WATCC 2014 - International Workshop on Advanced Technologies of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing has many concerns from both industry and academia. A huge number of researches were proposed to provide users with flexible services with massive computing and storage resources in a transparent manner. However, there is some performance gap between cloud computing and the traditional HPC environments. Therefore, the performance of running the high performance applications in clouds comparing with the traditional HPC infrastructure should be a concern. In addition, in order to support high reliability service, the security, privacy and reliability provided by the services in the cloud must be well designed and established.
Since 2013, the Workshop on Advanced Technologies of Cloud Computing merges the two workshops, namely, CloudSec and CloudTech-HPC, into one. The workshop involves the novel system architecture construction and design, tuning of software environment, theoretical analysis, emerging applications, experimental studies, construction of mathematical models and numerical solution techniques for solving scientific, social scientific, engineering problems, and social impacts of Cloud Computing.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in cloud technologies for high performance computing and the latest developments and technical solutions concerning various aspects of security issues in Cloud Computing. The workshop also welcomes short papers related to Security in Cloud Computing, which summarize speculative breakthroughs, work-in-progress, industry featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop.
Workshop Scope:
This workshop provides a forum, with paper presentations for researchers, practitioners and users to exchange ideas and to share experiences in order to lay the foundations for cloud technologies in high performance computing and security in cloud computing. All papers related to cloud technologies for high performance computing and security in cloud computing are welcome. We cordially invite presenters to submit manuscripts for any application domain as long as the core of the manuscript belongs to, but not limited to, the following topics:
Cloud technologies in high performance computing
Virtualization techniques for HPC clusters
Virtualization techniques for GPU and multicore systems
Performance evaluation of HPC clouds
HPC Cloud-based services and applications
Scalable fault resilience techniques for HPC clouds
Scalable scheduling for HPC clouds
Programming models for HPC clouds
Load balancing for HPC clouds
Resource provisioning for HPC clouds
Optimal deployment configuration for HPC clouds
Middleware frameworks for HPC clouds
Auditing and monitoring for HPC clouds
HPC cloud infrastructure
Modeling, and Optimizations
I/O of HPC applications
Remote Visualization
Database in cloud computing
Security in cloud computing
Security model for new services
Security in Cloud-aware web service
Information hiding/encryption in Cloud Computing
Copyright protection in the Cloud
Securing distributed data storage in cloud
Privacy and security in Cloud Computing
Forensics in Cloud environments
Robust network architecture
Cloud Infrastructure Security
Intrusion detection/prevention
Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and defense
Robust job scheduling
Secure resource allocation and indexing
Secure payment for Cloud-aware services
User authentication in Cloud-aware services
Non-Repudiation solutions in the Cloud
Security for emerging Cloud programming models
Performance evaluation for security solutions
Testbed/Simulators for Cloud security research
Detection and prevention of hardware Trojans
Security hardware, i.e. hardware for encryption, etc.
Papers submission
"The published papers will be available at the conference in CD format, and will be submitted to the IEEE CS Digital Library."
Paper submissions should be IEEE standard double-column formatted with a font size 10 pt or larger. Each paper is strictly limited to 10 pages in length. Submissions should represent original, substantive research results.