Workshop Overview

Cloud computing has emerged as a promising computing and business model. By decoupling the management of the infrastructure (cloud providers) from its use (cloud tenants), and by allowing the sharing of massive infrastructures, cloud computing delivers unprecedented economical and scalability benefits for existing applications and enables many new scenarios. This comes at the cost of increased complexity in managing a highly multi-tenant infrastructure and limited visibility/access posing new questions on attribution, pricing, isolation, scalability, fault-tolerance, load balancing, etc. This is particularly challenging for stateful, data-intensive applications.

This unique combination of opportunities and challenges attracted much attention from both academia and industry. The DMC workshop aims at bringing researchers and practitioners in cloud computing and data management systems together to discuss the research issues at the intersection of these two areas, and also to draw more attention from the larger data management and systems research communities to this new and highly promising field.

Topics

The DMC workshop calls for contributions that address fundamental research, system issues, and industrial experiences in cloud data management including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Elasticity for could data management systems
• Resource and workload management in cloud databases
• Multi tenancy / isolation
• High availability and reliability in cloud databases
• Cloud computing infrastructures design for cloud data services
• Transactional models for cloud databases
• Virtualization and cloud databases
• Distributed and massively parallel query processing
• Analytics in the cloud
• Storage architectures and technologies for cloud databases
• Privacy and security in cloud data management
• Mobile cloud data management
• Cross-platform interoperability
• Service-level agreements
• Economic/business models and pricing policies
• Novel data-intensive/data-rich computing applications

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: Thursday, November 1 Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 5:00pm Pacific Standrad Time (PST)
Author notification: December 5, 2012
Camera-ready papers due: December 21, 2012
Conference date: April 8, 2013

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions that are not currently under review or published elsewhere. All submissions must be prepared in the IEEE camera-ready format (templates are available at http://www.icde2013.org/sub.html). Papers should not exceed 6 pages in length for submission (two extra pages will be allowed for the camera ready).

All accepted papers will be published in the ICDE proceedings and will also become publicly available through IEEE Xplore.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format using the online submission system at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DMC2013/

Keynote Presentation

MIND THE GAP: Managing Multi-Data Center Data
Amr El Abbadi (University of California - Santa Barbara)

Abstract Over the past few years, cloud computing and the growth of global large scale computing systems have led to applications which require data management across multiple datacenters. Initially key-value stores were proposed to provide single row level operations with eventual consistency. Although key-value stores provide high availability, they are not ideal for applications that require consistent data views. More recently, there has been a gradual shift to provide transactions with strong consistency, for example Google's Megastore and Spanner. In this talk, we will explore the data management design space for geo-replicated data and discuss different approaches starting from key-value stores to providing full transactional execution while replicating data in multi-datacenter environments.

Bio
Amr El Abbadi is a Professor of Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his B. Eng. from Alexandria University, Egypt, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. Prof. El Abbadi is an ACM Fellow, an AAAS Fellow and was Chair of the Computer Science Department at UCSB from 2007 to 2011. He has served as a journal editor for several database journals, including, currently, The VLDB Journal. He has been Program Chair for multiple database and distributed systems conferences, most recently ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) 2011, the International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), India in 2012 and the ACM Conference on Social Networks (COSN) 2013. He has served as a board member of the VLDB Endowment from 2002—2008, and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Technical Committee of Data Engineering (TCDE). In 2007, Prof. El Abbadi received the UCSB Senate Outstanding Mentorship Award for his excellence in mentoring graduate students. He has published over 280 articles in databases and distributed systems.