UCC CLOUD CHALLENGE 2015 - IEEE/ACM UCC 2015: Cloud Challenge

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Category Cloud Computing; Utility Computing; Big Data; Distributed Systems; Software Engineering; Computer Science

Deadline: September 10, 2015 | Date: December 07, 2015-December 10, 2015

Venue/Country: Limassol, Cyprus, Cyprus

Updated: 2015-08-23 22:41:06 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud

Computing (UCC 2015)

December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus

http://uccchallenge.cs.cf.ac.uk

*** DEADLINE: 10 September, 2015 ***

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Cloud Challenge is a competition where participants develop solutions by

utilizing virtualization technologies and Cloud computing. Proposals may

range from exploratory approaches to real-world problems benefiting from

private, public, or hybrid Clouds. This year, we especially encourage

proposals based on the application of lightweight approaches to

virtualisation, such as containers.

Nowadays, a wide range of Cloud technologies such as Docker, OpenStack,

Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure are available as well as Cloud paradigms,

such as Map/Reduce. We invite the submission of proposals related to

various aspects of Cloud computing elucidating novel approaches for

extending features of technologies and/or for advancing paradigms.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

? Usability for developers of Cloud solutions

? Energy consumption

? Checkpointing container-based applications

? Distributed container repositories or app stores

? Repository technologies

? Sharing of technologies and data

? Data management in Clouds

? Security in Clouds

? Hybrid clouds, where approaches offload to public clouds when data

centers cannot support application

? The use of containers used to provide portability between different cloud

providers and environments

? Virtual appliance or container selection, based on pricing and/or energy

consumption and/or any other metric applicable to the application or

scenario at hand

The competitors should outline the nature of the problem that might range

from business, science to socio-lifestyle applications. Two categories of

proposals are invited. The first one addresses approaches, which have been

implemented and authors should present the methodology used to solve the

problem and the means of validation of the solution. The competitors must

also be able to demonstrate their approach at UCC 2015, if selected, using

an appropriate means e.g. a live demo, a simulation, emulation, or similar.

The second category asks for cutting-edge future work and the design of

the solution. The competitors must be able to present intended use cases

and a well-designed architecture.

From each category of those proposals, finalists will be selected to present

their work at the conference, including a demonstration of the system or

software for the first category. The judges will award a first prize winner

per category at the conference.

FORMAT OF PROPOSALS

Proposals may be up to 6 pages long in the standard IEEE paper format for

the first category of accomplished work and 2-4 pages long in the standard

IEEE paper format for the second category. The following information reflects

a rough outline for proposals:

? Precise definition of several qualitative and/or quantitative metrics that

will be utilized to measure the efficacy of the Cloud solution, e.g., energy

consumption, level of software maintenance, performance, or scalability.

? The software and hardware systems used/intended to be used to address

the problem.

? An analysis of the impact, significance, and novelty of the solution.

Proposals will be reviewed according to the criteria listed above and should

present unpublished work that it is not under consideration for publication

elsewhere. At least one member from each selected team is expected to give

a technical talk, to provide a demonstration of the system for the first

category, and answer questions posed by the judges.

PUBLICATION

Proposals selected for the presentation will be included in the proceedings

of the conference as short papers.

SUBMISSION

Cloud challenge 2015 proposals can be submitted at the conference

submission site

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uccchallenge2015

IMPORTANT DATES

? Proposal papers for the first category due: 31 July, 2015

? Finalists for the first category selected: 31 August, 2015

? Proposal papers for the second category due: 10 September, 2015

? Finalists for the second category selected: 17 September, 2015

? Camera ready proposal papers due: 21 September, 2015

CHAIRS

Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK

Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA

COMMITTEE

Adam Barker, University of St. Andrews, UK

Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA

Andrew Harrison, MedeAnalytics, USA/UK

Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland

Dagmar Krefting, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Cezary Mazurek, PSNC, Poznan, Poland

Chris Smith, Distributed Bio

Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Matthew Turk, NCSA, USA