorldCIST'13
The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
                   March 27 - 30, Algarve, Portugal
                   http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/
**********************************************************************************

SCOPE

The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'13: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/) is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'13. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.


THEMES

Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference:

A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM);

B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS);

C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS);

D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT);

E) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS);

F) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).


TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS

Four types of papers can be submitted:

Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit.

Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit.

Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/springerformat.doc) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version.

All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee.

Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version.

The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster.

The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation.

PUBLICATION AND INDEXING

To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 11th of January 2013, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version.

No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of two additional papers per registration.

Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published in Proceedings by AISTI.

Published full and short papers will be indexed by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and EBSCO, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Published poster and company papers will be indexed in EI-Compendex and EBSCO.

The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in edited books and in international journals indexed by ISI/JCR, SCOPUS and/or DBLP, among others, such as:

- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
- Online Information Review (OIR)
- Informatics for Health and Social Care (IHSC)
- Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS)
- Telecommunication Systems Journal (TSJ)
- INFORMATION - An International Interdisciplinary Journal
- Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)
- Information Researh (IR)
- International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT)
- Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI)
- Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII)
- Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (JECE): Special Issue in Advances in Radar Technology
- WSEAS Transactions on Systems (TS)
- Library Review (LR)
- Education for Information (EI)
- International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG)
- International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)
- International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI)


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: November 18, 2012

Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2012

Camera-ready Submission: January 9, 2013

Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 11, 2013.

-

Kind regards,

Maria Lemos
WorldCIST'13
http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/



From marialemos72 at gmail.com  Sun Nov 11 14:38:40 2012
From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Maria Lemos)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:38:40 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] WorldCIST'13 - Deadline extended: November
	25, 2012
Message-ID: <20121111193802.AAA3314E@osgood.ece.cmu.edu>

Apologies if you are receiving this mail more than once...

Please disseminate by colleagues, researchers, students, etc. Thanks a lot!


**********************************************************************************
                             WorldCIST'13
The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
                   March 27 - 30, Algarve, Portugal
                   http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/
**********************************************************************************

SCOPE

The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'13: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/) is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'13. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.


THEMES

Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference:

A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM);

B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS);

C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS);

D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT);

E) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS);

F) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).


TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS

Four types of papers can be submitted:

Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit.

Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit.

Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/springerformat.doc) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version.

All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee.

Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version.

The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster.

The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation.

PUBLICATION AND INDEXING

To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 11th of January 2013, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version.

No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of two additional papers per registration.

Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published in Proceedings by AISTI.

Published full and short papers will be indexed by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and EBSCO, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Published poster and company papers will be indexed in EI-Compendex and EBSCO.

The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in edited books and in international journals indexed by ISI/JCR, SCOPUS and/or DBLP, among others, such as:

- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
- Online Information Review (OIR)
- Informatics for Health and Social Care (IHSC)
- Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS)
- Telecommunication Systems Journal (TSJ)
- INFORMATION - An International Interdisciplinary Journal
- Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)
- Information Researh (IR)
- International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT)
- Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI)
- Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII)
- Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (JECE): Special Issue in Advances in Radar Technology
- WSEAS Transactions on Systems (TS)
- Library Review (LR)
- Education for Information (EI)
- International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG)
- International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)
- International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI)


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: November 25, 2012

Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2012

Camera-ready Submission: January 9, 2013

Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 11, 2013.

-

Kind regards,

Maria Lemos
WorldCIST'13
http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/





From marialemos72 at gmail.com  Fri Nov 16 12:33:18 2012
From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (WorldCIST)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:33:18 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] Best papers published in JCR/ISI JOURNALS -
	Deadline: November 25
Message-ID: <20121116173239.75B8E4A@hazard.ece.cmu.edu>

Apologies if you are receiving this mail more than once...

Please disseminate by colleagues, researchers, students, etc. Thanks a lot!


**********************************************************************************
                             WorldCIST'13
The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
                   March 27 - 30, Algarve, Portugal
                   http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/
**********************************************************************************

SCOPE

The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'13: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/) is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'13. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.


THEMES

Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference:

A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM);

B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS);

C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS);

D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT);

E) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS);

F) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).


TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS

Four types of papers can be submitted:

Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit.

Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit.

Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/springerformat.doc) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version.

All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee.

Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version.

The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster.

The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation.

PUBLICATION AND INDEXING

To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 11th of January 2013, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version.

No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of two additional papers per registration.

Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published in Proceedings by AISTI.

Published full and short papers will be indexed by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and EBSCO, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Published poster and company papers will be indexed in EI-Compendex and EBSCO.

