-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Papers - Fifth International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:47:53 -0500 From: Vatche Ishakian vatchei@gmail.com To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

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Fifth International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC) 2019 Part of 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019) The workshop will take place in Dallas, Texas, USA.

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 micro-services. Many of the major cloud vendors, have released serverless platforms, including Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Microsoft Azure Functions, IBM Cloud Functions. There is, however, little attention from the research community. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss their experiences and thoughts on future directions.

Serverless architectures offer different tradeoffs in terms of control, cost, and flexibility. For example, this 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 are 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 https://www.serverlesscomputing.org/wosc5/cfp/

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: March 25, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2019 Final Camera-Ready Manuscript: May 1, 2019 Author registration deadline: TBD Conference: July 7-10, 2019

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 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style ), including figures, tables, and references. https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

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 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2019 select "Workshop on Serverless Computing" Track after clicking New Submission (top right button in toolbar).

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers (from both tracks and workshops) with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library.

Review policy

IEEE Policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge, which that access provides. Contents of abstracts submitted to conference program committees should be regarded as privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The Conference Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice.

Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers. An author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference, or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be present at the meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its presentation by an author, the program chair should be informed on time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be made. In some cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance registration together with the submission of the final manuscript.

Workshop co-chairs

Paul Castro, IBM Research Vatche Ishakian, Bentley University Vinod Muthusamy, IBM Research Aleksander Slominski, IBM Research

Steering Committee (tentative)

Roger Barga, Amazon Web Services 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) Tyler Harter, GSL, Microsoft Visnja Krizanovic, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Theo Lynn, Dublin City University, Ireland Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Pietro Michiardi, Eurecom Lucas Nussbaum, LORIA, France Eric Rozner, University of Colorado Boulder Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org