[Tccc] [CFP] Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2012)

Giuseppe Cardone giuseppe.cardone
Mon Jan 23 05:36:06 EST 2012


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                      C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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                            Second Workshop on
                 Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2012)
                       (http://mocs.deis.unibo.it)

                             July 1st, 2012
                           Cappadocia, Turkey

                    organized in association with the
  Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2012)
                     (http://www.ieee-iscc.org/2012)

Sponsored by (pending approval)
IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society
Endorsed by the IEEE Technical Committee on
Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM)

The vision of Cloud computing is becoming a reality thanks to the recent
advances in several  significant  computer  and  communications research
areas, spanning from  grid/virtualization/utility  computing  to Web 2.0
and Service Oriented Computing (SOC).  After  the  initial  hype, at the
current stage, several  ongoing  research  efforts  are  focusing on the
several open management aspects of  the Cloud, such as interoperability,
scalability,       reliability,       power        management,       and
confidentiality/auditability,  with  the  final   goal   to  make  Cloud
technologies and services more mature  so  to  boost and to facilitate a
more widespread industrial uptake of  Cloud systems. Despite the several
recent efforts on Cloud systems,  it  is  still  unclear whether current
solutions are able to  withstand  the  abrupt  and unpredictably changes
imposed by the emergent Cloud  application scenarios, where services and
the whole software stacks (from the kernel  upward) have to scale up and
down fast by exploiting highly distributed and heterogeneous virtualized
resources.

The ambition and mission of MoCS  2012  is  to put on the foreground all
above issues, and to bring  together  different ongoing research efforts
on the management of Cloud systems. This  year, special focus will be on
the challenging management issues related  to  the delivery of efficient
Green computing solutions over the Cloud.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
* Novel  adaptive  management   solutions  for  scalable,  maintainable,
   cost-effective Cloud provision, at all software stack layers;
* New models and  paradigms for  the management of Cloud services at the
   host level and within/between data centres (intra-/inter-domain);
* Analytical and simulation models  and tools to measure systems ability
   to scale and to achieve relevant energy savings;
* New methods and tools able to  identify and enforce optimal trade-offs
   between performance, energy consumption, safety, and security;
* Emerging  standards  for  interoperability  (resource  virtualization,
   specific computing interfaces, etc.), also between public and private
   Clouds;
* Experimentation testbeds, field  trials and empirical evaluations, and
   measurement studies.


Important Dates
Submission of research papers due:   February 17, 2012
Notification of paper acceptance:    March 18, 2012
Submission of camera-ready papers:   April 13, 2012
Workshop date:                       July 1, 2012


Paper submission
Papers should be written  in  English.  Manuscripts  should be  no  more
than 8  pages, double column,  IEEE  style including tables, figures and
references. Note that  accepted papers  up to 6 pages in the IEEE double
column proceedings format  will be published  with no additional charge.
Submissions  exceeding pages will  be charged an  additional fee. Please
use  either  Word   (http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/CPS/files/
IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip) or LaTeX (http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.
org/CPS/files/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip    )    templates     and
instructions provided by  IEEE. Papers must  be submitted by 17 February
2012   using   EDAS  (http://edas.info/N11739).  Papers   meeting  these
requirements  will  be   peer-reviewed by  at  least  three  independent
reviewers,  including  a TPC member. Papers  must  present  original and
unpublished work and should not  be  currently under review by any other
conference or journal. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions
on the workshop Web site.

The Workshop Proceedings  will be  part of the ISCC 2012 Proceedings and
will be available on IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org).


Organizing Committee

Workshop Co-Chairs
  Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
  (luca.foschini at unibo.it)

  Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada
  (kantarci at site.uottawa.ca)

  Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
  (mvillari at unime.it)

Publicity Chair
  Giuseppe Cardone, University of Bologna, Italy
  (giuseppe.cardone at unibo.it)

Steering Committee Chair
  Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy
  (antonio.corradi at unibo.it)


-- 
Giuseppe Cardone, Ph.D. Student
DEIS-LIA - University of Bologna
E-mail: giuseppe.cardone at unibo.it
Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/GiuseppeCardone/



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