Program	Location	Final submission	Registration	Important Dates

The 2011 International Workshop on Data Cloud (D-CLOUD 2011)

December 12, 2011, Hong Kong, SAR

Cloud computing unifies data, users, and computation on a vast scale and provides elastic computational capability that scales with the data size. The 2011 Workshop on Data Cloud (D-CLOUD) will address on topics related to data processing in the cloud, including the infrastructure, interfaces, algorithms, applications, middleware, systems, and empirical study.

By posing research questions related to data and their processing in the cloud, D-CLOUD aims to catalyze dialog between cloud computing practitioners and researchers, to open the veil of secrecy that has surrounded many cloud-based technologies, to foresee and understand the challenges for data-intensive computing, and to increase the potential impact of promising solutions underway in the systems, database, network, and programming communities. While it is important to analyze the performance, reliability, and complexity of the current technologies, D-CLOUD also looks forward to research work that explores novel solutions to problems in data storage, processing, and analytics.

Scope

Contributions devoted to the evaluation, optimization, or enhancement of cloud based data technologies, as well as solutions for emerging areas from all layers of the architecture, are solicited. The topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following research areas:

Data storage infrastructure Cloud-based data analytics Cloud-based data services Datacenter technology Data processing as a service Cloud applications Discovery of data, services, and other resources Fault-tolerance and reliability Mobile data clouds

Performance modeling Empirical study and evaluation Public versus private clouds for data services Scalability Design and implementation of cloud-based data systems Traffic and load balancing Algorithms for cloud-based data processing Programming languages and support Data semantics and consistency models

Advance Program

8:00-9:00	Registration	Jocky Club Auditorium
9:00-10:00	Welcome	M1603, Li Ka Shing Tower (Bldg M)
	Special Invited Talk: Personal Cloud Storage -- Youdao Note Dr. Weihang Jiang, Netease (163.com)
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:20	Querying combined cloud-based and relational databases Minpeng Zhu and Tore Risch (Uppsala University)	M1603, Li Ka Shing Tower (Bldg M)
	NoSQL Evaluation-A use case oriented survey Robin Hecht and Stefan Joblonski (University of Bayruth)
11:30-13:30	Lunch	Color Crystal Restaurant
13:30-14:30	Special Invited Talk: Baidu Storage (in Mandarin) Zhenyu Hou, Senior Architect, Baidu	M1603, Li Ka Shing Tower (Bldg M)
14:30-14:40	Short break
14:40-15:30	Intrusion Analysis with Deep Packet Inspection: Increasing Efficiency of Packet Based Investigations Daniel Smallwood (Computer Sciences Corp.) and Andrew Vance (L3 Communications)	M1603, Li Ka Shing Tower (Bldg M)
	A prototype system for object management in private cloud Chia Hung Kao and Shin Tze Liu (Institute for Information Industry)
15:30-16:00	Break
16:00-17:15	Analysis Farm: A Cloud-based Scalable Aggregation and Query Platform for Network Log Analysis Jianwen Wei, Yusu Zhao, Kaida Jiang, Rui Xie and Yaohui Jin (Shanghai Jiaotong University)	M1603, Li Ka Shing Tower (Bldg M)
	Fault Tolerant Study for Durable Storage on Cloud Xiaofei Zhang and Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
	eStor: Energy efficient and resilient data center storage Lin Bin, Shanshan Li, and Xiangke Liao (National University of Defense Technology)
18:00-21:00	Reception	PolyU Staff Club, 5/F, Communal Building

Location

The workshop will take place at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in affiliation with the CSC'11 conference. The campus map is available here. Most of the workshop activities will be in M1603 on the 16th Floor of the Li Ka Shing Tower (Building M in the campus map).

Information on the transport to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University is available on the conference site.

Submissions

Please follow the final submission instructions to prepare the camera-ready version of your contribution.

Registration

Participants of the workshop shall register through the CSC'11 workshop registration (if applicable at the student rate). At least one author should register to the workshop (or conference) to present and publish the paper. If the participant has registered for the CSC'11 conference, the workshop activities are already covered and there is no need to register for the workshop separately.

To register for the workshop, print/download the workshop registration form in Word or PDF format, fill in the requested information, and email, mail or fax it with your payment to

Ms. Alice Lam, Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Fax: +852-27740842 E-mail: csalice@inet.polyu.edu.hk

Important dates

Paper submission	Oct. 22, 2011 (extended deadline)
Notification of Acceptance	Nov. 10, 2011 (updated)
Camera-ready paper	Nov. 20, 2011
Workshop	Dec. 12, 2011

Organizers

Workshop Chair:
Lin Gu (), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Program Committee
Yaohui Jin, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Lei Rao, General Motors
Qiong Luo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Charles Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Gong Zhang, Huawei Technologies
Xue Liu, McGill University

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Last updated Oct. 12, 2011.