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[HTCondor-users] Call for Papers: IEEE International Workshop on Cloud Analytics (IWCA, 2014)



CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE International Workshop on Cloud Analytics (IWCA, 2014)
(http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich/IWCA-1/), March 11, Boston, USA, 2014

in conjunction with

International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E, 2014)
(http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2014/) Boston, USA, March 11-14, 2014


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Deadlines

Paper submission due: November 24, 2013
Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2013
Final camera-ready papers due: January 17, 2014

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Description

Cloud computing promises unlimited, cost-effective and agile computing resources for users.
However, this new computing paradigm also poses a unique set of challenges to both cloud
providers and users. On the one hand, cloud providers need to ensure that resources being
provided are highly available and deliver high performance, while optimizing cloud infrastructure
 to reduce their operational costs. On the other hand, cloud users need to ensure that their
applications receive the best performance from the cloud, while maintaining their budgetary
constraints and the terms of any Service Level Agreements (SLAs) they have with their cloud
providers.

Given the scale of cloud deployment, systematic analytical approaches are critically needed to
provide insights to both providers and users to achieve their respective goals. For instance,
cloud providers need to constantly be aware of the running status and/or anomalies in
functionality from their cloud, to be able to quickly fix any issues that may arise, to adjust
physical resource allocations to ensure that their customers get best performance, or plan which
services to offer to get the best return on investment. Similarly, cloud users need to understand
 the workload to be deployed into the cloud, plan the deployment in a cost-effective way, or
ascertain the flexibility and service quality provided by different cloud environments and use
this to decide their deployment strategy. Analytics can play a pivotal role in all these scenarios.
By gathering insights from the large amount of data from the cloud, both cloud providers and
consumers can develop analytical approaches to achieving their respective objectives in spite
of the scale that clouds provide.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers in the related fields to
exchange ideas, and share their experiences in developing analytics to better deploy, operate
and use the cloud. Specifically, we seek and wish to foster research contributions that draw on
statistical analysis, analytical modeling, and machine learning to develop novel solutions in
this problem area.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cloud workload measurement and analysis
• Workload behavior modeling
• Analytics for application deployment in cloud
• Performance modeling of cloud applications
• Cloud performance benchmarking
• Resource utilization optimization
• Tracing and problem identification in cloud systems
• Log and monitoring data analysis
• Problem diagnosis and troubleshooting
• Security and intrusion detection
• Reliability engineering, fault management, and disaster recovery
• Design and implementation of analytics systems
• Business optimization in cloud operations


Organizers

Co-Chairs:
Shu Tao (IBM T J Watson Research)
Rich Wolski (UCSB)

Publicity Chair:
Rahul Singh (IBM T J Watson Research)

Program Committee (tentative)
Theophilus Benson (Duke University)
Yanpei Chen (Cloudera)
Yuan Chen (HP Labs)
David Irwin (UMass, Amherst)
Thilo Kielmann (VU University, Amsterdam)
Ningfang Mi (Northeastern University)
Lavanya Ramakrishnan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Prashant Shenoy (UMass, Amherst)
Christopher Charles Stewart (Ohio State University)
Evgenia Smirni (William and Mary)
Chunqiang Tang (Facebook)
Jon Weissman (University of Minnesota)
Timothy Wood (George Washington University)
Lydia Chen (IBM Zurich Research)