The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in edited books and in international journals indexed by ISI/JCR, SCOPUS and/or DBLP, among others, such as:

- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
- Online Information Review (OIR)
- Informatics for Health and Social Care (IHSC)
- Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS)
- Telecommunication Systems Journal (TSJ)
- INFORMATION - An International Interdisciplinary Journal
- Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)
- Information Researh (IR)
- International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT)
- Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI)
- Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII)
- Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (JECE): Special Issue in Advances in Radar Technology
- WSEAS Transactions on Systems (TS)
- Library Review (LR)
- Education for Information (EI)
- International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG)
- International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)
- International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI)


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: November 25, 2012

Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2012

Camera-ready Submission: January 9, 2013

Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 11, 2013.

-

Kind regards,

Maria Lemos
WorldCIST'13
http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/




From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu  Sat Nov 17 12:12:59 2012
From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:12:59 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICAC2013 CFP (10th International Conference
	on Autonomic Computing)
Message-ID: <20121117172449.D04017D84C5@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu>

??ICAC 2013 Call for Papers

-------------------------

10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing



June 26-28, 2013  San Jose, CA

Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association

https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13





* Important Dates



  Paper registrations (title and abstract) due: February 25, 2013, 11:59 p.m. PST

  Paper submissions due: March 4, 2013, 11:59 p.m. PST

  Notification to authors: April 8, 2013

  Final paper files due: May 22, 2013





* Overview



  ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, foundations, and applications. Large-scale systems of all types, such as data centers, compute clouds, sensor networks, embedded or pervasive environments, and the Internet of Things are becoming increasingly complex and burdensome for people to manage. Autonomic computing systems reduce this burden by managing their own behavior in accordance with high-level goals. In autonomic systems, resources and applications are manag
 ed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Achieving self-management requires and motivates research that spans a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, including distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, modeling, control theory, optimization, planning, decision theory, user interface design, data management, software engineering,
  emergent behavior, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together researchers and practitioners from disparate disciplines, application domains, and perspectives, enabling them to discover and share underlying commonalities in their approaches to making resources, applications, and systems more autonomic.





* Topics



  Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not limited to):



  ** Self-managing components, such as compute, storage, and networking devices; embedded and real-time systems; and mobile devices such as smart phones

  ** AI and mathematical techniques, such as machine learning, control theory, operations research, probability and stochastic processes, queuing theory, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques, and their use in autonomic computing

  ** End-to-end design and implementations for management of resources, workloads, availability, performance, reliability, power/cooling, security, and others

  ** Monitoring systems that can scale to large environments

  ** Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, or application support for autonomic computing

  ** Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems

  ** Goal specification and policies, including specification and modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement, IT governance, and business-driven IT management

  ** Frameworks, principles, architectures, and toolkits, from software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques

  ** Automated management techniques for emerging applications, systems, and platforms, including social networks, Big Data systems, multi-core processors, and Internet of Things

  ** Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems for understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties

  ** Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in science, engineering, business, or society

  ** Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers are strongly encouraged to report on experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an appropriate quantitative evaluation if at all possible.  





* Paper Submissions



  Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Both full and short papers should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. Both kinds of papers should be submitted via the Web submission form, which will be available here soon. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found here. Auth
 ors are also encouraged to submit a poster or demo that summarizes or augments their paper (see below).



  Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you are uncertain whether your submission meets US
 ENIX's guidelines, please contact the program co-chairs, icac13chairs@usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.



  At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper in person at the conference. The accepted papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference and will also appear in proceedings distributed via USB drives at the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on June 26, 2013. Accepted submissions will be treated 
 as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX ICAC '13 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.





* Special Tracks



  To facilitate community collaboration and exchange of ideas in emergent technological areas, ICAC 13 will host two special tracks, each of which will be reviewed by its own subcommittee. Dr. Levent G?rgen will lead a special track on self-aware Internet of Things and Dr. Karsten Schwan will lead a special track on management of Big Data systems.





* Posters, Demonstrations, and Exhibitions



  ICAC '13 will also feature a poster, demonstration, and exhibition session consisting of research prototypes and technology artifacts that demonstrate autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Please check back here for formatting and submission instructions, plus the Web submission form specific to this session, which will be available here soon.





* PhD Thesis Digest Forum



  Current PhD students who are working on topics relevant to autonomic computing are invited to submit a short summary (up to 2 pages) of their theses. Top selected submissions will be presented at a PhD forum during the ICAC '13 conference. Please check back here for submission instructions.





