Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting paper(s) to any of the following workshops at CCGrid 2012 conference (http://www.cloudbus.org/ccgrid2012) during May 13-16, 2012 in Ottawa, Canada.
======================== 1. International workshop on Cloud for Business, Industry and Enterprises (C4BIE 2012) Organizers: Subrahmanya VRK Rao, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Bala, CTO, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India Description: Enterprises are looking forward to adopt cutting edge innovative technologies that could cut costs and maximize value. Cloud is getting into every Business, Industry and Enterprise applications ensuring economic and agility benefits. While Cloud seems to be disruptive, it’s still a long way to go to completely materialize the Cloud. While Cloud getting embraced, dependability on cloud is yet to mature. C4BIE workshop intends to gather the best minds of the field to discuss and visualize a way ahead for the cloud towards making sense for Business, Industry and Enterprises. 2. Workshop on Policies for Configuring and Operating Management Services in a Cloud (PCOMSC 2012) Organizers: Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Bradley Simmons, York University, Canada Description: Cloud computing envisions that services, platforms and computing resources can be provided, on-demand, in a self-service fashion by a set of cooperating and/or competing providers to clients over the Internet. The emergence of cloud computing stems from the availability of numerous, massive data centers, improvements in virtualization technologies and the availability and abundance of high speed networks. There are many challenges related to Cloud computing services, e.g., policy conflict (detection, avoidance,resolution), mapping process. Furthermore, policies are needed to support multiple management dimensions including security, privacy, pricing, performance, availability, resilience, energy, etc. This workshop will address challenges with realizing operational policies in a cloud-based system. 3. Workshop on Cloud Computing Optimization (CCOP 2012) Organizers: Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada John Chinneck, Carleton University, Canada Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada Jim Zhanwen Li, NICTA, Australia Description: Cloud computing poses many large and complex problems for system management. An increasingly important requirement is the ability to maximize service performance at minimum cost subject to diverse goals and constraints. This necessitates advanced management approaches for reducing costs while maintaining high availability, scalability, elasticity, flexibility, reliability and efficiency. Solutions are sought in the broad area of system management, including resource and application management for cloud providers and users, self-reconfiguration to enable adaptation to changes, management processes and technologies, economically-driven decisions, models for cloud management, disaster recovery and backup etc. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to address the many facets of optimization in cloud-based computing systems and applications from different perspectives. 4. 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Scientific Applications (CCSA 2012) Organizers: Suraj Pandey, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Description: Cloud computing promises reliable services delivered through next-generation data centres that are built on compute and storage virtualization technologies. Users will be able to access applications and data from a Cloud anywhere in the world on demand. In other words, the Cloud appears to be a single point of access for all the computing needs of users. The users are assured that the Cloud infrastructure is robust and will always be available at any time. CCSA brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world to share their experiences on modeling, executing, and monitoring scientific applications on Clouds.This workshop aims to receive innovative work on enabling and scaling computing systems to support the execution of scientific applications. 5. Cloud Security and Privacy Workshop (CSPW 2012) Organizers: Eric Jul, University of Oslo/Bell Labs, Ireland Davide Cherubini, Bell Labs Ireland Description: Moving applications into “The Cloud” increases security requirements as application data now is stored outside the domain of the data owner who must either trust the Cloud provider to a high degree, or use a security model that allows data to be stored, accessed, and manipulated in a secure manner in the cloud itself. This workshop will focus on the security challenges in the cloud specifically concerning Privacy and Confidentiality and how to achieve it. 6. Workshop on Modeling and Simulation on Grid and Cloud Computing (MSGC 2012) Organizers: Gabriel A. Wainer, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada Simon Taylor, Brunel University, UK David R. C. Hill, ISIMA, Université Blaise-Pascal, France Description: The Grid/Cloud models of computation have been extremely successful, but they pose challenges for advanced simulations, in particular when the players require on-line interactivity and communication with real-time data (for instance, sensor networks or Web 2.0 services). Likewise, simulation interoperability on the Grid requires complex ad-hoc tailoring, which is a costly and lengthy process. This workshop is motivated by the challenges brought by this new participative model. Although the Grid and Cloud computing paradigms introduced new ways of sharing computing power and storage in heterogeneous environments, there are still many open questions in this research area. This workshop seeks to receive papers on these topics. 7. 1st International Workshop on Data-intensive Process Management in Large-Scale Sensor Systems (DPMSS 2012) Organizers: Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR/CNR, Italy Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy Description; Due to recent advances in electronics and communication technologies, Sensor Networks (SNs) have been introduced and are currently emerging as one of the most disruptive technologies enabling and supporting next generation ubiquitous and pervasive computing scenarios. In recent years there has been a great surge of interest in SN-based applications, mainly focused on developing hardware, software, and networking architectures needed to enable such applications. In the future, SN will be often seamlessly integrated with decentralized distributed systems based on other networks, particularly IP-based networks. Such integration will raise new issues in the development, deployment and management of such large-scale SN- based systems. The convergence of processes and data management over large-scale SN-based systems results in the definition of the so-called data-intensive processes over large-scale SN-based systems, which represents a novel and leading context for a wide research community. In this respect, relevant issues concern with methodologies for modeling and supporting data-intensive processes, integration and fusion approaches over data-intensive processes, activation and enactment paradigms for data-intensive processes over large-scale SN-based systems, development approaches for SN-based systems, large- scale wireless sensor network systems. The aim of this workshop is to capture the new research trends and results in terms of design, architecture and applications for the management of processes and data in large- scale systems based on sensors, optimization of the processing of sensor data streaming, definition and use of innovative paradigms to develop applications in large-scale sensor networks. Best regards, Mukaddim -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Mukaddim Pathan Technology Specialist - Content Delivery Networks Telstra Corporation Limited 21/35 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia Contact: +61-3-8647 9662 (Office) E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://cecs.anu.edu.au/~mukaddim.pathan _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
