2nd WoSS

 

                                                                    

2nd Workshop on Software Services: Cloud Computing and Applications based on Software Services

Timisoara, June 6-9, 2011

 

Event location: Room 045C, West University of Timisoara, B-dul Vasile Parvan 4

***Competition of project proposals

A SPRERS award is offered for the best idea for project proposal for Call 8-Objective 1.2 coming from a participant to 2nd WoSS from new member states, idea that will be presented at Session 4. The evaluation will be done by a committee of reviewers for FP7-ICT calls.

To be prepared for this event and enter in the competition:

• Read the brochure or the call text
  
• Follow the examples from ICT Proposers Days
• Upload your proposal here (category: project proposal), described in the style of FP7-ICT FET-Open - first stage proposal (max 5 pages  describing:
1. Scientific and technical objectives,
2. Relevance to the topics addressed by the call
3. Methodology)

     until June 4th.

• Present the idea in Session 5 of WoSS.
  

Resume of the event

 

In HPC in the Cloud

In ACM TechNews

Book

 

The invited presentations are described in details in the book: 

European Research Activities in Cloud Computing
Editor: Dana Petcu and José Luis Vázquez-Poletti
Date Of Publication: Jan 2012
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3507-7

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK

Sample chapter

Extended papers in SCPE

 

SCPE vol. 12, no. 3, 2011

SCPE vol. 12, no. 4, 2011

 

Aim

 

The goal of the series of Workshops on Software Services (WoSS) is to present and discuss the recent significant developments in the field of software services.

WoSS intends to be an open forum for academics, practitioners, and vendors, allowing them to discuss the current trends and scientific and technological challenges, such as service quality assurance, adaptability, reliability, interoperability, and automating service-oriented application construction and management.

The first three editions (September 2010, June 2011 and September 2011) are organized with the support of the FP7-ICT SPRERS project, with the aim to highlight the achievements of the on-going European collaborative projects subscribing to FP7-ICT programme and the activities of the teams from new member states in software services.

The second edition is dedicated to Cloud computing and Applications based on Software Services.

 

Topics

 

• Cloud computing architectures and standards
• Cloud compliant applications
• Cloud oriented programming and middleware
• Cloud application portability and scalability
• Cloud services reliability, availability, performance and monitoring
• Cloud security
• Automatic computing 
• Virtualization technologies
• Service oriented computing
• Negotiation and service-level agreements 

• Quality of services and non-functional aspects
• Business and applications based on software services
• Service modeling, specification, composition, discovery and monitoring

 

Event programme

 

Pdf format (June 2)

Monday, June 6th

 

08:00-08:45 Registration

08:45-09:00 Opening - Welcome from SPRERS

09:00-11:20 Session 1: Invited talks on automation and storage in Clouds (chair: José Luis Vázquez-Poletti)

• Paolo Romano - INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal (coordinator of  Cloud-TM). Autonomic mechanisms for transactional replication in elastic cloud environments (slides)
  

• Hillel Kolodner - IBM Haifa Research Lab,  Israel  (representing VISION Cloud). Data-intensive Storage Services on Clouds: Limitations, Challenges and Enablers

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-13:00 Session 2: Cloud technologies (chair: Alysson Bessani)

Regular papers:

• Viet Tran (Institute of Informatics Slovakia), Binh Minh Nguyen and Ladislav Hluchy. Abstraction layer for cloud computing

• Joan Navarro, José Enrique Armendáriz Iñigo (Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain) and August Climent. Cloud-based Replication Protocol on Power Smart Grids

Position papers:

• Danny Harnik, Hillel Kolodner (IBM Haifa Research Lab,  Israel), Shahar Ronen, Julian Satran, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg and Sivan Tal. Secure Access Mechanism for Cloud Storage

• Kanchanna Ramasamy Balraj (Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Italy) and Seenivasan Gunabalan. A simple delegation approach using RESTful Web Services in Storage Cloud (slides)
  

