International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience)
Applications Management - CloudAM 2018

In conjunction with the 11th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)

Zurich, Switzerland, December 17, 2018

Description

Cloud computing, virtualization and virtual (eScience) applications are currently hot topics and have been generating substantial interest in the community, and it is anticipated that this interest will expand. It is also important to the research community as it is challenging traditional methods by its sheer size and high level of automation. Clouds must provide appropriate levels of performance to large groups of diverse users, and those clouds are accessed through virtualized wide area networks. Management systems are essential for that and thereby for the future success of the cloud paradigm. New systems, methods, and approaches for cloud, virtualization and (eScience) applications management are to be discussed at this workshop.

For the CloudAM 2018 workshop, researchers from Clouds and (eScience) Applications communities are encouraged to submit and present original work to be considered for publication. Overall topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Cloud computing environments
Cloud service orchestration
Cloud APIs and usage control
Cloud data management
Cloud scalable monitoring
Cloud load balancing
Multi-cloud/Inter-clouds
Customer cloud management
Managing data centers
Management as a service
Management of virtual slices
*aaS Management
Application and Management Portals
Cloud scheduling
Hybrid clouds
Fog computing
Cloud case studies
Cloud surveys and taxonomies
Social clouds
Autonomic cloud computing
Cloud – IoT/Smart Cities integration

Accounting and economic models for clouds
Managing cloud services
Management of virtualized hardware resources
Network-specific mechanisms for optimized cloud access
Performance modeling & evaluation
QoS/QoE management in the cloud
Management tools for infrastructure virtualization
Automated resource slicing
Integration of the wireless and optical domains
Policy driven service/resource life-cycle management
Applications and services enabled by virtualized infrastructure
Optimization of data center and workload energy consumption
Green cloud computing
Scientific workflows on clouds
Mobile clouds
Big data / complex event processing in the cloud

Deadlines

Paper submission due: September 14, 2018 (Hard-deadline)

Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2018

Final camera-ready papers due: October 15, 2018 (Hard-deadline)

Workshop date: December 17, 2018

Submissions

The Clouds and Applications Management workshop invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers should not exceed 6 pages IEEE style (single-spaced 2-column text using 10-point size type on A4 paper). Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer:

Submission requires the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.
All selected papers for this workshop are peer-reviewed and will be published in IEEE Xplore.
Selected (extended) papers should be invited to submit to a high-quality Journal special issue.

To submit your paper, please access the easychair submission system at: EasyChair

Program

This is the program for CloudAM2018 Monday 17th December 2018:

9.45-10.00 - Welcome from CloudAM chairs

CloudAM 1: Cloud Real-life Hosting Experience and Risk Management in Clouds

10-10.30 - Real-life Experience with Private Cloud hosting Heterogeneous Scientific Workloads. Dalibor Klusacek, Boris Parak, Vaclav Chlumsky and Lukas Hejtmanek
10.30-11.00 - Risk-based Service Selection in Federated Clouds. Omer Rana, Ioan Petri and Usama Ahmed

CloudAM 2: Cloud Monitoring and Resource Managemenent and Scheduling

11.30-12.00 - Novel Vector Packing Heuristic for VM Placement based on the Divide-and-Conquer Paradigm. Shravan S K and J Lakshmi
12.00-12.30 - Dynamic Multi-Objective Workflow Scheduling for Cloud Computing Based on Evolutionary Algorithms. Goshgar Ismayilov and Haluk Topcuoglu
12.30-13.00 - Unsupervised Anomaly Event Detection for Cloud Monitoring using Online Arima. Florian Schmidt, Florian Suri-Payer, Anton Gulenko, Marcel Wallschlaeger, Alexander Acker and Odej Kao

CloudAM 3: Cloud Architectures and Service Deployment

15.00-15.30 - Micro-Workflows: Kafka and Kepler fusion to support Digital Twins of Industrial Processes. Gleb Radchenko, Ameer Alaasam and Andrei Tchernykh
15.30-16.00 - A Model-driven Approach to Automate Utility Cloud Services Deployment and Management. Anirban Bhattacharjee, Yogesh Barve, Aniruddha Gokhale and Takayuki Kuroda

CloudAM 4: Hardware for Parallel Algorithms and Economics of Clouds

16.30-17.00 - Using Neuromorphic Hardware for the Scalable Execution of Massively Parallel, Communication-Intensive Algorithms. Louis Blin, Ahsan Javed Awan and Thomas Heinis
17.00-17.30 - Developing Pricing Strategies for Cloud Service Providers in a Competitive Market. In Lee
17.30-17.45 - Closing

Program Committee

Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Hoang Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia
Nazim Agoulmine University of Evry Val d'Essone, France
Minh Ngoc Dinh, The University of Queensland, Australia
Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC, USA
Murphy Seán, Zurich University of Applied Science (ZHAW), Switzerland
Andrey Brito, UFCG, Brazil
Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Alan Davy, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Vladimir Vlassov, KTH, Sweeden
Vojtech Cima, IT4Innovations, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Hélio Guardia, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
Jose Angel Bañares, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Felix Freitag, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Rossi Kamal, IEEE Seoul Chapter, Korea