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Third Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2013) (http://mocs.disi.unibo.it)

July 7th, 2013 Split, Croatia

organized in association with the Eighteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2013) (http://www.ieee-iscc.org/)

Sponsored by (pending approval): IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society

Endorsed by: IEEE Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM)

In cooperation with: IEEE Technical SubCommittee on Green Communications and Computing (TSCGCC)

The vision of Cloud computing is becoming a reality thanks to the recent advances in several significant computer and communications research areas, spanning from grid/virtualization/utility computing to Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Computing (SOC). After the initial hype, at the current stage, several ongoing research efforts are focusing on the several open management aspects of the Cloud, such as interoperability, scalability, reliability, power management, and confidentiality/auditability, with the final goal to make Cloud technologies and services more mature so to boost and to facilitate a more widespread industrial uptake of Cloud systems. Despite the several recent efforts on Cloud systems, it is still unclear whether current solutions are able to withstand the abrupt and unpredictably changes imposed by the emergent Cloud application scenarios, where services and the whole software stacks (from the kernel upward) have to scale up and down fast by exploiting highly distributed and heterogeneous virtualized resources.

The ambition and mission of MoCS 2013 is to put on the foreground all above issues, and to bring together different ongoing research efforts on the management of Cloud systems. This year, special focus will be on the challenging management issues related to the delivery of efficient Green solutions for the processing of real-world Big Data knowledge base and streams over the Cloud.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Novel adaptive management solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost-effective Cloud provision, at all software stack layers; * New models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the host level and within/between data centres (intra-/inter-domain); * Analytical and simulation models and tools to measure systems ability to scale and to achieve relevant energy savings; * New methods and tools able to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between performance, energy consumption, safety, and security; * Emerging standards for interoperability (resource virtualization, specific computing interfaces, etc.), also between public and private Clouds; * Experimentation testbeds, field trials and empirical evaluations, and measurement studies.

Important Dates Submission of research papers due: February 18, 2013 Notification of paper acceptance: March 19, 2013 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 13, 2013 Workshop date: July 7, 2013

Paper submission Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should be no more than 7 pages, double column, IEEE style including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. Please use either Word (http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/CPS/ files/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip) or LaTeX (http://www.computer.org/cms/ Computer.org/CPS/files/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip ) templates and instructions provided by IEEE. Papers must be submitted by February 18, 2013 using EDAS (http://edas.info/N14211). Papers meeting these requirements will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers must present original and unpublished work and should not be currently under review by any other conference or journal. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the workshop Web site.

The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2013 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org).

Organizing Committee

Workshop Co-Chairs Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy (luca.foschini@unibo.it)

Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada (kantarci@site.uottawa.ca)

Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy (mvillari@unime.it)

Publicity Chair Giuseppe Cardone, University of Bologna, Italy (giuseppe.cardone@unibo.it)

Steering Committee Chair Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy (antonio.corradi@unibo.it)