Day 1: December 5, 2011

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Conference Opening

Keynote 1 - Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing

Professor Professor Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Morning Tea

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Regular Papers 1

Tutorial 1

CCSA

Venue: Ballroom A

Regular Papers Session 1: Storage

·        Information Dispersion over Redundant Arrays of Optimal Cloud Storage for Desktop Users

Josef Spillner, Alexander Schill, Gerd Bombach, Steffen Matthischke, Johannes Müller and Rico Tzschichholz

·        Placement Matters: Replica Placement in Peer-Assisted Storage Clouds

Ahmed Ali-Eldin and Sameh El-Ansary

·        Galileo: A Framework for Distributed Storage of High-Throughput Data Streams

Matthew Malensek, Sangmi Lee Pallickara and Shrideep Pallickara

·        High-speed storage nodes for the cloud

Nigel Edwards, Mark Watkins, Matt Gates, Alistair Coles, Eric Deliot, Aled Edwards, Anna Fischer, Patrick Goldsack, Tom Hancock, Donagh McCabe, Tim Reddin, JP Sullivan, Peter Toft, and Lawrence Wilcock

Venue: Ballroom B

Tutorial 1: Turning Ideas Into Results: Practical Use Of AWS - Amazon Web Services

Simon Elisha, Principal Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services

Venue: Ballroom C

Cloud Computing and Scientific Applications Workshop (Session 1)

·        Resiliency Principles for Emergency Management Systems (Keynote talk)

Dr. Jürg von Känel (Senior Research Manager, IBM Research & Development Australia)

·        Implementation and Usability Evaluation of a Cloud Platform for Scientific Computing as a Service (SCaaS)

Prasad Saripalli, Curt Oldenburg, Ben Walters and N. Radheshyam

·        Data Transfer Performance of Web Service Workflows in the Cloud Environment

     Donglai Zhang, Paul Coddington and Andrew Wendelborn

·     Light-weight Cloud Job Management System for Data Intensive Science

Haehyun Kim and Jaegyoon Hahm

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

LUNCH

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Regular Papers 2

Tutorial 2

CCSA

Venue: Ballroom A

Regular Papers Session 2: Data Processing Systems and Security in the Cloud

·     On the Performance of Distributed Clustering Algorithms in File and Streaming Processing Systems

    Kathleen Ericson and Shrideep Pallickara

·     An Efficient Cross-Match Implementation based on Directed Join Algorithm in MapReduce

    Mi Cuncang, Chen Qian and Liu Taoying

·     EDoS-Shield - A Two-Steps Mitigation Technique against EDoS Attacks in Cloud Computing

Mohammed H. Sqalli, Fahd Al-Haidari and Khaled Salah

·     TVDSEC: Trusted Virtual Domains Security

Udaya Tupakula and Vijay Varadharajan

Venue: Ballroom B

Tutorial 2: Scaling Web Applications using Google App Engine

Brian Quinlan, Software Engineer, Google

Venue: Ballroom C

Cloud Computing and Scientific Applications Workshop (Session 2)

·        Issues and Challenges in Cloud Storage Services (Keynote talk)

Dr. Surya Nepal (Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)

·     Participatory Cyber Physical System in Public Transport Application

John Kah Soon Lau, Chen-Khong Tham and Tie Luo

·     Extending HTTP Models to Web 2.0 Applications: the case of Social Networks

Luca Caviglione

·     Simplifying MapReduce Data Processing

    Jin-Ming Shih, Chih-Shan Liao and Ruay-Shiung Chang

·     Secure Desktop Cloud for Gravitational Wave Detection

Linqing Wen (Invited talk)

4:00 PM - 4.30 PM

Afternoon Tea

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Short Papers 1

Short Papers 2

CCSA

Venue: Ballroom A

Short Papers Session 1

·     Measurement for Improving the Design of Commodity Archival Storage Tiers

    Dongjin Lee, Michael O'Sullivan and Cameron Walker

·     Dynamic Mobile Cloud Computing: Ad Hoc and Opportunistic Job Sharing

    Niroshinie Fernando, Seng Loke and Wenny Rahayu

·     Practical Considerations in Cloud Utilization for the Science Gateway nanoHUB.org

