<div>[Apologies for possible cross postings!]</div><div><br></div><div>Dear Friends,</div><div><br></div><div>Please contribute to UCC 2011 by submitting a technical research paper and encouraging your collaborators to do the same. </div>
<div><br></div><div>For more information, please see the call for paper below this email.</div><div><br></div><div>Your support to this conference is highly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards,</div><div>Masoud</div>
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<br>4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011)<br> December 5-8, Melbourne, Australia<br><br> <a href="http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2011/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.cloudbus.org/<u></u>ucc2011/</a><br>
<br> Sponsored by:<br> IEEE Computer Society, USA<br> Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA<br><br> Hosted/Supported by:<br> * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory<br>
The University of Melbourne, Australia<br> * CSIRO, Australia<br> * Indiana University, USA<br> * Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<br> * University of Southern California, USA<br>
* Colorado State University, USA<br> * Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia<br>------------------------------<u></u>------------------------------<u></u>------------------------------<br> <br>
*****************<br> CALL FOR PAPERS<br> *****************<br><br>Introduction:<br>-------------<br><br>Computing is being transformed to a model consisting of<br>
services that are commoditized and delivered in a manner<br>similar to traditional utilities such as water, electricity,<br>gas, and telephony. In such a model, users access services<br>based on their requirements without regard to where the<br>
services are hosted or how they are delivered. Several<br>computing paradigms have promised to deliver this utility<br>computing vision and these include Grid computing, and more<br>recently Cloud computing.<br><br>Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords<br>
in the ICT industry. Several IT vendors are promising to<br>offer storage, application and computation hosting services,<br>and provide coverage in several continents, offering<br>Service-Level Agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime<br>
promises for their services. While these "clouds" are the<br>natural evolution of traditional clusters and data centres,<br>they are distinguished by following a "utility" pricing model<br>where customers are charged based on their utilisation of<br>
computational resources, storage and transfer of data.<br>These emerging services have reduced the cost of computation,<br>application hosting and content storage and delivery by<br>several orders of magnitude, however there is significant<br>
complexity involved in ensuring applications, services and<br>data can scale when needed to ensure consistent and reliable<br>operation under peak loads.<br><br>To provide a dedicated forum for sharing recent R&D advances<br>
and industrial innovations in "Utility Computing" area, we<br>have initiated this new conference series "International<br>Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing". This conference<br>series has emerged out of previous successful Cloud computing<br>
events (Cloud 2009 held in Shanghai, China; Cloud 2010 held<br>in Melbourne, Australia; and UCC 2010 held in Chennai,<br>India). UCC 2011, as 4th event in the series, focuses on<br>principles, paradigms, and applications of "Utility<br>
computing" and its practical realisation in industry<br>especially in the form of Cloud Computing.<br><br>Conference Scope:<br>-----------------<br><br>Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):<br>- Principles of Utility Computing<br>
- Architectural Models for Utility Computing<br>- *aaS: Infrastructure, Platform, Software, Storage as a Service<br>- Novel architectural models for cloud computing<br>- Novel applications of cloud computing, including games and social networks<br>
- Novel cloud programming models<br>- Innovative cloud pricing models<br>- Innovative cloud service models<br>- Support for scalable and elastic cloud services<br>- New parallel / concurrent programming models for cloud computing<br>
- Cloud support for mobile applications and Content Delivery Networks<br>- Data Security, Privacy, and Jurisdiction in the Cloud<br>- Portability of applications and data between different cloud providers<br>- Cloud-related virtualization issues<br>
- Deployment, maintenance, and management of cloud resources and services<br>- (Multi-)Cloud resource brokering and scheduling<br>- (Multi-)Cloud capacity planning<br>- Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud<br>
- Interoperability between different Utility Computing Platforms including Grids, and Clouds<br>- Performance monitoring for cloud applications<br>- Cloud use case studies<br>- Scientific computing in the cloud<br>- Business computing in the cloud<br>
- Social computing in the cloud<br><br>Best Paper Award:<br>-----------------<br><br>A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd,<br>Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest<br>quality rating from the Program Committee and external<br>
reviewers. In addition, a special issue in a high quality<br>international journal will be organised for selected best<br>papers.<br><br>Journal Special Issue:<br>-----------------------<br><br>Highly rated Top 6 papers from the UCC 2011 conference will<br>
be selected for publication in a special issue of the "Future<br>Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)" Journal published by<br>Elsevier Press.<br><br><br>PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:<br>----------------------------<br>
<br>All papers must be submitted electronically and in PDF format. The<br>material presented should be original and not published or under<br>submission elsewhere. Authors should submit full papers of up to 8<br>pages, following strictly the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings<br>
Manuscript style (available at<br><a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.computer.org/<u></u>portal/web/cscps/formatting</a>),<br>using two-column, single-space format, with 10-point font size.<br>
Figures and references must be included in the 8 pages. Oversized<br>papers will be automatically rejected by the PC chairs. At least<br>one of the authors of each accepted paper must register early to<br>attend the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the<br>
conference proceedings.<br><br>Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research<br>that is not currently under review for any other conference<br>or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be<br>rejected without review and further action may be taken,<br>
including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the<br>heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the<br>conference. Submissions received after the due date,<br>exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may<br>
also not be considered. The proceedings will be published and<br>will be made online through the IEEE Xplore.<br><br>All papers should be submitted online using EasyChair<br>submission system.<br><br>CHAIRS & COMMITTEES:<br>
