Announcement and Call for Papers www.usenix.org/hotcloud14/cfp

June 17–18, 2014, Philadelphia, PA

6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud ’14)Sponsored by USENIX

HotCloud ‘14 will take place during USENIX Federated Conferences Week, June 17–20, 2014.

Important Dates• Papersubmissionsdue:March 6, 2014, 9:00 p.m. EST

• Notificationtoauthors:April 25, 2014

• Finalpaperfilesdue:May 28, 2014

Workshop OrganizersProgram Co-ChairsMichaelAKozuch,Intel LabsMinlanYu,University of Southern California

Program CommitteeTheoBenson,Duke UniversityKaiChen,Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyLucyCherkasova,HP LabsByung-GonChun,Seoul National UniversityEyaldeLara,University of TorontoFredericDesperez,INRIAAnshulGandhi,State University of New York at Stony Brook and IBMAdaGavrilovska,Georgia Institute of TechnologyJoeyGonzalez,University of California, BerkeleyHelenGu,North Carolina State UniversityHaryadiGunawi,University of ChicagoKateKeahey,Argonne National Labs and University of ChicagoEricKeller,University of ColoradoTimKraska,Brown UniversityMarcelKunze,Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyWyattLloyd,University of Southern California and FacebookDavidMaltz,MicrosoftDavidMeisner,FacebookAdamOliner,University of California, BerkeleyHimabinduPucha,GoogleMajdSakr,Carnegie Mellon University, QatarAneesShaikh,IBMChristopherStewart,Ohio State UniveristyDanTsafrir,Technion-Israel Institute of TechnologyDongyanXu,Purdue University

Steering CommitteeJohnArrasjid,VMwareSambitSahu,IBM ResearchMargoSeltzer,Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and OracleIonStoica,University of California, BerkeleyJohnWilkes,GoogleDongyanXu,Purdue University

OverviewHotCloudbringstogetherresearchersandpractitionersfromaca-demiaandindustryworkingoncloudcomputingtechnologiestosharetheirperspectives,reportonrecentresearchresults,andidentifynew/emerging“hot”trendsinthisimportantarea.Whilecloudcom-putinghasgainedtractionoverthepastfewyears,manychallengesremaininthedesign,implementation,anddeploymentofcloudcomputing.

TheHotCloudprogramisarrangedtocreatecloseinteractionbe-tweenresearchersandindustrypractitionerssothattheresearchcaninformcurrentdeploymentsanddeploymentchallengescaninformnewresearch.HotCloudisopentoexaminingallmodelsofcloudcomputing,includingthescalablemanagementofin-houseservers,remotelyhostedinfrastructure(IaaS),infrastructureaugmentedwithtoolsandservicesthatprovideplatformasaservice(PaaS),andsoft-wareasaservice(SaaS).

WesolicitoriginalpapersonawiderangeofcloudcomputingtopicsforHotCloud.Weparticularlyencouragethesubmissionofpositionpapersthatdescribenovelresearchdirectionsandworkthatisinitsformativestages,aswellaspapersaboutpracticalexperiencesandlessonslearnedfromproductionsystems.Interestingissuesshowupatalllevelsofthesoftwarestack,butHotCloud’semphasisisoncombiningmechanismstobuildworkingcloudsratherthanonimplementingnewlow-levelmechanismsthemselves.Forexample,papersonusingvirtualmachinesinnewwayswouldbepreferredoverpapersonimprovingcoreVMtechnology.

TopicsTopicsofinterestincludebutarenotlimitedtothefollowing:

• Improvingelasticityandavailabilityincloudinfrastructureandcloudservices

• Cloudsupportfornewhardwaretechnologies(e.g.acceleratorsandGPGPUs)

• Multi-tenancyandrelatedissuessuchasperformanceisolation

• Chargingmodelsandeconomics

• Power-efficient(“green”)computingforclouds

• Monitoring,troubleshooting,andfailurerecovery

• Debuggingandperformanceanalysisofcloudapplications

• Cloudmanagementandconfiguration

• Virtualappliancemanagementandcomposition

• Storagearchitecturesforcloudcomputing

• Novelnetworkingapproachesforcloudcomputing

• Programmingmodels

• Securityandprivacyinclouds• Newapplicationsforclouds

Rev.1/10/14

• Mobility

• IntegratingenterpriseapplicationswiththecloudSubmission InstructionsPleasesubmitfullpapers(noextendedabstracts)inPDFformatviatheWebsubmissionformlinkedfromtheCallforPapersWebsite,www.usenix.org/hotcloud14/cfp.Donotemailsubmissions.

• Thecompletesubmissionmustbenolongerthanfive(5)pagesnot including references.Itshouldbetypesetintwo-columnformatin10-pointtypeon12-point(single-spaced)leading,withthetextblockbeingnomorethan6.5”wideby9”deep.Submissions that violate any of these restrictions may not be reviewed. Thelimitswillbeinterpretedfairlystrictly,andnoextensionswillbegivenforreformatting.Ifyouwish,youmayusetheLaTeXtemplateandstylefileavailableatwww.usenix.org/templates-conference-papers.

• Therearenoformalrestrictionsontheuseofcoloringraphsorcharts,butpleaseusethemsparingly—noteverybodyhasaccesstoacolorprinter.

• Thenamesofauthorsandtheiraffiliationsshouldbeincludedonthefirstpageofthesubmission.

• Simultaneoussubmissionofthesameworktomultiplevenues,submissionofpreviouslypublishedwork,orplagiarismcon-stitutesdishonestyorfraud.USENIX,likeotherscientificandtechnicalconferencesandjournals,prohibitsthesepracticesandmaytakeactionagainstauthorswhohavecommittedthem.SeetheUSENIXConferenceSubmissionsPolicyatwww.usenix.org/conferences/submissions-policyfordetails.Papersaccompaniedbynondisclosureagreementformswillnotbeconsidered.IfyouareuncertainwhetheryoursubmissionmeetsUSENIX’sguidelines,pleasecontacttheprogramco-chairs,hotcloud14chairs@usenix.org,ortheUSENIXoffice,submissions-policy@usenix.org.

Reviewingoffullpaperswillbedonebytheprogramcommittee,po-tentiallyassistedbyoutsiderefereesinlimitedcases.Acceptedpaperswillbeshepherdedthroughaneditorialreviewprocessbyamemberoftheprogramcommittee.

Allpaperswillbeavailableonlinetoregisteredattendeesbeforetheworkshop.Ifyouracceptedpapershouldnotbepublishedpriortotheevent,pleasenotifyproduction@usenix.org.ThepaperswillbeavailableonlinetoeveryonebeginningonJune17,2014.AcceptedsubmissionswillbetreatedasconfidentialpriortopublicationontheUSENIXHotCloud‘14Website;rejectedsubmissionswillbeperma-nentlytreatedasconfidential.

Bysubmittingapaper,youagreethatatleastoneoftheauthorswillattendtheworkshoptopresentit.Iftheworkshopregistrationwillposeahardshipforthepresenteroftheacceptedpaper,pleasecontactconference@usenix.org.