HotTopiCS 2013 - International Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Services (HotTopiCS 2013)

Cloud computing is becoming day by day wider providing a vibrant technical environment where innovative solutions and services can be created. Cloud promises cheap and flexible services to end-users. However, Cloud business models and technologies introduce critical issues, such as proprietary API, lack of interoperability, unpredictable performance, and unexpected outages.
The abilities to use multiple Clouds and to migrate, at design or at run-time, applications from one Cloud to another could mitigate the risk of Cloud adoption and would allow building high performance and reliable applications.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who investigate concepts, models and tools for running applications on multiple and heterogeneous Cloud systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Performance, availability, and scalability of Cloud services
Model-driven design for multi-cloud applications
Dynamic capacity allocation and load balancing for applications running on multiple Clouds
Auto-scaling techniques
Cloud federations and interoperability among Clouds
Job scheduling and workload placement in multi-cloud environments
Architectures for self-management of applications exploiting multiple and federated Clouds
Self-management solutions for multi-Clouds and run-time selection of Cloud services
Portability of Cloud based applications
Open-source support for Cloud computing
Early prototyping, automatic code generation, and automatic deployment of applications on multi-Clouds
Risk analysis for Cloud, multi-Cloud and federated systems
Intended audience
Researchers and practitioners, both from the Academia and from the Industry, working in the areas of Cloud system development, performance evaluation and management, model-driven design, and self-adaptation.
Paper
Original contributions are invited to be reported to the event. The paper can have up to 8 pages in the two-column ACM conference style. The accepted papers will be published within the proceedings of the ACM Digital Library. Best papers authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue on Cloud computing by the Springer Computing Journal.
Submission system
Submit via Easychair on http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=multicl....
Deadlines
Full paper submissions: 20 January 2013
Notifications: 18 February 2013
Camera ready: 28 February 2013 (hard deadline)
Registrations: 7 April 2013
Event: 22 April 2013
Program Committee
Dana Petcu, West University and Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania
Francesco D’Andria, ATOS, Spain
Pierre Guisset, ERCIM, France
Geir Horn, SINTEF, Norway
Keith Jeffery, STFC, UK
Sébastien Mosser, University Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Peter Matthews, CA Technologies, Spain
Arnor Solberg, SINTEF, Norway
Anne Koziolek, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Jointly organized by FP7-ICT projects MODAClouds (http://www.modaclouds.eu) and PaaSage (http://www.paasage.eu).