Containers are a lightweight OS-level virtualization. In the recent years, container-based virtualization for applications has gained immense popularity thanks to the success of technologies like Docker. Container management is one of the key challenges of adopting this technology. As a result, management middleware like Kubernetes, Mesos, etc., are witnessing widespread adoption in the industry today. While Containers as a technology have reached an acceptable level of maturity, we see today that most of the challenges hindering the full scale adoption of this technology lies in the limitation of the existing middleware managing containerized workloads. Problems around scalability, security, high-availability, disaster recovery, and compliance are still active research areas that require innovative solutions.

The aim of this workshop is to shed the light on the main challenges and solutions of running containerized workloads in clustered environments.

The fifth workshop on container technologies and container clouds solicits contributions in this area from researchers and practitioners in both the academia and industry. The workshop welcomes submissions describing unpublished research, position papers as well as deployment experiences on various topics related to containers as outlined below:


Topics of interested include but are not limited to:
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- Scalability and performance of container management middleware (K8s, Mesos, ...)
- Security, isolation and performance of containers in shared environments
- Network architectures for multi-host container deployments
- Orchestration models for cloud scale deployments
- High availability systems for containerized workloads
- Leveraging hardware support for containers and containerized workloads
- Migrating and optimizing traditional workloads for containers
- Operational issues surrounding management of large clusters of containers
- Container use cases and challenges for HPC, Big Data and IoT applications
- Leveraging cognitive techniques for container management
- Performance enhancement of containers
- Use cases of using containers such as serverless computing and PaaS
- Comparative studies between different middleware for managing containers
- Comparative studies between containers, uni-kernels, and any other virtualization technologies
- Other topics relevant to containers management


Submissions:
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Accepted papers should be no longer than 6 pages in the standard ACM format. Note that at least one author on each accepted workshop paper must hold a full pre-conference registration. Workshop organizers are responsible for preparing the papers for their workshops in the format required by ACM. As in previous years, the Middleware conference organizers will provide companion proceedings including all workshop papers, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library. This is subject to the availability of camera-ready version by October 18, 2019. Please upload your papers in PDF form to easychair.

Submissions will be judged on novelty, relevance, clarity of presentation, and correctness. Authors of accepted submissions are required to present their work. Accepted papers and abstracts will be made available in the conference website at least one week before the workshop, so that the participants can come prepared having read the papers. Accepted submissions will be published via ACM Digital Library



**Important dates:
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Paper Submission: August 30, 2019
Paper Notification: September 27, 2019
Paper Camera Ready: October 18, 2019


**Organization:

*Workshop Chairs:
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Ali Kanso – IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Seetharami R. Seelam – IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

*Publicity Chair:
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Parisa Heidari – Edge Gravity by Ericsson

*Program Committee Chair:
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Abdelouahed Gherbi, ETS University, Montreal, Canada

*Program Committee (To Be Confirmed):
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Michela Taufer, University of Deleware

Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University

Olivier Sallou, INRIA

Hassan Hawilo, Western University, Canada

Chen Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Ming Zhao, Arizona State University

Abhishek Gupta, Intel

Wubin Li, Ericsson Research, Montreal, Canada

Timothy Wood, George Washington University

Shriram Rajagopalan, VMware

Marco Cello, Nokia Bell Labs

Wei Tan, Citaldel

Manar Jammal, Western University, Canada

Vatche Ishakian, IBM Research