* Conference Organizers: 



  ** General Chair: Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research



  ** Program Co-Chairs: Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware



  ** Poster/Demo/Exhibit Chair: Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  

  ** PhD Forum Chair: Rean Griffith, VMware

  

  ** Publicity Chairs: Martina Maggio, Lund University; Ming Zhao, Florida International University

  

  ** Program Committee:

  

     Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

     Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University

     Sara Bouchenak, INRIA

     Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London

     Yuan Chen, HP Labs

     Charles Consel, INRIA

     Alva Couch, Tufts University

     Peter Dinda, Northwestern University

     Joao E. Ferreira, University of S?o Paulo

     Jose Fortes, University of Florida

     Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO

     Rean Griffith, VMware

     Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University

     Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research

     Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven

     Jiman Hong, Soongsil University

     Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs

     Nagarajan Kandasamy, Drexel University

     Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu Labs

     Jeff Kephart, IBM Research

     Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

     Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs

     Marin Litoiu, York University

     Xue Liu, McGill University

     Arif Merchant, Google

     Tridib Mukherjee, Xerox Research

     Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University

     Priya Narashimhan, Carnegie Mellon University

     Omer Rana, Cardiff University

     Anders Robertsson, Lund University

     Kai Sachs, SAP AG

     Hartmut Schmeck, KIT

     Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology

     Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa

     Yasushi Shinjo, Tsukuba University

     Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary

     Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University

     Ya-Yunn Su, National Taiwan University

     Vanish Talwar, HP Labs

     Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University

     Mustafa Uysal, VMware

     Xiaorui Wang, Ohio State University

     Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University

     Kenji Yoshihira, NEC Labs

     Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences

     Ming Zhao, Florida International University

     Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado

     

     

* More information:

		

  ** Web: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13

  ** Email: icac2013@cs.fiu.edu

  ** LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICAC-Conference-4264583




From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu  Sat Nov 17 13:17:54 2012
From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao)
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:17:54 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICAC2013 CFP (10th International Conference
	on Autonomic Computing)
Message-ID: <20121117182944.DE7E47D84DC@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu>

CAC 2013 Call for Papers
-------------------------
10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing

June 26-28, 2013  San Jose, CA
Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association
https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13


* Important Dates

  Paper registrations (title and abstract) due: February 25, 2013, 11:59 p.m. PST
  Paper submissions due: March 4, 2013, 11:59 p.m. PST
  Notification to authors: April 8, 2013
  Final paper files due: May 22, 2013


* Overview

  ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, foundations, and applications. Large-scale systems of all types, such as data centers, compute clouds, sensor networks, embedded or pervasive environments, and the Internet of Things are becoming increasingly complex and burdensome for people to manage. Autonomic computing systems reduce this burden by managing their own behavior in accordance with high-level goals. In autonomic systems, resources and applications are managed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Achieving self-management requires and motivates research that spans a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, including distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, modeling, control theory, optimization, planning, decision theory, user interface design, data management, software engineering, 
 emergent behavior, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together researchers and practitioners from disparate disciplines, application domains, and perspectives, enabling them to discover and share underlying commonalities in their approaches to making resources, applications, and systems more autonomic.


* Topics

  Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not limited to):

  ** Self-managing components, such as compute, storage, and networking devices; embedded and real-time systems; and mobile devices such as smart phones
  ** AI and mathematical techniques, such as machine learning, control theory, operations research, probability and stochastic processes, queuing theory, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques, and their use in autonomic computing
  ** End-to-end design and implementations for management of resources, workloads, availability, performance, reliability, power/cooling, security, and others
  ** Monitoring systems that can scale to large environments
  ** Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, or application support for autonomic computing
  ** Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems
  ** Goal specification and policies, including specification and modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement, IT governance, and business-driven IT management
  ** Frameworks, principles, architectures, and toolkits, from software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques
  ** Automated management techniques for emerging applications, systems, and platforms, including social networks, Big Data systems, multi-core processors, and Internet of Things
  ** Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems for understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties
  ** Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in science, engineering, business, or society
  ** Papers will be judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity and relevance to the broader community. Papers are strongly encouraged to report on experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an appropriate quantitative evaluation if at all possible.  


* Paper Submissions

  Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages) and short papers (4 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing. Both full and short papers should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. Both kinds of papers should be submitted via the Web submission form, which will be available here soon. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found here. Authors are also encouraged to submit a poster or demo that summarizes or augments their paper (see below).

  Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you are uncertain whether your submission meets USENIX's guidelines, please contact the program co-chairs, icac13chairs at usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy at usenix.org.

  At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper in person at the conference. The accepted papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference and will also appear in proceedings distributed via USB drives at the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production at usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on June 26, 2013. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX ICAC '13 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.


* Special Tracks

  To facilitate community collaboration and exchange of ideas in emergent technological areas, ICAC????13 will host two special tracks, each of which will be reviewed by its own subcommittee. Dr. Levent G????rgen will lead a special track on self-aware Internet of Things and Dr. Karsten Schwan will lead a special track on management of Big Data systems.


* Posters, Demonstrations, and Exhibitions

  ICAC '13 will also feature a poster, demonstration, and exhibition session consisting of research prototypes and technology artifacts that demonstrate autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Please check back here for formatting and submission instructions, plus the Web submission form specific to this session, which will be available here soon.


* PhD Thesis Digest Forum

  Current PhD students who are working on topics relevant to autonomic computing are invited to submit a short summary (up to 2 pages) of their theses. Top selected submissions will be presented at a PhD forum during the ICAC '13 conference. Please check back here for submission instructions.


