CrossCloud'17: 4th International Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms Belgrade, Serbia, April 23, 2017 |
Conference website | http://bit.ly/CrossCloud |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crosscloud17 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 30, 2017 |
Submission deadline | January 30, 2017 |
The CrossCloud workshop aims to attract researchers from both academia and industry to share and discuss their recent research and experiences in designing and operating multiple cloud systems. Work in this area extends over various topics including cross-cloud resource management, service migration, monitoring, policy enforcement, API interoperability, portability, benefit–cost analysis, and fault mitigation.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. We will solicit two types of submissions: technical papers and posters, as decribed below. Each submission will receive at least 3 single-blind peer reviews. Technical paper authors are also encouraged to produce a poster to be displayed in a joint poster session on the workshop day.
The following paper categories are welcome:
- Technical papers (max 6 pages) describing novel work with results addressing cross-cloud related challenges, and/or sharing experiences and best practices in the deployment of such systems.
- Posters (max 2 pages) describing early work with preliminary or no results.
List of Topics
- Cross-cloud systems: resource management across multiple clouds (e.g., load balancing, performance optimization, security and privacy policy enforcement).
- Containers and Virtual Machine (VM) management across several cloud infrastructures (e.g., VM placement and migration).
- Fog/edge computing: fog-based infrastructures, caching, performance and services.
- Micro-services: system design, monitoring and management using containers and/or microkernels to achieve cloud provider independence.
- Cross-Cloud agility: dynamic application deployment across multiple cloud platforms, flexibility in moving between different providers and vendors.
- Hybrid cloud infrastructures management (e.g., public and private clouds, heterogeneous cloud systems, cloud and cluster/grid systems).
- Cloud-bursting: workload offloading, multi-cloud resource scheduling strategies.
- Cross-cloud SDKs and APIs: design, maintenance, support and performance evaluation.
- Application portability: priorities, restrictions, and lock-in mitigation techniques and measures.
- API interoperability: study cases and experiences with data and applications.
- Interoperability between managed services (e.g., MapReduce, DB, message queues, etc.).
- Decision support systems: efficient and open application deployment and monitoring across different cloud platforms and providers; cloud brokerage as a means of complexity outsourcing.
- Scalable multi-cloud monitoring: monitoring among different cloud environments; relevant metrics at the different levels of the stack (e.g., network access); monitoring overhead analysis.
- Experiences: assembling and (re)deploying in heterogeneous multi-cloud environments; costs and benefits of cross-cloud management and deployment; challenges in existing cross-cloud platforms; case studies on building or federating multi-cloud systems.
- Cross-Cloud security: Identity and access management across infrastructure boundaries, reconciling application security and privacy requirements across multiple SLAs.
Committees
General Co-Chairs
- Yehia Elkhatib (Lancaster University, UK)
- Mohamed Faten Zhani (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)
Steering Committee
- Gordon S. Blair (Lancaster University, UK)
- Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Publicity Co-chairs
- Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana, Brazil)
Venue
The current edition of CrossCloud will be held in conjunction with Eurosys'17, 23rd-26th April 2017, Belgrade, Serbia.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to CrossCloudRsrch at gmail.com