-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] LSDVE@Europar2013 Call for Papers Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:16:10 +0200 From: Laura Ricci ricci@di.unipi.it Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

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CALL FOR PAPERS** ** **FIRST WORKSHOP ON "Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Clouds and P2P (LSDVE)" *

Aachen, Germany August 27th 2013 LSDVE Workshop http://www.di.unipi.it/%7Ericci/LSDVE.html held in conjunction ofEuropar 2013 http://www.europar2013.org/

*Workshop Theme:*

Distributed Virtual Environments (DVE) enable geographically distant users to communicate, interact and collaborate within a virtual environment. Collaborative multimedia applications, networked computer games, distributed simulation environments, Collaborative-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) are examples of DVEs. In particular, online gaming entertainment has acquired lots of popularity in the last years from both industry and research communities. The market size of online gaming has received a 5 billion $ evaluation in 2010, while the number of total users have reached around 20 million worldwide. With the emergence of readily available cloud platforms, game developers have the opportunity of deploying their networked games in the cloud, or supporting their network solutions with hybrid P2P/Server-Client architectures with dynamically adapting cloud support. This brings possibilities to smaller developers that were reserved for the big studios until recently. Whether the existing cloud architectures are suitable for such high-interactivity loads, is not yet properly documented, and this workshop will encourage research into these basic questions. The LSDVE workshop aims to provide a venue for researchers to present and discuss important aspects of Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments. The workshop's aim is to investigate open challenges such as latency reduction/hiding techniques for guaranteeing real time constraints, efficient management of networked resources, large-scale processing of user information, privacy and security issues, state consistency/persistence. The workshop will both present assessment of current state and introduce further directions.

*Topics of interest include but are not limited to: *

* Cloud based DVE * Exploiting Cloud Elasticity for DVE * Resource provisioning and Quality of Service * P2P Overlays for DVE * Hybrid P2P/Cloud Architectures * Latency Reduction and Hiding * Scaling techniques * Consistency/Persistence issues * Massive-scale state and user data processing * Security and Privacy * Content Streaming * Integration of Mobile/Cloud platforms for DVE * DVE Implementation: parallel/distributed frameworks * multi-platform DVE support (phones, tablets, laptop,...) * Performance characterization, modelling and benchmarking of real large-scale DVE

*Organizing Commettee :*

Laura Ricci: Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. Alexandru Iosup: TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands. Andreas Petlund: Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Radu Prodan: Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck,Austria

*Program Commette:*

Maha Abdallah, University of Paris VI, France Emanuele Carlini, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Massimo Coppola, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy Abennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Holland Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Andreas Petlund, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Shun Yun Hu, National Central University, Taiwan Alexey Vinel, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

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*KEY DATES*

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: July 8 , 2013 Submission of Camera Ready: October 3 2013 Workshop: August 27 2013

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All accepted and presented papers will be included in the Workshop proceedings that will be published in a separate LNCS Euro-Par 2013 Workshop volume after the conference. Full papers should not exceed 10 pages in Springer LNCS style.

For more information, please contact the organizers or visit the workshop website: http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/LSDVE.html http://www.di.unipi.it/%7Ericci/LSDVE.html