* Conference Organizers: 

  ** General Chair: Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research

  ** Program Co-Chairs: Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology; Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware

  ** Poster/Demo/Exhibit Chair: Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  
  ** PhD Forum Chair: Rean Griffith, VMware
  
  ** Publicity Chairs: Martina Maggio, Lund University; Ming Zhao, Florida International University
  
  ** Program Committee:
  
     Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
     Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University
     Sara Bouchenak, INRIA
     Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London
     Yuan Chen, HP Labs
     Charles Consel, INRIA
     Alva Couch, Tufts University
     Peter Dinda, Northwestern University
     Joao E. Ferreira, University of S?o Paulo
     Jose Fortes, University of Florida
     Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO
     Rean Griffith, VMware
     Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University
     Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research
     Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven
     Jiman Hong, Soongsil University
     Geoff Jiang, NEC Labs
     Nagarajan Kandasamy, Drexel University
     Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu Labs
     Jeff Kephart, IBM Research
     Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
     Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs
     Marin Litoiu, York University
     Xue Liu, McGill University
     Arif Merchant, Google
     Tridib Mukherjee, Xerox Research
     Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University
     Priya Narashimhan, Carnegie Mellon University
     Omer Rana, Cardiff University
     Anders Robertsson, Lund University
     Kai Sachs, SAP AG
     Hartmut Schmeck, KIT
     Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
     Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa
     Yasushi Shinjo, Tsukuba University
     Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary
     Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University
     Ya-Yunn Su, National Taiwan University
     Vanish Talwar, HP Labs
     Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University
     Mustafa Uysal, VMware
     Xiaorui Wang, Ohio State University
     Jianwei Yin, Zhejiang University
     Kenji Yoshihira, NEC Labs
     Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences
     Ming Zhao, Florida International University
     Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado
     
     
* More information:
		
  ** Web: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac13
  ** Email: icac2013 at cs.fiu.edu
  ** LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICAC-Conference-4264583





--
Ming Zhao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Director, VISA Research Lab
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University
Tel: (305) 348-2034, Fax: (305) 348-3549
Email: ming at cs.fiu.edu
Web: http://visa.cs.fiu.edu/ming



From marialemos72 at gmail.com  Wed Nov 21 12:44:03 2012
From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (WorldCIST)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:44:03 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] WorldCIST'13: Indexed by ISI, SCOPUS,
 DBLP and EI-Compendex - Deadline: November 28
Message-ID: <20121121174321.DA21911C@osgood.ece.cmu.edu>

Apologies if you are receiving this mail more than once...

Please disseminate by colleagues, researchers, students, etc. Thanks a lot!


**********************************************************************************
                             WorldCIST'13
The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
                   March 27 - 30, Algarve, Portugal
                   http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/
**********************************************************************************

SCOPE

The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'13: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/) is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'13. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.


THEMES

Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference:

A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM);

B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS);

C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS);

D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT);

E) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS);

F) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).


TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS

Four types of papers can be submitted:

Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit.

Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit.

Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/springerformat.doc) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version.

All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee.

Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version.

The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster.

The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation.

PUBLICATION AND INDEXING

To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 11th of January 2013, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version.

No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of two additional papers per registration.

Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published in Proceedings by AISTI.

Published full and short papers will be indexed by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and EBSCO, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Published poster and company papers will be indexed in EI-Compendex and EBSCO.

The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in edited books and in international journals indexed by ISI/JCR, SCOPUS and/or DBLP, among others, such as:

- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
- Online Information Review (OIR)
- Informatics for Health and Social Care (IHSC)
- Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS)
- Telecommunication Systems Journal (TSJ)
- INFORMATION - An International Interdisciplinary Journal
- Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)
- Information Researh (IR)
- International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT)
- Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI)
- Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII)
- Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (JECE): Special Issue in Advances in Radar Technology
- WSEAS Transactions on Systems (TS)
- Library Review (LR)
- Education for Information (EI)
- International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG)
- International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)
- International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI)


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: November 25, 2012

Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2012

Camera-ready Submission: January 9, 2013

Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 11, 2013.

-

Kind regards,

Maria Lemos
WorldCIST'13
http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/




From marialemos72 at gmail.com  Sun Nov 25 19:19:38 2012
From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (WorldCIST)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:19:38 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] WorldCIST'13: Indexed by ISI, SCOPUS, DBLP,
 EI, etc. - Extended deadline: December 7
Message-ID: <20121126001855.CC27132@hazard.ece.cmu.edu>

Apologies if you are receiving this mail more than once...

Please disseminate by colleagues, researchers, students, etc. Thanks a lot!


**********************************************************************************
                             WorldCIST'13
The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
                   March 27 - 30, Algarve, Portugal
                   http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/
**********************************************************************************

SCOPE

The 2013 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'13: http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/) is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Systems and Technologies.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to WorldCISTI'13. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.


