International Workshop on fault Tolerant Architectures for Reliable Distributed Infrastructures and Services (TARDIS2011)
Cloud Computing has moved the center of gravity of application distributed execution, by exploiting vitualization at different layers and by adding a complexity level to the scheduling problem. While Cloud computing can bring more flexibility in the design of applications, it also arises new research challenges. Compared with the traditional method of dedicating one server to a single application, consolidation through virtualization can boost the resource utilization rate by aggregating workloads from separate machines into a small number of servers: workloads can be now executed in a dense environment using much less machines, in which the impacts of faults can be vastly magnified. For example, any single hardware failure will affect all the virtual servers in that physical machine, or under dynamic workloads, it may be difficult to distinguish real faults from normal system. The need of this concept revisiting is fundamental when provisioning is left ... more...

PPCloud 2011: Privacy and Provenance in the Cloud
Clouds enable customers to reduce startup costs, amortize operating costs and increase the flexibility of their services through the on-demand acquisition of infrastructure and services. While the cloud presents a compelling and generally attractive scenario, understanding the privacy risks and developing efficient and effective solutions are critical for its success. In tension with the need for privacy, is provenance - that is, the need to know who created or is responsible for a piece of data, through whose hands it has passed, who has modified it (or if). Privacy and, more recently, provenance are both current challenges in cloud computing. The balance between the conflicting requirements of privacy and provenance is a significant challenge for future cloud research... more...

STCloud2011: IEEE International Workshop on Security and Trust in the Cloud
STCloud 2011 will bring researchers and experts together to present and discuss the latest developments and technical solutions concerning various aspects of security, privacy, trust, SSO, user authentication, authorization, non-repudiation, audit, provisioning, role management, forensic, policing, compliance and legislation challenges in managing the identities in a federated Cloud environment... more...

1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Scientific Applications (CCSA 2011)
CCSA workshop has been formed to promote research and development activities focused on enabling and scaling scientific applications using distributed computing paradigms, such as cluster, Grid, and Cloud Computing. With the rapid emergence of software systems and their applicability, the volume of users are growing exponentially. User requirements are getting more and more complex. Existing computing infrastructure, software system designs, and use cases will have to take into account the enormity in volume of requests, size of data, computing load, locality and type of users, and so forth... more...

ITACC 2011: International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds
Autonomic computing refers to principles and techniques for designing, building, deploying and managing computing systems with minimal human involvement. An autonomic system should be capable of adapting its behaviour to suit its context of use through methods of self-management, self-tuning, self-configuration, self-diagnosis, and self-healing... more...

CaPSICuMS 2011: International Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems: Integration of Cloud, Mobility and Sensing
There has been significant interest in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) in recent years. CPS refers to systems which have a tight coupling between the digital and physical worlds. Although CPS was initially of interest in defence and security domains, it is increasingly viewed that CPS can play an important role in civilian and commercial domains in a world grappling with climate change and concerned with improving sustainability and efficiency in a wide range of activities. Examples are energy management, congestion control in transportation systems, disaster recovery, healthcare, fleet and supply chain management and business process management etc. However, significant research and development challenges remain... more...

CSQMC 2011: First International Workshop on Cloud Service Quality Measurement and Comparison
Measuring and comparing business services in terms of their overall business value – regardless of whether they are internally or externally provided – is a requirement for guiding an organisation’s decision making in selecting the most suited service providers for delivering their IT needs. The Service Measurement Index (SMI) is an emerging standard for providing a standardised measure ... more...

International Workshop on Cloud Computing & Future of Work
Game changing innovations lead to smart growth and tend to make enterprises grown even during market recession. In recent times, many enterprises have started to innovate in almost all fields that would enable them to be pioneers / front runners in the market. Virtualization of work and consumerization of IT (Information Technology) are two such modern trends that would enable enterprises to develop the next generation of innovations. Going forward enterprises are looking into collaborative models that would enable them to contribute to collaborative innovation where in each one of them stands to share the workload and reap the benefits of the resulting innovations. Global ERP systems, Green IT, Cloud Computing and Social Networking are some of the technologies that are prime enablers of the aforementioned trends ... more...