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:20 Session 3: Invited talks on Cloud security and open-source distribution (chair: Paolo Romano)

• Charles Loomis - LAL CNRS, France (coordinator of  StratusLab). The StratusLab Cloud Distribution (slides)

• Alysson Bessani - University of Lisbon, Portugal (representing TCLOUDS). The TCLOUDS Integrated Project – Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructures (slides)
  

16:20-16:40 Coffee break

16:40-17:05 Session 4:  Cloud providers' solutions - part I (moderator: Viorel Negru)

• Florin Manaila (IBM Romania), Cloud Storage with IBM SONAS

17:05-18:30 Session 5:  Brainstorming for FP7-ICT Call 8 - Objective 1.2 (moderator: Dana Petcu)

• Presentation of the Call 8: Objective 1.2
• Project ideas

Announced speakers:

• Pawel Czarnul (University of Gdansk, Poland)
• Viet Tran (Institute of Informatics, Slovakia)
• Edina Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

19:00-21:00 Welcome party

 

Tuesday, June 7th

 

09:00-11:20 Session 6: Invited talks on self-adaption and legacy applications in SOA (chair: Yvon Jégou)

• Elisabetta di Nitto - Politehnico di Milano, Italy (representing S-CUBE). Self-adaptation in service-oriented systems (slides)
• Parastoo Mohagheghi - SINTEF, Norway  (coordinator of REMICS). Migrating legacy application to the Service Cloud Paradigm (slides)

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-13:00 Session 7: Cloud initiatives (chair: Matti Heikkurinen)

Corporate papers:

• Matej Artač, Marjan Šterk, Uroš Jovanovič, Jaka Močnik, Gregor Pipan and Daniel Vladušič (XLAB, Slovenia). XLAB – an SME with expertise in distributed systems and computationally intensive applications (slides)
  
• Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Karoly Bosa, Harald Lampesberger, Ji Ma and Boris Vleju (Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria). The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Client-Centric Cloud Computing - Application-Oriented Fundamental Research (slides)

Position papers:

• Roman Wyrzykowski (Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland), Marek Zawadzki, Tomasz Chmiel, Piotr Dzierzak, Artur Kaszuba, Jacek Kochan, Jerzy Mikolajczak, Tomasz Olas, Sebastian Petruczynik, Krzysztof Rojek and Lukasz Szustak. Cloud Campus Services in PLATON e-Science Platform
• Vaidas Giedrimas (Siauliai University, Lithuania), Audrius Varoneckas (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) and Algimantas Juozapavicius. The grid and cloud computing facilities in Lithuania

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:10 Session 8: Invited talk on service level in e-infrastructures (chair: Johan Tordsson)

• Matti Heikkurinen - Emergence Tech Ltd, Switzerland (representing gSLM). Service Level and Delivery Management in e‑Infrastructures – Lessons learned in gSLM project (slides)

15:10-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:30 Session 9: Semantics and composition in SOA (chair: Tomáš Pitner)

Regular papers:

• Karol Furdik (Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia), Peter Bednar and Gabriel Lukac. Support of Semantic Interoperability in a Service-based Business Collaboration Platform

• Peter Kostelnik, Martin Sarnovsky and Karol Furdik (Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia). The Semantic Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems Applied in the Internet of Things and Services Domain

• Cristina Bianca Pop, Viorica Rozina Chifu, Ioan Salomie, Ramona Bianca Baico, Mihaela Dinsoreanu, and Georgiana Copil (Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania). A Hybrid Firefly-inspired Approach for Optimal Semantic Web Service Composition (slides)
  

• Dessislava Petrova-Antonova (Sofia University, Bulgaria) and Aleksandar Dimov. Towards a Taxonomy of Web Service Composition Approaches (slides)
  

Position papers:

• Eric Schmieders, Andras Micsik (MTA SZTAKI, Hungary), Marc Oriol, Khaled Mahbub and Raman Kazhamiakin. Combining SLA Prediction and Cross Layer Adaptation for Preventing SLA Violations (slides)
  

