[BBLISA-announce] Call for Papers: IEEE International Workshop on Cloud Analytics (IWCA, 2014)

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*CALL FOR PAPERS
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*IEEE International Workshop on Cloud Analytics (IWCA, 2014) *
(*http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich/IWCA-1/*), March 11, Boston, USA, 2014

in conjunction with

International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E, 2014)
(http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2014/) Boston, USA, March 11-14, 2014

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*DEADLINES**

Paper submission due: November 24, 2013
Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2013
Final camera-ready papers due: January 17, 2014



**GOAL OF THE WORKSHOP**

Cloud computing promises unlimited, cost-effective and agile computing
resources for users. However, this new computing paradigm also poses a
unique set of challenges to both cloud providers and users. On the one
hand, cloud providers need to ensure that resources being provided are
highly available and deliver high performance, while optimizing cloud
infrastructure to reduce their operational costs. On the other hand, cloud
users need to ensure that their applications receive the best performance
from the cloud, while maintaining their budgetary constraints and the terms
of any Service Level Agreements (SLAs) they have with their cloud
providers.

Given the scale of cloud deployment, systematic analytical approaches are
critically needed to provide insights to both providers and users to
achieve their respective goals. For instance, cloud providers need to
constantly be aware of the running status and/or anomalies in functionality
from their cloud, to be able to quickly fix any issues that may arise, to
adjust physical resource allocations to ensure that their customers get
best performance, or plan which services to offer to get the best return on
investment. Similarly, cloud users need to understand the workload to be
deployed into the cloud, plan the deployment in a cost-effective way, or
ascertain the flexibility and service quality provided by different cloud
environments and use this to decide their deployment strategy. Analytics
can play a pivotal role in all these scenarios. By gathering insights from
the large amount of data from the cloud, both cloud providers and consumers
can develop analytical approaches to achieving their respective objectives
in spite of the scale that clouds provide.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers in the
related fields to
exchange ideas, and share their experiences in developing analytics to
better deploy, operate and use the cloud. Specifically, we seek and wish to
foster research contributions that draw on statistical analysis, analytical
modeling, and machine learning to develop novel solutions in this problem
area.


**TOPICS OF INTEREST**

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cloud workload measurement and analysis
• Workload behavior modeling
• Analytics for application deployment in cloud
• Performance modeling of cloud applications
• Cloud performance benchmarking
• Resource utilization optimization
• Tracing and problem identification in cloud systems
• Log and monitoring data analysis
• Problem diagnosis and troubleshooting
• Security and intrusion detection
• Reliability engineering, fault management, and disaster recovery
• Design and implementation of analytics systems
• Business optimization in cloud operations


**PAPER SUBMISSION**

The IWCA workshop invites authors to submit original and unpublished work.
Papers should not exceed 6 pages in 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.

• Electronic submission only via the IWCA14 Submission
site<http://london.csl.toronto.edu/IC2E14/conferences/IWCA14/>
• All selected papers will be peer-reviewed
• For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register and
present the paper at the workshop
• All accepted papers will be published with IEEE Xplore.
• We will submit all accepted workshop papers for possible publication in a
special issue of the International Journal on Big Data
Intelligence<http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijbdi>
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**ORGANIZING COMMITTEE**

Co-Chairs:
Shu Tao (IBM T J Watson Research)
Rich Wolski (UCSB)

Publicity Chair:
Rahul Singh (IBM T J Watson Research)

Program Committee:
Theophilus Benson (Duke University)
Yanpei Chen (Cloudera)
Yuan Chen (HP Labs)
David Irwin (UMass, Amherst)
Thilo Kielmann (VU University, Amsterdam)
Ningfang Mi (Northeastern University)
Lavanya Ramakrishnan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Prashant Shenoy (UMass, Amherst)
Christopher Charles Stewart (Ohio State University)
Evgenia Smirni (William and Mary)
Chunqiang Tang (Facebook)
Jon Weissman (University of Minnesota)
Timothy Wood (George Washington University)
Lydia Chen (IBM Zurich Research)
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