Lynn Zentner, Steven Clark, Preston Smith, Swaroop Shivarajapura, Victoria Farnsworth, Krishna Madhavan and Gerhard Klimeck

·     Monte Carlo linear system solver using MapReduce

Pelle Jakovits, Ilja Kromonov, and Satish Narayana Srirama

Venue: Ballroom B

Short Papers Session 2

·     Test Reconfiguration for Service Oriented Applications

    Mark B Cooray, James H Hamlyn-Haris and Robert G Merkel

·     An Extensible Cloud Platform Inspired by Operating Systems

    Akiyoshi Sugiki and Kazuhiko Kato

·     Economic Perspectives of Cloud Computing

    Zhongliu Xie

·     Integrity Based Intrusion Detection System for Enterprise and Cloud Environments

Ferrol Aderholdt, Sheikh Ghafoor, Ambareen Siraj and Stephen Scott

Venue: Ballroom C

Cloud Computing and Scientific Applications Workshop (Session 3)

·     FairCPU: Architecture for Allocation of Virtual Machines Using Processing Features

Emanuel Coutinho, Paulo Rego, Danielo Gomes and Jose De Souza

·     Applications of Heterogeneous Computing in Computational and Simulation Science

Luke Domanski, Tomasz Bednarz, Tim Gureyev, Lawrance Murray, Emma Huang and John Taylor

·     CLEVER: a Cloud Cross-Computing Platform leveraging GRID resources

Massimo Villari, Francesco Tusa, Antonio Puliafito and Maurizio Paone

·     Listening for thunder beyond the clouds: using the grid to analyse gravitational wave data

Ra Inta(Invited talk)

Day 2: December 6, 2011

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote 2 - Can Clouds Transform Science? Exploring the Role of Clouds in Computational and Data-enabled Science and Engineering

Professor Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Morning Tea

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Regular Papers 3

Regular Papers 4

ITACC

Venue: Ballroom A

Regular Papers Session 3: Virtual Machines I

·        Defeating Network Jitter for Virtual Machines

     Luwei Cheng, Cho-Li Wang, and Sheng Di

·        Utilizing Memory Content Similarity for Improving the Performance of Replicated Virtual Machines

Balazs Gerofi, Zoltan Vass and Yutaka Ishikawa

·        Energy-efficient Virtual Machine Provision Algorithms for Cloud Systems

Ching-Chi Lin, Pangfeng Liu and Jan-Jan Wu

·        Efficiency Assessment of Parallel Workloads on Virtualized Resources

Javier Delgado, Liana Fong, Yanbin Liu, Norman Bobroff, Seetharami Seelam and S. Masoud Sadjadi

Venue: Ballroom B

Regular Papers Session 4: Clouds and Scientific applications

·     Portable Parallel Programming on Cloud and HPC: Scientific Applications of Twister4Azure

    Thilina Gunarathne, Bingjing Zhang, Tak-Lon Wu, and Judy Qiu

·     NetworkCloudSim: Modelling Parallel Applications in Cloud Simulations

    Saurabh Kumar Garg and Rajkumar Buyya

·     Coasters: uniform resource provisioning and access for scientific computing on clouds and grids

Mihael Hategan, Justin Wozniak and Ketan Maheshwari

·     The Cloud@Home Resource Management System

Salvatore Distefano, Antonio Puliafito and Maria Fazio

Venue: Ballroom C

Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds Workshop (Session 1)

·     Load Prediction and Hot Spot Detection Models for Autonomic Cloud Computing

    Prasad Saripalli, Gvr Kiran Kiran, Ravi Shankar, Harish Narware and Nitin Bindal

·     Towards Context Caches in the Clouds

Saad Liaquat Kiani, Ashiq Anjum, Kamran Munir, Richard McClatchey, and Nick Antonopoulos

·     A Dynamic VPN Architecture for Private Cloud Computing

Wen-Hwa Liao and Shuo-Chun Su

·     An Architecture for Integrated Intelligence in Urban Management using Cloud Computing

Zaheer Khan, David Ludlow, Richard McClatchey, and Ashiq Anjum

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

LUNCH

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Industry Track

·     Emerging Network Architectures for Cloud Computing

Geng Lin, Chief Technology Officer, Networking Business, Dell Inc.

