Monday, September 8th, 2014

 

1st International Workshop on
AUTONOMIC CLOUD CYBERSECURITY

Sesar.di.unimit.it/ACC2014/

8:30 - 5:00 pm

CAC Registration and Check-in

 

9:30 - 9:40 am

Welcome Remarks by ACC workshop organizers

9:40 - 11:00 am

Keynote:

Cloud-Centric Assured Information Sharing

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas

 

11:00 - 11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

 

11:30 am - 01:00 pm

Presentations:

á       Towards Malware Inspired Cloud Self-Protection - Elhadj Benkhelifa, and Thomas Welsh, Staffordshire University, UK.

á       Energy-Aware Autonomic Framework for Cloud Protection and Self-Healing - Juan J. Villalobos, Ivan Rodero, and Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, US.

á       Intelligent Security Services Offering for Automatic Self-Protection on Cloud (Project: BT Intelligent Protection) – Fadi Ali El Moussa, British Telecom (BT), UK.

 

01:00 - 2:00 pm

LUNCH

 

2:00 - 3:30 pm

Cloud Cybersecurity Challenges

Organizer: Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, US.

á       Automated and Scalable Infrastructure for Hacker IRC Collection - Karan Chadha, Victor Benjamin, Youssif Al-Nashif, Salim Hariri, Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, US.

á       Ontology-Driven Cyber-Security Threat Assessment Based on Sentiment Analysis - Dough Lundquist, Kunpeng Zhang, and Aris Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, US.

 

Cloud Security Projects in Europe

á       An accountability framework supporting evidence in cloud supply chains (EU Project: Cloud Accountability Project (A4CLOUD) - Massimo Felici, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK

Novel Certification of Cloud Service Security: The CUMULUS approach (EU Project: Certification of Cloud Service infrastructure for Multi-Layer cloud Services (CUMULUS)) – George Spanoudakis, City University of London, UK

 

3:30 - 4:00 pm

 TEA BREAK

 

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Workshop Summary and Closing Remarks

 

 

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

 

9:00 - 9:30 am

Welcome Remarks by FAS* conferences organizers

9:30 - 10:30 am

Keynote: "Scientific Big Data Analytics – Practice and Experience" – Morris Riedel, University of Iceland

 

10:30 - 11:00 am

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session I – Fault Tolerance

Chair: Salim Hariri, University of Arizona

11:00 am - 01:30 pm

Presentations:

á       CUDSwap: Tolerating Memory Exhaustion Failures in Cloud Computing, Shivakant Mishra, and Jose Antonio Navas Molina, University of Colorado at Boulder, US.

á       Sequential Fault Monitoring. Cecile Germain, and Dawei Feng, Universite Paris Sud, France.

á       Towards Reliability and Performance Prediction of Autonomic Systems with Self-Healing and Protection, Nabila Salmi, Mehdi Sliem, and Malika Loualalen, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Algeria.

á       Autonomic Resilient Cloud Management (ARCM): Design and Evaluation, Farah Fargo, Salim Hariri, Youssif Al-Nashif, and Cihan Tunc, University of Arizona, US.

á       A Look at Adaptability for Service Workflows, Onyeka Ezenwoye, and Masoud Sadjadi, Georgia Regents University, US.

 

01:00 - 2:00 pm

LUNCH

 

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Keynote: Christian Scheideler, Towards a rigorous base for the design of P2P systems.

 

3:00 - 3:30 pm

 TEA BREAK

 

Session II – Scientific Applications and Programming Models

Chair: Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University

3:30 - 5:30 pm

Presentations:

á       Optimization Patterns for the Orchestration of Parameter-Sweep Workflows, Selim Kalayci, and S. Masoud Sadjadi, East Tennessee State University, US.

á       A Framework for Managing Continuous Query Evaluations over Voluminous, Multidimensional Datasets, Sangmi Pallickara, Mathew Malensek, and Cameron D. Tolooee, Colorado State University, US.

á       A Middleware for Managing Non-Functional Requirements in Cloud PaaS, Alexander Pokahr, Lars Braubach, and Kai Jander, University of Hamburg, Germany.

á       Invited talk: Self-adaptive Resilient Service Composition, Mario Henrique Cruz Torres and Tom Holvoet.

 

7:00 -9:00 pm

Welcome Reception

Science Museum London, Exhibition Road

(Making the Modern World, Ground Floor)

Wednesday, September 10th, 2014

 

8:30 - 5:00 pm

Registration and Check-in

 

9:30 - 10:30 am

Keynote: ÒExtremely BigÓ Distributed Systems – Prof. Maarten van Steen, VU University Amsterdam

 

10:30 - 11:00 am

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session III – RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Chair: Daniel A. Menasce, George Mason University

11:00 am - 01:00 pm

Presentations:

á       Autonomic Management of Cloud Resources and Services Framework, Farah Fargo, Salim Hariri, Youssif Al-Nashif, and Cihan Tunc, University of Arizona, US.

á       A Synchronization Mechanism for Cloud Accounting Systems, Ewnetu Bayuh Lakew, Francisco Hernandez-Rodriguez, Lei Xu, and Erik Elmroth, UmeŒ University, Sweden.

á       Modelling and Analysis of Migration Policies for Autonomic Management of Energy Consumption in Cloud via Petri-nets, Marwah Alansari, and Behzad Bordbar, University of Birmingham, UK.

á       Autonomic Resource Allocation for Cloud Data Centers:  A Peer to Peer Approach, Mina Sedaghat, Francisco Hernandez-Rodriguez, and Erik Elmroth, Umea University, Sweden.

