[Deadline Extension: September 15] CFP: Fifth International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC) 2019

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Aleksander Slominski

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Aug 29, 2019, 1:05:45 PM8/29/19
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The submission deadline is extended to Sunday, September 15th. 


Top rated papers may get a special invite to submit a follow-up article based on the WoSC5 submission to the IEEE Software magazine issue with an emphasis on serverless, which is to be published in the beginning of 2020.


You can find the latest news at https://www.serverlesscomputing.org/wosc5/#news


We are looking forward to seeing you at the workshop.


Best,


Alek on behalf of workshop organizers


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CFP: Fifth International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC) 2019


Part of 20th ACM/IFIP International Conference Middleware, Dec 9-13,

2019 in UC Davis, CA, USA. <http://2019.middleware-conference.org/>


The workshop will take place in UC Davis, CA, 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. This workshop brings

together researchers and practitioners to discuss their experiences and

thoughts on future directions of serverless research.


Serverless architectures offer different tradeoffs in terms of control,

cost, and flexibility compared to distributed applications built on an

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) substrate. For example, a serverless

architecture 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: *September 15, 2019*

Notification of Acceptance: October 11, 2019

Final Camera-Ready Manuscript (Hard Deadline): October 18, 2019

Author registration deadline: TBD

Conference: December 9-13, 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 ACM SIGPLAN

style, which can found on the ACM template page. The page limit contains 

all the content, including bibliography, appendix, etc. Please note that 

it is preferable, although not mandatory, to use a 10pt font instead of 9pt one.


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 powered by HotCRP (URL TBD).


All submitted manuscripts (following MIDDLEWARE conference requirements

on formatting and page limits) will be peer-reviewed by at least 3

program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation

will appear in the conference proceedings as well as in the ACM Digital

Library.



      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

Arno Jacobsen, MSRG (Middleware Systems Research Group)

Wes Lloyd, University of Washington Tacoma

Pedro Garcia Lopez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)

Tyler Harter, GSL, Microsoft

Višnja Križanović, 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


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