• Mārtiņš Bonders and Jānis Grabis (Riga Technical University, Latvia). A Holistic Method for Selecting Web Services in Design of Composite Applications

18:00-21:00 Social event

 

Wednesday, June 8th

 

09:00-11:20 Session 10: Invited talks on Cloud SLAs and management (chair: Salvatore Venticinque)

• Francesco D'Andria - ATOS Research, Spain (coordinator of Cloud4SOA). Cloud4SOA project - Business Application governance and SLA Management in PaaS context (slides)
  

• Johan Tordsson - Umeå Universitet, Sweeden - (representing OPTIMIS). OPTIMIS - towards holistic cloud management (slides)

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-13:00 Session 11: Frameworks and efficiency (chair: Sylvia Ilieva)

Regular papers:

• Pawel Czarnul (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland). Integration of Distributed Services into Workflow Applications with Optimization of Time, Cost and Energy Consumption
• Florin Pop, Ciprian Dobre, Ovidiu-Marian Achim and Valentin Cristea (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania). Load-Balancing Metric for Service Dependability in Large Scale Distributed Environments
• Ioan Salomie, Cioara Tudor, Ionut Anghel and Daniel Moldovan (Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania). Energy Aware Adaptation Methodology for Improving the Service Centers Energy Efficiency (slides)
  

Position papers:

• Gianmarco Baldini, Ranga Rao Vencatesha Prasad, Abdur Rahim Biswas, Klaus Moessner, Matti Etelapera, Juha-Pekka Soininen, Septimiu-Cosmin Nechifor (Siemens PSE Brasov, Romania), Vera Stavroulaki and Panagiotis Vlacheas. COGMAN: A cognitive management framework to support exploitation of the Future Internet (slides)

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:20 Session 12: Invited talks on Cloud resource management (chair: Francesco D'Andria)

• Yvon Jégou - INRIA France (representing CONTRAIL). Open Computing Infrastructures for Elastic Services: Contrail Approach (slides)

   

• Salvatore Venticinque - Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy (representing mOSAIC). Agent Based Services for Negotiation, Monitoring and Reconfiguration of Cloud Resources (slides)
  

16:20-16:35 Coffee break

16:35-17:00 Session 13:  Cloud providers' solutions - part II (moderator: Viorel Negru)

• Rares Juretchi (HP Romania/ESSN), HP solutions for Cloud computing

17:00-19:00 Session 14: Partnership offers for Call 8 of FP7-ICT, Objective 1.2 (moderator: Dana Petcu)

• Offers for partnership
• Calls for partners
• Companies portofolio

 Competences:

• John Abela, Ascent Software, Malta
• Manolov Dinko, ICB-InterConsult Bulgaria Ltd, Bulgaria
• Ernest Cachia, University of Malta
• Erik Flask, Malta Council for Science and Technology, Project proposal opportunities in Malta
• Andras Micsik, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary

Search for partners:

• Analiza Abdilla, MARSEC-XL Foundation, Malta: MARSSA
• Dorian Gorgan, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
• Vaidas Giedrimas, Siauliai University, Lithuania
• Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Edina Varga, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

19:15-19:30 Cofee break

19:30-20:30 Session 15: Parallel sessions for project ideas  | Expert group (closed) meeting

 

Thursday, June 9th

 

09:00-11:20 Session 16: Invited talks on deployment and interoprability (chair: Charles Loomis)

• José Luis Vázquez-Poletti - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (representing 4CaaSt). Reducing Time to Market with the PaaS Cloud of the Future (slides)

• Carlos Agostinho - UNINOVA, Portugal (representing UNITE). Interoperability and the software, services and semantic technologies challenges in the future of internet (slides)
  

11:20-11:40 Coffee break

11:40-12:40 Session 17: Management and control of platforms (chair: Todor Stoilov)

Regular papers:

• Ciprian Dobre, Florin Pop, Valentin Cristea and Ovidiu Achim (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania). A Virtualization-based Approach to Dependability for Service Computing
• Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda (Technical University of Lodz, Polonia). Multi-agent systems for access control in distributed informations systems (slides)
  
• Alexandru Stanciu, Bogdan Enciu and Gabriel Neagu (ICI Bucuresti, Romania). Auto-administration of gLite-based grid site (slides)
  

12:40-13:40 Session 18: Applications (chair: Vlado Stankovski)  

Regular papers:

• Łukasz Chomątek and Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda (Technical University of Lodz, Polonia). Vehicle routing problems with the use of multi-agent system (slides)
  

• Maya Dimitrova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria), Siya Lozanova, Lubomir Lahtchev and Chavdar Roumenin. Cloud Computing Framework for New Medical Interface Technologies (slides)
  

Student paper:

• Calin-Adrian Popa (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania) and Cosmin Cernazanu-Glavan. Pattern neural networks: A case study

13:40-14:40 Lunch break

14:40-15:00 Session 19: Award for the best proposal idea

(chair: Daniela Zaharie)

15:00-18:00 Session 20: Training on FP7 project proposals

(chair: Dana Petcu)

• Dana Petcu (UVT): FP7-ICT training - awareness level
  

• Gabriel Neagu (ICI, Romania): Ideal-IST offer
  

18:00 Closing

 

Paper submission, publication and fees

 

Authors should submit extended abstracts of 3 to 6 pages using LNCS style through the submission portal.

Five types of contributions are expected relative to the above mentioned topics:

1. Invited paper: Contributions from FP7-ICT projects
2. Regular paper: Presenting accomplished research results
3. Position paper: Short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research
4. Student paper:  PhD student reporting a PhD project and work so far
5. Corporate paper: Enabling companies to present recent developments and applications, showcase company’s noteworthy products and service.

The extended abstracts will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.

Depending on their merits, selected contributions will be qualified to be presented in full version in:

1. book chapters in a book by Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2. September and December issues of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience
   

 

 

Important dates:

 

Extended deadline for extended abstract submissions: April 27, 2011

Authors notifications: May 9, 2011

Application for SPRERS support (see details bellow): May 12, 2011

Applicant notification: May 16, 2011

Workshop participation: June 6-9, 2011

Invitations for full papers: June 15, 2011

Full version of the papers: July 15, 2011

Publication in the journal: September 30th, 2011

Publication in the book: December 30th, 2011

 

Event organization

 

The sessions will dedicated to:

• invited talks
• regular paper presentations
• position paper presentations
• PhD student presentations
• company presentations
• training for FP7-ICT projects
• networking and brainstorming for FP7-ICT project ideas 
• awarding
  

 

Programme committee

 

Program chairs:

Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania

José Luis Vázquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

 

Program Committee :

 

Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, France

Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow, Poland, and UvA Amsterdam, Netherland

Paweł Czarnul, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Wolfgang Gentzsch, HPC Consultant, Germany

Spyridon Gogouvitis, Technical University of Athen, Greece

Ladislav Hluchý,  Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

Sylvia Ilieva, Sofia University and  Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Mārīte Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Cezary Mazurek, Poznan Supercomputing Center, Poland

Zsolt Nemeth, SZTAKI - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Tomás Pitner, Masaryk University,  Brno, Czech Republic

Paolo Romano, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Todor Stoilov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Huy Tran, University of Wien, Austria  

Salvatore Venticinque, Second University of Napoli, Italy

Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany  

 

Support for participants from new member states of the European community

 

The participants to the workshop from new member states, authors of accepted papers of the workshop, are entitled to apply for the reimbursement of the travel, accommodation and conference fees.
Applications should be send to the contact point of the workshop and should contain a curriculum vitae and a list of publications.

The New Member States of EC are: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia.

Support is also provided for representatives of FP7-ICT projects under Objective 1.2.

 

Event publicity

Flyer

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gSLM 

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Institutional support

  

Computer Science Department, West University of Timisoara

Institute e-Austria Timisoara

 

Participants