THEMES

Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference:

A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM);

B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS);

C) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS);

D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT);

E) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS);

F) Radar Technologies (RAT);

G) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).


TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS AND DECISIONS

Four types of papers can be submitted:

Full paper: Finished or consolidated R&D works, to be included in one of the Conference themes. These papers are assigned a 10-page limit.

Short paper: Ongoing works with relevant preliminary results, open to discussion. These papers are assigned a 7-page limit.

Poster paper: Initial work with relevant ideas, open to discussion. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Company paper: Companies' papers that show practical experience, R & D, tools, etc., focused on some topics of the conference. These papers are assigned to a 4-page limit.

Submitted papers must comply with the format of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series (see http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/springerformat.doc) be written in English, must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors? identification. Therefore, the authors? names, affiliations and bibliographic references should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Program Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version.

All papers will be subjected to a ?double-blind review? by at least two members of the Program Committee.

Based on Program Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as the type originally submitted or as another type. Thus, full papers can be accepted as short papers or poster papers only. Similarly, short papers can be accepted as poster papers only. In these cases, the authors will be allowed to maintain the original number of pages in the camera-ready version.

The authors of accepted poster papers must also build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference includes Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 5 minute limit per poster.

The authors of accepted full papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. The authors of accepted short papers and company papers will have 11 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 4 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation.

PUBLICATION AND INDEXING

To ensure that a full paper, short paper, poster paper or company paper is published in the Proceedings, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 11th of January 2013, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version.

No more than one paper per registration will be published in the Conference Proceedings. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of two additional papers per registration.

Full and short papers will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series. Poster and company papers will be published in Proceedings by AISTI.

Published full and short papers will be indexed by ISI, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, DBLP and EBSCO, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Published poster and company papers will be indexed in EI-Compendex and EBSCO.

The authors of the best selected papers will be invited to extend them for publication in edited books and in international journals indexed by ISI/JCR, SCOPUS and/or DBLP, among others, such as:

- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
- Online Information Review (OIR)
- Informatics for Health and Social Care (IHSC)
- Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS)
- Telecommunication Systems Journal (TSJ)
- INFORMATION - An International Interdisciplinary Journal
- Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (JOEUC)
- Information Researh (IR)
- International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT)
- Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI)
- Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII)
- Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (JECE): Special Issue in Advances in Radar Technology
- WSEAS Transactions on Systems (TS)
- Library Review (LR)
- Education for Information (EI)
- International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and Governance (IJITBAG)
- International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)
- International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI)


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: December 7, 2012

Notification of Acceptance: December 30, 2012

Camera-ready Submission: January 9, 2013

Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: January 11, 2013.

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Kind regards,

Maria Lemos
WorldCIST'13
http://www.aisti.eu/worldcist13/





From marialemos72 at gmail.com  Mon Dec 10 04:53:30 2012
From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (WorldCIST - CFP)
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:53:30 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CISTI'2013 Doctoral Symposium - CFP, Lisbon,
	June 19 - 23, 2013
Message-ID: <20121210095241.CE0CB66@hazard.ece.cmu.edu>


***************************************************************************************************
CISTI'2013 DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
Lisbn, Portugal, June 19 - 23, 2013
http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=68&lang=en
***************************************************************************************************

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of CISTI'2013?s Doctoral Symposium (http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=68&lang=en) is to provide graduate students a setting where they can, informally, expose and discuss their work, collecting valuable expert opinions and sharing new ideas, methods and applications. The Doctoral Symposium is an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present and discuss their work in a Workshop format. Each presentation will be evaluated by a panel composed by at least three Information Systems and Technologies experts. 

CONTRIBUTIONS SUBMISSION

The Doctoral Symposium is opened to PhD students whose research area includes the themes proposed for this Conference. Submissions must include an extended abstract (maximum 4 pages), following the Conference style guide. All selected contributions will be handed out along with the Conference Proceedings, in CD with an ISBN. These contributions will be send for indexation by EBSCO, and EI-Compendex.

Submissions must include the field, the PhD institution and the number of months devoted to the development of the work. Additionally, they should include in a clear and succinct manner:

    ?    The problem approached and its significance or relevance
    ?    The research objectives and related investigation topics
    ?    A brief display of what is already known
    ?    A proposed solution methodology for the problem
    ?    Expected results

IMPORTANT DATES

?    Data limite para submiss?o de propostas: 15 de Fevereiro de 2013
?    Notifica??o de aceita??o: 29 de Mar?o de 2013
?    Data limite para apresenta??o das vers?es finais: 12 de Abril de 2013
?    Pagamento da inscri??o, para garantir a inclus?o da contribui??o aceite nas actas da confer?ncia: 12 de Abril de 2013

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Manuel P?rez Cota, Universidad de Vigo (Chair)
Adolfo Lozano Tello, Universidad de Extremadura
Alberto J. Bugar?n Diz, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
?lvaro Rocha, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Ana Maria Ramalho Correia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ISEGI
Ant?nio Palma dos Reis, Universidade T?cnica de Lisboa, ISEG
Arturo Mendez Pen?n, Universidade de Vigo
Carlos Ferr?s Sexto, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
David Fonseca, Universidad Ram?n Llul
Ernesto Redondo, Universidad Polit?cnica de Catalu?a
Feliz Gouveia, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Francisco Restivo, Universidade Cat?lica Portuguesa - Braga
Guilhermina Miranda, Universidade de Lisboa
Gonzalo Cuevas Agust?n, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
H?ctor Jorge Garc?a Neder, Universidad Tecnol?gica NacioNal
Jo?o ?lvaro Carvalho, Universidade do Minho
Jo?o Barroso, Universidade de Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro
J?rg Thomaschewski, University of Applied Sciences of Emden-Leer
Jos? Antonio Calvo-Manzano Villal?n, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
Jos? Bulas Cruz, Universidade de Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Jos? Tribolet, Universidade T?cnica de Lisboa, IST
Leandro Rodr?guez Li?ares, Universidade de Vigo
Lu?s Paulo Reis, Universidade do Minho
Mar?a Jos? Lado Touri?o, Universidade de Vigo
Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha, Instituto Polit?cnico do C?vado e do Ave
Marco Painho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ISEGI
Mario Alberto Groppo, Universidad Tecnol?gica Nacional
Nuno Ribeiro, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Pilar Mareca, Universidade Polit?cnica de Madrid
Ramiro Gon?alves, Universidade de Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Tomas San Feliu Gilabert, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
Vicente Alcober, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid

-
CISTI'2013 Team
http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013
aistic at gmail.com

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From marialemos72 at gmail.com  Mon Dec 10 04:57:46 2012
From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (Maria Lemos)
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:57:46 +0000
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CISTI'2013 Doctoral Symposium - CFP, Lisbon,
	June 19 - 23, 2013
Message-ID: <20121210095656.4BBC966@hazard.ece.cmu.edu>


***************************************************************************************************
CISTI'2013 DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
Lisbn, Portugal, June 19 - 23, 2013
http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=68&lang=en
***************************************************************************************************

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of CISTI'2013?s Doctoral Symposium (http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=68&lang=en) is to provide graduate students a setting where they can, informally, expose and discuss their work, collecting valuable expert opinions and sharing new ideas, methods and applications. The Doctoral Symposium is an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present and discuss their work in a Workshop format. Each presentation will be evaluated by a panel composed by at least three Information Systems and Technologies experts. 

CONTRIBUTIONS SUBMISSION

The Doctoral Symposium is opened to PhD students whose research area includes the themes proposed for this Conference. Submissions must include an extended abstract (maximum 4 pages), following the Conference style guide. All selected contributions will be handed out along with the Conference Proceedings, in CD with an ISBN. These contributions will be send for indexation by EBSCO, and EI-Compendex.

Submissions must include the field, the PhD institution and the number of months devoted to the development of the work. Additionally, they should include in a clear and succinct manner:

    ?    The problem approached and its significance or relevance
    ?    The research objectives and related investigation topics
    ?    A brief display of what is already known
    ?    A proposed solution methodology for the problem
    ?    Expected results

IMPORTANT DATES

?    Data limite para submiss?o de propostas: 15 de Fevereiro de 2013
?    Notifica??o de aceita??o: 29 de Mar?o de 2013
?    Data limite para apresenta??o das vers?es finais: 12 de Abril de 2013
?    Pagamento da inscri??o, para garantir a inclus?o da contribui??o aceite nas actas da confer?ncia: 12 de Abril de 2013

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Manuel P?rez Cota, Universidad de Vigo (Chair)
Adolfo Lozano Tello, Universidad de Extremadura
Alberto J. Bugar?n Diz, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
?lvaro Rocha, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Ana Maria Ramalho Correia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ISEGI
Ant?nio Palma dos Reis, Universidade T?cnica de Lisboa, ISEG
Arturo Mendez Pen?n, Universidade de Vigo
Carlos Ferr?s Sexto, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
David Fonseca, Universidad Ram?n Llul
Ernesto Redondo, Universidad Polit?cnica de Catalu?a
Feliz Gouveia, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Francisco Restivo, Universidade Cat?lica Portuguesa - Braga
Guilhermina Miranda, Universidade de Lisboa
Gonzalo Cuevas Agust?n, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
H?ctor Jorge Garc?a Neder, Universidad Tecnol?gica NacioNal
Jo?o ?lvaro Carvalho, Universidade do Minho
Jo?o Barroso, Universidade de Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro
J?rg Thomaschewski, University of Applied Sciences of Emden-Leer
Jos? Antonio Calvo-Manzano Villal?n, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
Jos? Bulas Cruz, Universidade de Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Jos? Tribolet, Universidade T?cnica de Lisboa, IST
Leandro Rodr?guez Li?ares, Universidade de Vigo
Lu?s Paulo Reis, Universidade do Minho
Mar?a Jos? Lado Touri?o, Universidade de Vigo
Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha, Instituto Polit?cnico do C?vado e do Ave
Marco Painho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ISEGI
Mario Alberto Groppo, Universidad Tecnol?gica Nacional
Nuno Ribeiro, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Pilar Mareca, Universidade Polit?cnica de Madrid
Ramiro Gon?alves, Universidade de Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Tomas San Feliu Gilabert, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
Vicente Alcober, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid

-
CISTI'2013 Team
http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013
aistic at gmail.com

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From kai.sachs at gmail.com  Tue Dec 11 02:05:21 2012
From: kai.sachs at gmail.com (Kai Sachs)
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:05:21 +0100
Subject: [Storage-research-list] CfP: HotTopiCS 2013 - International
	Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Services
Message-ID: <BCA62822-0574-4514-96E1-9D8C1315B89D@gmail.com>

=======================================================================================================================================
International Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Services (HotTopiCS) 
co-located with the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2013)

General page: http://icpe2013.ipd.kit.edu/conference_workshops/hottopics/

Prague, Czech Republic
April 20?21, 2013

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2013
=======================================================================================================================================

=== 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
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 ===
Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Uni-Stuttgart
Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research
Salman Baset, IBM Research
Tom?? Bure?, Charles University Prague
Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
Simon Caton, KIT
Alexander Gebhart, SAP AG
Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology
Heiko Koziolek, ABB Research
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano
No?l Plouzeau, Universit? de Rennes
Ralf Reussner, KIT
Jerry Rolia, HP Labs
Stefan Tai, KIT
Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra

This workshop is organized and sponsored by the Trans-European Research Training Network (EU FP7 Marie Curie ITN) on Engineering and Provisioning of Service-based Cloud Applications: www.relate-itn.eu



From jianhui.yue at gmail.com  Sat Dec 15 11:15:58 2012
From: jianhui.yue at gmail.com (Jianhui Yue)
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:15:58 -0500
Subject: [Storage-research-list] MSST 2013 Call for Paper
Message-ID: <CAPghZVOaqMoJN736zZ4nx3JWHxWhMC1waswe+Gkkk8XJsTvVYQ@mail.gmail.com>

Apologies if you receive multiple copies.
Please forward to interested colleagues.


===================================================================
          29th IEEE (MSST 2013) Symposium on Massive Storage
               Systems and Technologies Research Track
                         May 9-10, 2013
                   The Queen Mary, Long Beach, CA USA
                       http://storageconference.org/
===================================================================

The 29th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST
2013)
will offer a full week dedicated to storage technology. This year's
conference
will include a research track of peerreviewed papers on the design,
implementation,
and analysis of storage systems, and experiences with storage systems on
May 9th
and 10th. This conference will be an excellent venue for presenting the
latest
research and developments in storage systems and offers a unique
opportunity for
meeting with colleagues from industry, academia, and government.

We encourage the submission of research papers on the implementation,
design,
and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest for
the
MSST 2013 Research Track include (but are not limited to):

* Performance modeling and analysis of storage systems
* Experiences with real-world systems and data storage challenges
* Management of new and upcoming storage technologies
* Cloud storage systems and global-scale storage
* Exascale storage architecture and design
* Evaluation of networked storage architectures
* Data protection and recovery
* Data archiving
* Storage in virtualized environments
* Storage systems modeling and evaluation
* Techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems
* Parallel and distributed file systems
* Scalable metadata management
* Storage security, privacy, and provenance
* Long-term data preservation and management


Important Dates
---------
Abstracts due January 18, 2013
Paper submissions due January 25, 2013
Notification March 8, 2013
Final papers due March 29, 2013
Research Track May 9?10, 2013

Submission Instructions
----------
Submissions will be handled with an online submission system; detailed
instructions
are available from the conference web site. Paper abstracts are due a week
before
full paper submissions. Abstract submission is mandatory; while the
abstract may
change slightly before final paper submission, the initial submission must
reflect
the content of the full paper. Submissions must meet the formatting
guidelines
posted on the conference web site. Full 8?14 page papers will be considered
for
both full 30 minute presentations and the poster session; please indicate
on your
paper submission form if you do not want your paper to be considered for
the poster
session. Short paper submissions of 3?5 pages in length will only be
considered for
the poster session.
All papers will receive full, detailed reviews from at least 3 PC members,
with
acceptance notification provided by March 8. Authors of accepted papers
must submit
camera-ready copy incorporating reviewers? feedback by March 29. In
addition,
at least one author must register to present the paper at the conference.
Submissions to MSST must not be previously published or currently under
submission
to another venue, and must not include plagiarized material. The MSST
conference
takes these rules very seriously and may take action against authors who
violate them;
such actions may include bans on future submissions and/or notification of
the
authors? employers. Questions about technical papers may be directed to the
research
program co-chairs: Ahmed Amer (a.amer at acm.org) and Theodore M. Wong (
theowong at us.ibm.com).

