<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Please disseminate this call.</div><div><br></div><div>KInd regards,</div><div>M. Correia</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>********************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div> CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div> 2nd Workshop on</div><div> Dependability and Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds</div><div> (DIHC14)</div><div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://dihc2014.inria.fr/">http://dihc2014.inria.fr</a></div><div><br></div><div> in conjunction with </div><div><br></div><div> Euro-Par 2014</div><div> August 25-29, Porto, Portugal </div><div><br></div><div>********************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div>SCOPE</div><div><br></div><div>The cloud computing market is in rapid expansion due to the opportunities to </div><div>dynamically allocate a large amount of resources when needed and to pay only for </div><div>their effective usage. However, many challenges, in terms of interoperability, </div><div>performance guarantee, and dependability, should still be addressed to make </div><div>cloud computing the right solution for companies, research organizations, and </div><div>universities.</div><div><br></div><div>The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from academia and industry </div><div>interested in the design, implementation, and evaluation of services and </div><div>mechanisms for dependable cloud computing in a multi-cloud environment. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>TOPICS OF INTEREST</div><div><br></div><div>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div><br></div><div>- Service Level Agreements in clouds </div><div>- Trust and reputation in cloud computing </div><div>- Security and privacy aspects in cloud computing </div><div>- Risk assessment and management in cloud computing</div><div>- Availability of cloud services </div><div>- Reliable cloud computing </div><div>- Dependable performance for cloud applications </div><div>- Federation of heterogeneous clouds </div><div>- Design of dependable multicloud applications</div><div>- Interoperability </div><div>- Resource Management </div><div>- IaaS and PaaS business models</div><div>- Cloud standards and best practices </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PAPER SUBMISSION</div><div><br></div><div>Authors are invited to submit original papers, that have not been published in </div><div>or submitted to other workshops, conferences or journals. Submitted papers must </div><div>be written in English, formatted according to the LNCS guidelines, and they must </div><div>not exceed 10 pages. Paper submission will be done through EasyChair (submission </div><div>link: <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2014ws">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2014ws</a> Track Second </div><div>Workshop on Federative and Interoperable Cloud Infrastructures).. At least one </div><div>author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop to present the paper. </div><div>The workshop proceedings will be published in Springer’s LNCS series (after the </div><div>event).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div><br></div><div>Paper submission: May 30th, 2014 </div><div>Author notification: July 4th, 2014</div><div>Workshop: August 25th or 26th, 2014</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ORGANIZERS</div><div><br></div><div>Christine Morin, INRIA</div><div>Roberto Cascella, INRIA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PROGRAM CHAIRS</div><div><br></div><div>Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano</div><div>Miguel Correia, INESC-ID / IST</div><div><br></div><div>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div><div><br></div><div>Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Stuttgart (Germany)</div><div>Alvaro Arenas, IE Business School (Spain)</div><div>Alysson Bessani, University of Lisboa (Portugal)</div><div>Lorenzo Blasi, HP (Italy)</div><div>Paolo Costa, Imperial College London (UK)</div><div>Beniamino Di Martino, University of Napoli (Italy)</div><div>Federico Facca, Create-Net (Italy)</div><div>Franz Hauck, University of Ulm (Germany)</div><div>Yvon Jégou, Inria (France)</div><div>Jens Jensen, STFC (UK)</div><div>Paolo Mori, CNR (Italy)</div><div>Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara (Romania)</div><div>Paolo Romano, INESC-ID / IST (Portugal)</div><div>Michael Schöttner, University of Duesseldorf (Germany)</div><div>Thorsten Schuett, ZIB Berlin (Germany)</div><div>Stephen Scott, ORNL and Tennessee Tech University (USA)</div><div>Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna (Italy)</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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