HotCloud 2013 - HotCloud 2013 : 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing

HotCloud brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry working on cloud computing technologies. Cloud computing has gained traction over the past few years, becoming a viable alternative to dedicated data centers and enabling the launch of many prominent companies. However, many challenges remain in the design, implementation, and deployment of cloud computing.
HotCloud provides a forum for both academics and practitioners to share their experience, leverage each other's perspectives, and identify new/emerging "hot" trends in this important area. Its program is arranged to create close interaction between researchers and industry practitioners, so that the research can inform current deployments and deployment challenges can inform new research. HotCloud is open to examining all models of cloud computing, including the scalable management of in-house servers, remotely hosted infrastructure (IaaS), infrastructure augmented with tools and services that provide platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS).
We solicit original papers on a wide range of cloud computing topics for HotCloud. We particularly encourage the submission of position papers that describe novel research directions and work that is in its formative stages, and papers about practical experiences and lessons learned from production systems. Interesting issues show up at all levels of the software stack, but HotCloud's emphasis is on combining mechanisms to build working clouds rather than on implementing new low-level mechanisms themselves. For example, papers on using virtual machines in new ways would be preferred over papers on improving core VM technology.
Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Improving elasticity and availability in cloud infrastructure and cloud services
Multi-tenancy and related issues such as performance isolation
Charging models and economics
Power-efficient ("green") computing for clouds
Monitoring, troubleshooting, and failure recovery
Debugging and performance analysis of cloud applications
Cloud management and configuration
Virtual appliance management and composition
Storage architectures for cloud computing
Novel networking approaches for cloud computing
Programming models
Security and privacy in clouds
New applications for clouds
Mobility
Integrating enterprise applications with the cloud