First International Workshop on Cloud-Native Applications Design and Experience — CNAX 2018
Co-located with UCC 2018 and BDCAT 2018 conferences — IEEE/ACM UCC/BDCAT 2018
Zurich, Switzerland, 17-20 December, 2018.

Submission Guidelines

This workshop focuses on cloud-based and software engineering research for cloud applications, with special attention to the challenges related to the development, maintenance and testing of CNAs. Eligible studies can have a strong empirical component as well as proposing novel technical solutions for the development, maintenance and testing of CNAs. Results of empirical studies may be obtained through any empirical approach, e.g., qualitative (involving developers), quantitative (analyzing industrial or open source data), or experimental. We are particularly looking for innovative papers that address maintenance, testing, or development strategies for cloud native applications, providing new ways to handle the next emerging problems derived by the adoption of emerging DevOps practices (e.g., Continuous Delivery and Continuous integration) or addressing them in a more unified manner, discussing benefits, limitation and costs of provided solutions. For instance, we are interested in the evaluation of innovative solutions based on “summarization techniques” to leverage and visualize CNAs data in different ways, with the goal to achieve higher “software quality” and overall “user experience and satisfaction”. We are also looking for original work investigating interesting aspects of CNAs evolution. These paper will be submitted as “research papers”. 

We are also interested in experience reports reviewing software engineering and cloud computing practices in the context of CNAs, e.g., studies that explore how testing strategies that have been proposed in the last years are used in practical settings, in different application contexts, or on the variety of data that is created in industrial development projects. For both types of submission (i.e., “research papers” and “experience reports”) we ask the authors to clarify in their paper how their approach, solution, or technology is specific to CNAs. The evaluation of papers will be based on: (i) underlying methodological soundness and rigor; (ii) innovation of the work; the significance of the results; (iii) the quality of the reporting.

Paper format: Workshop papers are a maximum of 6 pages in length (in IEEE format). Submissions should be structured as technical papers in the form of PDF files. They must represent original unpublished content which is not currently under review for any other conference, workshop or journal. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least three programme committee members. The evaluation will be based on originality, relevance of the problem to the workshop topics, technical strength, quality of results, and clarity of the presentation. The publication of the workshop proceeding with all accepted papers will be by the IEEE and will appear in the same volume as the UCC 2018 and BDCAT 2018 conferences. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and all workshop participants must pay the IEEE conference registration fee.

List of Topics

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to challenges, solutions, and innovations for CNAs with respect to

• Development of Cloud native applications 
• Continuous Delivery and Integration aspects in the context of Cloud native applications 
• Techniques for the automate the migration to the cloud. 
• Migration to DevOps practices in the context of Cloud native applications 
• Software Maintenance and evolution of Cloud native and cloud-aware applications 
• application decomposition into microservices 
• service-oriented systems to enable and support cloud-native applications 
• deployment with orchestrated containers 
• resilient cloud/client computing 
• cloud operations analytics 
• automated recovery of cloud platforms 
• chaos engineering 
• high availability and reliability hosting schemes 
• resilient and fault-tolerant storage and computation 
• user control and feedback during the entire application lifecycle 
• innovative use of PaaS and IaaS interfaces 
• multi-service programming techniques 
• multiplexed, dispersed and stealth computing approaches 
• combined compute and storage service systems for data-intensive apps 
• pro-active reliability concepts, monitoring and anomaly detection 
• self-organisation and self-management for cloud services 

• Submission

  Dates:

• Paper submission: 1st September, 2018
• Notification of acceptance: 18th September, 2018
• Camera-ready submission: 1st October, 2018
• Author and early registration: 8th October, 2018

Committees

Program Committee

• Jürgen Cito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/jurgen-cito
• Philipp Leitner, University of Gothenburg 
  https://www.chalmers.se/en/staff/Pages/philipp-leitner.aspx
• Davide Taibi, Tampere University of Technology  
  http://www.taibi.it/ 
• Damian A. Tamburri, VU University Amsterdam 
  http://s2group.cs.vu.nl/people/damian-a-tamburri/ 
• Valentina Lenarduzzi, Tampere University of Technology 
  http://www.valentinalenarduzzi.it/ 
• Annibale Panichella, Technische Universiteit Delft 
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/annibale-panichella-84081186/ 
• Foutse Khomh, École polytechnique de Montréal  
  http://www.polymtl.ca/expertises/en/khomh-foutse 
• Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand 
  https://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/people/ryan 
• Mark Little, Red Hat 
  https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/authors/mark-little-senior-director-engineering-middleware-business-red-hat 
• Sebastian Götz, Technische Universität Dresden 
  http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/sgoetz/ 
• Michael Hilton, Carnegie Mellon University 
  http://www.isri.cmu.edu/people/core-faculty/hilton-michael.html 
• Marios Fokaefs, École Polytechnique de Montréal 
  http://hypatia.cs.ualberta.ca/~fokaefs/ 
• Marin Litoiu, York University 
  mlitoiu@yorku.ca
• Hamzeh Khazaei, University of Alberta 
  hamzeh.khazaei@ieee.org 
• Jack Jiang, York University
  zmjiang@cse.yorku.ca

Organizing committee

• Sebastiano Panichella, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Service Prototyping Lab, Switzerland
  (e-mail: spanichella@gmail.com)
• Jorge Cardoso, Huawei European Research Center (ERC), Germany
  (e-mail: jorge.cardoso@huawei.com)
• Ivo Krka, Google Inc., Switzerland
  (e-mail: krka@google.com)