We would like to invite you to submit to next serverless workshop.
Details below.
Thanks,
Alek
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CFP: Fifth International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC) 2019
Part of 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019)
The workshop will take place in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Over the last four to five years, Serverless Computing (Serverless) has
gained an enthusiastic following in industry as a compelling paradigm
for the deployment of cloud applications, and is enabled by the recent
shift of enterprise application architectures to containers and
micro-services. Many of the major cloud vendors, have released
serverless platforms, including Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions,
Microsoft Azure Functions, IBM Cloud Functions. There is, however,
little attention from the research community. This workshop brings
together researchers and practitioners to discuss their experiences and
thoughts on future directions.
Serverless architectures offer different tradeoffs in terms of control,
cost, and flexibility. For example, this requires developers to more
carefully consider the resources used by their code (time to execute,
memory used, etc.) when modularizing their applications. This is in
contrast to concerns around latency, scalability, and elasticity, which
is where significant development effort has traditionally been spent
when building cloud services. In addition, tools and techniques to
monitor and debug applications aren't applicable in serverless
architectures, and new approaches are needed. As well, test and
development pipelines may need to be adapted. Another decision that
developers face are the appropriateness of the serverless ecosystem to
their application requirements. A rich ecosystem of services built into
the platform is typically easier to compose and would offer better
performance. However, composing external services may be unavoidable,
and in such cases, many of the benefits of serverless disappear,
including performance and availability guarantees. This presents an
important research challenge, and it is not clear how existing results
and best practices, such as workflow composition research, can be
applied to composition in a serverless environment.
Authors are invited to submit research papers, experience papers,
demonstrations, or position papers.
The latest version of this CFP is available at
http://serverlesscomputing.org/wosc5/
Topics
This workshop solicits papers from both academia and industry on the
state of practice and state of the art in serverless computing. Topics
of interest include but are not limited to:
* Infrastructure and network optimizations for serverless
applications
* Debugging serverless applications
* Programming models
* Use cases, experiences
* Benchmarks
* Cost models, pricing models, and economics of serverless
* DevOps
* Other topics related to serverless computing
Important Dates
Paper Submission: March 25, 2019
Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2019
Final Camera-Ready Manuscript: May 1, 2019
Author registration deadline: TBD
Conference: July 7-10, 2019
Papers and Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished
research/application papers that are not being considered in another
forum.
Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may
not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point
size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style ), including
figures, tables, and references.
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. All manuscripts
will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality,
technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of
presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.
Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the
paper submission system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2019 select "Workshop
on Serverless Computing" Track after clicking New Submission (top right
button in toolbar).
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program
committee members. Accepted papers (from both tracks and workshops)
with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be made available
online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM
Digital Library.
Review policy
IEEE Policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the
contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be
disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with
access to a paper under review will make any inappropriate use of the
special knowledge, which that access provides. Contents of abstracts
submitted to conference program committees should be regarded as
privileged as well, and handled in the same manner. The Conference
Publications Chair shall ensure that referees adhere to this practice.
Organizers of IEEE conferences are expected to provide an appropriate
forum for the oral presentation and discussion of all accepted papers.
An author, in offering a paper for presentation at an IEEE conference,
or accepting an invitation to present a paper, is expected to be
present at the meeting to deliver the paper. In the event that
circumstances unknown at the time of submission of a paper preclude its
presentation by an author, the program chair should be informed on
time, and appropriate substitute arrangements should be made. In some
cases it may help reduce no-shows for the Conference to require advance
registration together with the submission of the final manuscript.
Workshop co-chairs
Paul Castro, IBM Research
Vatche Ishakian, Bentley University
Vinod Muthusamy, IBM Research
Aleksander Slominski, IBM Research
Steering Committee (tentative)
Roger Barga, Amazon Web Services
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University & Formerly Microsoft Research
Arno Jacobsen, MSRG (Middleware Systems Research Group)
Program Committee (tentative)
Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Azer Bestavros, Boston University
Flavio Esposito, Saint Louis University
Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University
Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University & Formerly Microsoft Research
Pedro Garcia Lopez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
Arno Jacobsen, MSRG (Middleware Systems Research Group)
Tyler Harter, GSL, Microsoft
Visnja Krizanovic, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Pietro Michiardi, Eurecom
Lucas Nussbaum, LORIA, France
Eric Rozner, University of Colorado Boulder
Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara