Workshops

International Workshop on Resource brokering with blockchain (RBchain)

Blockchain is a unique technology and a fundamental concept of computer science. Moreover, Blockchain has proven itself to be instrumental for many applications, ranging from financial to governmental services. In many ways, this transformed applications and development to rethinking the how information is distributed and processed over its infrastructure. While the majority of these applications are in the financial domain, key opportunities lie in connecting infrastructural services, such as Cloud, Fog and Edge computing with blockchain to create and provide new applications and services.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in distributed systems, cryptography, and security from both academia and industry, who are interested in the technology and theory of blockchains and their protocols. The workshop will provide the international research community with a venue to discuss and present the requirements of blockchain fundamentals and applications and to bring forward new designs that meet new requirements. We encourage contributions that analyze a large variety of blockchain applications from a network, storage and computational perspective to understand how they may take full advantage. The program will consist of submitted papers and one or more invited speakers presenting recent results in the area of blockchains, which could be of interest also to the audience of CloudCom 2018.

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ADON – International Workshop on Anomaly Detection on the Cloud and the Internet of Things

Anomalies are detected in systems as a result of malicious behavior of users or as unscheduled changes in the operation of a system. With the advent of cloud, similar behavior is now detected in virtualized environments such as the environment of a cloud provider (now affecting the operation of the system in scale and of a much large number of users) with certain economic and operational impact. Although cloud systems are considered to be more efficient, for example in terms of reliability, security etc. compared to legacy systems operating within the premises of a company, they are exposed to a much larger number of users and the internet. At the same time, due to its scalability and affordability, the cloud is considered to be the ideal environment for deploying IoT applications. This exposes the cloud to even more risks as IoT is operating in the periphery of the cloud and is generally less protected than the cloud itself. In particular, the advent of the cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) open-up new possibilities in the design and development of methodologies ensuring reliable security protection and, in the case this fails, of methodologies for detecting and for dealing with the cause and point of system failure.

Malicious behaviour detection

Anomaly detection for malicious behavior detection which is typically expressed as (a) Fraud detection in which case, authorized of unauthorized users operate the system for the purpose of unfair or unlawful gain and (b) Intrusion detection in which case, unauthorized users are attempting to disrupt normal system operation.

Large scale system failures

Anomaly detection on large scale system failures which is due to heavy (CPU, network and memory) workloads or faulty/misconfigured resources. A special case of system failure is encountered when parts of the system fails to operate as scheduled due to power failure or material fatigue (e.g. disk failure).

IoT systems

Anomaly detection has been studied extensively in recent years and new methods are now becoming available on the cloud. Depending on application, anomalies can be detected either in real time i.e. typically by the analysis of stream data acquired by the application and operation of the system or, in batch (i.e. by analyzing system log data). Methods and systems for stream processing for example Storm, Spark, Flink, big data analysis techniques (as log data eventually become big) combined with Machine Learning techniques (for adapting anomaly detection to the peculiarities of the data and of the operation environment) are of particular importance to the design of anomaly detection methods. Combined with methods of system security analysis in virtualized environments (such as the cloud), the new era of methods for anomaly detection will soon arise.

The purpose of this Workshop in to bring together experts from the fields of distributed computing systems including security, cloud and Internet of Things as well as experts on algorithms for signal processing, log analysis, pattern recognition and statistical learning models, working in all aspects of anomaly detection such as those referred to above.

More information can be found on the workshop website.

1st International Workshop on Next Generation Clouds for Extreme Data Analytics (XtremeCLOUD 2018)

The goal of the 1st International Workshop on Next Generation Clouds for Extreme Data (XtremeCLOUD) is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to explore, discuss and possibly redefine the state of the art in Cloud Computing relative to heterogeneity, resource management, scalability, methods and tools applied over any part of algorithms and computing infrastructures, as well as use-cases and applications that relate to extreme data analytics. This workshop will solicit original research work on fundamental aspects of Cloud Computing that enable extreme scale data processing as well as the design, implementation and evaluation of novel tools and methods for optimizing Big Data applications and workflows.

Topics of Interest

Hardware-aware Big Data frameworks
Benchmarking/modeling of performance/cost/energy consumption of resource demanding cloud applications on heterogeneous hardware
Algorithms, methods and tools to improve the utilization and scalability of Cloud infrastructures
Holistic and efficient management of Cloud resources
Novel architectures and programming models for extreme scale data processing
Extreme scale batch/streaming applications optimization
Scheduling algorithms and tools for heterogeneous execution
Applications and use cases of Big Data analytics over heterogeneous architectures/hardware
Visionary ideas on extreme data analytics and heterogeneous environments

More information can be found on the workshop website.