2nd International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Cloud Computing (DISCCO 2013)

2nd International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Cloud Computing
(DISCCO 2013)

Held in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)

Scope
Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new and popular paradigm for
deploying, managing and delivering a variety of services through a
shared infrastructure. The services offered through clouds can range
from simple data storage to end-to-end management of business processes.
However, the broad, complex and dynamic nature of cloud computing
environments makes it very challenging to provide resilience against
design faults, unforeseen failures, unexpected operating conditions, and
adversarial attacks. The widespread failure of Amazon's cloud computing
infrastructure last year adversely affected thousands of Amazon's
customers, and underscores the importance of providing reliability for
cloud computing services.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry and government organizations to
foster discussion and share ideas, problems and solutions related to
dependability issues in cloud computing. We solicit stimulating,
original, previously unpublished ideas on completed work, position
papers, and/or work-in-progress papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Testing and debugging automation tools for cloud software and
applications
- Monitoring, diagnosis and failure recovery mechanisms for cloud
software and applications
- Hardware and software fault-tolerance techniques for large-scale
cloud computing
- Fault-tolerant approaches to virtualization in clouds
- Reliability of cloud software, applications and services
- Autonomic and self-* cloud computing
- Secure computation in clouds
- Secure data management in clouds
- Access control and key management in clouds
- Network security mechanisms in clouds
- Privacy and identity management in clouds


Technical Program Committee
- Alysson Bessani, University of Lisboa, Portugal
- Christian Cachin, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland
- Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes, France
- Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Franz Hauck, Ulm University, Germany
- Hein Meling, University of Stavanger, Norway
- Marco Serafini, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
- Michael Schottner, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
- Miguel Correia, INESC-ID / IST, Portugal (Co-Chair)
- Mukesh Singhal, University of California, Merced, USA
- Neeraj Mittal, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA (Co-Chair)
- Paolo Romano, INESC-ID / IST, Portugal
- Pascal Felber, Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland
- Rudiger Kapitza, Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Germany
- Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA
- Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble I, France
- Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA
- Xiao Bai, Yahoo! Research, Spain