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<div><b>From:</b> Gabor Kecskemeti <<a href="mailto:kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu">kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> November 30, 2012, 10:46:18 AM GMT+01:00<br>
<b>To:</b> <<a href="mailto:distributed-computing-announce@datasys.cs.iit.edu">distributed-computing-announce@datasys.cs.iit.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>[DistComp] Deadline extension for the Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds</b><br>
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<div style="text-align: center;">*** Call for Papers ***</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">Springer Journal of Grid Computing</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.springer.com/journal/10723">http://www.springer.com/journal/10723</a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Application Programming Interfaces for IaaS Clouds</b></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cac.hpcc.ttu.edu/jogc/cloud-interop-2012/">http://cac.hpcc.ttu.edu/jogc/cloud-interop-2012/</a></div>
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The Special Issue on Interoperability, Federation Frameworks and Application Programming Interfaces for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Clouds will highlight foundational standards and application programmer interfaces (APIs) useful for large- scale, scalable
distributed computing. This issue will provide the community with dedicated forum, within the prestigious Springer Journal of Grid Computing, for presenting new research, development, and deployment efforts in running interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems.
Priority will be given to submissions that focus on presenting solutions to challenges faced by current and future infrastructure cloud toolkits and APIs, and on frameworks that allow their use across a broad range of platforms and user communities.<br>
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Large commercial cloud providers and standards organizations, multi-user and multi- organization infrastructure providers and users are welcome to submit to this issue to provide formal descriptions of their existing and proposed solutions. The increasingly
large range of choices and availability of IaaS toolkits has also allowed creation of cloud solutions and frameworks suitable for private deployment and practical use even on smaller scales. As a result, many academic infrastructure service providers have
started to their transition to add cloud resources to their previously existing campus and shared grid deployments. To be successful, such solutions should also support the unification of cloud and/or cloud+grid solutions in a seamless, preferably interoperable
way. Priority in selection will be given to papers that document and present measured comparisons or practical information on realistic, real-world solutions.<br>
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We believe this venue will be an excellent place to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and present architectures and service frameworks to achieve highly interoperable federated cloud infrastructures.<br>
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<b>PROPOSED EXAMPLE TOPICS<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Case studies of interoperable and federated solutions across multiple infrastructures<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Application Programmer Interfaces and standards for interoperability and federation<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Experience from operating infrastructure clouds as part of one or more federations<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Practical experiences in energy-efficiency or other benefits from cloud federation<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Virtual machine deployment and migration solutions across cloud boundaries<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Federation-compatible service agreements, SLAs and quality of service control systems<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Virtual machine scheduling and management algorithms in federated systems<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Federation and interoperability challenges of mixed grid and cloud systems<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Construction and management of cross-domain HPC virtual infrastructures<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Accounting and identity management solutions that support federation-level models<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Performance evaluation and comparison across multiple federated cloud systems<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• New programming models and standards for interoperable cloud computing systems<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Scalability issues and comparisons of different cloud federation approaches<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Security problems, considerations and solutions for hybrid mixed public/private clouds<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Storage management, focusing on interoperability and multi cloud placement<br>
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<b>Important Dates<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Papers Due:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>November 30, 2012 ----> <b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff1e16">Extended to December 15, 2012</font></b><br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• First Round Decisions:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>February 1, 2013<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Major Revisions if needed:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>April 1, 2013<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Second Round Decisions:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>June 1, 2013<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Minor Revisions if needed:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>July 15, 2013<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Final Decision:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>July 30, 2013<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Publication Date:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>September 2013<br>
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<b>PAPER SUBMISSION<br>
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Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished technical papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the special issue topics of interest.
Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. Submitted papers may not exceed 20 single-spaced double-column
pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (1" margins), including figures, tables, and references; note that accepted papers will likely be between 15 to 20 pages, depending on a variety of factors. <br>
Manuscripts must be formatted along the guidelines for authors of the Journal of Grid Computing: <a href="http://www.springer.com/journal/10723">http://www.springer.com/journal/10723</a><br>
Manuscripts must be submitted online using the site: <a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/grid">http://www.editorialmanager.com/grid</a><br>
Please indicate that your manuscript is targeted to the Cloud Federation special issue.<br>
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Special Issue Guest Editors<br>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Alan Sill (<a href="mailto:alan.sill@ttu.edu">alan.sill@ttu.edu</a>), Texas Tech University & Open Grid Forum<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Gabor Kecskemeti (<a href="mailto:kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu">kecskemeti.gabor@sztaki.mta.hu</a>), MTA SZTAKI, Hungary<br>
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Editors-in-Chief<br>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences & University of Westminster<br>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>• Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory<br>
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Gabor Kecskemeti<br>
Research Fellow<br>
Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems - <a href="http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu">
www.lpds.sztaki.hu</a><br>
MTA SZTAKI <br>
Computer and Automation Research Institute - <a href="http://www.sztaki.hu">www.sztaki.hu</a><br>
Hungarian Academy of Sciences - <a href="http://www.mta.hu">www.mta.hu</a><br>
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Cloud computing group - <a href="https://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/CloudResearch">https://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/CloudResearch</a><br>
Personal research webpage - <a href="http://users.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~kecskemeti">
http://users.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~kecskemeti</a><br>
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