<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP!<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div>===================</div><div>BigSystem 2014</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems (BigSystem 2014)</div><div><a href="http://2014.bigsystem.org/">http://2014.bigsystem.org/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>(co-located with ACM HPDC 2014, Vancouver, Canada, June 23-27, 2014)</div><div><br></div><div>With the emerging technology breakthrough in computing, networking, storage,</div><div>mobility, and analytics, the boundary of systems is undergoing fundamental</div><div>change and is expected to logically disappear. It is the time to rethink system</div><div>design and management without boundaries towards software-defined ecosystems,</div><div>the Big System. The basic principles of software-defined mechanisms and policies</div><div>have witnessed great success in clouds and networking. We are expecting broader,</div><div>deeper, and greater evolution and confluence towards holistic software-defined</div><div>ecosystems.</div><div><br></div><div>BigSystem 2014 provides an open forum for researchers, practitioners, and system</div><div>builders to exchange ideas, discuss, and shape roadmaps towards such big systems</div><div>in the era of big data.</div><div><br></div><div>Topics of Interest</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>* Architecture of software-defined ecosystems</div><div>* Management of software-defined ecosystems</div><div>* Software-defined principles</div><div>* Software-defined computing</div><div>* Software-defined networking</div><div>* Software-defined storage</div><div>* Software-defined security</div><div>* Software-defined services</div><div>* Software-defined mobile computing/cloud</div><div>* Software-defined cyber-physical systems</div><div>* Interaction and confluence of software-defined modalities</div><div>* Virtualization</div><div>* Hybrid systems, cross-layer design and management</div><div>* Security, privacy, reliability, trustworthiness</div><div>* Grand challenges in big systems</div><div>* Big data infrastructure and engineering</div><div>* HPC, big data, and computational science & engineering applications</div><div>* Autonomic computing</div><div>* Cloud computing and services</div><div>* Emerging technologies</div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submission Guidelines</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 8 pages in PDF format,</div><div>including figures and references. Short position papers (4 pages) are also</div><div>encouraged. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (double</div><div>column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch</div><div>page, <a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates">http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</a>) and submitted</div><div>via EasyChair submission site. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes</div><div>as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the</div><div>workshop proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A</div><div>limited number of papers will be accepted as posters. Selected distinguished</div><div>papers, after further revisions, will be considered a special issue in a high</div><div>quality journal.</div><div><br></div><div>EasyChair submission site,</div><div><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigsystem2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigsystem2014</a></div><div><br></div><div>Important Dates</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>* Papers Due Feb. 15th, 2014 </div><div>* Notification Mar. 30th, 2014</div><div>* Camera-Ready April 15th, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>===================</div><div>Organization</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>Steering Committee</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne</div><div>Jeff Chase, Duke Univeristy</div><div>Jose Fortes, University of Florida</div><div>Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University</div><div>Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology</div><div>Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research</div><div>Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida</div><div>Manish Parashar, Rutgers University</div><div><br></div><div>General Chairs</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University</div><div>Manish Parashar, Rutgers University</div><div><br></div><div>Program Chairs</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research</div><div>Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida</div><div><br></div><div>Publicity Chairs</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>Yong Chen, Texas Tech University</div><div>Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University</div><div><br></div><div>Web Chair</div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div>Ze Yu, University of Florida</div><div><br></div><div>Technical Program Committee</div></div><div>===================</div><div><br></div><div><div>Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University<br></div><div>Henri E. Bal, Vrije University<br></div><div>Ilya Baldin, RENCI/UNC Chapel Hill<br></div><div>Viraj Bhat, Yahoo<br></div><div>Roger Barga, Microsoft Research<br></div><div>Micah Beck, University of Tennessee<br></div><div>Ali Butt, Virginia Tech<br></div><div>Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University<br></div><div>Claris Castillo, RENCI<br></div><div>Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University<br></div><div>Yong Chen, Texas Tech University<br></div><div>Peter Dinda, Northwestern University<br></div><div>Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University<br></div><div>Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida<br></div><div>Yashar Ganjali, University of Toronto<br></div><div>William Gropp, UIUC<br></div><div>Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University<br></div><div>John Lange, University of Pittsburgh<br></div><div>Junda Liu, Google<br></div><div>David Meyer, Brocade<br></div><div>Rajesh Narayanan, Dell Research<br></div><div>Ioan Raicu, IIT<br></div><div>Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab<br></div><div>Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University<br></div><div>Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University<br></div><div>Jian Tang, Syracuse University<br></div><div>Tai Won Um, ETRI<br></div><div>Jun Wang, University of Central Florida<br></div><div>Kuang-Ching Wang, Clemson University<br></div><div>Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota<br></div><div>Dongyan Xu, Purdue University<br></div><div>Vinod Yegneswaran, SRI<br></div><div>Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br></div><div>Han Zhao, Qualcomm Research</div></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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