CCOP 2012 - Workshop on Cloud Computing Optimization (CCOP 2012)

Cloud computing poses many large and complex problems for system management. An increasingly important requirement is the ability to maximize service performance at minimum cost subject to diverse goals and constraints. This necessitates advanced management approaches for reducing costs while maintaining high availability, scalability, elasticity, flexibility, reliability and efficiency. Solutions are sought in the broad area of system management, including resource and application management for cloud providers and users, self-reconfiguration to enable adaptation to changes, management processes and technologies, economically-driven decisions, models for cloud management, disaster recovery and backup etc.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to address the many facets of optimization in cloud-based computing systems and applications from different perspectives. Researchers will engage in stimulating dialogue regarding the fundamental principles, state of the art, and critical problems and challenges in optimization for cloud computing. A main goal is to bridge the gap between the fields of operations research and service system management.