 

01:00 - 3:30 pm

LUNCH

 

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Invited Speaker: Natasa Milic-Frayling, Personal Computing in the Contemporary Digital Ecosystem, LT G16, SAF Building.

 

3:00 - 3:30 pm

 TEA BREAK

 

Session IV – RESOURCE AND APPLICATION MANAGEMENT

Chair: Erik Elmroth, UmeΠUniversity

3:30 - 6:00 pm

Presentations:

á       The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back: Safe Cloud Overbooking with Application Brownout, Luis Tom‡s, Cristian Klein, Johan Tordsson, and Francisco Hernandez-Rodriguez, UmeŒ universitet, Sweden.

á       Autonomic Allocation of Communicating Virtual Machines in Hierarchical Cloud Data Centers, Arwa Aldhalaan, and Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, US.

á       Architectural Model and Planification Algorithm for the Self-Management of Elastic Cloud Applications, Loic Letondeur, Orange, France.

á       Autonomic Multi-Target Deployment of Science and Engineering HPC Applications, Vaidy Sunderam, and Jaroslaw Slawinski, Emory University. US.

á       Invited Talk: When things get noisy: dealing with ubiquitously uncertain inputs, Lei Fang and Simon Dobson.

7:00 - 11:00 pm

Conference Dinner, Kia Oval, Kennington, London SE11 5SS (Terrace, 4th Floor; followed by England Suite, 2nd Floor)


Thursday, September 11th, 2014

 

8:30 - 5:00 pm

Registration and Check-in

 

9:30 - 10:30 am

Keynote: ÒAutonomics, Cyberinfrastructure Federation, and Software-Defined Environments for ScienceÓ. Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, LT G16, SAF Building.

 

10:30 - 11:00 am

COFFEE BREAK

 

Session V – BIG DATA AND STORAGE

Chair: Alan Sill, Texas Tech University

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Presentations:

á       Mobile Publish/Subscribe System for Intelligent Transport Systems over a Cloud Environment, Aleksander Antonic, Robayet Nasim, Ivana Podnararko, and Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweaden.

á       Extending CometCloud to Process Dynamic Data Streams on Heterogeneous Infrastructures, Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Omer Rana, Manish Parashar, and Javier Diaz-Montes, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.

á       Media Cloud Architecture, Protocols, and Storage Efficiency Challenge, Mohammad Azam, Kyung Hee University, South Korea.

 

01:00 - 2:00 pm

LUNCH

 

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Invited Speaker: Self of Societies, Prof. Andrzej Nowak, Florida Atlantic University, LT G16, SAF Building.

 

3:00 - 3:30 pm

 TEA BREAK

 

Session VI– RECOMMENDATION AND SECURITY

Chair: Javier Diaz Montes, Rutgers University

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Presentations:

á       A Certification-based Trust Model for Autonomic Computing Systems, Ernesto Damiani, Univesita di Milano, Italy

á       QuARAM Recommender: Case-Based Reasoning for IaaS Service Selection, Khalid Elgazzar, Patrick Martin, and Sima Soltani, Queen's University, Canda.

á       An Efficient Heuristic-based Role Mapping Framework for Secure and Fair Collaboration in SaaS Cloud, Soumya K. Ghosh, Nirnay Ghosh, and Debangshu Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

5:00 - 6:00 pm

Panel: Programming Paradigms for Big Data Analytics on the Cloud, Chair: Salim Hariri, University of Arizona,

US.

 

Friday, September 14th, 2014

 

2nd International Workshop on
AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT OF GRID AND CLOUD COMPUTING

(AMGCCÕ 2014)

http://htcaas.kisti.re.kr/wiki/index.php/AMGCC14

8:30 - 2:00 pm

CAC Registration and Check-in

 

9:30 - 9:40 am

Welcome Remarks by AMGCC workshop organizers

9:40 - 10:35 am

 

 

 

 

 

10:35 – 11:30 am

Invited Talk: Federation of Cloud Computing to Create a Uniform e-infrastructure for Research

Dr. David Wallom, Oxford eResearch Centre, University of Oxford

Invited Talk: TBD, Prof. Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara

 

 

11:30 - 12:00 am

COFFEE BREAK

 

12:00 - 01:00 pm

Presentations:

á       VM Auto-Scaling for Workflows in Hybrid Cloud Computing, Younsun Ahn, Yoohee Kim, Sookmyun, WomenÕs University.

á       Collaborative Multi-dimensional Dataset Processing with Distributed Cache Infrastructure in the Grid, Youngmoon Eom, Jonghwan Moon, Jinwoong Kim, Beomseok Nam, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology.

 

01:00 - 2:00 pm

LUNCH

02:00 - 04:00 pm

Presentations:

á       Autonomic Resource Allocation and Delay Optimization of Distributed Applications on Cloud, Sarath Malipeddi, Pranav Nair, Saikrishna P S, Ramkrishna Pasumarthy, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

á       Toward a Multi-cluster Analytical Engine for Transportation Data, Mark Shtern, Rizwan Mian, Marin Litoiu, Saeed Zareian, Hossam Abdelgawad, Ali Tizghadam, York University & Cairo University.

á       A High Performance I.O Stack for Fast Storage Devices, Yongseok Son, Nae Young Song, Hyuck Han, Hyeonsang Eom, Heon Young Yeom, Seoul National University.

á       High Performance Parallelization of Boyer-Moore Algorith on Many-Core Accelerators, Yosang Jeong, Myungho Lee, Dukyun Nam, Jik-Soo Kim, Soonwook Hwang, Myongji University & KISTI