== Call for Papers == ======> UCC 2013 <====== 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing December 9-12, 2013, Dresden, Germany http://ucc2013.inf.tu-dresden.de/ Context and Scope ----------------- Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as services that are commoditised and delivered as in traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. High Utility with Cloud services can already be achieved for compute, storage and communication resources but also for hosted software and data. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these model could be used to provide utility for both users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers will also be of interest for this conference. This will be the 6th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), and Chicago, USA (UCC 2012). UCC 2013 happens while cloud providers world-wide add new services and increase utility at a high pace and is therefore of high relevance for both academic and industrial research. Topics of Interest ------------------ Submissions are invited on the following themes as well as additional interesting related topics: • Principles and foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models • Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds • Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated • Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services on all layers (XaaS) • Virtualisation technologies and other enablers • Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces • Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring • Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business • Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds • Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility contexts Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through EasyChair. Manuscripts may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Important Dates --------------- Paper Submissions Due: 19 July 2013 ** extended: 1 August 2013 ** Notification of Acceptance: 30 August 2013 ** extended: 12 September 2013 ** Camera-ready Papers Due: 27 September 2013 Keynote Speakers ---------------- The conference will feature the following keynote speakers: Professor Christof Weinhardt (Karlsruhe Services Research Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Germany Professor Ian Sommerville (University of St. Andrews), UK Journal Special Issue --------------------- IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) is organising a Special Issue which encourages submission of revised and extended versions of 2-3 best papers (based on votes of a panel) in the area of Cloud Computing from our conference. The special issue also seeks direct submission of papers that present 'new' ideas for the first time in TCC. All papers will be peer-reviewed and selected competitively based on their originality and merit as per requirement of TCC. All queries on this special issue should be directed to its guest editors. Details on this special issue will be informed about in a separate Call for Papers. Workshops --------- We encourage high quality workshops from the community, which relate to one or more of the topics identified above. Individuals interested in organising a workshop are encouraged to consult the separate Call for Workshops. Venue ----- UCC 2013 will take place in the Dorint Hotel Dresden, in the centre of the lively capital of Saxony. Dresden comprises much more than the historic center with the ‘Semperoper’ opera house and the ‘Frauenkirche’ church. Dotted along the approximately 30 km long stretch of the Elbe River which runs through the city, we find many treasures: castles, villas, vineyards, historic funiculars, steam paddle boats that are up to 130 years old. During the conference week, the 579th annual Striezelmarkt will welcome all conference participants for a unique artesanal and culinary experience. Chairs and Committees --------------------- Conference Co-Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Alexander Schill, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Programme Committee Co-Chairs: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs: Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Francisco Brasileiro, Univ. Fed. de Campina Grande, Brazil Poster Session Chair: Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Industry Chair: Wolfgang Gentzsch, HPC Consultant, Germany Organising Chair: Josef Spillner, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Programme Committee ------------------- Thar Baker, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Marcos Dias De Assuncao, IBM Research, Brazil David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Karim Djemame, University of Leeds, UK Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Holland Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Dongwan Shin, New Mexico Tech, USA Kyle Chard, Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA Arun, Agarwal, University of Hyderabad, India Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Robert Van Engelen, Florida State University, USA Erik Elmroth, Umeå University, Sweden Carlos Hernandez, Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS), Colombia Viraj Bhat, Yahoo! Research, USA Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM, USA Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Siani Pearson, HP Labs, USA Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA Xinghui Zhao, Washington State University, USA Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Madhusudhan Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton, USA Bo Hong, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Saurabh Kumar Garg, University of Melbourne, Australia David Walker, Cardiff University, UK Rodrigo N. Calheiros, University of Melbourne, Australia Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Bharadwaj Veeravalli, NUS, Singapore Thenalapadi S. Mohan, Infosys Technologies Ltd, India Jorn Altmann, Seoul National University, South Korea Kyong Hoon Kim, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea Xiaorong Li, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore CL Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Peter Van Roy, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Kenneth Johnson, University of York, UK Jose Fortes, University of Florida, USA Cecile Germain, LRI, France Bastian Koller, HLRS, University of Stuttgart, Germany Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA David Anderson, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, USA Zheng Qin, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Wei-Jen Wang, National Central University, Taiwan Travis Desell, University of North Dakota, USA Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Göttingen, Germany Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Srikumar Venugopal, University of New South Wales, Australia Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute, USA Jinesh Varia, Amazon Web Services, USA Paolo Ciancarini, Università di Bologna, Italy Harold Castro, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Paul Watson, Newcastle University, UK Sangmi Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Holland Rajdeep Bhowmik, Cisco Systems, USA K Chandrasekaran, NIT Karnataka, India