== Call for Participation == ========> UCC 2013 <======== 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing December 9-12, 2013, Dresden, Germany http://ucc2013.inf.tu-dresden.de/ Preliminary programme: http://ucc2013.inf.tu-dresden.de/programme.html Registration: http://ucc2013.inf.tu-dresden.de/registration.html 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. Conference and Workshop Programme --------------------------------- Keynote Speakers: Christof Weinhardt (KSRI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Germany Ian Sommerville (University of St. Andrews), UK Erik Elmroth (Umeå University, HPC2N), Sweden Rick McGeer (HP Labs / HP Enterprise Services), USA - cross-workshop keynote supported by DCC'13 Co-Located Workshops: 4th International Workshop on Green and Cloud Management (GCM'13) 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC'13) 2nd International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Application Management (CloudAM'13) 1st International Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing (DCC'13) 1st International Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Gamification in the Cloud (CGCloud'13) Tutorials: Elastic and Fault Tolerant Event Stream Processing using StreamMine3G Hands on Introduction to Amazon Web Services Resource Management in Cloud Computing Technical Programme: More than 40 conference and 35 workshop presentations in two tracks Poster session, workshop posters/demos corner Industry talks by IBM, Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange and others Panel discussion moderated by Wolfgang Gentzsch 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, Universidade Federal 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