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Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ----=BOUNDARY_4301656_AHFN_IGQJ_QUYK_PAHD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *** Last Call for Workshop Proposals *** 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2015) December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus Co-located with the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing (BDC 2015) http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015 *** Deadline for submitting workshop proposals: May 8th *** CONTEXT AND SCOPE Cloud Computing delivers computational resources on-demand as services that are commoditized and delivered analogous to traditional utilities such= as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute, storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data are growing at a tremendous rate, and it is essential to understand how to effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to b= oth users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing fie= ld. UCC 2015, to be held in Cyprus, will happen as Cloud providers worldwide add new services and increase Cloud utility at an accelerated pace, and Clo= ud service users explore new usage modes. This will be the 8th 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), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC2013), and London, UK (UCC 2014). TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include but are not limited to: =B7 Big Data and Analytics =B7 Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models =B7 Policy languages and Programming models =B7 Utility driven model and mechanisms for Cloud federations =B7 Autonomic techniques for Clouds and Cloud applications =B7 Utility-driven platforms for Clouds =B7 Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds =B7 Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated =B7 Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) =B7 Virtualization technologies and other enablers =B7 Economic models and scenarios of use =B7 Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces =B7 Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring =B7 Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business =B7 Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds =B7 Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction, especially in Utility contexts WORKSHOP PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS Proposals for workshops should be no more than 2 pages in length and should contain the following information: =B7 Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the g= oals and the technical issues that will be the focus of the workshop. =B7 A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. =B7 A list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3 years,= or to be held in 2015. =B7 The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed technical program committee. This committee should consist of at least 10 people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed and preferably not more than two members of the same institution. =B7 A description of the qualifications of the organizers (who would be the Workshop Chairs) with respect to organizing this workshop. This can include papers published in the proposed topic area, previous workshop organization, and other relevant information. =B7 Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format by email to the workshop chairs by the 8th of May, 2015. RESPONSIBILITIES Workshop chair(s) will be responsible for the following: =B7 Producing a web page and a "Call for Papers/Participation" for their workshop. The URL should be sent to the UCC Workshops chairs. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the Cloud, Big Data, Grid and Cluster Computing community. It should mention that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and that all workshop participants must pay the UCC 2015 workshop day or conference registration fee. The CfP should make it clear that the registration of at least one author requires the full (non-student, non- workshop) rate. =B7 Ensure that all workshop papers are a maximum of 6 pages in length (in IEEE format). It is the responsibility of the workshop organizers to ens= ure that this page limit has been adhered to. Additional pages may be purchased (in some circumstances) subject to approval by the proceedings chairs. =B7 Provide a brief description of the workshop for the conference web page and program. =B7 Selecting the participants and the format of the workshop. The publicat= ion of proceedings will be by the IEEE in the same volume as the main conference. The acceptance notification (by workshop chairs) therefore should be the same as the conference paper acceptance notification (i.e.= the dates should be the same). All other details can be up to workshop organizers to set. =B7 Advertising the workshop beyond the conference web page. =B7 Assistance in producing a camera-ready version of the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT NOTE If the workshop is too small (i.e. does not attract enough submissions) the UCC 2015 Organizing Committee may decide to merge that workshop with another. So we encourage workshop organizers to attract a large community. In extreme situations we may also cancel workshops if there are not enough submissions. Workshop organizers must ensure that suitable quality measures have been taken to ensure that the accepted papers are of high quality. All papers mu= st be reviewed by an International Technical Program Committee with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper. The workshop organizers should also try to observe an acceptance rate that is no higher than 50%. Unless indicated on the UCC website, there will be no travel support and no registration discounts for authors and organizers. Workshops are not automatically endorsed by IEEE or ACM and should not use the names of these organisations in their titles. The UCC 2015 Conference Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following: =B7 Providing a link to a workshop's local page. =B7 Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop. =B7 In conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time. =B7 Providing copies of the workshop proceedings to attendees. IMPORTANT DATES =B7 Workshop proposals due: 08 May, 2015 =B7 Notification of workshop proposals: 22 May 2015 COMMITTEES General Chairs =B7 Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK =B7 George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Program Committee Chairs =B7 Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA (parashar AT rutgers.edu) =B7 Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK (ranaof AT cardiff.ac.uk) Standards/Plug-fest Chair =B7 Alan Sill, Texas Tech, USA & Open Grid Forum Workshops Chairs =B7 Ilkay Altintas, SDSC, USA (altintas AT sdsc.edu) =B7 Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany (josef.spillner AT tu-dresden.de) Tutorials Chairs =B7 Ewa Deelman, USC, USA (deelman AT isi.edu) =B7 Rafael Tolosana, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt AT unizar.es) Posters Chair =B7 Khalid Elgazzar, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada PhD Symposium Chair =B7 Kenneth Johnson, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Cloud Challenge 2015 Chair =B7 Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Industry Chair =B7 Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Proceedings Chairs =B7 Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK =B7 George Palis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Chair =B7 Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015/?page_id=3D281 -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. ----=BOUNDARY_4301656_AHFN_IGQJ_QUYK_PAHD Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable HTML Message
*** Last Call for Workshop Propo= sals ***

8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cl= oud
Computing (UCC 2015)

December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort= , Limassol, Cyprus

Co-located with the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Co= nference
on Big Data Computing (BDC 2015)

http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015

*** Deadline for submitting workshop pro= posals: May 8th ***


CONTEXT AND SCOPE

Cloud Computing del= ivers computational resources on-demand as services
that are commoditize= d and delivered analogous to traditional utilities such as
electricity, = gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute,
storage a= nd communication resources as well as for hosted software and data
are g= rowing at a tremendous rate, and it is essential to understand how to
ef= fectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to bot= h
users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial=
providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they=
offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility = for
users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an a= rea of
active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering = all areas
related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an intern= ational forum
for leading researchers and practitioners in this importan= t and growing field.
UCC 2015, to be held in Cyprus, will happen as Clou= d providers worldwide
add new services and increase Cloud utility at an = accelerated pace, and Cloud
service users explore new usage modes.
This will be the 8th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous even= ts
were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Clou= d 2010
& UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 201= 2), Dresden,
Germany (UCC2013), and London, UK (UCC 2014).


TO= PICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<= br>
• Big Data and Analytics

• Principles and theoretic= al foundations of Utility Computing, including
pricing and service mo= dels

• Policy languages and Programming models

• Ut= ility driven model and mechanisms for Cloud federations

• Auton= omic techniques for Clouds and Cloud applications

• Utility-dri= ven platforms for Clouds

• Architectural models to achieve Util= ity in Clouds

• Designs and deployment models for Clouds: priva= te, public, hybrid,
federated, aggregated

• Cloud Computi= ng middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and
services at all = layers (XaaS)

• Virtualization technologies and other enablers<= br>
• Economic models and scenarios of use

• Scalabilit= y and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity
planning, = parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces

• Cloud man= agement: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance
models and mo= nitoring

• Applications: games, social networks, scientific com= puting (e-science)
and business

• Mobile and energy-effic= ient use of Clouds

• Beyond technology: Cloud business and lega= l implications, such as
security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction, es= pecially in Utility contexts


WORKSHOP PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS
<= br>Proposals for workshops should be no more than 2 pages in length and
= should contain the following information:

• Title and brief tec= hnical description of the workshop, specifying the goals
and the tech= nical issues that will be the focus of the workshop.

• A brief = description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.

• A= list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3 years, or t= o
be held in 2015.

• The names and contact information (w= eb page, email address) of the
proposed technical program committee. = This committee should consist
of at least 10 people knowledgeable abo= ut the technical issues to be
addressed and preferably not more than = two members of the same
institution.

• A description of t= he qualifications of the organizers (who would be the
Workshop Chairs= ) with respect to organizing this workshop. This can
include papers p= ublished in the proposed topic area, previous workshop
organization, = and other relevant information.

