HotTopiCS 2014 - International Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud service Scalability (HotTopiCS 2014)

http://icpe2014.ipd.kit.edu/International Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud service Scalability (HotTopiCS 2014)
March 22, 2014
Software services are becoming more and more important and intertwined with our daily activities. With the growing complexity of software services and their unpredictably increasing workload, the scalability of these services becomes more and more critical. A scalable service’s implementation can sustain increasing work or load by consuming more hardware resources, as well as releasing hardware resources with decreasing work or load, all while fulfilling its SLAs.
The focus of this workshop is on service scalability: the mapping between a service’s work and load and its resulting resource consumption. Even more than performance, scalability is deeply rooted in the service’s architecture and high-level design. In this workshop, we will look at software service scalability from different angles. Scalability is relevant in conventional architectures but even more in cloud computing. Both modelling and analyses of scalability or its related properties like elasticity or efficiency as well as measurements to quantify scalability, elasticity or efficiency are relevant topics for the workshop.
Hot Topics in Cloud services Scalability provides a platform for academics and industrial practitioners to exchange novel research ideas and current problems from practice and to identify new and "hot" topics in the field of software service scalability. As indicated by the co-location with ICPE, we are particularly interested in work tackling performance- or scalability-related problems (understood in a very broad sense), but other work related to the creation and management of scalable service-based cloud applications (e.g., from an economic perspective) are equally welcome.
Core topics of interest include:
Scalability, elasticity and efficiency concepts, definitions, metrics and modelling
Scalability patterns and anti-patterns
Software architectures for scalability
Design of scalable services
Quantifying and measuring scalability
Benchmarking of scalability
Scalability requirements engineering
SLAs for scalable services
Scalability tools
Scalability case studies
Scalability for big data
Scalability for cloud services
Related topics of interest include, especially if there is a clear connection to scalability, elasticity and efficiency (but are not limited to) the following areas:
Cloud computing, including economic modelling of them
Energy efficient computing
Multi-tenancy
Workload characterisation and reproducibility
Mobile services
Autonomic architectures
Resource management
Virtualisation platforms
Storage architectures
Network architectures
Submission Format, Publication
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. Duplicate submissions will be rejected without review. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. Only the accepted and presented papers will be included in the Workshop Proceedings which will be published by ACM in the ACM Digital Library.
Papers should be up to 8 pages in the standard ACM format for conference proceedings and must be written in English. We explicitly invite work-in-progress papers as well as position or vision papers. Papers can be submitted through EasyChair until the deadline.
Keynote
More details will be posted here soon.
Important Dates
Submission of abstracts: February 3rd, 2014
Submission of papers: February 10th, 2014
Notification of acceptance: February 28th, 2014
Workshop: March 22, 2014
Programme Committee
Luca Berardinelli, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Andre Bondi, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., USA
Thomas Bures, Carles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Radu Calinescu, University og York, UK
Paolo Cremonesi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Lucia Happe, University Karlsruhe, Germany
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany
Darko Huljenic, Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d., Croatia
Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Arnor Solberg, SINTEF ICT Oslo, Norway
Michael Stal, Siemens AG, Germany
Alexander Wolf, Imperial College London, UK
Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Yagiz Onat Yazir, University of Victoria, Canada
Workshop Co-Organisers
Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn, Germany
Gunnar Brataas, Sintef Trondheim, Norway
Roozbeh Farahbod, SAP, Germanyconference_workshops/hottopics2014/