PCOMSC 2012 - Workshop on Policies for Configuring and Operating Management Services in a Cloud

Cloud computing envisions that services, platforms and computing resources can be provided, on-demand, in a self-service fashion by a set of cooperating and/or competing providers to clients over the Internet. The emergence of cloud computing stems from the availability of numerous, massive data centers, improvements in virtualization technologies and the availability and abundance of high speed networks.

Challenges for the cloud computing provider include the following: (i) Manage resources allocated to clients based on client requirements; and (ii) Manage the allocation of resources among clients. This requires that management software be given as inputs both the client management requirements and the provider management requirements in order to make effective decisions. This can be done through the use of policies. For large-scale systems, it must be possible to take policies in machine-readable form and use these policies to configure management services. There are many challenges e.g., policy conflict (detection, avoidance,resolution), mapping process. Furthermore, policies are needed to support multiple management dimensions including security, privacy, pricing, performance, availability, resilience, energy, etc.

This workshop will address challenges with realizing operational policies in a cloud-based system.

Related Topics

Researchers interested in cloud computing, adaptive / autonomic systems, and policy-based management will find this an interesting workshop. It impacts and involves the following suggested topics:

Autonomic Computing
Software Engineering for Cloud Computing
Service Level Agreements and Scheduling
Tools and Environments
Cloud Integration
Content Distribution Networks
Peer-2-Peer Technologies
Workflow Tools and Applications
Programming Models
Energy Management in Data Centers
Cloud Computing
Submissions

We invite the submission of original, unpublished research (including position papers) that is not currently under review elsewhere to be submitted electronically in PDF format to EasyChair by the submission deadline (i.e., Monday, January 9, 2012). The submitted manuscript must be structured as a technical paper in accordance with IEEE format for conference proceedings and be no more than six letter size (8.5 X 11) pages in length. Please be aware that this page limit includes all figures, tables and references. The official language of this meeting is English. Papers that do not meet the formatting guidelines, structure and/or that are submitted after the deadline will be ignored (at the discretion of the workshop chairs). Further, should it be deemed appropriate (e.g., in the case of plagiarism) further sanction(s) may be applied (e.g., notification of the head of the submitter's institution and/or the conference sponsors). Submissions will be judged on their veracity, uniqueness, technical merit, presentation and perceived alignment with the workshop's themes. For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the workshop (failure to attend will result in the paper being removed from the proceedings). All workshop participants must pay the conference fee. The workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA in the same volume as the main conference proceedings.
Organizing Committee

Hanan Lutfiyya, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Bradley Simmons, York University, Canada
Technical Program Committee

Pat Martin, Queen's University, Canada
Vladimir Tosic, National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia
Hiroshi Otsuka, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan
Mike Smit, York University, Canada
Vitalian A. Danciu, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Steven Latré, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Monday, January 9, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, February 6, 2012
Camera Ready Deadline: Monday, February 20, 2012