LADIS 2010 - The 4th ACM International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware

The 4th ACM International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware

(ACM sponsorship pending approval)

Zurich, Switzerland, 28-29 July 2010
Held in conjunction with PODC

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2010
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

LADIS 2010 will bring together researchers and practitioners in the

fields of distributed systems and middleware to discuss the

challenges of building massive distributed computing systems and

clouds. By posing research questions in the context of the largest

and most-demanding real-world systems, LADIS serves to catalyze

dialog between cloud computing engineers and scalable distributed

systems researchers, to open the veil of secrecy that has surrounded

many cloud computing architectures, and to increase the potential

impact of the best research underway in both the systems and theory

communities.

Due to the co-location with PODC, this year's LADIS will devote

special attention to promoting exchange of ideas between the theory

and systems communities on the topics related to design,

implementation, performance and underlying principles of large-scale

distributed systems and cloud computing.

This workshop invites work and promotes the exchange of ideas in the

following topics:

Consistency, reliability and fault-tolerance models for cloud computing infrastructures and the technologies to support them (e.g. convergent consistency, transactions, state-machine replication).
Novel storage organizations for large scale systems (e.g., no-SQL databases or key-value storage), snapshot and weak isolation models, scalable and elastic transaction approaches (e.g. mini-transactions), wide-area transactions.
Large-scale infrastructure technologies (e.g. Chubby, Paxos, Zookeeper, group membership services, distributed registries).
Support and programming models for scalable cloud-hosted applications and services (e.g. map-reduce, global file systems, pub-sub, multicast, group communication).
Power and other resource management tools (e.g. virtualization and consolidation, resource allocation, load balancing, resource placement, routing, scheduling).
Privacy tools and models (e.g. digital identity management, encrypting private data in the cloud, information flow in data centers).

Particular attention is given to challenges unique to the

large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing domains.

The workshop will last for a day and a half, which will include a

mix of presentation of accepted papers, and keynotes from prominent

academia and industry speakers who can talk about the architectures

of the world's most demanding cloud platforms. Invited speakers

include Norm Jouppi (HP Labs Fellow), Chet Murthy (IBM Research),

Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz (SAP), and Pablo Rodriguez (Scientific

Director at Telefonica), with others pending.

Previous LADIS keynote and invited speakers include Gennaro Cuomo

(CTO, IBM WebSphere), Jeff Dean (Google Fellow), James Hamilton

(technology guru for Microsoft's Cloud Computing initiative, now at

Amazon), David Nichols (Microsoft Windows Live), Raghu Ramakrishnan

(Yahoo! Fellow), Ben Reed (developer of Yahoo's Zookeeper), Marvin

Theimer (Principal Engineer at Amazon), Franco Travostino and Randy

Shoup (CTO and Chief Architect for eBay).

SUBMISSION AND LOGISTICS

To attend, you are invited to submit a position or short research

paper expressing new ideas, research directions, or relevant

opinions. Submissions consist of up to 5 pages using 11-point Times

Roman font, including title page with author names, and

bibliography. Submissions deviating from these guidelines will not

be reviewed. Submissions will be judged on originality, clarity,

relevance, and, above all, their likelihood of generating

discussion. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital

Library.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: (NEW) 10 May 2010

Notification: 24 June 2010

Camera-ready due: 12 July 2010

Workshop Date: 28-29 July 2010

GENERAL CHAIRS

Gregory Chockler, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel

Ymir Vigfusson, IBM Research, Haifa, Israel

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Marcos K. Aguilera, Microsoft Research, USA

Marc Shapiro, INRIA & LIP6, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Peter Dickman, Google, Switzerland

Danny Dolev, Hebrew U., Israel

Amr El Abbadi, UC Santa Barbara, USA

Alan Fekete, U. Sydney, Australia

Seth Gilbert, EPFL, Switzerland

Ricardo Jimenez Peris, U. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo Research, Spain

Dahlia Malkhi, Microsoft Research, USA

Christine Morin, IRISA, France

Yasushi Saito, Google, USA

Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley, USA