CALL FOR PAPERS SOCC 2016
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
5-7 October 2016
Santa Clara, California, USA

The annual ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing brings together researchers,
developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing. We solicit
original contributions on all aspects of cloud computing. We particularly
encourage submissions on the research, development, practice, and experience of
cloud computing systems and data management. Specific topics of interest
include but are not limited to the following, when related to cloud:

* Administration and Manageability
* Application, Analytics, Database as a Service
* Data Services Architectures
* Data Markets
* Distributed and Parallel Query Processing
* Distributed Systems
* Energy Efficiency and Management
* Fault Tolerance, High Availability, and Reliability
* IoT Infrastructure
* Large Scale Cloud Applications
* Multi-Tenancy
* Networking and SDNs
* Platform for Services
* Privacy of Data and Computation
* Programming Models
* Provisioning and Metering
* Query Optimization
* Resource Management
* Scientific Data Management
* Security of Infrastructure and Services
* Service Level Agreements
* Storage Systems and New Technologies
* Transactional Models
* Virtualization, Containers, VMs

IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission: 17 May 2016
Paper submission: 24 May 2016
Acceptance notification: 29 July 2016
Camera-ready deadline: 26 August 2016
Conference dates: 5-7 October 2016

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Azza Abouzied, NYU Abu Dhabi
Marcos K. Aguilera (co-chair), VMware Research Group
Arvind Arasu, Microsoft Research
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Yale
Hitesh Ballani, Microsoft Research
Carsten Binnig, Brown University
Francisco Brasileiro, Federal University of Campina Grande
Mihai Budiu, Barefoot Networks
Zhao Cao, Beijing Institute of Technology
James Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Alvin Cheung, University of Washington
Gregory Chockler, Royal Holloway, University of London
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg
Yanlei Diao (co-chair), Ecole Polytechnique, Telecom ParisTech, UMass Amherst
Peter M. Fischer, University of Freiburg
Avrilia Floratou, IBM Research
Indranil Gupta, UIUC
Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore
Thomas Heinis, Imperial College London
Ramakrishna Kotla, Amazon
Boduo Li, NEC Laboratories America
Iqbal Mohomed, Samsung Research America
Rene Mueller, IBM Research
Vivek Narasayya, Microsoft Research
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
Stavros Papadopoulos, Intel Labs, MIT CSAIL
Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London
Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Rama Ramasubramanian, Google
Rodrigo Rodrigues, IST (University of Lisbon), INESC-ID
Margo Seltzer, Harvard, Oracle Labs
Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University
Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Facebook
Ymir Vigfusson, Emory University, Reykjavik University
Yang Wang, The Ohio State University
Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia
Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell
Bernard Wong, University of Waterloo
Lianghong Xu, Carnegie Mellon University
Nickolai Zeldovich, MIT CSAIL
Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research
Wenchao Zhou, Georgetown University

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
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Authors can submit a paper in one of the following categories:

* Research Papers describe original research, where novelty is a
primary consideration.

* Experience Papers describe experiences with existing systems, where
lessons from the experience are a primary consideration.

* Vision Papers describe speculative but well-reasoned and thought-provoking
ideas, where insight is a primary consideration.

Submissions will be judged based on their originality, technical merit,
relevance, value to the community, and likelihood of producing interesting
discussions at the symposium. Submissions will be kept confidential until
accepted. Rejected submissions will be kept confidential permanently.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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Submissions must be entered online at the following URL:
http://socc2016.org/submissions
Authors must submit original papers that are not being considered for
publication in other forums. Submissions cannot be accompanied by
nondisclosure, confidentiality, or similar agreements. Submissions must be in
PDF format using 10-point font on 12-point leading, Times-Roman or similar
typeface, letter-sized paper, double column, a text block of 6.5 inches wide
by 9 inches tall, with numbered pages. A LaTeX template is available at
http://acmsocc.github.io/2016/assets/template.tex
but authors can use other templates or editors that conform with the
requirements. Submissions can have up to 12 pages, including title, author
list, and abstract, but excluding references. After the author list, papers
should indicate the submission type (research, experience, vision). Papers
that violate these requirements will be rejected without reviews. Judicious
use of color is permitted, but the paper should print clearly in black and
white. Non-rejected papers will be shepherded, and final acceptance will be
conditional on the shepherd?s approval.

POSTERS
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Details and deadlines for poster submissions are available in the call for
posters. Papers accepted to the conference are automatically allowed to have
a poster.