CloudDP 2014 - Fourth International Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms

Processing of very large data sets requires a unique combination of data management and distributed systems engineering knowledge. The data management challenges include, among others, the development of new approaches and algorithms that can reduce the complexity of the data processing and allow incremental and continuous result production. Simultaneously, the sheer volume and velocity of the data require support of systems which can automatically and adaptively scale up and out in order to accommodate big data processing algorithms.
The focus of this workshop is on new cloud-based data management and processing systems which span tens of thousands of machines in order to support processing of contemporary, very large data sets. Such systems require new architectures, programming models and designs that go beyond approaches used in fixed-sized compute clusters. The focus of such systems is to support the work of users who interactively explore and analyze large and quickly changing data sets, in real-time. The right platforms and techniques can simplify and accelerate the design, implementation, and execution of new "big data" applications.
In the past, data processing in the cloud has been dominated by batch processing paradigms such as MapReduce, but increasingly users seek to consume their results in near real-time. In order to efficiently support these new types of applications, it is necessary to overcome challenges when supporting adaptive, near real-time processing of data in cloud environments. Ultimately, adaptive low-latency data processing across large number of machines brings a new set of problems related to systems, distributed systems, networking, fault-tolerance, and data management research.
The specific topics of interest for the workshop are:
Fault tolerance
Vertical and horizontal scalability
Elasticity and adaptive scheduling
Resource allocation and provisioning
Predictability in cloud environments
Multi-tenancy and virtualization
Elastic storage and networking
Adaptive data management
New processing paradigms
Programming models
Important Dates
Paper Submission deadline: January 31, 2014
Notification of acceptance: February 24, 2014
Camera-ready deadline: TBA
Workshop: April 13, 2014
Submissions
Paper submissions may not exceed 6 pages double column, including everything, i.e., figures, tables, references, appendices, etc.
All submissions should use a 10pt font by specifying documentclass[10pt,twocolumn]{sigplanconf}. Papers must be formatted according to the ACM SIGPLAN style, for which templates are available for both LaTeX and Word.
Papers must be submitted through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudd...
Accepted papers will be published as part of the ACM Digital Library.
Program and Keynote
Program
A detailed CloudDP 2014 program will be announced at the end of February 2014.
Keynote
The keynote will be given by Minos Garofalakis, Professor of Computer Science at the School of ECE of the Technical University of Crete in Chania, Greece, and the Director of the Software Technology and Network Applications Laboratory (SoftNet). Prof. Garofalakis currently serves as an Editorial Board Member for Foundations and Trends in Databases and the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), and as an Associate Editor for Statistical Analysis and Data Mining (SAM) and Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS).
Prof. Garofalakis' research interests include database systems, centralized/distributed data streams, data synopses and approximate query processing, uncertain databases, and big-data analytics and data mining. He has published over 120 scientific papers in these areas, including 63 papers in top-tier international conferences and 32 papers in international journals. He received the 2009 IEEE ICDE Best Paper Award for his paper "Histograms and Wavelets on Probabilistic Data" (with G. Cormode, AT&T-Labs), and 8 of his SIGMOD/PODS/VLDB papers have been invited to journal special issues (ranking in the top 3-5 papers of their respective conferences).
Workshop Venue
The CloudDP 2014 workshop is co-located with the EuroSys 2014 conference and will be held in the main building of the VU University Amsterdam. Please refer to the EuroSys 2014 local information pages for details about the venue and accommodation. The exact location of the workshop will be announced early March 2014.
Organization
Workshop Organizers and Program Chairs:
Zbigniew Jerzak (SAP AG, Germany)
Etienne Rivière (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Luis Veiga (Técnico Lisboa - ULisboa / INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal)
Technical Program Committee:
Roberto Baldoni (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
Paulo Ferreira (INESC ID, Portugal)
Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden, Germany)
Pascal Felber (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon, USA)
Guillaume Pierre (Université de Rennes 1, France)
Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London, UK)
Marco Serafini (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Marc Shapiro (INRIA and LIP6, France)
Contact:
Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers (clouddp14.chairs-AT-unine.ch) if you have any questions.