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Sixth International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC6) 2020
Part of ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, Dec 7-11,
2020.
The workshop will take place in TU Delft, Netherlands.
Over the last four to five years, Serverless Computing
(Serverless) has
gained an enthusiastic following in industry as a compelling
paradigm for
the deployment of cloud applications, and is enabled by the recent
shift of
enterprise application architectures to containers and
microservices. Many
of the major cloud vendors have released serverless platforms,
including
Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Microsoft Azure Functions,
IBM Cloud
Functions. Open source projects are gaining popularity in
providing
serverless computing as a service. In particular Kubernetes gained
in
popularity in enterprise and in academia. Several open source
projects such
as OpenFaaS and Knative aim to provide developers with serverless
experience on top of Kubernetes by hiding low-level details of
Kubernetes
and add new capabilities such as supporting event-driven
serverless
cloud-native applications. This workshop brings together
researchers and
practitioners to discuss their experiences and thoughts on future
directions of serverless research.
Serverless architectures offer different tradeoffs in terms of
control,
cost, and flexibility compared to distributed applications built
on an
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) substrate. For example, a
serverless
architecture requires developers to more carefully consider the
resources
used by their code (time to execute, memory used, etc.) when
modularizing
their applications. This is in contrast to concerns around
latency,
scalability, and elasticity, which is where significant
development effort
has traditionally been spent when building cloud services. In
addition,
tools and techniques to monitor and debug applications aren't
applicable in
serverless architectures, and new approaches are needed. As well,
test and
development pipelines may need to be adapted. Another decision
that
developers face is the appropriateness of the serverless ecosystem
to their
application requirements. A rich ecosystem of services built into
the
platform is typically easier to compose and would offer better
performance.
However, composing external services may be unavoidable, and in
such cases,
many of the benefits of serverless disappear, including
performance and
availability guarantees. This presents an important research
challenge, and
it is not clear how existing results and best practices, such as
workflow
composition research, can be applied to composition in a
serverless
environment.
Authors are invited to submit research papers, experience papers,
demonstrations, or position papers.
The latest version of this CFP is available at
http://serverlesscomputing.org/wosc6/
Topics
This workshop solicits papers from both academia and industry on
the state
of practice and state of the art in serverless computing. Topics
of
interest include but are not limited to:
Infrastructure and network optimizations for serverless
applications
Debugging serverless applications
Programming models
Use cases, experiences
Benchmarks
Cost models, pricing models, and economics of serverless
DevOps
Other topics related to serverless computing
Important Dates
Paper Submission: September 14, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: September 21, 2019
Final Camera-Ready Manuscript (Hard Deadline): October 10, 2019
Author registration deadline: TBD
Conference: December 7-11, 2020
Papers and Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished
research/application
papers that are not being considered in another forum.
Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and
may not
exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using ACM SIGPLAN
style,
which can be found on the ACM template page. The page limit
contains all
the content, including bibliography, appendix, etc.
Submitted papers must adhere to the formatting instructions of the
ACM
SIGPLAN style, which can found on the ACM template page. The font
size has
to be set to 10pt.
Note that submissions must be double-blind: authors’ names must
not appear,
and authors must make a good faith attempt to anonymize their
submissions.
The Middleware conference organizers will provide companion
proceedings
including all workshop papers, which will be available in the ACM
Digital
Library. This is subject to the availability of their camera-ready
papers
by October 16, 2020.
Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. All
manuscripts will be
reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical
strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of
presentation,
and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers
conforming
to the above guidelines can be submitted through the paper
submission
system powered by HotCRP (
https://wosc6.hotcrp.com/).
All submitted manuscripts (following MIDDLEWARE conference
requirements on
formatting and page limits) will be peer-reviewed by at least 3
program
committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation
will appear
in the conference proceedings as well as in the ACM Digital
Library.
Workshop co-chairs
Paul Castro, IBM Research
Pedro García López, University Rovira i Virgili
Vatche Ishakian, IBM Research
Vinod Muthusamy, IBM Research
Aleksander Slominski, IBM Research
Steering Committee
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University & Formerly Microsoft
Research
Arno Jacobsen, MSRG (Middleware Systems Research Group)
Program Committee (tentative)
Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Azer Bestavros, Boston University
Flavio Esposito, Saint Louis University
Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University
Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University & Formerly Microsoft
Research
Pedro Garcia Lopez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
Arno Jacobsen, MSRG (Middleware Systems Research Group)
Wes Lloyd, University of Washington Tacoma
Višnja Križanović, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Pietro Michiardi, Eurecom
Lucas Nussbaum, LORIA, France
Maciej Pawlik, Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET of the University
of
Science and Technology in Cracow
Per Persson, Ericsson Research
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College
Rodric Rabbah, Apache OpenWhisk
Eric Rozner, University of Colorado Boulder
Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara
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