<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 class="">=======================================================================</div><div class=""> CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div class="">=======================================================================</div><div class="">International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems – BigSystem2015</div><div class=""><a href="http://2015.bigsystem.org/" class="">http://2015.bigsystem.org/</a></div><div class="">June 16, 2014, Portland, Oregon, </div><div class="">co-located with ACM HPDC 2015 and ACM FCRC 2015</div><div class="">=======================================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Scopes:</div><div class="">With the emerging technology breakthrough in computing, networking, and </div><div class="">storage, the boundary of systems is undergoing fundamental change and is </div><div class="">expected to logically disappear. It is the time to rethink system design and </div><div class="">management without boundaries towards software-defined ecosystems, i.e., the </div><div class="">BigSystem. The basic principles of software-defined mechanisms and policies </div><div class="">have witnessed great success in clouds and networking. We are expecting </div><div class="">broader, deeper, and greater evolution of these concepts and technologies, and </div><div class="">a confluence towards holistic software-defined ecosystems.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The BigSystem 2015 workshop provides an open forum for researchers, </div><div class="">practitioners, and system builders to exchange ideas, discuss open problems </div><div class="">and challenges, and shape roadmaps towards realizing the vision of the </div><div class="">BigSystem. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Topics of Interest:</div><div class=""> * Architecture of software-defined ecosystems</div><div class=""> * Management of software-defined ecosystems</div><div class=""> * Software-defined infrastructure (computing, networking, storage)</div><div class=""> * Software-defined services</div><div class=""> * Software-defined security</div><div class=""> * Software-defined cyber-physical systems</div><div class=""> * Virtualization</div><div class=""> * Composable systems</div><div class=""> * Hybrid systems, cross-layer design and management</div><div class=""> * Grand challenges in big systems</div><div class=""> * Big data infrastructure and engineering</div><div class=""> * HPC, big data, and computational science & engineering applications</div><div class=""> * Autonomic computing</div><div class=""> * Cloud computing and services</div><div class=""> * Emerging technologies</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important Dates:</div><div class=""> Abstract Due Feb. 16, 2015, extended to Mar. 1st, 2015</div><div class=""> Papers Due Feb. 23, 2015, extended to Mar. 1st, 2015</div><div class=""> Notification Mar. 31, 2015</div><div class=""> Camera-Ready April 15th, 2015</div><div class=""> Workshop Date June 16, 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">General Chairs:</div><div class=""> Dennis Gannon, Microsoft Research</div><div class=""> Chung-sheng Li, IBM Research</div><div class=""> Manish Parashar, Rutgers University</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Program Chairs:</div><div class=""> Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida</div><div class=""> Kuang-Ching Wang, Clemson University</div><div class=""> Rich Wolski, UCSB</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Steering Committee:</div><div class=""> Rajkumar Buyya, U. of Melbourne</div><div class=""> Jeff Chase, Duke University</div><div class=""> Jose Fortes, University of Florida</div><div class=""> Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University</div><div class=""> Dennis Gannon, Microsoft Research</div><div class=""> Hai Jin, HUST</div><div class=""> Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research</div><div class=""> Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida</div><div class=""> Manish Parashar, Rutgers University</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Technical Program Committee:</div><div class=""> Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University</div><div class=""> Divy Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara</div><div class=""> Viraj Bhat, Yahoo!</div><div class=""> Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic </div><div class=""> Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University</div><div class=""> Yong Chen, Texas Tech University</div><div class=""> Peter Dinda, Northwestern University</div><div class=""> Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University</div><div class=""> Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University</div><div class=""> William Gropp, UIUC</div><div class=""> Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University</div><div class=""> Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia</div><div class=""> Thilo Kilemann, Vrije University</div><div class=""> John Lange, University of Pittsburgh</div><div class=""> Wes Lloyd, Colorado State University</div><div class=""> David Meyer, Brocade</div><div class=""> Rajesh Narayanan, Dell</div><div class=""> Dan Nurmi, Hewlett Packard Corporation</div><div class=""> D.K. Panda, Ohio State University</div><div class=""> Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University</div><div class=""> Neil Soman, EMC Corporation</div><div class=""> Martin Swany, Indiana University</div><div class=""> Shu Tao, IBM Corporation</div><div class=""> Tai Won Um, ETRI</div><div class=""> Edward Walker, Whitworth University</div><div class=""> Jun Wang, University of Central Florida</div><div class=""> Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota</div><div class=""> Vinod Yegneswaran, SRI International</div><div class=""> Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Paper Submission Guidelines:</div><div class="">Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 8 pages in PDF </div><div class="">format, including figures and references. Short position papers (4 pages) are </div><div class="">also encouraged. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style </div><div class="">(double column text using single-spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch page) </div><div class="">and submitted via EasyChair. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes </div><div class="">as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the </div><div class="">workshop proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A </div><div class="">few papers will be accepted as posters. Selected distinguished papers, after </div><div class="">further revisions, will be considered for a special issue in a high quality </div><div class="">journal. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submit here: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigsystem2015" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigsystem2015</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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