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December 4th, 2011

8:00 pm: Dinner

  • If you want to go together with us, we meet at 19:30pm local Cypriot time in the Coral Beach Resort hotel lobby.
  • Opportunity to socialize and network (at your own expense though)
  • If you are interested in joining, please send an email to Kurt Vanmechelen (kurt.vanmechelen@ua.ac.be)
  • Venue: “The Goosefat and Garlic Restaurant”, http://goosefatandgarlic.com/index.php, 4 kilometers from the Coral Beach Resort. 
 
December 5th, 2011 8:30 am: Welcome

  • NOTE: All presentations should not be longer than 20 minutes + 8 minutes Q&A)

08:45 am - 10:15 am: Session A: Market Mechanisms and Negotiation (session chair: Kurt Vanmechelen)

  • An Inspiration for Solving Grid Resource Management Problem Using Multiple Economic Models
    Aminul Haque, Saadat M Alhashmi and Rajendran Parthiban
  • Concurrent Negotiations in Cloud-Based Systems
    Melanie Siebenhaar, The An Bin Nguyen, Ulrich Lampe, Dieter Schuller and Ralf Steinmetz
  • A Reverse Auction-Based Market for IaaS Cloud Resources
    Joris Roovers, Kurt Vanmechelen and Jan Broeckhove

10:15 am - 10:30 am: Coffee Break

10:30 am - 12:00 pm: Session B: Cost Models, Charging, and Trading Platforms (session chair: Kurt Vanmechelen)

  • A Cost Model for Hybrid Clouds
    Mohammad Mahdi Kashef and Jörn Altmann
  • How to do Successful Chargeback for Cloud Services
    Hristo Stefanov, Slinger Jansen, Ronald Batenburg and Eugene Van Heusden, and Ravi Khadka
  • A Marketplace Framework for Trading Cloud-Based Services
    Andreas Menychtas, Sergio Garcia Gomez, Andrea Giessmann, Anna Gatzioura, Katarina Stanoevska, Jürgen Vogel and Vrettos Moulos

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch Break

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Session C: Resource Allocation, Scheduling, and Admission Control (session chair: Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi)

  • Client Classification Policies for SLA Negotiation and Allocation in Shared Cloud Datacenters
    Mario Macias and Jordi Guitart
  • Budget-Deadline Constrained Workflow Planning for Admission Control in Market-Oriented Environments
    Wei Zheng and Rizos Sakellariou
  • Virtual Machine Placement for Predictable and Time-Constrained Peak Loads
    Wubin Li, Johan Tordsson and Erik Elmroth

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Session D: Work in Progress on Risk Assessment and Economics of Cloud Services (session chair: NN)

  • Risk Assessment in Service Provider Communities
    Ioan Petri, Omer Rana, Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi and Yacine Rezgui
  • A Game-Theoretical Approach to the Benefits of Cloud Computing
    Jörn Künsemöller and Holger Karl

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm: Coffee Break

4:00 am - 5:30 pm: Session E: Work in Progress on Cost-Aware Adoption of Cloud Services (session chair: Omer F. Rana)

  • Planning for Optimal Multi-Site Data Placement for Disaster Recovery
    Shubhashis Sengupta and Annervaz K.M.
  • Saga: A Cost Efficient File System Based on Cloud Storage Service
    Wei Shi, Dapeng Ju and Dongsheng Wang
  • Developing a Cost-Effective Virtual Cluster on the Cloud
    Stephen McGough

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Roundtable Discussion: How to Realize Clouds – Are High-Tech R&D Approaches or Pragmatic Approaches Better? (session chair: Omer F. Rana)

  • Discussion of trends
  • NOTE: To support the round table discussion, I would like to ask all speakers to send me a one slide presentation about the opportunities and challenges of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, which are related to their area of expertise.

6:30 pm - 6:45 pm: Closing Remarks

  • Invitation to Future Generation of Computer Systems Journal, Elsevier