ECCPL 2011:

Cloud Computing is becoming a reality for enterprises, large and medium sized, as it promises benefits such as availability of computing services and hardware resources without the recourse to additional capital investment. This results in reduced costs as well as on-demand availability of services, hardware and infrastructures. Recent reports suggest that Enterprises are moving beyond experimentation and beginning to develop architectures that take into account this new paradigm. New approaches for the management and monitoring of the use of such resource as well as enterprise-level policies for dealing with Public and Hybrid Clouds are also being developed. So, the benefits and promises that Cloud Computing makes are numerous and highly attractive. Using Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), as provide by the Cloud vendors, following a pay-per-use approach, is indeed an attractive and welcome paradigm shift. However, there are also many challenges that hinder the full realization of the potential that Cloud infrastructures offer. These are mainly with respect to: 1) security of data, confidentiality, integration and migration; 2) service level agreements and legal implications; 3) trust and the level of customer-vendor contracts and 4) levels of customer-vendor responsibilities with respect to management and monitoring of provision etc.

This workshop aims to present researched articles to describe and explore Enterprise Cloud Computing principles and infrastructures as well as benefits and promise. It also aims to investigate the issues inherent in Cloud approaches and limitations with respect to frameworks, methodologies and technologies and present strategies for the resolution of such difficulties and concerns.

Recommended topic areas include, but not limited to, the following:

• Principles, concepts and methodologies of enterprise cloud computing
• Tools, technologies, methodologies and frameworks for enterprise cloud computing
• Enterprise architectures such as application, info. and tech. architectures
• Synergies between SOA, Grid Computing and Cloud Infrastructures
• Quality of Service (QoS) models
• Remote attestation mechanisms in cloud computing
• Cloud-centric security and threat models
• Trust and policy management for enterprise cloud computing
• Cloud-centric regulatory compliance issues and mechanisms
• Security models for cloud programming
• Cost and management of cloud infrastructures
• 'Elastic' and on-demand allocation and management of cloud resources
• Benefits, issues and limitations of enterprise clouds
• Security, data integrity and legal issues for enterprise clouds
• Management, monitoring and governance issues in cloud computing
• Portability issues of architectures, applications and data
• Reliability and maintenance issues of cloud-based business architectures
• Experience reports with designing, building and using Cloud infrastructure
• Best practices, case studies and surveys with respect to enterprise clouds

Academics, researchers and industry practitioners are invited to submit manuscripts (original research papers, work-in-progress papers, case studies and experience reports) by the date shown below. All papers will be reviewed on a double-semi-blind basis for relevance, quality and originality.

For author guidance on submission of manuscripts, please visit:
http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/~eidwt2011/submission.html

Papers can be submitted directly to the conference workshop website or to the workshop chair: z.mahmood@derby.ac.uk

Important dates are as follows:

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2011 (this is extended deadline)
Authors Notification: May 10, 2011
Author Registration: May 27, 2011
Final Manuscript: May 27, 2011
Conference Dates: Sep 7-9, 2011

For general enquiries, please contact: z.mahmood@derby.ac.uk
University website: http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/research/eccpl2011

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