ASC 2013 - 1st International Workshop on Analytics Services on the Cloud (ASC)

Every day, quintillions of bytes of data are created in different domains, including Internet, healthcare, retail and so on. The term “big data” is used to describe such data, which has three major characteristics: large volume, high speed of data flow and heterogeneous data types. Studies have shown that leveraging knowledge from big data via analytics will generate tremendous value and business impact. For example, the increasing interest of turning massive volumes of social media data into meaningful insights attracts significant attention to this field. Indeed, the use of big data has already become a key basis of competition for enterprises.
With the needs of analytics growing at ever increasing speeds, it becomes clear that traditional data processing techniques are in no way able to meet the demands. The use of big data has raised tremendous challenges on analysis techniques, e.g., data integration and linkage, data storage, pattern mining, IT infrastructure to support massive and scalable data processing, and visualization of the analysis results. Therefore, Cloud Computing becomes a perfect candidate for delivering big data analytics. However, the emerging Cloud Computing technology adds another interesting dimension in this complex area since Cloud technology enables a new service model when delivering analytics to end users.
The proposed full-day workshop on “Analytics Services on the Cloud” follows the increasing interests in big data and analytics services and aims at bringing together researchers from various communities who are interested in the challenges. We will solicit contributions that study practical as well as fundamental aspects of cloud-based analytics services including adequate service models that address characteristics and challenges of analytics services with big data, mechanism for specification, discovery, composition, delivery and scaling of analytics services, data, computational, security and privacy aspects of analytics services, and cloud environments for analytics services.
We successfully organized the first Workshop on Analytics Services on the Cloud in conjunction with ICSOC 2012. ASC 2012’s topics were divided in to three major areas: performance, service infrastructure and applications. We solicited 15 high quality submissions. Only 7 papers were accepted for the program. One paper was selected for the best paper award sponsored by IBM Research.
Topics of Interest
Expected papers deal with methods, models, techniques, case studies and practical experiences related to the analytics services on the Cloud. Topics of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Benchmarking
Scalability
Service model of Cloud analytics
Data model to support Cloud analytics
Cloud analytics architecture
Quality of analytics services
Analytics service composition
Privacy and security
Mixed private/public cloud environments for analytics services
Storage and access methods
Parallel analytics
Visualization
System reliability
Migration to cloud
Analysis of cloud workloads
Analysis of social media data
Analytics service in emerging domains
Review and Selection Process
All submissions are reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness, clarity and quality. Each paper submission is reviewed by three distinct members of the workshop program committee. We plan to work with ICSOC workshop chairs on preparing the accepted publications for the workshop post-proceedings.
Best Paper Award
Among all the submissions, one outstanding paper will be selected for the best paper award. The award is sponsored by IBM Research and will be announced at the workshop award ceremony.