Building the Right Cloud Solutions Workshop
at SPLASH 2010 (Reno, Nevada)
Given that cloud computing is still one of, if not the most hyped buzzword in technology these days, we think it is important to bring the community of developers together to discuss and share the initial experiences in building the cloud solutions we really need. Many of the providers of cloud technologies and many hosts for cloud reside in the US. While this ensures conformity to American regulations such as HIPAA it does cause problem within the European and wider community. Which laws apply to the storage of data by a European company in an American host providers cloud centre. Governance and provenance are key issues that may be resolved through community based cloud development. Clearly the move to the community clouds requires investigation to tease out such issues as security, reliability, etc. However the ability to quickly transform data to the appropriate formats for each regulatory body of any given country could vastly increase the ability of com-panies to import and export services from a wider market area.
Modern thinking would also require investigation into the carbon impact of such technologies. The advantage of cloud technologies lies in the distribution of computing resources on a pay as you go basis. Thus an organization is not always aware of the location of hosting nor the impact on their carbon footprint. Given the extensibility of web services to include non-functional requirements it would become easy to place a regional requirement into the contract thus reducing the possible carbon footprint.
In this context, the proposed workshop aims to tackle the research problems (as well as practical experiences) around methods, tech-niques, concepts, models, languages, tools and technology that enable cloud computing. Of particular interest are the architectural, techni-cal, and developmental models for the cloud showing how they combine synergistically to enable distributed computing on the scale re-quired by today’s cloud-hosted enterprise systems. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry practitioners (e.g. leading modelers, architects, system vendors, open-source projects, developers, and end-users) exploring established and best practices in implementing real-life and mission-critical solutions based on Cloud computing technologies. Through this we aim to cover a greater understanding of how the service cloud can enable business providers, public services as well as general enterprise application integration issues, thus helping people develop and manage business processes more efficiently and effectively. We are likely to see an evolution in how cloud computing technologies are utilised and we want to discuss and share the experiences and expectations the development community currently have with regards to cloud computing technology.
Keynote Speaker just announced.
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Dave Thomas is an expert engineer, consultant, professor and architect in Agile and Object-Oriented Software Development Methodologies. Dave is the founder and CEO of Bedarra Corporation. Dave is much loved for his humorous and often profound take on what will or will not work in an industry environment. Dave is committed to the enhancing the technical community of leading conferences such as ECOOP, JAOO, OOPSLA (now SPLASH) to name but a few. Find out what Dave really thinks about how to Build the Right Solutions for Cloud during his keynote! See Dave’s website here. |
Topic for this workshop include:
- SAAS, IAAS & PAAS for the Business Community
- Gated Community Clouds
- Ecosystem among Cloud Computing Providers
- Domain Driven Quality of services (QoS) and services level agreements (SLAs)
- Analysis and modelling of security, privacy, and trust in the Community Cloud, hybrid cloud and public cloud
- Policy-based service-oriented systems in the service cloud
- Service lifecycle management and infrastructure lifecycle managing for the different cloud deployment models
- Models for governance in the Cloud
- Service discovery, composition, execution, monitoring, and mediation in cloud environments
Workshop on Cloud Computing
Building the Right Cloud Solutions. |
This workshop is dedicated to implementing solid working solutions based on cloud computing technology. This workshop is a follow up from the 2009 workshop and will discuss issues raised during the 2009 workshop. |
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Don't Forget Cloud Camp |
Cloud camp will also be held again this year at SPLASH. |
How to participate?
We strongly encourage different level of participant contribution; full research papers (12-15 pages) from the academic community, shorter practitioner reports (3-7 pages) from practitioners and lightning talks (10 minutes with or without visual aids) for anyone who has a strong opinion to express in 10 minutes. Some papers will be selected for presentation as a basis for discussions in the workshop.
Submission rules:
- The papers must be original submissions, not published elsewhere.
- Participants are expected to attend the conference.
- Expected number of workshop participants: 25-30
If more high quality submissions are received, the organizers may encourage submitters of papers on closely related topics to collaborate on a joint position paper.
The papers will be reviewed thoroughly by a program committee put together from the academia and the industry. We will offer sheperding of papers that shows great promise even if they are not completely ready yet, given that the authors are committed to the work necessary to make it complete. If you are interested in this, please submit early to allow time for sheperding and fine tuning of the paper. Only the papers that qualifies the strict requirements for publishing set by the program committee and the publisher will be published.
Authors of papers that are not published are still welcome to join and by agreement we may want you to present your findings in a lightning talk or use them as basis for discussions. To reiterate, we welcome all levels of participations as long as you are prepared to engage in the workshop.
The organizers decision is final. Further guidelines and templates may be downloaded below:Position papers can be submitted to cloudworkshop@gmail.com.
Terms of submission:
Papers must be submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration by another journal/conference/etc. Once published as part of this workshop the papers may not also be published elsewhere. The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that the article's publication has been approved by all the other coauthors. It is also the authors' responsibility to ensure that the articles emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the information in each reference is complete and accurate and that all references to ideas not owned by the authors are appropriately referenced. All presentations will be emailed to the organising committee to be hosted on the web site. Voice recordings may be taken only by the organising committee. By submitting a paper the authors indicate that permission is given to place all materials/recordings on the workshop website, etc. All enquiries concerning the publication of accepted papers should be addressed to Ruth Lennon.
Questions regarding paper submission or the review process? Please contact: Ruth Lennon .