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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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CrossCloud Brokers 2014<br>
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Workshop in conjunction with with ACM/IFIP/USENIX International
Middleware Conference <br>
Bordeaux, France, December 8-12 2014<br>
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href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/%7Eelkhatib/crosscloud/">http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~elkhatib/crosscloud/</a><br>
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Contact: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:CrossCloudRsrch@gmail.com">CrossCloudRsrch@gmail.com</a><br>
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The CrossCloud event series builds upon the increasing relevance of
multi-cloud and federated cloud architectures. The high degree of
distribution and heterogeneity in such architectures leads to a
massive development and management complexity for application
providers. The concept of a cloud broker is therefore introduced as
a way to outsource this complexity to facilitate the adoption of
multi-cloud architectures. This edition of the workshop focuses on
the architecture of such cloud brokering systems, and more
specifically the concept of Broker as a Service (BaaS): How could a
broker be provided as an intermediate middleware service to
different stakeholders?<br>
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The objective of the workshop is to foster a lively discussion about
the theory and practice of cloud brokers, including an interactive
and hands-on session (cf. design (te)charrette, <a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charrette">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charrette</a>).
The desired outcomes are to develop a new collective understanding
of the key architectural aspects in this field, to come to a
holistic architecture of the cloud broker concept, and hopefully to
affect future research agendas. We invite researchers from diverse
domains to identify important issues in the form of open research
questions, state of the art reviews, standardization efforts, and to
propose solutions and experiences including early-stage work.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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Paper submission due September 5,
2014 (23:59 GMT)<br>
Workshop paper acceptance notification September 30, 2014<br>
Camera-ready workshop papers due October 10, 2014 (23:59
GMT)<br>
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TOPICS<br>
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Authors are encouraged, but not limited, to cover the following
topics:<br>
- Holistic architecture of Broker as a Service (BaaS)<br>
- Efficient and open decision support system<br>
- Scalable multi-cloud and multi-application monitoring<br>
- Application (re)deployment in heterogeneous, multi-cloud
environment<br>
- Experiences with multi-cloud architectures or approaches<br>
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SUBMISSION<br>
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The workshop is open for two types of submissions (via <a
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href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crosscloudbrokers14">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crosscloudbrokers14</a>):<br>
- Position papers, not exceeding the limit of 3 pages, ACM SIG
Proceedings Alternate style<br>
- Technical papers, not exceeding the limit of 6 pages, ACM SIG
Proceedings Alternate style<br>
Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library as part
of the Middleware 2014 companion. <br>
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Authors of the best (technical) papers will also be invited to
submit an extended version of their work to a special article
collection at the SpringerOpen Journal of Internet Services and
Applications (JISA) (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/13174">http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/13174</a>).
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We also strongly encourage multi-cloud submissions to the main
conference’s demo and posters session (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://2014.middleware-conference.org/calls/demos/">http://2014.middleware-conference.org/calls/demos/</a>).
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ORGANIZATION<br>
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** Organization committee / Technical program co-chairs:<br>
Yehia Elkhatib (Lancaster University, UK)<br>
Stefan Walraven (iMinds-DistriNet, KU Leuven, Belgium)<br>
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** Steering committee:<br>
Gordon S. Blair (Lancaster University, UK) <br>
Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)<br>
Renato Cerqueira (IBM Research, Brazil)<br>
Wouter Joosen (iMinds-Distrinet, KU Leuven, Belgium)<br>
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** Technical program committee:<br>
Danilo Ardagna (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)<br>
Adam Barker (University of St Andrews, UK)<br>
Daniel M. Batista (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)<br>
Theophilus Benson (Duke University, USA)<br>
Antonio Celesti (University of Messina, Italy)<br>
Félix Cuadrado (Queen Mary University of London, UK)<br>
Tobias Distler (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)<br>
Paul Grace (IT Innovation, University of Southampton, UK)<br>
Ross Horne (Kazakh British Technical University, Kazakhstan)<br>
Hongxin Hu (Clemson University, USA)<br>
Rüdiger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig, Germany)<br>
Attila Kertész (MTA SZTAKI, Hungary)<br>
Bert Lagaisse (KU Leuven, Belgium)<br>
Thomas Ledoux (Mines de Nantes, France)<br>
Mark Little (JBoss, UK)<br>
Philippe Merle (INRIA Lille, France)<br>
Christine Morin (INRIA Rennes, France)<br>
Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London, UK)<br>
Luis Rodero-Merino (Gradiant, Spain)<br>
Gareth Tyson (Queen Mary University of London, UK)<br>
Luís Veiga (INESC-ID, Portugal)<br>
Maxwell Young (Drexel University, USA)<br>
Mohamed Faten Zhani (University of Waterloo, Canada)
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