Call For Papers

Workshop on Cloud Services, Federation, and the 8th Open Cirrus Summit

Workshop Web Site: http://fedcloud.cyberaide.org/

In conjunction with the "International Conference on Autonomic
Computing, San Jose, 18-20 Sep. 2012"

Location: San Jose, CA (USA)
Date: 21 September 2012
Contact: ocsfcw2012@googlegroups.com

Deadlines:

Papers: July 14, 2012
Author Notification: August 7, 2012
Final Papers due: September 7, 2012
Workshop: September 21, 2012


Summary:

This event will be run as a workshop in conjunction with ICAC 2012 and
will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the
newest ideas and challenges in cloud services and federated cloud
computing. With your help, we hope to accelerate the discussion in
both commercial and academic contexts. Focus of the Workshop:

The services offered by clouds are becoming critical for a wide
variety of applications used by industry, education and
government.There are now many examples of successful cloud services
offered by public, private and community clouds. Many efforts exist
that are creating cloud toolkits and frameworks to simplify the
development and delivery of cloud services.

The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together those
responsible for designing, managing, and operating clouds services so
that they can share experiences with each other. The workshop also
welcomes users with requirements for new cloud services.

We are particularly interested in cloud services that can be used for
federating clouds. Topics of interest include:

Experiences, best practices, and lessons learned from
operating cloud services
Testbeds for designing new cloud services
Cloud services for federating clouds
Management and provisioning of cloud services
Health and status monitoring of cloud services
Security of cloud services
Requirements for new cloud services
Reliability and fault tolerance of cloud services
Cloud services that span public and private clouds
Design of cloud services
Intercloud services
Federation service
Identity services
Cloud bursting services
Cloud services for emerging applications
Applications utilizing such services

This workshop will build upon the success of the prior Open Cirrus
events and the prior Open Cloud Consortium events. The goal is to
help building a community for those responsible for operating clouds
and cloud testbeds, as well as those interested in designing new cloud
services.

The Workshop is co-sponsored by the Open Cirrus Consortium and the
Open Cloud Consortium, and FutureGrid.

Paper Format

Full papers (a maximum of 6 pages in the two-column ACM proceedings
format) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to federated
clouds and their application. Submitted papers must be original work,
and may not be under consideration for another conference or
journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found
on the workshop web site. Accepted papers will appear in proceedings
distributed at the conference and available electronically.