doa 2010 - The 12th International Symposium on Distributed Objects, Middleware, and Applications (DOA'10)

The 12th International Symposium on Distributed Objects, Middleware, and Applications (DOA'10)

Crete, Greece, Oct 25 - 27, 2010

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

Chaired by:

Ernesto Damiani, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA

Call for papers DOA 2010

Distributed computation is undergoing a radical paradigm shift, where users and developers alike are becoming fully decoupled from the technology infrastructure where their applications are executed. Computations details are abstracted by an increasingly deep virtualization layer, veiling distributed execution by means of the same "cloud" that supports it. Together, the notion of Cloud Computing and the related one of service-orientation are enabling new business models based on the seamless provision of dynamically scalable, virtualized resources as services made available “over the cloud”, to be accessed via a web browser.

For this vision to come true, a number of problems need to be solved, involving the nuts-and-bolts of virtualization as well as the reliability, scalability, security and distribution transparency of cloud-based computations, and the abstractions leading their development (e.g. service composition versus on-line architectural transformations). Along with the rapid evolution of these fields, the Cloud vision requires a huge research and development effort in the underlying technologies, whose advances will broaden the scope of the Cloud's applicability.

DOA 2010 will investigate all issues related to the potential of the Cloud notion as a metaphor for the future Internet Services, providing semantically rich service descriptions and seamless interfaces to (virtual images of) locally held devices and other technologies such as the traditional Web, distributed datacenters and peer-to-peer systems.

Research & Practice

Besides posing a number of fundamental research problems, the notion of Cloud has suggested many new opportunities for creating value. Indeed, a crucial claim of Cloud Computing is that it will create an entirely new value chain with respect to the one of traditional software development. According to this claim, new value will be continuously built along the Cloud value chain by smooth resource sharing among service consumers, brokers, and vendors. Sharing will provide opportunities for virtual hardware management at the infrastructure level, for middleware-as-a-service at the middleware level and for hosting business applications on the cloud at the application level.

DOA explicitly intends to provide a forum to foster these new opportunities via exchange of ideas among researchers interested in all different aspects of Cloud-enabled value creation. Submissions are therefore welcomed along two dimensions: research (virtualization fundamentals, cloud principles, models, and algorithms) and practice (cloud applications, case studies, and lessons learned).

Contributions attempting to bridge the gap between these two dimensions are particularly encouraged. We are fully aware of the differences between academic and industrial research and development; therefore, DOA submissions will be carefully reviewed not only for scientific rigor (in the case of "academic research" papers), but also for their originality and relevance (in the case of "case study" papers).

About DOA

DOA 2010 is part of a joint event that (OnTheMove) co-locates three related and complementary conferences in the areas of networked information systems, covering key issues in distributed infrastructures and enabling technologies (DOA), data and Web semantics (ODBASE), and cooperative information systems (CoopIS). This year, the conferences will cover three strictly interrelated themes: Cloud Computing Infrastructures, The Internet of Things or Cyberphysical Systems, and (Semantic) Web 2.0 and Social Computing for the Enterprise Also, OTM includes a number of Workshops. More details about this federated event can be found a http://www.onthemove-conferences.org

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of this symposium include, but are not limited to:

? Virtualized Computing Infrastructures
? Service-Oriented Architecture on Clouds
? Datacenter Architecture and Management
? Distributed Computing technologies
? Cloud Security and Privacy
? Cloud Models and Development Tools
? Cloud Operation and Resource Management
? Cloud Performance Modeling and Benchmarks
? Cloud Business Applications and Case Studies
? Content distribution on Internet Clouds
? Reliability, fault tolerance, quality-of-service support
? Formal methods and tools for Cloud computing
? Interoperability with other technologies

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: Jun 14
Acceptance Notification: Aug 2
Camera Ready Due: Aug 13
Registration Due: Sep 3
OTM Conferences: October 25 - 29, 2010
DOA Conference: Oct 25-27