Software: Practice and Experience
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Guest Editors: Rajiv Ranjan, Rajkumar Buyya, Philipp Leitner, Armin Haller, Stefan Tai
*** Call for Papers ***
Cloud services are perpetually becoming more important to current IT operations. For instance, according to IDC, the 'revenue from public IT cloud services exceeded $21.5 billion in 2010 and will reach $72.9 billion in 2015, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.6%. Along with the cloud's increasingly central role to the services industry, monitoring cloud services as well as the applications deployed on them is becoming a priority - if mission-critical business applications are deployed to a cloud, real-time monitoring of service quality becomes as integral to the cloud as business activity monitoring is to current (in house) process management solutions. However, currently deployed solutions are minimal at best. Techniques for dynamically monitoring, predicting and capturing the relationship between service quality, current cloud service allocation and changes in workload patterns remain both, an open research problem and a practical need. Overall, the integration of cloud monitoring, workload prediction, service performance models and optimization techniques to effect an end-to-end automated monitoring and provisioning process over cloud environments is a hitherto neglected research area.
The goal of the special issue is to strengthen scholarly and industrial research in algorithms, methods and tools for monitoring the current state of cloud services and/or applications deployed to the cloud (with regards to, for instance, performance, availability, compliance with governmental regulations, or security), as well as for predicting these parameters for future services or applications. The workshop fosters the exchange of ideas between practitioners building state-of-the-art solutions, and researchers interested in the conceptual foundation of future monitoring and prediction solutions for cloud services. The event accepts paper submissions regarding novel ideas for cloud monitoring and prediction, as well as experience reports on quality monitoring and prediction of cloud services in industrial settings.
Topics
Novel solutions for cloud monitoring and prediction with regards, but not limited to:
- Performance
- Cloud resource utilization / energy efficiency
- Availability
- Costs / Profitability
- Cloud Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Compliance with governmental regulations
- Security
- Application- and domain-specific monitoring of cloud services
- Experience reports on quality monitoring and prediction of cloud services
Instructions for Special Issue
* The editors of the special issue are Rajiv Ranjan, Rajkumar Buyya, Philipp
Leitner, Armin Haller, Stefan Tai
* Please submit a paper to Manuscript Central for special issue by January 1, 2013 o
* Please select Special Issue Paper as your manuscript type, and enter "Cloud Monitoring" as both the Special Issue title and as your Preferred Editor*
* Notification of Acceptance and Reviewer comments will be given by May 1, 2013.
* Final Papers are due July 10, 2013.
* Accepted papers are expected to appear in mid-late 2013 (Tentative).
* The submitted papers must have at least 30% difference from the conference original papers.
* There is a 20 page length limit (12 point single space inclusive of figures and tables).
* Wiley has Latex templates but no special templates for Word; most papers are submitted in Word. Either Latex OR Word accepted.
Selection and Evaluation Criteria
- Significance to the readership of the journal
- Relevance to the special issue
- Originality of idea, technical contribution, and significance of the presented results
- Quality, clarity, and readability of the written text
- Quality of references and related work
- Quality of research hypothesis, assertions, and conclusion
Guest Editors
Dr. Rajiv Ranjan – Corresponding Guest Editor Research Scientist and Project
Leader ICT Centre, GPO Bov 664, Canberra, ACT 2601
Email: rajiv.ranjan@csiro.au
Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
CEO, Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Director, Grid Computing and
Distributed Systems Laboratory Department of computer science and software
engineering The University of Melbourne, Australia
Email: raj@csse.unimelb.edu.au
Dr. Philipp Leitner
Information Systems Institute
Distributed Systems Group
Vienna University of Technology
Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1
1040 Vienna, Austria
Email: leitner@infosys.tuwien.ac.at
Dr. Armin Haller
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
ICT Centre, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601
Email: Armin.Haller@csiro.au
Prof. Stefan Tai
Institute AIFB - Building 11.40
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
D-76128 Karlsruhe
Email: stefan.tai@kit.edu
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