8th International Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services (SMTPS'12)

*** submission deadline extended to Jan 13, 2012

May 21, 2012
Shanghai, China

https://www.grid-appliance.org/wiki/index.php/SMTPS12
To be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2012

Workshop scope

The Eighth International Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes and Services (SMTPS) will be held
in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). We would like to invite
the pioneers in computer systems management to contribute their latest research. The special focus of the
workshop in 2012 is on cloud computing.

Virtualization technologies and cloud computing have enabled unprecedented flexibility and elasticity in
provisioning of applications and services, and have resulted in larger numbers and types of entities that
must be managed. As the numbers of both physical and virtual resources in data centers continue to increase,
the need for efficient and scalable systems management processes plays an increasingly critical role in coping with
the complexity involved in effectively harnessing such resources.

Many issues in systems management within a traditional computing environment remain challenging and are
amplified in cloud computing environments - for instance, the need to provide satisfactory and continuous services
to applications even in the presence of system failures. On the other hand, there are new challenges and opportunities
posed by cloud computing, which call for different solutions. For example, management of computing infrastructure,
platform and software as service offerings in the forms of private, public, hybrid and federated cloud datacenters with
thousands of servers and a wide variety of software stacks brings in challenges for tomorrow's systems. SMTPS brings
together researchers and practitioners to define and discuss the issues and challenges and share early findings
in systems management in the emerging cloud computing paradigm.

Important Dates
--Paper abstract registration: Jan 6, 2012
--Submission deadline: Jan 13, 2012
--Notification of acceptance: Feb 7, 2012
--Camera-ready submission: Feb 28, 2012

Topics of interest include, and are not limited to:
--Scalable resource and system management solutions
--Lifecycle management of virtualized resources (e.g. virtual servers, virtual networks, and software appliances)
--Cloud computing resource management with QoS
--High availability with failure detection, prediction, and recovery
--Identity, metering, and privacy in cloud computing
--Workload and resource scheduling
--Mobile cloud computing
--Streaming in cloud computing
--Cloud services for HPC and enterprise applications
--Cloud operating systems
--Management of federated cloud computing resources
--Power and thermal management technologies

Organizers
--General Chair: Liana Fong, IBM Research
--Program Co-chairs: Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida; Kyung Dong Ryu, IBM Research
--Program Committee:
- Arati Baliga, AT&T Security Research Center
- Dilma Da Silva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Navendu Jain, Microsoft Research
- Hai Jin, Huazhong, University of Science and Technology
- Wen-Syan Li, SAP China
- Mauricio Mediano, Microsoft
- Dejan S. Milojicic, HP Research
- Jose Moreira, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Ramendra Sahoo, Citigroup
- Hui Xiong, Rutgers University
- Heon Y. Yeom, Seoul National University
- Ming Zhao, Florida International University

Paper submission information
Paper submission/review will be handled by EDAS. Prior to submitting papers, authors should first create an EDAS account.
The workshop is listed under IPDPS 12, with the short name SMTPS 12. Page limit is 8 pages (double column and single space).
Accepted papers will be published in the IPDPS'12 proceedings.