Cloud Forward 2015 Conference

Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, 6-8 October 2015

Posted on: 11 May 2015

Pisa, Palazzo della Carovana, Scuola Normale Superiore
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The Cloud Forward 2015 Conference (cf2015.holacloud.eu), hosted by the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa from 6 to 8 October 2015, brought together experts from industry and academia to consider the future of cloud computing. Organised under the auspices of EGI (European Grid Infrastructure) MISE (Ministero Italiano dello Sviluppo Economico), Regione Toscana, CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), APRE (Agency for the Promotion of European Research), Municipality of Pisa, Fondazione Sistema Toscana (FST), and University of Pisa, in the framework of the HOLA Cloud project (www.holacloud.eu), the event aimed to review experiences and discuss future directions to overcome problems and provide new opportunities for the utilisation of leading edge cloud computing by industry and academia and for ICT developers providing innovative solutions.

Cloud Forward 2015 took place in friendship with Internet Festival.

The conference provided the scientific community a dedicated forum for discussing innovative architectures and services in the area of distributed computing (through the Distributed and CLOUD computing track), as well as new technologies beyond CLOUDs, requirements and future goals (through the COMPLETE computing track). It focused both on research and development efforts in the domain of CLOUDs and in future scenarios and technologies that exploit CLOUD computing as a utility, such as Internet of Things.

Authors were invited to submit abstracts for poster and paper presentations related to the topics of interest of the Cloud Forward 2015 Conference: From Distributed to Complete Computing.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest included but were not limited to:

Track “Distributed and CLOUD computing”

Modelling approaches and programming models
Model-based service engineering
Performance prediction and analysis
Data mobility and interoperability
Choreography and orchestration of services
Service management techniques
Big data management and analytics
Placement and scheduling approaches
Energy-efficient design and management
High availability in virtualized environments
Quality assurance and optimization
Data privacy and protection

Track “Towards COMPLETE computing”

Experiences of utilising products from CLOUD computing research efforts
Problems encountered in utilising CLOUD computing
Requirements of ICT systems beyond CLOUD computing
Innovative solutions beyond CLOUD computing

Track “Open source in CLOUD and COMPLETE computing”

Architecture and design of open source software
Open source software in cloud-based applications
Interoperability and portability of open source software
Scalability and performance of open source software
Metrics for open source software
Open source software quality, testing, verification and coding conventions
Open source practices and methods

Best Paper Awards

A “Best Paper Award” was conferred to the author(s) of a paper presented at the conference, selected by the International Program Committee based on the best combined marks of paper reviewing and the paper presentation quality.

A “Best Joint Paper Award” was conferred to the author(s) of a paper presented at the conference that focuses on evaluation / comparison / integration / interoperability of research approaches developed in the framework of different projects / efforts.