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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals ***<br></b><br>8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud<br>Computing (UCC 2015)<br><br>December 07-10, 2015, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus<br><br>Co-located with the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference<br>on Big Data Computing (BDC 2015)<br><br><a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015">http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015</a><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br>*** Deadline for submitting workshop proposals: May 8th ***<br><br><br>CONTEXT AND SCOPE<br><br>Cloud Computing delivers computational resources on-demand as services<br>that are commoditized and delivered analogous to traditional utilities such as<br>electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute,<br>storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data<br>are growing at a tremendous rate, and it is essential to understand how to<br>effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both<br>users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial<br>providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they<br>offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for<br>users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of<br>active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas<br>related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum<br>for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field.<br>UCC 2015, to be held in Cyprus, will happen as Cloud providers worldwide<br>add new services and increase Cloud utility at an accelerated pace, and Cloud<br>service users explore new usage modes.<br><br>This will be the 8th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events<br>were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010<br>& UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden,<br>Germany (UCC2013), and London, UK (UCC 2014).<br><br><br>TOPICS OF INTEREST<br><br>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br><br>• Big Data and Analytics<br><br>• Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including<br> pricing and service models<br><br>• Policy languages and Programming models<br><br>• Utility driven model and mechanisms for Cloud federations<br><br>• Autonomic techniques for Clouds and Cloud applications<br><br>• Utility-driven platforms for Clouds<br><br>• Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds<br><br>• Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid,<br> federated, aggregated<br><br>• Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and <br> services at all layers (XaaS)<br><br>• Virtualization technologies and other enablers<br><br>• Economic models and scenarios of use<br><br>• Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity<br> planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces<br><br>• Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance<br> models and monitoring<br><br>• Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science)<br> and business<br><br>• Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds<br><br>• Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as<br> security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction, especially in Utility contexts<br><br><br>WORKSHOP PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS<br><br>Proposals for workshops should be no more than 2 pages in length and<br>should contain the following information:<br><br>• Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals<br> and the technical issues that will be the focus of the workshop.<br><br>• A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.<br><br>• A list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3 years, or to<br> be held in 2015.<br><br>• The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the<br> proposed technical program committee. This committee should consist<br> of at least 10 people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be<br> addressed and preferably not more than two members of the same<br> institution.<br><br>• A description of the qualifications of the organizers (who would be the<br> Workshop Chairs) with respect to organizing this workshop. This can<br> include papers published in the proposed topic area, previous workshop<br> organization, and other relevant information.<br><br>• Workshop proposals should be submitted in PDF format by email to the<br> workshop chairs by the 8th of May, 2015.<br><br><br>RESPONSIBILITIES<br><br>Workshop chair(s) will be responsible for the following:<br><br>• Producing a web page and a "Call for Papers/Participation" for their<br> workshop. The URL should be sent to the UCC Workshops chairs. The call<br> must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the Cloud,<br> Big Data, Grid and Cluster Computing community. It should mention that<br> at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop<br> and that all workshop participants must pay the UCC 2015 workshop<br> day or conference registration fee. The CfP should make it clear that the<br> registration of at least one author requires the full (non-student, non-<br> workshop) rate.<br><br>• Ensure that all workshop papers are a maximum of 6 pages in length (in<br> IEEE format). It is the responsibility of the workshop organizers to ensure<br> that this page limit has been adhered to. Additional pages may be<br> purchased (in some circumstances) subject to approval by the proceedings<br> chairs.<br><br>• Provide a brief description of the workshop for the conference web page<br> and program.<br><br>• Selecting the participants and the format of the workshop. The publication<br> of proceedings will be by the IEEE in the same volume as the main<br> conference. The acceptance notification (by workshop chairs) therefore<br> should be the same as the conference paper acceptance notification (i.e. the<br> dates should be the same). All other details can be up to workshop<br> organizers to set.<br><br>• Advertising the workshop beyond the conference web page.<br><br>• Assistance in producing a camera-ready version of the workshop<br> proceedings.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT NOTE<br><br>If the workshop is too small (i.e. does not attract enough submissions) the<br>UCC 2015 Organizing Committee may decide to merge that workshop with<br>another. So we encourage workshop organizers to attract a large community.<br>In extreme situations we may also cancel workshops if there are not enough<br>submissions.<br><br>Workshop organizers must ensure that suitable quality measures have been<br>taken to ensure that the accepted papers are of high quality. All papers must<br>be reviewed by an International Technical Program Committee with a<br>minimum of 3 reviews per paper. The workshop organizers should also try<br>to observe an acceptance rate that is no higher than 50%.<br><br>Unless indicated on the UCC website, there will be no travel support and<br>no registration discounts for authors and organizers.<br><br>Workshops are not automatically endorsed by IEEE or ACM and should not<br>use the names of these organisations in their titles.<br><br>The UCC 2015 Conference Organizing Committee will be responsible for the<br>following:<br><br>• Providing a link to a workshop's local page.<br><br>• Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop.<br><br>• In conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop date and<br> time.<br><br>• Providing copies of the workshop proceedings to attendees.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>• Workshop proposals due: 08 May, 2015<br>• Notification of workshop proposals: 22 May 2015<br><br><br>COMMITTEES<br><br>General Chairs<br><br>• Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK<br>• George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus<br><br>Program Committee Chairs<br><br>• Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA (parashar AT rutgers.edu)<br>• Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK (ranaof AT cardiff.ac.uk)<br><br>Standards/Plug-fest Chair<br><br>• Alan Sill, Texas Tech, USA & Open Grid Forum<br><br>Workshops Chairs<br><br>• Ilkay Altintas, SDSC, USA (altintas AT sdsc.edu)<br>• Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany (josef.spillner AT tu-dresden.de)<br><br>Tutorials Chairs<br><br>• Ewa Deelman, USC, USA (deelman AT isi.edu)<br>• Rafael Tolosana, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt AT unizar.es)<br><br>Posters Chair<br><br>• Khalid Elgazzar, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada<br><br>PhD Symposium Chair<br><br>• Kenneth Johnson, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand<br><br>Cloud Challenge 2015 Chair<br><br>• Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK<br><br>Industry Chair<br><br>• Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br>Proceedings Chairs<br><br>• Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK<br>• George Palis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br>Publicity Chair<br><br>• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br>Program Committee<br><br><a href="http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015/?page_id=281">http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015/?page_id=281</a><br><br></font>
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