<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems - BigSystem2015<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://2015.bigsystem.org/" class="">http://2015.bigsystem.org/</a><br class="">June 16, 2014, Portland, Oregon<br class="">co-located with ACM HPDC 2015 and ACM FCRC 2015<br class=""><br class="">With the emerging technology breakthrough in computing, networking, and storage, the boundary of systems is undergoing fundamental change and is expected to logically disappear. It is the time to rethink system design and management without boundaries towards software-defined ecosystems, i.e., the BigSystem. The basic principles of software-defined mechanisms and policies have witnessed great success in clouds and networking. We are expecting broader, deeper, and greater evolution of these concepts and technologies, and a confluence towards holistic software-defined ecosystems.<br class=""><br class="">The BigSystem 2015 workshop provides an open forum for researchers, practitioners, and system builders to exchange ideas, discuss open problems and challenges, and shape roadmaps towards realizing the vision of the BigSystem. <br class=""><br class="">Topics of Interest<br class=""><br class=""> * Architecture of software-defined ecosystems<br class=""> * Management of software-defined ecosystems<br class=""> * Software-defined infrastructure (computing, networking, storage)<br class=""> * Software-defined services<br class=""> * Software-defined security<br class=""> * Software-defined cyber-physical systems<br class=""> * Virtualization<br class=""> * Composable systems<br class=""> * Hybrid systems, cross-layer design and management<br class=""> * Grand challenges in big systems<br class=""> * Big data infrastructure and engineering<br class=""> * HPC, big data, and computational science & engineering applications<br class=""> * Autonomic computing<br class=""> * Cloud computing and services<br class=""> * Emerging technologies<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">General Chairs<br class=""><br class=""> Dennis Gannon, Microsoft Research<br class=""> Chung-sheng Li, IBM Research<br class=""> Manish Parashar, Rutgers University<br class=""><br class="">Program Chairs<br class=""><br class=""> Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida<br class=""> Kuang-Ching Wang, Clemson University<br class=""> Rich Wolski, UCSB<br class=""><br class="">Steering Committee<br class=""><br class=""> Rajkumar Buyya, U. of Melbourne<br class=""> Jeff Chase, Duke University<br class=""> Jose Fortes, University of Florida<br class=""> Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University<br class=""> Dennis Gannon, Microsoft Research<br class=""> Hai Jin, HUST<br class=""> Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research<br class=""> Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida<br class=""> Manish Parashar, Rutgers University<br class=""><br class="">Publicity Chairs<br class=""><br class=""> Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University<br class=""> Ze Yu, University of Florida<br class=""><br class="">Web Chairs<br class=""><br class=""> Min Li, University of Florida<br class=""><br class="">Technical Program Committee<br class=""><br class=""> Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University<br class=""> Divy Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara<br class=""> Viraj Bhat, Yahoo!<br class=""> Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic <br class=""> Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University<br class=""> Yong Chen, Texas Tech University<br class=""> Peter Dinda, Northwestern University<br class=""> Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University<br class=""> Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University<br class=""> William Gropp, UIUC<br class=""> Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University<br class=""> Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia<br class=""> Thilo Kilemann, Vrije University<br class=""> John Lange, University of Pittsburgh<br class=""> Wes Lloyd, Colorado State University<br class=""> David Meyer, Brocade<br class=""> Rajesh Narayanan, Dell<br class=""> Dan Nurmi, Hewlett Packard Corporation<br class=""> D.K. Panda, Ohio State University<br class=""> Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University<br class=""> Neil Soman, EMC Corporation<br class=""> Martin Swany, Indiana University<br class=""> Shu Tao, IBM Corporation<br class=""> Tai Won Um, ETRI<br class=""> Edward Walker, Whitworth University<br class=""> Jun Wang, University of Central Florida<br class=""> Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota<br class=""> Vinod Yegneswaran, SRI International<br class=""> Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""><br class="">Paper Submission Guidelines<br class=""><br class="">Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 8 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Short position papers (4 pages) are also encouraged. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (double column text using single-spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch page) and submitted via EasyChair. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A few papers will be accepted as posters. Selected distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for a special issue in a high quality journal.<br class="">EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigsystem2015 <br class=""><br class="">Important Dates<br class=""><br class=""> Abstract Due<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Feb. 16, 2015<br class=""> Papers Due<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Feb. 23, 2015<br class=""> Notification<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Mar. 31, 2015<br class=""> Camera-Ready<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>April 15th, 2015<br class=""> Workshop Date<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>June 16, 2015<br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">=============================================================<br class="">Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.<br class="">Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) <br class="">NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)<br class="">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey <br class="">Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 624 <br class="">110 Frelinghuysen Road<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019<br class="">Phone: (732) 993-8837<br class="">Fax: (732) 445-0593<br class="">Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu<br class="">WWW: <a href="http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero" class="">http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero</a><br class="">=============================================================<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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