SECCC 2009

Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges of Cloud Computing in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) May 23rd, 2009, Vancouver, Canada http://www.icse-cloud09.org Overview: - Cloud Computing has emerged as a new paradigm for deploying, managing and offering services through a shared infrastructure. The projected benefits of cloud computing are very compelling both from a cloud consumer as well as a cloud services provider perspective: ease of  deployment of services; low capital expenses and constant operational expenses leading to variable pricing schemes and reduced opportunity costs; leveraging the economies of scale for both services providers and users of the cloud. However, the actual realization of these perceived benefits are far from being well-achieved and pose a broad range of interesting questions. Call for papers: Our goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners to  facilitate stimulating discussions on the following three aspects: 1. Programming Models: To avoid the pitfalls of heterogeneous programming paradigms, what are the software engineering challenges that developers face when targeting the cloud as their production environment to offer services? 2. Service Management: How is cloud computing going to address the challenges around soaring service management costs? 3. Cloud Services: What are the new business models for services that could optimally leverage cloud economies of scale? We are soliciting contributions from both academia and practitioners on these three topics. We are encouraging contributions of short vision papers or practical experiences (6 Pages) and full papers (max  14 pages) with high quality research contributions and experimental results. All papers should be in the two-column IEEE format, as required for the ICSE (see http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/calls/format/). Papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the EasyChair website at: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=icsecloud09 Important Dates: -- Submission deadline: 26th Jan 2009 Notification: 9th Feb 2009 Camera Ready: 18th Feb 2009 Workshop: 23rd May 2009 Workshop Organizers: -- Kamal Bhattacharya, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA Martin Bichler, Technical University Munich, Germany Stefan Tai, Karlsruhe University, Germany Technical Program Committee: - Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich) Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs) Kamal Bhattacharya (IBM Research) Martin Bichler (TU Munich) Yiling Chen (Harvard) Schahram Dustar (TU Wien) Joseph Hellerstein (Google) Frank Leymann (Stuttgart University) Anna Li (Microsoft) Heiko Ludwig (IBM Research) Jens Nimis (FZI Karlsruhe) Thomas Sandholm (HP Labs) Thomas Setzer (TU Munich) Stefan Tai (Karlsruhe University) Wolfgang Theilmann (SAP) Maja Vukovic (IBM Research) Rich Wolski (UC Santa Barbara) This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP