[ogsa-wg] UCC 2011 (Utility and Cloud Computing): Call For Papers

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011) December 5-8, Melbourne, Australia http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2011/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, USA Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA Hosted/Supported by: * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory The University of Melbourne, Australia * Indiana University, USA * Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey * University of Southern California, USA * Colorado State University, USA * Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***************** CALL FOR PAPERS ***************** Introduction: ------------- Computing is being transformed to a model consisting of services that are commoditized and delivered in a manner similar to traditional utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and telephony. In such a model, users access services based on their requirements without regard to where the services are hosted or how they are delivered. Several computing paradigms have promised to deliver this utility computing vision and these include Grid computing, and more recently Cloud computing. Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the ICT industry. Several IT vendors are promising to offer storage, application and computation hosting services, and provide coverage in several continents, offering Service-Level Agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime promises for their services. While these "clouds" are the natural evolution of traditional clusters and data centres, they are distinguished by following a "utility" pricing model where customers are charged based on their utilisation of computational resources, storage and transfer of data. These emerging services have reduced the cost of computation, application hosting and content storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude, however there is significant complexity involved in ensuring applications, services and data can scale when needed to ensure consistent and reliable operation under peak loads. To provide a dedicated forum for sharing recent R&D advances and industrial innovations in "Utility Computing" area, we have initiated this new conference series "International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing". This conference series has emerged out of previous successful Cloud computing events (Cloud 2009 held in Shanghai, China; Cloud 2010 held in Melbourne, Australia; and UCC 2010 held in Chennai, India). UCC 2011, as 4th event in the series, focuses on principles, paradigms, and applications of "Utility computing" and its practical realisation in industry especially in the form of Cloud Computing. Conference Scope: ----------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Principles of Utility Computing - Architectural Models for Utility Computing - *aaS: Infrastructure, Platform, Software, Storage as a Service - Novel architectural models for cloud computing - Novel applications of cloud computing, including games and social networks - Novel cloud programming models - Innovative cloud pricing models - Innovative cloud service models - Support for scalable and elastic cloud services - New parallel / concurrent programming models for cloud computing - Cloud support for mobile applications and Content Delivery Networks - Data Security, Privacy, and Jurisdiction in the Cloud - Portability of applications and data between different cloud providers - Cloud-related virtualization issues - Deployment, maintenance, and management of cloud resources and services - (Multi-)Cloud resource brokering and scheduling - (Multi-)Cloud capacity planning - Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud - Interoperability between different Utility Computing Platforms including Grids, and Clouds - Performance monitoring for cloud applications - Cloud use case studies - Scientific computing in the cloud - Business computing in the cloud - Social computing in the cloud Best Paper Award: ----------------- A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating from the Program Committee and external reviewers. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organised for selected best papers. Journal Special Issue: ----------------------- Highly rated Top 6 papers from the UCC 2011 conference will be selected for publication in a special issue of the "Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)" Journal published by Elsevier Press. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: ---------------------------- All papers must be submitted electronically and in PDF format. The material presented should be original and not published or under submission elsewhere. Authors should submit full papers of up to 8 pages, following strictly the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript style (available at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting), using two-column, single-space format, with 10-point font size. Figures and references must be included in the 8 pages. Oversized papers will be automatically rejected by the PC chairs. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register early to attend the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published and will be made online through the IEEE Xplore. All papers should be submitted online using EasyChair submission system. CHAIRS & COMMITTEES: ------------------- General Co-Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne & Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA Vice Chairs: Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA David Bernstein, VP and Special CTO, Huawei Technologies, USA Program Committee Chairs: Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Steering Committee Members: Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair) Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Bharadwaj Veeravalli, The National University of Singapore, Singapore Cho Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China Craig Lee, Open Grid Forum, USA Geng Lin, Cisco Systems Inc., USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jane Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Steve Versteeg, Computer Associates, Australia Walfredo Cirne, Google, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch, Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications, Germany Workshop Chairs: Mukaddim Pathan, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Organizing Chair: Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia Publicity Chairs: A.B.M. Russel, VeRSI, Australia Program Committee Members: -------------------------- Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia Shrideep Pallickara Colorado State University, USA Geoffrey Fox Indiana University, USA Manish Parashar Rutgers University, USA Marco Netto IBM, Brazil Dennis Gannon Microsoft Research, USA Andrzej Goscinski Deakin University, Australia Marcos Dias De Assuncao INRIA, France Viktor Prasanna University of Southern California, USA Sangmi Pallickara Colorado State University, USA Marlon Pierce Indiana University, USA Judy Qiu Indiana University, USA Madhusudan Govindaraju State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Robert van Engelen Florida State University, USA Peter Linington University of Kent, UK Steven Newhouse European Grid Initiative, UK Alex Sim Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, USA David Walker University of Cardiff, USA Henri Bal Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Thilo Kielmann Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Omer Rana Cardiff University, UK Paul Watson Newcastle University, UK Craig Lee Open Grid Forum, USA Keith Jackson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Ewa Deelman ISI/USC, USA Milind Bhandarkar LinkedIn, USA Arun Agarwal University of Hyderabad, India Bastian Koller High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany Benny Rochwerger IBM Research, Israel David Bernstein Huawei, USA Domenico Talia Universit?† della Calabria, Italy Dongwan Shin New Mexico Tech, USA Erik Elmroth Umea University, Sweden Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ignacio Llorente Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Kris Bubendorfer Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Kyong-Hoon Kim Gyeongsang National University, Korea Li Xiaorong Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Marty Humphrey University of Virginia, USA Massimo Villari University of Messina, Italy Pawel Garbacki Google, USA Radu Prodan University of Innsbruck, Austria Ramin Yahyapour University of Dortmund,Germany Rob Gillen Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Rodrigo Calheiros University of Melbourne, Australia Saurabh Garg University of Melbourne, Australia Siegfried Benkner Vienna University, Austria Simon Caton Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Srikumar Venugopal University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Timothy Wood University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA Thenalapadi Mohan Infosys Technologies, India Varia Jinesh Amazon, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch DEISA (Europe) and Open Grid Forum (USA) Wolfgang Theilmann SAP, Germany Yeo-Chee Shin Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Yu Chen State University of New York - Binghamton, USA Ruppa Thulasiram University of Manitoba, Canada Siani Pearson Hewlett-Packard, USA Cho-Li Wang Hong-Kong University, Hong-Kong Viraj Bhat Yahoo Inc. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Papers Due: 25 July 2011 Notification of Acceptance: 30 August 2011 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 September 2011 PLATINUM MEDIA SPONSOR: ----------------------- HPC Wire (http://www.hpcwire.com/) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------