---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [GI-FB5-L] CfP: Trading-Based Parallelism and Distribution, PDP 2002 Special Session Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:03:35 +0200 From: hlu@zurich.ibm.com To: gi-fb5-l@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, ISWorld@listserv.heanet.ie

Call for Papers PDP 2002 Special Session on "Trading-Based Parallelism and Distribution"

Gran Canaria Island, Spain January 9th-11th, 2002

http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~hlu/PDP2002TradingSession

Organisers:

Chris Kenyon, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, chk@zurich.ibm.com Heiko Ludwig, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, hlu@zurich.ibm.com IBM Thomas J Watson Laboratory, hludwig@us.ibm.com (as of June 2, 2001)

Subject

Today?s distributed systems resource assignment strategies are mainly aimed at distribution issues within one organisation. Within the same organisation resource assignment to tasks is primarily done in a top-down, planed manner as the distribution authorities are assumed to have total control over all resources concerned. This applies equally to distributed storage and processing resources.

The advent of high bandwidth, low latency and cheap networking through the Internet and other cross-organisational networks - e.g. the GRID - now enables distribution of resources across organisational boundaries. This opens the opportunity for organisations to buy resources in the form of a service just as the need arises, or to sell capacity if currently not needed, i.e. to trade resources. This requires a new approach to distributed systems, in terms of additional infrastructure needed to facilitate the trading, in terms of designing a distributed system and in dealing with uncertainties associated with the dynamic selling and purchasing of resources. It also brings in the question of appropriate resource pricing either for revenue management or for derivative pricing, e.g. for pricing options on forward reservation.

Topics of interest

The objective of this special session is to investigate the emerging paradigm of trading-based parallelism and distribution. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

- Trading paradigms and protocols - Trading of computing resources - Trading of storage capacity - QoS parameters - Interdependencies between storage and computing distribution - Commodity price dynamics appropriate for different tradeables - Distribution contracts and contract languages - Commoditisation of computing and storage - Automated provisioning of resources - Dealing with demand flexibility - forwards and options on resources - Dealing with supply risks - hedging and other prevention mechanisms

Submission

Submissions should follow the general PDP recommendations. Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 4000 words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract. For an anonymous reviewing process, the first page of the paper should contain only the title and the abstract. We expect your submission in a common format (PS, PDF, DOC) via e-mail to chk@zurich.ibm.com.

Publication

The papers of this special session will be published as part of the main PDP proceedings by IEEE Computer Society.

Dates

Submission: July 30, 2001 Notification of acceptance: September 28, 2001 Final version: October 29, 2001 Conference: January 9-11, 2002

Program Committee

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA Fabio Casati, HP Labs, USA Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK Chris Kenyon, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, Switzerland/USA Christoph Weinhardt, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Konrad Klöckner, GMD, Germany

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