·     Open Internet of Things (OpenIoT)

Dr. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Director, Information Engineering Laboratory CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

·     Capabilities at Your Fingertips: An Overview of Innovation at AWS - Amazon Web Services

Simon Elisha, Principal Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services

·     Fujitsu's Efforts in Cloud Computing

Bala Varadarajan, Managing Director, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Poster & Demos with Afternoon Tea

·     Private Table Database Virtualization for DBaaS

Tim Kiefer and Wolfgang Lehner

·     Towards Open-Source Cloudware

Dana Petcu, Marc Frincu, Ciprian Dorin Crăciun, Silviu Panica, Marian Neagul and Georgiana Macariu

·     Ezilla Toolkit - One Click to Build Private Cloud Easily

Yi-Lun Pan, Chang-Hsing Wu, Hsi-En Yu, Hui-Shan Chen, and Weicheng Huang

·     A Secure Storage Service in the Hybrid Cloud

Surya Nepal, Carsten Friedrich, Leakha Henry and Shiping Chen

·     MeDiCi-Cloud: A Workflow Infrastructure for Large-scale Scientific Applications

Jian Yin, Guang Lin, Ian Gorton, and Binh Han

·     A Decision Framework for Discovery and Integration of Cloud Services (Web Poster)

Amirreza Tahamtan, Amin Anjomshoaa, S. Amir Beheshti, A Min Tjoa

·     DCC: Data Centric Compute Resource at the NCI-NF (Web Poster)

Jie Cai, Muhammad Atif, Michael Chapman, Joseph Antony, David Singleton, Ben Evans, and Peter Strazdins

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Regular Papers 5

Regular Papers 6

ITACC

Venue: Ballroom A

Regular Papers Session 5: Virtual Machines II

·     Impact of Cloud Computing Virtualization Strategies on Workloads' Performance

Qingling Wang and Carlos Varela

·     Towards Profitable Virtual Machine Placement in the Data Center

Weiming Shi and Bo Hong

·     Using Lightweight Virtual Machines to Run High Performance Computing Applications: The Case of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model

Hector Duran-Limon, Nikos Nikos Parlavantzas, Ming Zhao, Luis Silva-Bañuelos and Victor Tellez-Valdez

Venue: Ballroom B

Regular Papers Session 6: Scheduling and load balancing I

·     Server Consolidation Algorithms with Bounded Migration Cost and Performance Guarantees in Cloud Computing

    Yufan Ho, Pangfeng Liu and Jan-Jan Wu

·     Characterizing e-science file access behavior via latent Dirichlet allocation

    Yusik Kim and Cécile Germain-Renaud

·     Automated Configuration of Legacy Applications in the Cloud

Xavier Etchevers, Thierry Coupaye, Fabienne Boyer, Noël De Palma and Gwen Salaün

Venue: Ballroom C

Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds Workshop (Session 2)

·     Distributed Green Compiler

    Faiza Fakhar, Raihan Ur Rasool and Owais Malik

·     Dot-base62x: A Compact Textual Representation of IPv6 Address for Clouds

    Zhenxing Liu, Lu Liu, James Hardy, Ashiq Anjum, Richard Hill, and Nick Antonopoulos

·     Reliability Measurement of Web 2.0 based Cloud Applications

Zia Ul Qamar, Raihan Ur Rasool, Hammad Majeed, Imdad Ullah, Saeed Afzal, Bilal Ali, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, and Sidrah Inayat

Day  3: December 7, 2011

9:00 AM  - 10:00 AM

Keynote 3 - HPC in the Cloud: use cases from research and industry

Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA (Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications), Germany

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Morning Tea

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Regular Papers 7

CSSQM

Cloud computing and future of work

Venue: Ballroom A

Regular Papers Session 7: Management of Cloud resources: Spot Instances, SLAs and Marketplaces I

·     Dynamic Resource Allocation for Spot Markets in Cloud Computing Environments

