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1st International Workshop on Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB 2013)

Workshop co-located with the 11th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing Berlin, Germany, December 2-5, 2013, http://www.icsoc.org/

https://sites.google.com/site/cloudbrokerworkshop/

============================================= Abstract submission deadline: 23 August 2013 Deadline for Paper Submission: 30 August 2013 Paper Acceptance Notification: 14 October 2013 Camera Ready Paper & Copyright: 31 October 2013 =============================================

ABOUT CSB 2013 ----------------------------- The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB 2013) looks to a future in which a multi-cloud ecosystem exists, within which many cloud providers and consumers interact to discover, negotiate and use software services. Supporting this ecosystem are cloud brokers, whose role is to bring together providers and consumers, by offering service portals with added value for all parties.

A central feature of the broker's role will be to assure quality control (both functional and non-functional), service continuity (failure prevention and recovery; service substitution) and market competition (arbitrage; service optimization; service customization).

In this workshop we invite contributions which tackle theoretical, technical and application aspects of Cloud Service Brokerage.

TOPICS OF INTEREST ----------------------------- Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to,methods and mechanisms for:

Service specification - current service description languages are only up to the task of describing the service interface; what is needed are abstract languages to describe the complete behaviour and performance of services, such that it can be determined whether one service is formally substitutable by another;

Service functional testing - current service testing is mostly developer-based and in-house; what is needed is a means of generating standard test sets from functional specifications of services, which can be grounded for each of the service protocol technologies described above;

Service performance monitoring - current service monitoring technology is limited to SLAs for response-times and availability of end-points; what is needed is a more sophisticated data fusion approach with trend prediction, supporting service optimisation and substitution.

Service optimisation - current service platforms offer single-vendor services with failover substitution, or manual selection from several providers; what is needed is a means of offering multi-vendor services on a competitive basis, with automatic arbitrage between different providers.

Service governance - current services and platforms are developed following in-house software processes; what is needed are explicit standards and methods for governing the whole service lifecycle, ensuring common quality standards and interfaces, supporting convergent service development and service customisation.

Other topics relevant to the Cloud Broker role will be considered; please note that service security is out of scope, being a matter for the Cloud Auditor role

IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Abstract submission deadline: 23 August 2013 Deadline for Paper Submission: 30 August 2013 Paper Acceptance Notification: 14 October 2013 Camera Ready Paper & Copyright: 31 October 2013

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ----------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers written in English. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, and will be published by Springer-Verlag. Full research papers should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style format including all text, references, appendices, and figures.

Please submit papers in PDF via EasyChair.

At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Please see details at the ICSOC 2013 website.

----------------------------- Chaired by: ----------------------------- Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Anthony J H Simons, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Iraklis Paraskakis, South-East European Research Centre, Thessaloniki, Greece

----------------------------- Programme Committee (partial list-others to be added) ----------------------------- Konstantinos Bratanis, SEERC, Greece Franck Fleurey, SINTEF, Norway Andreas Friesen, SAP Research, Germany Panagiotis Gouvas, SingularLogic, Greece Mariam Kiran, University of Sheffield, UK Dimitrios Kourtesis, SEERC, Greece Volker Kuttruff, CAS Software, Germany Brice Morin, SINTEF, Norway Antonia Schwichtenberg, CAS Software, Germany Yiannis Verginadis, ICCS NTUA, Greece -----------------------------

Contact us For any questions please use the contact information below:

Dr Anthony J H Simons Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court, 211 Portobello Sheffield, S1 4DP United Kingdom

email: A dot J dot Simons at shef dot ac dot uk -----------------------------

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