cloud4soa 2011 - IEEE International Workshop on Market Implementation of Cloud Interoperability and Portability Research in IaaS and PaaS

Workshop on Market Implementation of Cloud Interoperability and Portability Research in IaaS and PaaS
In conjunction with the 3rd IEEE international conference on cloud computing technology and science (IEEE CloudCom 2011 http://2011.cloudcom.org/)

Call for Papers:

Important Dates:
Paper Submissions: August 28, 2011
Notification: September 21, 2011

Context and Objectives:

Interoperability and portability are increasingly relevant needs in cloud computing as it continues its rapid adoption through infrastructures and platforms. For the user, these capabilities are key to counteract the risk of vendor lock-in, a primary barrier for user uptake. Complex scenarios in the IaaS layer such as cloud brokerage, cloud bursting, hybrid clouds and multi-cloud federation require provider-to-provider collaboration largely based on the interoperability of multiple infrastructures and platforms. In the “year of the PaaS” (Gartner, March 2011), platforms bring particular importance to interoperability and portability functionality as applications developed in one platform’s ecosystem are extremely vulnerable to be stranded in that particular offering.

“Interoperability and portability” are becoming as diverse as the term “cloud” itself, and it becomes necessary to dissect and specify where in the cloud map we are focusing these various efforts.

This workshop will examine today’s interoperability and portability research efforts in the infrastructure and platform layers, and analyze the feasibility of their implementation into market viable solutions. In particular we are seeking scientific contributions as well as industrial use cases which aid in answering the following questions.

The workshop will address the following questions:

1. What aspects of interoperability and portability are the most demanded by cloud’s established user base and additional potential adopters?

- application portability between platforms?

- federation of infrastructure or platforms in a SOA-like scenario?

- private-to-public hybrid IaaS scenarios?

- vertical integration between IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings of different providers?

- common interfaces, APIs and standards to facilitate adoption and avoid fragmentation?

- etc.

2. What requirements and use cases are necessary to realize these capabilities?

3. What solutions are being researched and developed to meet these challenges?

- common / standardized cloud models and APIs

- reference architectures

- data center management toolkits

- open source integrated stacks

- portability facilitation through semantics

- etc.

4. What is the realistic implementation potential of these solutions in the evolving cloud market? What are the incentives for the provider to implement them into an existing or new business model? What are the economics to foster and drive their adoption?

The workshop will begin with a session looking into the market’s and cloud providers’ perceptions of what capabilities are a priority in interoperability and portability, including what the various cloud user profiles are asking for.

To converge these market and technical aspects, the workshop will conclude with a roundtable to discuss what the future holds for these interoperability and portability solutions in the evolving cloud landscape, and what is still needed.

Workshop Organizers:

The Cloud4SOA initiative (FP7) consortium are the organizers of the workshop, please contact the following representatives for more information:

Francesco D’Andria (Atos)
francesco.dandria (at) atosresearch.eu

James Ahtes (Atos)
james.ahtes (at) atosresearch.eu

Paper submission instructions:

This workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published. Papers should be formatted based on the IEEE Transactions journals and conferences style; maximum allowed camera-ready paper length is six (6) pages. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format, including text, figures and references.

Accepted papers will be published in the CloudCom2011 proceedings (for further information see IEEE CloudCom 2011 web page http://2011.cloudcom.org/) and presented directly in the workshop.

Please stay tuned to this website for submission link.

Review procedure:

All submitted paper will be reviewed by international program committee.

Technical Program Committee*:

- Francesco D’Andria (Atos, Spain)
- Vassiliki Andronikou (NTUA, Greece)
- Stefano Bocconi (Cyntelix, Netherlands)
- Filippo Bosi (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway)
- Panagiotis Gouvas (SingularLogic, Greece)
- Bastian Koller (HLRS University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Nikos Loutas (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Greece)
- Beniamino Di Martino (Seconda Universita' di Napoli)
- George Pallis (University of Cyprus)
- Dana Petcu (West University of Timisoara)
- Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
- Paolo Romano (University of Lisboa, Portugal)
- Konstantinos Tarabanis (University of Macedonia, Greece)
- Giovanni Tummarello (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway)
- Athena Vakali (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)