Call For Papers - UCC 2010 (Dec. 14-16, 2010, Chennai, India)

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First International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC

2010)

Dec. 14-16, 2010, Chennai, India

http://www.manjrasoft.com/ucc2010/

Held In Cooperation with:

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing

Hosted/Supported by:

* Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory,

The University of Melbourne, Australia

* Anna University Chennai, India

* Vienna University of Technology, Austria

* Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

* Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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Introduction:

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Computing is being transformed to a model consisting of services that are

commoditized

and delivered in a manner similar to traditional utilities such as water,

electricity,

gas, and telephony. In such a model, users access services based on their

requirements

without regard to where the services are hosted or how they are delivered.

Several

computing paradigms have promised to deliver this utility computing

vision and

these

include Grid computing, and more recently Cloud computing.

Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the ICT

industry.

Several IT vendors are promising to offer storage, application and

computation

hosting

services, and provide coverage in several continents, offering

Service-Level

Agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime promises for their services.

While

these "clouds" are the natural evolution of traditional clusters and data

centres, they

are distinguished by following a "utility" pricing model where customers

are

charged

based on their utilisation of computational resources, storage and

transfer of

data.

These emerging services have reduced the cost of computation, application

hosting and

content storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude, however

there is

significant complexity involved in ensuring applications, services and

data can

scale

when needed to ensure consistent and reliable operation under peak loads.

To provide a dedicated forum for sharing recent R&D advances and industrial

innovations

in "Utility Computing" area, we have initiated this new conference series

"International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing". This conference

series has

emerged out of the past two

successful Cloud computing symposiums (Cloud 2009 held in Shanghai,

China; and

Cloud

2010 held in Melbourne, Australia) and focuses on both principles of

"Utility

computing"

and its practical realisation in industry in different forms including

Cloud

Computing.

Conference Scope:

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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Principles of Utility Computing

- Architectural Models for Utility Computing

- *aaS: Infrastructure, Platform, Software, Storage as a Service

- Novel architectural models for cloud computing

- Novel applications of cloud computing, including games and social networks

- Novel cloud programming models

- Innovative cloud pricing models

- Innovative cloud service models

- Support for scalable and elastic cloud services

- New parallel / concurrent programming models for cloud computing

- Cloud support for mobile applications and Content Delivery Networks

- Data Security, Privacy, and Jurisdiction in the Cloud

- Portability of applications and data between different cloud providers

- Cloud-related virtualization issues

- Deployment, maintenance, and management of cloud resources and services

- (Multi-)Cloud resource brokering and scheduling

- (Multi-)Cloud capacity planning

- Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud

- Interoperability between different Utility Computing Platforms including

Grids, and Clouds

- Performance monitoring for cloud applications

- Cloud use case studies

- Scientific computing in the cloud

- Business computing in the cloud

- Social computing in the cloud

Best Paper Award:

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A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be

presented

to a

paper receiving the highest quality rating from the Program Committee and

external

reviewers. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international

journal

will

be organised for selected best papers.

PAPER SUBMISSION:

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Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted

manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed

8 ("eight") letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and

references

using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2

inches

(16.51 cm)

wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16

inches (7.85 cm)

wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced

10-point Times

fully

justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be

returned

without

review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure

that

the file will

print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official

language

of the

meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on

correctness,

originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and

interest and

relevance to the conference attendees.

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is

not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers

not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and

further action may be taken, including (but not limited to)

notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and

sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date,

exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be

considered. The proceedings will be published and will be made online

through

the IEEE Xplore.

All papers should be submitted online using EasyChair submission system:

http://www.easychair.org/

CHAIRS & COMMITTEES

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General Co-Chairs:

Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne & Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia

Thamarai Selvi, Anna University Chennai, India

Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA

Program Committee Chair:

Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Program Committee Vice-Chair

Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Publicity Chair

Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia

Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University

Cyber Chair

Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

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Adam Wierman California Institute of Technology, USA

Albert Zomaya The University of Sydney, Australia

Arun Agarwal University of Hyderabad, India

Bastian Koller High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS),

Germany

Benny Rochwerger IBM Research, Israel

Bruno Schulze Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Brasil

David Bernstein Huawei, USA

Deepak Vij Huawei, USA

Domenico Talia Universita della Calabria, Italy

Dongwan Shin New Mexico Tech, USA

Eric Elmroth Umea University, Sweden

Ewa Deelman ISI/USC, USA

Geoffrey Fox Indiana University, USA

Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Ignacio Llorente Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Jemal Abawajy Deakin University, Australia

Kris Bubendorfer Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Kyong Hoon Kim Gyeongsang National University. Korea

Li Xiaorong Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

Lizhe Wang Indiana University, USA

Luis Miguel Vaquero Telefonica, Spain

Luis Rodero-Merino INRIA, France

Mark Baker University of Reading, UK

Marty Humphrey University of Virginia, USA

Masoud Sadjadi Florida International University, USA

Massimo Villari University of Messina, Italy

Omer Rana Cardiff University, UK

Pawel Garbacki Google, USA

Pethuru Raj Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI)

Ltd, India

Radu Prodan University of Innsbruck, Austria

Ramin Yahyapour University of Dortmund, Gemany

Rob Gillen Oak Ridge National Lab, USA

Rodrigo Calheiros University of Melbourne, Australia

Sathish Vadhiyar Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India

Saurabh Garg University of Melbourne, Australia

Shrideep Pallickara Colorado State University, USA

Siegfried Benkner Vienna University, Austria

Simon Caton Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Srikumar Venugopal University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Timothy Wood University of Massachussetts-Amherst, USA

TS Mohan Infosys Technologies, India

Varia, Jinesh Amazon, USA

Wei Tan Argonne National Laboratory , USA

William Claycomb Sandia National Lab, USA

Wolfgang Gentzsch DEISA (Europe) and Open Grid Forum (USA)

Wolfgang Theilmann SAP, Germany

Yeo Chee Shin Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

Yu Chen State University of New York - Binghamton, USA

IMPORTANT DATES

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Papers Due: Sept. 30, 2010

Notification of Acceptance: Oct 20, 2010

Camera Ready Papers Due: Nov. 5, 2010

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