*** Cloud Challenge 2015 *** 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2015)
December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://uccchallenge.cs.cf.ac.uk *** DEADLINE: 10 September, 2015 *** CALL FOR PROPOSALS Cloud Challenge is a competition where participants develop solutions by utilizing virtualization technologies and Cloud computing. Proposals may range from exploratory approaches to real-world problems benefiting from private, public, or hybrid Clouds. This year, we especially encourage proposals based on the application of lightweight approaches to virtualisation, such as containers. Nowadays, a wide range of Cloud technologies such as Docker, OpenStack, Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure are available as well as Cloud paradigms, such as Map/Reduce. We invite the submission of proposals related to various aspects of Cloud computing elucidating novel approaches for extending features of technologies and/or for advancing paradigms. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: · Usability for developers of Cloud solutions · Energy consumption · Checkpointing container-based applications · Distributed container repositories or app stores · Repository technologies · Sharing of technologies and data · Data management in Clouds · Security in Clouds · Hybrid clouds, where approaches offload to public clouds when data centers cannot support application · The use of containers used to provide portability between different cloud providers and environments · Virtual appliance or container selection, based on pricing and/or energy consumption and/or any other metric applicable to the application or scenario at hand The competitors should outline the nature of the problem that might range from business, science to socio-lifestyle applications. Two categories of proposals are invited. The first one addresses approaches, which have been implemented and authors should present the methodology used to solve the problem and the means of validation of the solution. The competitors must also be able to demonstrate their approach at UCC 2015, if selected, using an appropriate means e.g. a live demo, a simulation, emulation, or similar. The second category asks for cutting-edge future work and the design of the solution. The competitors must be able to present intended use cases and a well-designed architecture.
From each category of those proposals, finalists will be selected to present
their work at the conference, including a demonstration of the system or software for the first category. The judges will award a first prize winner per category at the conference. FORMAT OF PROPOSALS Proposals may be up to 6 pages long in the standard IEEE paper format for the first category of accomplished work and 2-4 pages long in the standard IEEE paper format for the second category. The following information reflects a rough outline for proposals: · Precise definition of several qualitative and/or quantitative metrics that will be utilized to measure the efficacy of the Cloud solution, e.g., energy consumption, level of software maintenance, performance, or scalability. · The software and hardware systems used/intended to be used to address the problem. · An analysis of the impact, significance, and novelty of the solution. Proposals will be reviewed according to the criteria listed above and should present unpublished work that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. At least one member from each selected team is expected to give a technical talk, to provide a demonstration of the system for the first category, and answer questions posed by the judges. PUBLICATION Proposals selected for the presentation will be included in the proceedings of the conference as short papers. SUBMISSION Cloud challenge 2015 proposals can be submitted at the conference submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uccchallenge2015 IMPORTANT DATES · Proposal papers for the first category due: 31 July, 2015 · Finalists for the first category selected: 31 August, 2015 · Proposal papers for the second category due: 10 September, 2015 · Finalists for the second category selected: 17 September, 2015 · Camera ready proposal papers due: 21 September, 2015 CHAIRS Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA COMMITTEE Adam Barker, University of St. Andrews, UK Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Andrew Harrison, MedeAnalytics, USA/UK Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Dagmar Krefting, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy Cezary Mazurek, PSNC, Poznan, Poland Chris Smith, Distributed Bio Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Matthew Turk, NCSA, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [annou...@cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email.
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