| *** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2015) December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus Co-located with the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing (BDC 2015) http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015 *** Deadline for submitting workshop proposals: May 8th *** CONTEXT AND SCOPE Cloud Computing delivers computational resources on-demand as services that are commoditized and delivered analogous to traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute, storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data are growing at a tremendous rate, and it is essential to understand how to effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2015, to be held in Cyprus, will happen as Cloud providers worldwide add new services and increase Cloud utility at an accelerated pace, and Cloud service users explore new usage modes. This will be the 8th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC2013), and London, UK (UCC 2014). TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Big Data and Analytics • Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models • Policy languages and Programming models • Utility driven model and mechanisms for Cloud federations • Autonomic techniques for Clouds and Cloud applications • Utility-driven platforms for Clouds • Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds • Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated • Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) • Virtualization technologies and other enablers • Economic models and scenarios of use • Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces • Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring • Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business • Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds • Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction, especially in Utility contexts WORKSHOP PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS Proposals for workshops should be no more than 2 pages in length and should contain the following information: • Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that will be the focus of the workshop. • A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. • A list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3 years, or to be held in 2015. • The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed technical program committee. This committee should consist of at least 10 people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed and preferably not more than two members of the same institution. • A description of the qualifications of the organizers (who would be the Workshop Chairs) with respect to organizing this workshop. This can include papers published in the proposed topic area, previous workshop organization, and other relevant information. • Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format by email to the workshop chairs by the 8th of May, 2015. RESPONSIBILITIES Workshop chair(s) will be responsible for the following: • Producing a web page and a "Call for Papers/Participation" for their workshop. The URL should be sent to the UCC Workshops chairs. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the Cloud, Big Data, Grid and Cluster Computing community. It should mention that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and that all workshop participants must pay the UCC 2015 workshop day or conference registration fee. The CfP should make it clear that the registration of at least one author requires the full (non-student, non- workshop) rate. • Ensure that all workshop papers are a maximum of 6 pages in length (in IEEE format). It is the responsibility of the workshop organizers to ensure that this page limit has been adhered to. Additional pages may be purchased (in some circumstances) subject to approval by the proceedings chairs. • Provide a brief description of the workshop for the conference web page and program. • Selecting the participants and the format of the workshop. The publication of proceedings will be by the IEEE in the same volume as the main conference. The acceptance notification (by workshop chairs) therefore should be the same as the conference paper acceptance notification (i.e. the dates should be the same). All other details can be up to workshop organizers to set. • Advertising the workshop beyond the conference web page. • Assistance in producing a camera-ready version of the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT NOTE If the workshop is too small (i.e. does not attract enough submissions) the UCC 2015 Organizing Committee may decide to merge that workshop with another. So we encourage workshop organizers to attract a large community. In extreme situations we may also cancel workshops if there are not enough submissions. Workshop organizers must ensure that suitable quality measures have been taken to ensure that the accepted papers are of high quality. All papers must be reviewed by an International Technical Program Committee with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper. The workshop organizers should also try to observe an acceptance rate that is no higher than 50%. Unless indicated on the UCC website, there will be no travel support and no registration discounts for authors and organizers. Workshops are not automatically endorsed by IEEE or ACM and should not use the names of these organisations in their titles. The UCC 2015 Conference Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following: • Providing a link to a workshop's local page. • Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop. • In conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. • Providing copies of the workshop proceedings to attendees. IMPORTANT DATES • Workshop proposals due: 08 May, 2015 • Notification of workshop proposals: 22 May 2015 COMMITTEES General Chairs • Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK • George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Program Committee Chairs • Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA (parashar AT rutgers.edu) • Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK (ranaof AT cardiff.ac.uk) Standards/Plug-fest Chair • Alan Sill, Texas Tech, USA & Open Grid Forum Workshops Chairs • Ilkay Altintas, SDSC, USA (altintas AT sdsc.edu) • Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany (josef.spillner AT tu-dresden.de) Tutorials Chairs • Ewa Deelman, USC, USA (deelman AT isi.edu) • Rafael Tolosana, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt AT unizar.es) Posters Chair • Khalid Elgazzar, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada PhD Symposium Chair • Kenneth Johnson, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Cloud Challenge 2015 Chair • Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Industry Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Proceedings Chairs • Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK • George Palis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015/?page_id=281 |
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