CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE 2013 3rd International Workshop on Performance Aspects of Cloud and Service Virtualization (CloudPerf 2013)

One day between June 27-July 2 2013, Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA (Center of Silicon Valley)
within IEEE SERVICES 2013

Description

Cloud computing and service virtualization have progressed rapidly in recent years and face challenges of creating a highly efficient, secure, and transparent way to support the consolidation of all different kinds of legacy applications, packaged applications, and custom services. Performance related aspects of cloud and virtualization systems are becoming the bottlenecks for service implementation, deployment and commercial application and its operation. The cloud paradigm and services virtualization also come up with algorithmic and engineering issues as well as performance aspects not yet eminent but expected to grow with their spreading deployment and application, the scaling of the large cloud systems, and the dynamics of management and real time service performance. These new performance aspects may comprise, sometimes even deteriorate the efficiency, logical or physical transparency of cloud services, quality of isolation, fairness among virtualized systems, quality of synthetic services, scalability of the composition of virtualized services and of the management mechanisms for cloud centers and their operation patterns.

Based on the success of CloudPerf 2011 and CloudPerf 2012, the CloudPerf 2013 also aims to serve as a forum for professionals involved in performance aspects of virtualized, autonomic and cloud computing systems. The goal of this workshop is to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of performance aspects including research, engineering, and industry related issues by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia, sharing and presenting their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance aspects of cloud and service virtualization, including performance measurement, analytic modeling, simulation, performance engineering, benchmark design, and run-time performance management.

The workshop welcome various different kinds of papers that could formalize, simplify and optimize the performance aspects of existing cloud and virtualization infrastructures in science, engineering and business. The papers may address issues including performance models, performance engineering methods, and real world practices leading to cloud and virtualization services and solutions that provide users with efficient techniques for virtualizing and managing their own high performance cloud systems. Papers of applied research, industrial experience reports, work-in-progress and vision papers with different criteria for each category are also solicited. Extensions of selected papers will be published in a journal special issue.



List of topics

· Performance metrics for adaptation and dynamics in Clouds
· Performance measurement techniques in Clouds and virtualization systems
· Performance Models for resource contention between virtual machines
· Performance issues of I/O virtualization
· Scheduling mechanisms and performance for virtualized resources and services
· Scalability, robustness and resilience of Clouds
· Quality of Service in Clouds
· User models and workload characterization in Clouds and virtualization systems
· Performance of virtual storage
· Impact of virtualization on the performance of memory, CPU and I/O intensive applications
· Capability and performance of network emulation
· Performance limitations of cloud services and technologies for capability and capacity computing
· Experiences, performance and reliability of running scientific applications in clouds
· Power/Energy efficiency
· Security Issues and its performance evaluation
· Performance verification and validation
· Performance of HPC application in Clouds

Important dates


· Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 29, 2013
· Decision Notification (Electronic): April 20, 2013
· Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2013
Paper submission

Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short papers (about 4 pages) as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (download instruction). All papers should be in PDF and submitted via at the submission system

First time users need to register with the system first. All the accepted papers by the workshops will be included in the Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE 2013 World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2013) which will be published by IEEE Computer Society.

Submission system:
http://www.confhub.com/conf.php?id=283


Workshop chairs

· Christophe Cerin, University of Paris XIII, France

· Congfeng JIANG, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

Program committee (Pending)

Brian Vinter (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
Dan Grigoras (University College Cork, Ireland)
Guoray Cai (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Hong-Linh Truong(Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK)
Jianwei Yin (Zhejiang University, China)
Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Information Science Research Centre, New Zealand)
Lai Xu (Bournemouth University,UK)
Lei Liu (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
R.K. Shyamasundar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Shiping Chen (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
Thomas E. Potok (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
Uwe Gloser (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Walter Binder (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Xianghua Xu (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)
Wan Tang (South-Central University for Nationalities, China)
Huifang Deng (South China University of Technology, China)
SUM Chin Sean, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan
Weihui Dai(Fudan University, China)
Wei Wang (Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center, Germany)
Mea Wang (University of Calgary, Canada)
Chengzhong Xu (Wayne State University, USA)
Min Chen (Seoul National University, Korea)
Zhou Su (Waseda University, Japan)
Stephen Wang (Toshiba Telecommunications Research Laboratory Europe, UK)
Robert Lagerstrom (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Kumiko Tadano (NEC, Japan)
Jian Zhao (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Guoqiang Mao (University of Sydney, Australia)
Dan Li (Tsinghua University, China)
Limin Shen (Yanshan University, China)
Xiang Yu (Huawei Technology, China)
Amit Dvir (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Huilin Xu (Qualcomm, USA)
Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Jie Wu (Fudan University, China)
Tiankui Zhang( Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
Jian Wan(Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)
Yong Woo LEE(University of Seoul, Korea)
Zujie Ren(Hangzhou Dianzi University, China)