Dear ladies, gentlemen, professors, students, and colleagues,

 

Cloud computing has established the notion of a service as basic unit of abstraction. Services are "running in the cloud" and can be consumed via standard WebService interfaces. Services can be on different levels of abstraction - comparable to standard applications (Software-as-a-Service - SaaS), comparable to frameworks and programming platforms (Platform-as-a-Service - PaaS), or comparable to a (virtualized) IT infrastructure (Infrastructure-as-a-Service - IaaS). Although services provide convenient abstractions to their users, their implementation still requires some sort of infrastructure (behind the scenes).

Often, infrastructure is composed into hybrid clouds - a composition of two or more distinct cloud infrastructures (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities, but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load balancing between clouds). Cloud operating systems such as OpenStack try to standardize on managing cloud infrastructure - however, these efforts are far from complete.

The Hasso Plattner Institute’s annual symposium „Operating the Cloud“ focuses on all aspects of cloud infrastructures, such as resource management, energy management, load balancing, failover scenarios, service level agreements, and the like. We invite you to submit your research papers  of work-in-progress reports to the 4th HPI Symposium "Operating the Cloud" to be held on 2nd November 2016, in Potsdam, Germany. The symposium provides an opportunity for interaction and exchange among researchers and industry practitioners working in the area of cloud computing.  Please visit our webpage  for detailed information.

 

Please find the more details about the call for papers and the event online: https://hpi.de/cloud-symposium

 

Submission Guidelines

 

The program committee welcomes submissions of high quality research papers and practitioners' reports written in English and conforming to the IEEE (double-column) conference style. Submissions should not exceed eight (8) pages (including references, figures, and tables) and must not be published yet. Please use our LaTeX-template (see website) and upload your submissions via  EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=otc2016

 

 

Timetable

 

•         Paper submission:              September 26th, 2016

•         Author notification:           October 10th, 2016

•         Camera-ready version:     October 23rd, 2016

•         Scientific symposium:       November 2nd, 2016

 

 

Web:                     https://hpi.de/cloud-symposium

E-Mail:                  cloud-symposium@hpi.de

 

Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH, Potsdam

Amtsgericht Potsdam, HRB 12184

Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel

 

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