Cloud Computing is rapidly emerging as the new computing paradigm of the coming decade. The idea of virtualizing not just hardware but software resources as well has attracted the attention of academicians as well as the industry. Cloud computing not only offers a viable solution to the problem of addressing scalability and availability concerns for large-scale applications but also displays the promise of sharing resources to reduce cost of ownership. The concept has evolved over the years starting from data centers to present day infrastructure virtualization.  

Cloud computing as envisaged today covers all walks of computing. Designing and standardization of the cloud, virtualization of storage, virtualization of the computing infrastructure as a whole, integration of the applications into the virtual world, assembling and using cloud services, building enterprise applications on the cloud computing platform, development of security models for the cloud, self virtualization of devices, exchange of data /messaging in the cloud, high availability architectures for the cloud, providing QoS for web applications on the cloud, high performance computing using elastic resources and  optimization and performance issues of web applications on the cloud are a few of the multitude of challenges and opportunities that the cloud computing world opens up.

The ACM SAC track on Cloud Computing aims to foster  discussions and research in various aspects of cloud computing. The focus will be on both original research contributions, algorithms and practical design solutions.

 

Important Dates

 

Sept 8, 2009 Sept 15, 2009 : Submission of proposals for papers (strict)

 

Oct 19, 2009: Notification of acceptance/rejection

 

Nov 2, 2009: Camera ready copies of accepted papers

 

Note that a paper cannot be submitted to more than one track

 

 

 

Track Topics

  • Architectural models for cloud computing
  • Virtualization of the infrastructure
  • Platform as a service
  • Software as a service
  • Hardware as a service
  • Elasticity in a cloud
  • Storage virtualization
  • Green computing models for clouds
  • Programming models for clouds
  • Cloud computing for the mobile world
  • Threat handling and security issues in clouds
  • Enterprise applications on the cloud
  • OS development for applications on the cloud
  • QoS for applications on the cloud
  • Optimization and performance issues on the cloud
  • Communication protocols for the Cloud
  • Databases for the cloud
  • Web 2.0 and Cloud

 

Paper Submission

  1. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be accepted. Please submit papers at: Submission Site
  2. The paper should be in the ACM 2 column format, 11-point font and 1 inch margins on all four sides on letter size paper.
  3. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.
  4. Authors are allowed up to 8 pages, but not more than 5 pages in the final camera ready version. There will be a charge of 80 USD per extra page.
  5. A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track NOR should it be under review in any other forum.
  6. In case of any issues, please contact the track chairs at:

Umesh Bellur: umesh@cse.iitb.ac.in

            Rajiv Ramnath: ramnath@cse.ohio-state.edu

Madhu Kumar S.D: madhu@cse.iitb.ac.in

 

 

 

Track Program Chairs

 

Prof. Umesh Bellur

Associate Professor, Department  of Computer Science & Enginnering,
Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
umesh@cse.iitb.ac.in
Phone: +91 22 25767865
Fax: +91 22 25720022

 

Rajiv Ramnath

Director  of Practice, Collaborative for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (C.E.T.I),
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
ramnath@cse.ohiostate.edu

 
Madhu Kumar S.D
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala--673 601,
India
madhu@cse.iitb.ac.in
Phone: +91 495 2287113
Fax:+91 495 2287250

 

Program Committee

Rajeev Raje, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA

Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

Bharadwaj Veeravalli, NUS, Singapore

Farhana Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada

Min-Shiang Hwang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Narendra Nanjangud, IBM Research, India

Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India

Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College, U.K
Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research Cambridge Lab
Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA

Neeran Karnik, IBM India Software Labs

Sasi Kumaran Sreedharan, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA

K. Chandrasekaran, NIT Karnataka
Purushottam Kulkarni , IIT Bombay

 

  

Venue: Sierre, Switzerland

To be hosted by
University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO) in Sierre
and
Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne

Switzerland

 

 

 

Proceedings

All papers will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM. Hence, all accepted papers should be submitted in ACM 2-column camera-ready format for publication in the symposium proceedings. The final version of the paper should not be more than 5 pages long. An additional 3 pages are allowed with a charge of 80USD per extra page. Final Camera-ready submissions must follow the template available at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/downloads10.htm