The 2009 IEEE International Workshop on
Internet-based Virtual Computing Environment (iVCE’09)

With the fast development and wide application of computing and network technologies, the Internet has become an important information infrastructure for modern society. Today, there are unprecedented amount of resources over the Internet, e.g. content, storage, computing powers and even human presence, while the usage ratio of these resources is significantly low. However, there is an increasing need to build large-scale parallel and distributed system over the Internet to utilize various idle resources to get better overall performance, or simply get the task done.

 

Resources over the Internet have such intrinsic characteristics as growth, autonomy and diversity, which have brought many challenges to the efficient sharing and comprehensive utilization of these resources. Researches and applications during the past twenty years show that there are essential differences between the Internet environment and the traditional computer environments. A basic conclusion is that the traditional resource management in a single computer will be no longer suitable for the Internet. The computing environment that does not adapt well to the intrinsic characteristics of the Internet is the bottleneck for the effective sharing and utilization of the Internet resources.

 

Through years of research and practice, e.g. grid computing, service-oriented computing, peer-to-peer computing, autonomic computing and cloud computing etc., it is recognized that it is difficult to follow the traditional centralized-control way to manage these growing, autonomous and diverse networked resources. Therefore, to build a virtual computing environment on the open infrastructure of the Internet, we must carefully realize two kinds of transitions of resource management in the following two aspects: 1) the transition from the attempt to hold all resource information to on-demand aggregating resources based on local information; 2) the transition from the traditional centralized-control management of all resources to the sharing and comprehensive utilization of resources by autonomic collaborations among the distributed autonomous Internet resources.

 

The workshop aims at highlighting an ongoing research on the harmonious, trustworthy and transparent Internet-based Virtual Computing Environment (iVCE) as well as its applications on various domains.

 

The theme of the workshop has a very closed relation to the topics of ICPADS 2009, such as Distributed and Parallel Operating Systems, Resource Management and Scheduling, Peer-to-Peer Computing, Grid Computing, Web-based Computing and Service-Oriented Architecture and so on.

 

Scope

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

l       Resource virtualization and autonomic elements

l       Virtual organization and virtual commonwealth

l       Collaboration, coordination and virtual executor

l       Virtual machine, Virtual network

l       Computational properties of Internet resources

l       Software engineering for Internet applications

l       Security, dependability, survivability, and reliability

l       Trust, reputation and fairness

l       Applications and deployment issues

 

Program

This workshop will include 2 invited talks (50 minutes each, one speaker from China, and another from the other countries) and accept 9~12 papers for 3 single track sessions (90 minutes each). The whole program will need one day to proceed.

 

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Due:   15th July 2009   (Extended to 28th July 2009  )

Acceptance Notification:  3st September 2009

Final Manuscript Due:    1st October 2009

 

 

Submission Guidance:

Please email your manuscript in PDF to ivce09@gmail.com with the subject of "iVCE submission - [AuthorName]". All papers submitted should not be published or currently under review elsewhere. Papers should be limited up to 6 pages in IEEE CS format. All papers will be peer reviewed by PC members.

 

Organizers

Huai, Jinpeng                    Beihang University, China

Wang, Ji                            National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China

 

Program Committee  (Pending, To be Confirmed)

Joloboff, Vania          Sino French Lab in Computer Science, Automation and Applied Mathematics, China

Liu, Lu                       University of Leeds, UK

Lyu, Michael R.         The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Wong, Eric W.           University of Texas at Dallas, US

Xu, Jie                        University of Leeds, UK

Zhu, Hong                  Oxford Brookes University, UK