[ogsa-wg] CFP: Special Session on "Service Level Agreements" at HPCC-06

[Benno Overeinder]

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Call for Papers: Special Session on "Service Level Agreements" at HPCC-06

In distributed environments, applications often make use of
pre-defined resources (and services) defined statically at the start
of application execution. However, such resources may either not be
appropriate or available every time execution is requested --
therefore requiring the use of a registry service to discover
resources dynamically.

It is also possible that resources may be owned by
institutions/individuals within another administrative domain --
outside the direct control of the application manager. It is therefore
necessary to make use of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to provide
the interface between application users making demands on resources,
and resource providers determining what should be made available for
external use.

An SLA may define: (i) requirements that such an application would
place on resources (and services) owned by another third party; (ii)
check whether these requirements have been met during use. The
complexity of an SLA can vary from a static description of resource
names (specified in terms of IP addresses) to complex constraints
defined as functions that can be evaluated at deployment time.

The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers in
high performance computing, networking infrastructure and application
sciences to demonstrate how SLAs may be defined, managed, updated and
used.

The following topics provide some guidance on content appropriate for
this special session:

    * Description techniques for SLAs
    * Static vs. dynamic SLAs
    * Validation techniques for SLA parameters
    * Matchmaking approaches for SLA comparisons
    * Discovering resources based on SLA descriptions
    * Comparison of SLA and policy descriptions
    * Penalty clauses for SLAs + legal issues
    * Managing user expectations via SLAs
    * SLA descriptions and Quality of Service
    * Multi-party SLAs
    * Aggregating multiple SLAs
    * SLAs in Virtual Organizations (both multi-party and multiple SLAs)
    * Negotiating SLAs dynamically
    * SLA-based co-scheduling and resource reservation
    * SLAs and Registry Services
    * SLA-based trust management 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the e-mail
address of the corresponding author and should not exceed ten pages
including tables and figures. All paper submissions must already be
formatted according to the guidelines for Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) and represent unpublished and original
work. Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format, usage of LaTeX as a
document preparation system is strongly encouraged. Submission of a
paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be
accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference
and present the work. Submissions to HPCC-06 will be conducted
electronically on the conference website.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission:		March 13, 2006
Acceptance notification: 	May 29, 2006
Camera ready version:		June 26, 2006
Conference:			September 13-15, 2006

PUBLICATION

The accepted papers will be published in proceedings of the HPCC-06
conference by Springer's Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS).

SPECIAL SESSION WEB SITE
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~bjo/sla/sla-cfp.html

CONFERENCE WEB SITE
http://hpcc06.lrr.in.tum.de/
http://www.hpcc-conference.org/2006/

-- 
 Benno Overeinder		 IIDS Group, Section Computer Systems,
 voice: (+31) 20 598 7634	 Department of Computer Science, Faculty 
 fax:   (+31) 20 598 7653	 of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
 e-mail: bjo at cs.vu.nl		 Boelelaan 1081a, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam