[Storage-research-list] CfP: HotTopiCS 2013 - International Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Services

[Kai Sachs]

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

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

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

Prague, Czech Republic, April 20-21, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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