-------------------<br><br>General Co-Chairs:<br>Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne & Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia<br>Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA<br><br>Vice Chairs:<br>Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA<br>
David Bernstein, VP and Special CTO, Huawei Technologies, USA<br><br>Program Committee Chairs:<br>Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA<br>Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA<br><br>Steering Committee Members:<br>
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair)<br>Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia<br>Bharadwaj Veeravalli, The National University of Singapore, Singapore<br>Cho Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China<br>
Craig Lee, Open Grid Forum, USA<br>Geng Lin, Cisco Systems Inc., USA<br>Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA<br>Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA<br>Jane Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br>Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA<br>
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA<br>Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK<br>Steve Versteeg, Computer Associates, Australia<br>Walfredo Cirne, Google, USA<br>Wolfgang Gentzsch, Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications, Germany<br>
S.Thamarai Selvi, Anna University Chennai, India<br><br><br>Workshop Chairs:<br>----------------<br>Mukaddim Pathan, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research<br> Organization (CSIRO), Australia<br>
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK<br><br>Organizing Chair:<br>-----------------<br>Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia<br><br>Publicity Co-Chairs:<br>--------------------<br>Carlos Becker Westphall, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil<br>
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA<br>A.B.M. Russel, VeRSI, Australia<br>Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Europe<br><br><br>Program Committee Members:<br>--------------------------<br>
Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia<br>Shrideep Pallickara Colorado State University, USA<br>Geoffrey Fox Indiana University, USA<br>Manish Parashar Rutgers University, USA<br>
Marco Netto IBM, Brazil<br>Dennis Gannon Microsoft Research, USA<br>Andrzej Goscinski Deakin University, Australia<br>Marcos Dias De Assuncao INRIA, France<br>Viktor Prasanna University of Southern California, USA<br>
Sangmi Pallickara Colorado State University, USA<br>Marlon Pierce Indiana University, USA<br>Nik Bessis University of Derby, UK<br>Judy Qiu Indiana University, USA<br>
Madhusudan Govindaraju State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA<br>Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA<br>Robert van Engelen Florida State University, USA<br>
Peter Linington University of Kent, UK<br>Steven Newhouse European Grid Initiative, UK<br>Alex Sim Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, USA<br>David Walker University of Cardiff, USA<br>
Henri Bal Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands<br>Thilo Kielmann Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands<br>Omer Rana Cardiff University, UK<br>Paul Watson Newcastle University, UK<br>
Craig Lee Open Grid Forum, USA<br>Keith Jackson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA<br>Ewa Deelman ISI/USC, USA<br>Milind Bhandarkar LinkedIn, USA<br>
Arun Agarwal University of Hyderabad, India<br>Bastian Koller High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany<br>Benny Rochwerger IBM Research, Israel<br>David Bernstein Huawei, USA<br>
Domenico Talia Universit?† della Calabria, Italy<br>Dongwan Shin New Mexico Tech, USA<br>Erik Elmroth Umea University, Sweden<br>Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China<br>
Ignacio Llorente Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain<br>Kris Bubendorfer Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<br>Kyong-Hoon Kim Gyeongsang National University, Korea<br>Li Xiaorong Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore<br>
Marty Humphrey University of Virginia, USA<br>Massimo Villari University of Messina, Italy<br>Pawel Garbacki Google, USA<br>Radu Prodan University of Innsbruck, Austria<br>
Ramin Yahyapour University of Dortmund,Germany<br>Rob Gillen Oak Ridge National Lab, USA<br>Rodrigo Calheiros University of Melbourne, Australia<br>Saurabh Garg University of Melbourne, Australia<br>
Siegfried Benkner Vienna University, Austria<br>Simon Caton Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany<br>Srikumar Venugopal University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia<br>
Timothy Wood University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA<br>Thenalapadi Mohan Infosys Technologies, India<br>Varia Jinesh Amazon, USA<br>Wolfgang Gentzsch DEISA (Europe) and Open Grid Forum (USA)<br>
Wolfgang Theilmann SAP, Germany<br>Yeo-Chee Shin Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore<br>Yu Chen State University of New York - Binghamton, USA<br>Ruppa Thulasiram University of Manitoba, Canada<br>
Satish Srirama University of Tartu, Estonia.<br>Siani Pearson Hewlett-Packard, USA<br>Cho-Li Wang Hong-Kong University, Hong-Kong<br>Viraj Bhat Yahoo Inc.<br>
<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES:<br>----------------<br>Papers Due: 25 July 2011<br>Notification of Acceptance: 30 August 2011<br>Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 September 2011<br><br><br>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:<br>----------------<br>1. Professor Manish Parashar<br>
Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA<br><a href="http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/parashar/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/<u></u>people/parashar/</a><br>Tentative Title: Autonomic Management of Clouds for Scientific Applications<br>
<br>2. Professor Albert Zomaya<br>The University of Sydney, Australia<br>Tentative Title: Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing<br><br>3. Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch<br>DEISA (Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications), Germany<br>
Tentative Title: HPC in the Cloud: use cases from research and industry<br><br><br>INDUSTRY TRACK SPEAKER:<br>-------------------------<br>Dr. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos<br>Director, Information Engineering Laboratory<br>CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, Australia<br>
Tentative Title: Complex Event Processing and Real Time Analysis in Cyberphysical Systems<br><br><br>PLATINUM MEDIA SPONSOR:<br>-----------------------<br>HPC Wire (<a href="http://www.hpcwire.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.hpcwire.com/</a>)<br>
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Professor <br>
Director of NSF CI-PIRE Center<br>
School of Computing and Information Sciences
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Florida International University <br>
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