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CloudWays 2018 – 4th International Workshop on Cloud Migration and Architecture

Cloud computing has recently been the focus of attention both as academic research and industrial initiatives. Major IT companies and start-ups envision cloud computing as i) an economic strategy to meet business objectives cost effectively and ii) a way to remain competitive by exploiting technical resources efficiently. From a business point of view, organizations can benefit from the on-demand and pay-per-use model offered by cloud services rather than an upfront purchase of costly and over-provisioned infrastructure. From a technological perspective, the scalability, interoperability, and efficient (de-)allocation of resources through cloud services can enable a smooth execution of organizational operations.

Given the potential benefits of cloudification, an increasing number of organizational business-critical applications – so-called legacy systems – are being migrated to cloud environments. Regardless of the benefits of cloudification, many organizations still rely on legacy software systems developed over the lifetime of an organization using traditional development methods. In spite of the maintainability issues, (on-premise) legacy systems are still crucial as they support core business processes that cannot simply be replaced. Therefore, migrating legacy systems towards cloud-based platform allows organizations to leverage their existing systems deployed (over publicly available resources) as scalable cloud services. On the other hand, more and more applications are designed intentionally for the cloud, so called cloud-native applications. And both approaches, cloud migration and cloud-native application engineering should learn from each other.

The 4th International Workshop on Cloud Migration and Architecture (CloudWays 2018) aims to bring together cloud migration experts and cloud-native application DevOps experts from academia and industry from different IT communities, e.g., cloud computing, software engineering, services computing, big data, information systems, etc. Its main goals is to promote discussions and collaboration among participants, to help disseminate novel cloud migration practices and solutions, and to identify future cloud migration and cloud-native application engineering challenges and dimensions. To this end, the workshop will foster a more interactive participation model, in which authors, invited speakers and attendees will be encouraged to socially engage beyond the planned workshop activities.

CloudWays 2018 will be co-located with the 7th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2018).

组委会

Workshop Chairs

Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groningen, the Netherlands,

Nane Kratzke, University of Applied Science Lübeck, Germany

Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Program Committee (TBC)

Aakash Ahmad, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Stuttgart, Germany (Co-chair)

Thais Batista, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

William Campbell, Birmingham City University, UK

Fei Cao, University of Central Missouri, USA

Sören Frey, Daimler TSS, Germany

Wilhelm (Willi) Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany

Abbas Heydarnoori, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Pooyan Jamshidi, Imperial College London, UK

Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, RightScale, Inc., UK

Nane Kratzke, University of Applied Science Lübeck, Germany (Co-chair)

Xiaodong Liu, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

Theo Lynn, Dublin City University, Ireland

Paulo Henrique Maia, State University of Ceará, Brazil

Nabor Mendonça, University of Fortaleza, Brazil

Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Co-chair)

Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania

Américo Sampaio, University of Fortaleza, Brazil

Amir Sharifloo, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Bruno Volckaert, Ghent University, Belgium

Vinicius Garcia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Arnor Solberg, SINTEF, Norway

Nicolas Ferry, SINTEF, Norway

Alessandro Rossini, EVRY, Norway

征稿信息

重要日期

2018-07-14

初稿截稿日期

2018-08-13

初稿录用日期

2018-08-27

终稿截稿日期

Topics of Interest

We solicit original high quality papers focused on different areas of research and practices on cloud adoption and migration based on (but not limited to) the following topics:

Cloud-native architectures

Cloud-native architecture evolution, adaption and transformation
Cloud application maturity levels (cloud ready, friendly, resilient, native)
Quality considerations for cloud-native architectures
Scalability considerations for cloud-native architectures
Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures
Microservices
Serverless Architectures
Cloud architecture reference models

Cloud migration

Cloud migration strategies and processes
Cloud migration patterns, styles and tactics
Cloud migration reference models and best practices
Migration to XaaS (e.g., SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) delivery models
Data migration strategies in cloud
Effort and cost estimation in cloud migration

Cloud-native SW engineering

DevOps
Cloud patterns, styles and tactics
Migration to Cloud-native architectures
Model-driven approaches for cloud-native SW engineering
Programming support for cloud-native architectures
Tool support for cloud-native architectures
Project management and planning for a cloud-native SW engineering context

(Container) Platforms:

Self-contained deployment units (containers, unikernels, etc.)
Elastic platforms for self-contained deployment units
Functions-as-a-Service platforms
Performance and operation considerations for cloud platforms
Auto-scalable cloud platforms

Use cases/empirical studies:

Empirical studies, secondary studies or surveys on one of the above mentioned topics
Lessons learned on one of the above mentioned topics
Cloud platform benchmarking studies
Scalability benchmarking studies
Industrial case studies or experience reports on one of the above mentioned topics

作者指南

Submission Guidelines

We seek submissions of both full and short papers. Full papers (maximum 12 pages) should describe original research, empirical studies or experience reports on cloud architectures, adoption and migration, while short papers (maximum 8 pages) should describe on-going research or early empirical results. All papers must be written in English and follow Springer's LNCS formatting instructions. Papers must be submitted in PDF using the EasyChair online submission system.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of presentation, and their adequacy to the workshop. Accepted papers will appear in a joint ESOCC 2018 Workshops Proceedings to be published in Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. We are also considering the possibility to invite authors of the workshop's best papers to publish extended versions of their work in a special issue of a related international journal or in a book on cloud migration.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ESOCC 2018 conference.