iVCE 2014 - International Workshop on Internet-based Virtual Computing Environment

With the fast development and wide application of computing and network technologies, the Internet has become an important information infrastructure for modern society. Today, there are unprecedented amount of resources over the Internet, e.g. content, storage, computing powers and even human presence, there is an increasing need to build large-scale parallel and distributed system over the Internet to utilize various idle resources to get better overall performance, or simply get the task done.
Resources over the Internet have such intrinsic characteristics as growth, autonomy and diversity, which have brought many challenges to the efficient sharing and comprehensive utilization of these resources. Researches and applications during the past twenty years show that there are essential differences between the Internet environment and the traditional computer environments. A basic conclusion is that the traditional resource management in a single computer will be no longer suitable for the Internet. The computing environment that does not adapt well to the intrinsic characteristics of the Internet is the bottleneck for the effective sharing and utilization of the Internet resources.
After years of research and practice, e.g. grid computing, service-oriented computing, peer-to-peer computing, autonomic computing and cloud computing etc., many advances have been achieved, among which there is the Internet-based Virtual Computing Environment (iVCE)(Download PDF).The iVCE is based on the mechanisms of on-demand aggregation and autonomic collaboration. iVCE can run on the open infrastructure of the internet and provide harmonious, trustworthy, and transparent integrated services for end-users and applications. iVCE can also provide Cloud services by a dynamic combination of data centers and other multi-scale computing resources on the Internet.
The aim of the iVCE series of workshops is to provide a forum for academics as well as practitioners to share their experience, leverage each other's perspectives, and discuss emerging "hot" trends in this challenging area. The five preceding conferences were held in 2009 (Shenzhen China), 2010 (Shanghai China), 2011 (Hongkong), 2012 (Shenzhen, China), and 2013 (San Francisco, USA) respectively, and received overwhelming responses from academia as well as industry. Each conference publishes a proceeding with IEEE Computer Society Press.