<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>There are still a few days left to meet the extended deadline for:</div><div><br></div><div><div>1st International Workshop on Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB 2013)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Workshop co-located with the 11th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Berlin, Germany, December 2-5, 2013, <a href="http://www.icsoc.org/">http://www.icsoc.org/</a></div><div><br></div>
<div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/cloudbrokerworkshop/">https://sites.google.com/site/cloudbrokerworkshop/</a></div><div><br></div><div>=============================================</div><div>Deadline for Paper Submission: 13 September 2013 - extended</div>
<div>Paper Acceptance Notification: 14 October 2013 </div><div>Camera Ready Paper & Copyright: 31 October 2013</div><div>=============================================</div><div><br></div><div>ABOUT CSB 2013</div><div>
-----------------------------</div><div>The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB 2013) looks to a future in which a </div><div><br></div><div>multi-cloud ecosystem exists, within which many cloud providers and consumers interact to discover, </div>
<div><br></div><div>negotiate and use software services. Supporting this ecosystem are cloud brokers, whose role is to </div><div><br></div><div>bring together providers and consumers, by offering service portals with added value for all parties. </div>
<div><br></div><div>A central feature of the broker’s role will be to assure quality control (both functional and non-</div><div><br></div><div>functional), service continuity (failure prevention and recovery; service substitution) and market </div>
<div><br></div><div>competition (arbitrage; service optimization; service customization).</div><div><br></div><div>In this workshop we invite contributions which tackle theoretical, technical and application aspects </div>
<div><br></div><div>of Cloud Service Brokerage.</div><div><br></div><div>TOPICS OF INTEREST</div><div>-----------------------------</div><div>Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to, methods and mechanisms for:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Service specification – current service description languages are only up to the task of describing </div><div><br></div><div>the service interface; what is needed are abstract languages to describe the complete behaviour and </div>
<div><br></div><div>performance of services, such that it can be determined whether one service is formally substitutable </div><div><br></div><div>by another;</div><div><br></div><div>Service functional testing – current service testing is mostly developer-based and in-house; what is </div>
<div><br></div><div>needed is a means of generating standard test sets from functional specifications of services, which </div><div><br></div><div>can be grounded for each of the service protocol technologies described above;</div>
<div><br></div><div>Service performance monitoring – current service monitoring technology is limited to SLAs for </div><div><br></div><div>response-times and availability of end-points; what is needed is a more sophisticated data fusion </div>
<div><br></div><div>approach with trend prediction, supporting service optimisation and substitution.</div><div><br></div><div>Service optimisation – current service platforms offer single-vendor services with failover </div>
<div><br></div><div>substitution, or manual selection from several providers; what is needed is a means of offering </div><div><br></div><div>multi-vendor services on a competitive basis, with automatic arbitrage between different providers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Service governance – current services and platforms are developed following in-house software </div><div><br></div><div>processes; what is needed are explicit standards and methods for governing the whole service </div>
<div><br></div><div>lifecycle, ensuring common quality standards and interfaces, supporting convergent service </div><div><br></div><div>development and service customisation.</div><div><br></div><div>Other topics relevant to the Cloud Broker role will be considered; please note that service security </div>
<div><br></div><div>is out of scope, being a matter for the Cloud Auditor role</div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div>-----------------------------</div><div>Deadline for Paper Submission: 13 September 2013 - extended<br>
</div><div>Paper Acceptance Notification: 14 October 2013 </div><div>Camera Ready Paper & Copyright: 31 October 2013</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</div><div>-----------------------------</div>
<div>Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers written in English. </div><div><br></div><div>All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper </div>
<div><br></div><div>acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of </div><div><br></div><div>presentation. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, and will be published by </div>
<div><br></div><div>Springer-Verlag. Full research papers should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style format </div><div><br></div><div>including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Shorter position papers should not exceed 6 </div>
<div><br></div><div>pages in the LNCS format.</div><div><br></div><div>Please submit papers in PDF via EasyChair.</div><div><br></div><div>At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. </div>
<div>Please see details at the ICSOC 2013 website. </div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------</div><div>Chaired by: </div><div>-----------------------------</div><div>Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.</div>
<div>Anthony J H Simons, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.</div><div>Iraklis Paraskakis, South-East European Research Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------</div>
<div>Programme Committee (partial list—others to be added)</div><div>-----------------------------</div><div> Konstantinos Bratanis, SEERC, Greece</div><div> Franck Fleurey, SINTEF, Norway</div><div> Andreas Friesen, SAP Research, Germany</div>
<div> Panagiotis Gouvas, SingularLogic, Greece</div><div> Mariam Kiran, University of Sheffield, UK</div><div> Dimitrios Kourtesis, SEERC, Greece</div><div> Volker Kuttruff, CAS Software, Germany</div><div> Brice Morin, SINTEF, Norway</div>
<div> Antonia Schwichtenberg, CAS Software, Germany</div><div> Yiannis Verginadis, ICCS NTUA, Greece</div><div>-----------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Contact us</div><div>For any questions please use the contact information below:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dr Anthony J H Simons</div><div>Department of Computer Science</div><div>University of Sheffield</div><div>Regent Court, 211 Portobello</div><div>Sheffield, S1 4DP</div><div>United Kingdom</div><div><br>
</div><div>email: A dot J dot Simons at shef dot ac dot uk</div><div>-----------------------------</div><div><br></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Anthony J H Simons MA PhD<br>Senior Lecturer in Computer Science<br>
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor<br><br>Department of Computer Science<br>University of Sheffield<br>Regent Court, 211 Portobello<br>Sheffield S1 4DP<br><br>tel: (+44/0) 114 222 1838
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