DISCCO 2013 - 2nd International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Cloud Computing

Second International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Cloud Computing
(DISCCO 2013)
in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)
Location: Braga, Portugal
Date: September 30, 2013
Scope
Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new and popular paradigm for deploying, managing and delivering a variety of services through a shared infrastructure. The services offered through clouds can range from simple data storage to end-to-end management of business processes. However, the broad, complex and dynamic nature of cloud computing environments makes it very challenging to provide resilience against design faults, unforeseen failures, unexpected operating conditions, and adversarial attacks. The widespread failure of Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure last year adversely affected thousands of Amazon's customers, and underscores the importance of providing reliability for cloud computing services.
The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government organizations to foster discussion and share ideas, problems and solutions related to dependability issues in cloud computing. We solicit stimulating, original, previously unpublished ideas on completed work, position papers, and/or work-in-progress papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Testing and debugging automation tools for cloud software and applications
Monitoring, diagnosis and failure recovery mechanisms for cloud software and applications
Hardware and software fault-tolerance techniques for large-scale cloud computing
Fault-tolerant approaches to virtualization in clouds
Reliability of cloud software, applications and services
Autonomic and self-* cloud computing
Secure computation in clouds
Secure data management in clouds
Access control and key management in clouds
Network security mechanisms in clouds
Privacy and identity management in clouds
Technical Program Committee
Alysson Bessani, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Christian Cachin, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland
Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes, France
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Franz Hauck, Ulm University, Germany
Hein Meling, University of Stavanger, Norway
Marco Serafini, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Michael Schöttner, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Miguel Correia, INESC-ID / IST, Portugal (Co-Chair)
Mukesh Singhal, University of California, Merced, USA
Neeraj Mittal, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA (Co-Chair)
Paolo Romano, INESC-ID / IST, Portugal
Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Rüdiger Kapitza, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA
Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble I, France
Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA
Xiao Bai, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Paper Submission
Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Regular papers should be no longer than 6 pages; position and work-in-progress papers should be no longer than 3 pages. Papers should follow the ACM SIG Proceedings Style - option 1 (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t...). All papers should be submitted through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=discco...
Publication
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and the accepted papers will be included in a Workshop Proceedings (publisher to be defined).
Important dates
Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2013
Acceptance/Rejection Notification: July 15th, 2013
Camera-Ready Papers: July 31st, 2013