[Storage-research-list] CfP: 4rd HotCloudPerf workshop in conjunction with ACM/SPEC ICPE2021

[Simon Eismann]

=== The Fourth Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance ===
(HotCloudPerf-2021)

“Focus Theme: Benchmarking in the Cloud.”
https://hotcloudperf.spec.org

VENUE: Held in conjunction with ICPE, April 19 or 20, 2021, Rennes, France.
Contact: hotcloudperf2021[at]easychair.org


IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth)

January 15, 2021      Abstract due (informative)
January 20, 2021      Papers due
February 11, 2021     Author Notification
February 22, 2021     Camera-ready deadline
April 19 or 20, 2021  Workshop Day


WORKSHOP THEME AND BACKGROUND

Cloud computing is emerging as one of the most profound changes in the  
way we build and use IT. The use of global services in public clouds  
is increasing, and the lucrative and rapidly growing global cloud  
market already supports over 1 million IT-related jobs. However, it is  
currently challenging to make the IT services offered by public and  
private clouds performant (in an extended sense) and efficient.  
Emerging architectures, techniques, and real-world systems include  
hybrid deployment, serverless operation, everything as a service,  
complex workflows, auto-scaling and -tiering, etc. It is unclear to  
which extent traditional performance engineering, software  
engineering, and system design and analysis tools can help with  
understanding and engineering these emerging technologies. The  
community also needs practical tools and powerful methods to address  
hot topics in cloud computing performance.

Responding to this need, the HotCloudPerf workshop proposes a meeting  
venue for academics and practitioners, from experts to trainees, in  
the field of cloud computing performance. The workshop aims to engage  
this community, and to lead to the development of new methodological  
aspects for gaining deeper understanding not only of cloud  
performance, but also of cloud operation and behavior, through diverse  
quantitative evaluation tools, including benchmarks, metrics, and  
workload generators. The workshop  focuses on novel cloud properties  
such as elasticity, performance isolation, dependability, and other  
non-functional system properties, in addition to classical  
performance-related metrics such as response time, throughput,  
scalability, and efficiency.

Each year, the workshop chooses a focus theme to explore; for 2021,  
the theme is “benchmarking in the cloud.” Articles focusing on this  
topic are particularly encouraged for HotCloudPerf-2021.

The HotCloudPerf workshop is technically sponsored by the Standard  
Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)’s Research Group (RG), and  
is organized annually by the RG Cloud Group. HotCloudPerf has emerged  
from the series of yearly meetings organized by the RG Cloud Group,  
since 2013. The RG Cloud Group group is taking a broad approach,  
relevant for both academia and industry, to cloud benchmarking,  
quantitative evaluation, and experimental analysis.


WORKSHOP SCOPE AND TOPICS

Topics of the focus-theme for 2021 is “Benchmarking in the Cloud”.  
Articles focusing on this topic are particularly encouraged for  
HotCloudPerf-2021. Long-running topics of the HotCloudPerf workshop  
include, but are not limited to:

1. Empirical performance studies in cloud computing environments,  
applications, and systems, including observation, measurement, and  
surveys.
2. Comparative performance studies and benchmarking of cloud  
environments, applications, and systems.
3. Performance analysis using modeling and queueing theory for cloud  
environments, applications, and systems.
4. Simulation-based studies for all aspects of cloud computing performance.
5. Tuning and auto-tuning of systems operating in cloud environments,  
e.g., auto-scaling of resources and auto-tiering of data, optimized  
resource deployment.
6. Software patterns and architectures for engineering cloud  
performance, e.g., serverless.
7. Experience with and analysis of performance of cloud deployment  
models, including IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/FaaS.
8. End-to-end performance engineering for pipelines and workflows in  
cloud environments, or of applications with non-trivial SLAs.
9. Tools for monitoring and studying cloud computing performance.
10. General and specific methods and methodologies for understanding  
and engineering cloud performance.
11. Serverless computing platforms and microservices in cloud datacenters.


ARTICLE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We solicit the following types of contributions:

* Talk only: Extended abstract limited to 1-2 pages (without  
formatting restrictions)
* Full paper limited to 6 pages (double column, ACM conference format)
* Short paper limited to 3 pages (double column, ACM conference format)

Contributions in the 1st category (as Talk only) may have already been  
(partially) presented at other events or in publications and are not  
included in the conference proceedings. Contributions in the 2nd and  
3rd category (technical papers) must represent original and  
unpublished work that is not currently under review. Full papers may  
report on original research, lessons learned from realizing an  
approach, or experiences on transferring a research prototype into  
practice. Short papers may report on work-in-progress, a tool/demo, or  
present a vision or position motivating the community to address new  
challenges.

Articles and talk only contributions are required to be submitted via  
the EasyChair system of HotCloudPerf-2021:  
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hotcloudperf2021

Articles must use the ACM conference format. Each valid submission  
will receive at least three (3) peer reviews. Articles must use the  
ACM conference format. Each valid submission will receive at least  
three (3) peer reviews. Presented papers will be published by ACM and  
included in the ACM Digital Library. Adhering to ACM guidelines for  
conferences, ICPE requires that at least one author of each accepted  
paper attends (in person or remote) the workshop and presents the paper.

COVID-19 TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS: The organizing committee is working hard  
to put together a great HotCloudPerf (and ICPE), and to welcome you in  
Rennes. At this point, however, due to the uncertainty around the  
COVID pandemic, we cannot guarantee this is possible. We also  
recognize the challenges some of our community members might face in  
travelling. Therefore, currently, the conference model is on-site with  
remote participation facilities - meaning, we are looking forward to a  
live event, but will provide the required infrastructure for online  
presence. For more information, pelase contact us:  
hotcloudperf2021 at easychair.org


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Cristina L. Abad (ESPOL, Ecuador)
Nikolas Herbst (U. Würzburg, Germany)
Alexandru Uta (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
Alexandru Iosup (VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Cristina L. Abad, ESPOL, Ecuador
Ahmed Ali-Edin, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Marta Beltran, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Andre Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, USA
Marc Brooker, Amazon Web Services, USA
Lucy Cherkasova, ARM Research, USA
Dmitry Duplyakin, University of Utah, USA
Bogdan Ghit, Databricks, The Netherlands
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany
Nikolas Herbst, U. Würzburg, Germany
Alexandru Iosup, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alessandro Papadopoulos, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Joel Scheuner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Petr Tůma, Charles University, Czech Republic
Alexandru Uta, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Erwin van Eyk, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
André van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Chen Wang, IBM, USA

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M.Sc. Simon Eismann
Doctoral Researcher

Chair of Software Engineering
Department of Computer Science
University of Würzburg

Am Hubland, Informatikgebäude (M2), Room 107/108
97074 Würzburg, Germany

Phone: +49 (931) 31 89655, Fax: +49 (931) 31-86603
http://go.uni-wuerzburg.de/eismann/
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