• Workshop proposals should be = submitted in PDF format by email to the
workshop chairs by the 8th of= May, 2015.


RESPONSIBILITIES

Workshop chair(s) will be re= sponsible for the following:

• Producing a web page and a "Call= for Papers/Participation" for their
workshop. The URL should be sent= to the UCC Workshops chairs. The call
must make it clear that the wo= rkshop is open to all members of the Cloud,
Big Data, Grid and Cluste= r Computing community. It should mention that
at least one author of = each accepted submission must attend the workshop
and that all worksh= op participants must pay the UCC 2015 workshop
day or conference regi= stration fee. The CfP should make it clear that the
registration of a= t least one author requires the full (non-student, non-
workshop) rat= e.

• Ensure that all workshop papers are a maximum of 6 pages i= n length (in
IEEE format). It is the responsibility of the workshop o= rganizers to ensure
that this page limit has been adhered to. Additio= nal pages may be
purchased (in some circumstances) subject to approva= l by the proceedings
chairs.

• Provide a brief descriptio= n of the workshop for the conference web page
and program.

= 49; Selecting the participants and the format of the workshop. The publicat= ion
of proceedings will be by the IEEE in the same volume as the main=
conference. The acceptance notification (by workshop chairs) therefo= re
should be the same as the conference paper acceptance notification= (i.e. the
dates should be the same). All other details can be up to = workshop
organizers to set.

• Advertising the workshop be= yond the conference web page.

• Assistance in producing a camer= a-ready version of the workshop
proceedings.


IMPORTANT NOT= E

If the workshop is too small (i.e. does not attract enough submiss= ions) the
UCC 2015 Organizing Committee may decide to merge that worksho= p with
another. So we encourage workshop organizers to attract a large c= ommunity.
In extreme situations we may also cancel workshops if there ar= e not enough
submissions.

Workshop organizers must ensure that su= itable quality measures have been
taken to ensure that the accepted pape= rs are of high quality. All papers must
be reviewed by an International = Technical Program Committee with a
minimum of 3 reviews per paper. The w= orkshop organizers should also try
to observe an acceptance rate that is= no higher than 50%.

Unless indicated on the UCC website, there will= be no travel support and
no registration discounts for authors and orga= nizers.

Workshops are not automatically endorsed by IEEE or ACM and = should not
use the names of these organisations in their titles.

= The UCC 2015 Conference Organizing Committee will be responsible for thefollowing:

• Providing a link to a workshop's local page.
<= br>• Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop.=

• In conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop= date and
time.

• Providing copies of the workshop procee= dings to attendees.


IMPORTANT DATES

• Workshop propo= sals due: 08 May, 2015
• Notification of workshop proposals: 22 May= 2015


COMMITTEES

General Chairs

• Ashiq Anjum= , University of Derby, UK
• George Papadopoulos, University of Cypr= us

Program Committee Chairs

• Manish Parashar, Rutgers U= niversity, USA (parashar AT rutgers.edu)
• Omer Rana, Cardiff Unive= rsity, UK (ranaof AT cardiff.ac.uk)

Standards/Plug-fest Chair
• Alan Sill, Texas Tech, USA & Open Grid Forum

Workshops C= hairs

• Ilkay Altintas, SDSC, USA (altintas AT sdsc.edu)
= 49; Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany (josef.spillner AT tu-dresden.de)
Tutorials Chairs

• Ewa Deelman, USC, USA (deelman AT isi.= edu)
• Rafael Tolosana, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt AT unizar= .es)

Posters Chair

• Khalid Elgazzar, Queen's University= , Kingston, Canada

PhD Symposium Chair

• Kenneth Johnson= , Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Cloud Challenge 20= 15 Chair

• Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK

Industry C= hair

• Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Proceedings Chairs

• Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby, U= K
• George Palis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Publicity Cha= ir

• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Pro= gram Committee

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