[BBLISA-announce] Call for Participation - The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC-2014)

[Ivan Rodero]

CAC 2014 Call for Participation
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The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC-2014)

Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences

Collocated with

The 8th IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing System Conference
The 14th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference

Imperial College, London, September 8-12, 2014

http://www.autonomic-conference.org

Join our LinkedIn group at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=7446715&trk=anet_ug_hm

Overview

Enterprise-scale cloud platforms and services systems, present common and cross-cutting challenges in maximizing power efficiency and performance while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior, and at the same time responding appropriately to environmental and system changes such as hardware failures and varying workloads. Autonomic computing systems address the challenges in managing these environments by integrating monitoring, decision-processing and actuation capabilities to autonomously manage resources and applications from high-level policies. Research in cloud and autonomic computing spans a variety of areas, from computer systems, architecture, middleware services, databases and data-stores, and networks to machine learning and control theory. The purpose of the 2nd International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these disciplines to address the multiple facets of self-management in computing systems and applications. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to cloud and autonomic computing and their intersections, and particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different research areas or report on prototype systems or experiences. The goal is establish a premier international forum focused on the latest research, applications, and technologies aimed at making cloud and autonomic computing systems and services easy to design, to deploy and to implement, while achieving the simultaneous goals to be self-manageable, self-regulating and scalable with little involvement of human or system administrators.
 
The 2014 CAC conference will be organized around 3 crosscutting themes: (1) Clouds and Autonomic Computing: NaaS/IaaS - Network and Infrastructure; (2) Clouds and Autonomic Computing: PaaS, Middleware, Tools, Security and Privacy; and (3) Clouds and Autonomic Computing: SaaS- Applications and Performance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Autonomic Cloud Computing:
	* Self-management cloud services
	* Autonomic cloud applications and services
	* Autonomic virtual cloud resources and services
	* Cloud workload characterization and prediction
	* Monitoring and analysis of behavior of cloud resources and services
	* Theoretical frameworks for modeling and analysis autonomic computing systems and services
Autonomics for Extreme Scales
	* Large scale autonomic systems
	* Self-optimizing and self-healing at petacomputing scale
	* Self-managing middleware and tools for extreme scales
	* Experiences in autonomic systems and applications at extreme scales (peta/exa-computing)
Autonomic Cloud Cybersecurity
	* Self-protection techniques of computing systems, networks and applications
	* Metrics to evaluate and performance of self-protection algorithms
	* Anomaly behavior analysis of autonomic systems and services
	* Data mining, stochastic analysis and prediction of autonomic systems and applications
	* Metrics to characterize and quantify the cybersecurity algorithms (confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of autonomic systems
	* Datasets and benchmarks to compare and evaluate different self-protection techniques
Autonomic Cloud Tools and Applications
	* Benchmarks and tools to evaluate and compare different architectures to implement autonomic cloud systems
	* High performance autonomic applications
	* Self* applications in science and engineering
	* Self* Human Machine Interface
	* Full visibility into the behavior of autonomic systems and services
	* Knowledge representation and visualization of behavior of autonomic systems and services

The conference program and keynote speakers can be found at http://www.autonomic-conference.org

The online registration website can be found at https://www.regonline.com/CAC14


Conference Organizers

GENERAL CHAIR
Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana Univ., USA
 
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Franck Cappello, ANL, UIUC, USA
Masoud Sadjadi, FIU, USA 

PUBLICATION CHAIR
Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA

POSTERS CHAIR
Javier Diaz-Montes, Rutgers University, USA
 
WORKSHOP CHAIR
Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida
 
INDUSTRY CHAIR
John Howie, Cloud Security Alliance, UK
 
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA
 
STEERING COMMITTEE
Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USA
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA
John Howie, Cloud Security Alliance, UK
Jeanna Matthews, Clarkson University, USA
Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA
Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Tehcnology, Sweeden
Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University, USA
 
SPONSOR
NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing, UA

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Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)                                                         
NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)          
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey   
Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 624                                                       
94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
Phone: (732) 993-8837
Fax:   (732) 445-0593
Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu
WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero
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