Conference Organizers
----------
Conference Chair Dr. Sam Coleman
Tutorial Chair Sean Roberts
Program Chair Dr. Mathew O?Keefe
Vendor Chair Ben Kobler
Research Track
Chairs
Dr. Ahmed Amer
Dr. Theodore M. Wong

Program Committee
----------
Zvonimir Bandic
John Bent
Angelos Bilas
Andre Brinkmann
Toni Cortes
David Essary
Sam Fineberg
Kevin Greenan
Dean Hildebrand
Hong Jiang
James Lentini
Darrell Long
Ethan Miller
Jehan-Francois Paris
David Pease
Raju Rangaswami
Ben Reed
Rob Ross
Thomas Schwarz
Tao Xie

FURTHER INFORMATION
---------
See the conference web site at http://storageconference.org/.
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CISTI'2013 DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
Lisbon, Portugal, June 19 - 23, 2013
http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=68&lang=en
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INTRODUCTION

The purpose of CISTI'2013?s Doctoral Symposium (http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=68&lang=en) is to provide graduate students a setting where they can, informally, expose and discuss their work, collecting valuable expert opinions and sharing new ideas, methods and applications. The Doctoral Symposium is an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present and discuss their work in a Workshop format. Each presentation will be evaluated by a panel composed by at least three Information Systems and Technologies experts. 

CONTRIBUTIONS SUBMISSION

The Doctoral Symposium is opened to PhD students whose research area includes the themes proposed for this Conference. Submissions must include an extended abstract (maximum 4 pages), following the Conference style guide. All selected contributions will be handed out along with the Conference Proceedings, in CD with an ISBN. These contributions will be send for indexation by EBSCO, and EI-Compendex.

Submissions must include the field, the PhD institution and the number of months devoted to the development of the work. Additionally, they should include in a clear and succinct manner:

    ?    The problem approached and its significance or relevance
    ?    The research objectives and related investigation topics
    ?    A brief display of what is already known
    ?    A proposed solution methodology for the problem
    ?    Expected results

IMPORTANT DATES

?    Data limite para submiss?o de propostas: 15 de Fevereiro de 2013
?    Notifica??o de aceita??o: 29 de Mar?o de 2013
?    Data limite para apresenta??o das vers?es finais: 12 de Abril de 2013
?    Pagamento da inscri??o, para garantir a inclus?o da contribui??o aceite nas actas da confer?ncia: 12 de Abril de 2013

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Manuel P?rez Cota, Universidad de Vigo (Chair)
Adolfo Lozano Tello, Universidad de Extremadura
Alberto J. Bugar?n Diz, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
?lvaro Rocha, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Ana Maria Ramalho Correia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ISEGI
Ant?nio Palma dos Reis, Universidade T?cnica de Lisboa, ISEG
Arturo Mendez Pen?n, Universidade de Vigo
Carlos Ferr?s Sexto, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
David Fonseca, Universidad Ram?n Llul
Ernesto Redondo, Universidad Polit?cnica de Catalu?a
Feliz Gouveia, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Francisco Restivo, Universidade Cat?lica Portuguesa - Braga
Guilhermina Miranda, Universidade de Lisboa
Gonzalo Cuevas Agust?n, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
H?ctor Jorge Garc?a Neder, Universidad Tecnol?gica NacioNal
Jo?o ?lvaro Carvalho, Universidade do Minho
Jo?o Barroso, Universidade de Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro
J?rg Thomaschewski, University of Applied Sciences of Emden-Leer
Jos? Antonio Calvo-Manzano Villal?n, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
Jos? Bulas Cruz, Universidade de Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Jos? Tribolet, Universidade T?cnica de Lisboa, IST
Leandro Rodr?guez Li?ares, Universidade de Vigo
Lu?s Paulo Reis, Universidade do Minho
Mar?a Jos? Lado Touri?o, Universidade de Vigo
Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha, Instituto Polit?cnico do C?vado e do Ave
Marco Painho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ISEGI
Mario Alberto Groppo, Universidad Tecnol?gica Nacional
Nuno Ribeiro, Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Pilar Mareca, Universidade Polit?cnica de Madrid
Ramiro Gon?alves, Universidade de Tr?s-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Tomas San Feliu Gilabert, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
Vicente Alcober, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid

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CISTI'2013 Team
http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013
aistic at gmail.com

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