    Qi Zhang, Quanyan Zhu and Raouf Boutaba

·     An Autonomic Open Marketplace for Inter-Cloud Service Management

Haydn Mearns, John Leaney, Artem Parakhine, John Debenham and Dominique Verchere

·     A Marketplace to Rule Them All - Combining WS-Agreement, Service Negotiation Protocols and Heterogeneous Services

Ralph Vigne, Juergen Mangler and Erich Schikuta

·     Pricing Mechanisms for Cloud Services: Status Quo and Future Models

Florian Muhss, Robert Neumann and Andreas Schmietendorf

Venue: Ballroom B

Cloud Service Security and Quality Management Workshop

·        Verification of Data Location in Cloud Networking

Thorsten Ries, Volker Fusenig, Christian Vilbois and Thomas Engel

·        Verifying Digital Provenance in Web Services

Ben Palmer, Kris Bubendorfer and Ian Welch

·        Performance Management for the Dynamic Storage Tiering by Virtual Volume Clustering

Hironori Emaru and Yoshiaki Takai

·        SLA-based Content Delivery in multi-CDNs

Nadia Ranaldo and Eugenio Zimeo

Venue: Ballroom C

Cloud Computing & Future of Work Workshop (Session 1)

·        Future of Pharmacy, Health & Wellness (Keynote Talk)

Manish Mathur (Senior Director of Architecture, Walgreens Pharmacy Health and Wellness)

·        Effective Migration of Enterprise Applications in Multicore Cloud

Suresh Venugopal, Karthikeyan Ganesan and Sravan Desikan

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

LUNCH

1:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Regular Papers 8

Regular Papers 9

Cloud computing and future of work

Venue: Ballroom A

Regular Papers Session 8: Management of Cloud resources: Spot Instances, SLAs and Marketplaces II

·     SMICloud: A Framework for Comparing and Ranking Cloud Services

    Saurabh Kumar Garg, Steve Versteeg, and Rajkumar Buyya

·     Statistical Modeling of Spot Instance Prices in Public Cloud Environments

    Bahman Javadi, Ruppa Thulasiram and Rajkumar Buyya

·     Cost-Efficient Utilization of Public SLA Templates in Autonomic Cloud Markets

Ivan Breskovic, Michael Maurer, Vincent Chimaobi Emeakaroha, Ivona Brandic and Schahram Dustdar

·     Personalized Open API Recommendation in Clouds via Item-based Collaborative Filtering

Huifeng Sun, Zibin Zheng, Junliang Chen, Weimin Pan, Chuanchang Liu and Wenming Ma

Venue: Ballroom B

Regular Papers Session 9: Scheduling and load balancing II

·     On Data Staging Strategies for Mobile Accesses to Cloud Services

    Yang Wang, Bharadwaj Veeravalli and Chen-Khong Tham

·     Defragmentation of Resources in Virtual Desktop Clouds for Cost-Aware Utility-Optimal Allocation

Mukundan Sridharan, Prasad Calyam, Aishwarya Venkataraman and Alex Berryman

·     Intelligent Automated Diagnosis of Client Device Bottlenecks in Private Clouds

Chathuranga Widanapathirana, Jonathan Li, Y. Ahmet Sekercioðlu, Milosh Ivanovich, and Paul Fitzpatrick

·     Multi-objective Meta-heuristics for Scheduling Applications with High Availability Requirements and Cost Constraints in Multi-Cloud Environments

Marc Frincu and Ciprian Craciun

Venue: Ballroom C

Cloud Computing & Future of Work Workshop (Session 2)

·        Future of Work Computing via Business and Technology Consulting (Keynote Talk)

Dr. Jean-Claude Franchitti (Cognizant Convergent Cloud Group)

·        Virtual Simulation and Augmented Interfaces for Business Models with focus on Banking and Retail

Biju Shoolapani and Parthasarathi Jinka

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Afternoon Tea

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Panel - Ubiquitous Cloud Computing: Open Challenges, Innovation Opportunities, and Standards

Gul Agha (Chair), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Dawn Leaf, US National Institute of Standards and Technology
Albert Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia
Bala Varadarajan, Fujitsu Australia

Geng Lin, Dell

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Conference Closing by Chairs

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Social Program/Conference Dinner