The Conference is Postponed to 2012

Scope

Cloud Computing is a consumer/delivery model where IT capabilities are offered on demand in a scalable fashion. There are many misconceptions about what “clouds” actually are and the Gartner Hype Cycle clearly indicates that we are currently at a peak of terminological confusion. As such, clouds are often defined as an equivalent toIaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and / or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), they are understood as pay-as-you-go service infrastructures and even as high-performance computing for the masses. In general, it is assumed that cloud computing will change the IT landscape.

CloudComp is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and industry professionals to discuss the concepts and underlying technologies behind clouds, cloud computing and related ecosystems. The conference also aims at presenting the recent advances, experiences and results obtained in the wider area of cloud computing, giving users and researchers equally a chance to gain better insight into the capabilities and limitations of current cloud systems. CloudComp will offer a chance to cloud providers to promote and display their current systems.

Call for Participation

Modern day cloud architectures circumference multiple levels, down from the physical layer of storage, network and compute resources, via a virtualization layer up to services and development platforms. The actual cloud features thereby act orthogonally to these layers, offering capabilities such as resource aggregation, elasticity through up / down scaling, availability and reliability. Cloud environments therefore realize means attractive for users and providers equally - these include many aspects arising indirectly from these environments, such as in particular quality adherence, flexible cost modelling, reduced time to market etc. Accordingly, much work spans issues related to the economical and efficiency management of these environments.

Non-regarding all the progress made in these domains, however, there are still many issues unsolved as yet, or require extension and improvement. Also, users and providers are equally confused about the capabilities they can expect from such systems and when and how best to employ them. The scope of usage is currently growing faster than actual technological development and usage / management expertise can actually keep pace with.

The CloudComp conference in particular addresses these challenges from ALL perspectives, inviting participation from researchers, developers, users and providers:

• technological and architectural challenges
  • eg vertical elasticity, SLA, optimization etc
• provisioning and uptake
  • eg business models, existing frameworks, trust
• development, interoperability and usage
  • eg platform models, APIs, metaclouds etc
• Scalable and Elastic Cloud infrastructures
• Cloud adaptability
• Cloud ecosystem management

To that end, papers are solicited from all cloud related areas, including, but not limited to:

• Cloud architectures and provisions to optimize providers’ environments while guaranteeing clients’ SLAs
• Programming models, applications and middleware suitable for dynamic cloud environments
• End-to-end techniques for autonomic management of cloud resources including monitoring, asset management, process automation and others
• Cloud delivery models, models’ optimizations and associated architectural changes
• Cloud economic and billing models
• Green ICT and Clouds – theory, practice and experiences
• Cloud security, privacy and compliance challenges
• Toolkits, frameworks and processes to enable clouds and allow seamless transitions from traditional IT environments to clouds
• Experiences with existing cloud infrastructure, services and uses
• Novel human interfaces and browsers for accessing clouds
• Interaction of mobile computing, mCommerce and Clouds
• Standardisation activity in Clouds – proposals and experiences
• Experiences on clouds in various vertical sectors (e.g., eScience and industry), where the concept worked/did not work.