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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** Cloud Challenge 2015 ***<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><a href="http://uccchallenge.cs.cf.ac.uk">http://uccchallenge.cs.cf.ac.uk</a><br><br>*** DEADLINE: 10 September, 2015 ***<br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><br>CALL FOR PROPOSALS <br><br>Cloud Challenge is a competition where participants develop solutions by<br>utilizing virtualization technologies and Cloud computing. Proposals may<br>range from exploratory approaches to real-world problems benefiting from<br>private, public, or hybrid Clouds. This year, we especially encourage<br>proposals based on the application of lightweight approaches to<br>virtualisation, such as containers.<br><br>Nowadays, a wide range of Cloud technologies such as Docker, OpenStack,<br>Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure are available as well as Cloud paradigms,<br>such as Map/Reduce. We invite the submission of proposals related to<br>various aspects of Cloud computing elucidating novel approaches for<br>extending features of technologies and/or for advancing paradigms.<br><br>Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:<br><br>· Usability for developers of Cloud solutions <br>· Energy consumption <br>· Checkpointing container-based applications<br>· Distributed container repositories or app stores<br>· Repository technologies <br>· Sharing of technologies and data <br>· Data management in Clouds <br>· Security in Clouds<br>· Hybrid clouds, where approaches offload to public clouds when data<br> centers cannot support application<br>· The use of containers used to provide portability between different cloud<br> providers and environments<br>· Virtual appliance or container selection, based on pricing and/or energy<br> consumption and/or any other metric applicable to the application or<br> scenario at hand<br><br>The competitors should outline the nature of the problem that might range<br>from business, science to socio-lifestyle applications. Two categories of<br>proposals are invited. The first one addresses approaches, which have been<br>implemented and authors should present the methodology used to solve the<br>problem and the means of validation of the solution. The competitors must<br>also be able to demonstrate their approach at UCC 2015, if selected, using<br>an appropriate means e.g. a live demo, a simulation, emulation, or similar.<br>The second category asks for cutting-edge future work and the design of<br>the solution. The competitors must be able to present intended use cases<br>and a well-designed architecture.<br><br>From each category of those proposals, finalists will be selected to present<br>their work at the conference, including a demonstration of the system or<br>software for the first category. The judges will award a first prize winner<br>per category at the conference.<br><br>FORMAT OF PROPOSALS<br><br>Proposals may be up to 6 pages long in the standard IEEE paper format for<br>the first category of accomplished work and 2-4 pages long in the standard<br>IEEE paper format for the second category. The following information reflects<br>a rough outline for proposals:<br><br>· Precise definition of several qualitative and/or quantitative metrics that<br> will be utilized to measure the efficacy of the Cloud solution, e.g., energy<br> consumption, level of software maintenance, performance, or scalability.<br>· The software and hardware systems used/intended to be used to address<br> the problem.<br>· An analysis of the impact, significance, and novelty of the solution.<br><br>Proposals will be reviewed according to the criteria listed above and should<br>present unpublished work that it is not under consideration for publication<br>elsewhere. At least one member from each selected team is expected to give<br>a technical talk, to provide a demonstration of the system for the first<br>category, and answer questions posed by the judges. <br><br>PUBLICATION<br><br>Proposals selected for the presentation will be included in the proceedings<br>of the conference as short papers.<br><br>SUBMISSION<br><br>Cloud challenge 2015 proposals can be submitted at the conference<br>submission site<br><u><br><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uccchallenge2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uccchallenge2015</a><br></u><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>· Proposal papers for the first category due: 31 July, 2015 <br>· Finalists for the first category selected: 31 August, 2015<br>· Proposal papers for the second category due: 10 September, 2015<br>· Finalists for the second category selected: 17 September, 2015<br>· Camera ready proposal papers due: 21 September, 2015<br><br>CHAIRS<br><br>Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK<br>Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA<br><br>COMMITTEE<br><br>Adam Barker, University of St. Andrews, UK<br>Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA<br>Andrew Harrison, MedeAnalytics, USA/UK <br>Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland<br>Dagmar Krefting, University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany<br>Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, Italy <br>Cezary Mazurek, PSNC, Poznan, Poland<br>Chris Smith, Distributed Bio<br>Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia<br>Matthew Turk, NCSA, USA<br></font>
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