CfP: Workshop in Feedback Computing at CPSWEEK 2015

10th International Workshop on Feedback Computing
Co-located with CPSWeek 2015
April 13th, Seattle, WA, USA

Call for papers

Feedback Computing is a unique forum built around advancing feedback system theory and practice in modeling, analyzing, designing, and optimizing computing systems with respect to performance, predictability, power consumption and thermal aspects. Computing system includes everything from high-performance grids, cloud and web service infrastructures, distributed mobile systems, servers, SOCs, embedded systems, and sensor networks. The workshop represents the growing use of feedback in a broader agenda and is a timely response to the following two trends:

1. Computing systems are growing larger, smarter, and more complex, embedding in the physical world, human interactions, and societal infrastructure. Systematic and feedback-driven approaches are critical for addressing the dynamic complexity that arises in new fields such as cyber-physical systems, cloud computing, social networks, and mobile applications.
2. Advances in disciplines such as machine learning, mathematical optimization, network theories, decision theories, and data engineering provide new foundations and techniques that empower feedback approaches to address computing systems at scale and to achieve goals such as autonomy, adaptation, stabilization, robustness, and performance optimization.

Topics
The Feedback Computing Workshop seeks original research contributions and position papers on advancing feedback control technologies and their applications in computing systems, broadly defined. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Theoretical foundations for feedback computing
• New control paradigms and system architecture
• Sensing, actuation, and data management in feedback computing
• Learning and modeling of computing system dynamics
• Design patterns and software engineering
• Experiences and best practices from real systems
• Applications in domains such as big data, cloud computing, computer networks, cyber-physical systems, data center resource management, distributed systems, mobility, power management and sustainability, real-time systems, and social networks

We solicit research papers containing original research results, challenge papers motivating new research directions, and application papers describing experiences from real systems. In addition, the workshop will facilitate discussion and collaborative research among the participants. One Best Paper Award will be announced at the end of workshop to recognize the current best work in feedback computing.

Committee

General Chair:

• Bhuvan Urgaonkar, The Pennsylvania State University

Program Co-Chairs:

• Karl-Erik Arzen, Lund University
• Xue Liu, McGill University

Steering Committee:

• Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• Joseph L. Hellerstein, University of Washington
• Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St. Louis
• Anders Robertsson, Lund University
• Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware

TPC Members:

• Luca Benini, ETH Zurich
• Sameh Elnikety, Microsoft Research
• Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research
• Martina Maggio, Lund University
• Nicolas Marchand, Grenoble INP
• Arif Merchant, Google
• Luigi Palopoli, University of Trento
• Eduardo Tovar, Ploytechnic Institute of Porto
• Ming Zhao, Florida International University
• Shaolei Ren, Florida International University

Dates (Tentative)

• Paper submissions due: February 1, 2015
• Notification to authors: March 8, 2015
• Final paper files due: March 20, 2015

Submission
The workshop follows a single-blind review process. Authors are invited to submit three types of papers to emphasize the multiple focuses of this workshop:

• Research Papers: Research papers must represent original, unpublished contributions and must not exceed 6 pages in length (excluding references).
• Challenge Papers: Challenge paper submissions must motivate research challenges with real systems that can take advantage of feedback computing, and should not exceed 3 pages in length (excluding references).
• Application Papers: Application paper submissions must be based on real experience and working systems. All submissions should be formatted as annotated slides--a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half--and should not exceed 15 slides in length.

The details of the submission process will be posted here soon.