The DMTF Academic Alliance announces the creation of the eighth workshop dedicated to academic research on standards and new technologies for systems and virtualization management. This event comes in addition to the technical and developers' events organized for several years by the DMTF.

The primary theme of SVM 2014 will be "Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud". With the advent and increasing popularity of Cloud Computing, systems management and virtualization management technology has taken on increasing importance. The goal of SVM 2014 is to illuminate related standards and research issues, covering areas such as: what are the implications of standards for virtualization in Cloud Computing, what advances in information models and protocols aid in managing Clouds, what new problems will we incur when managing Cloud offerings and services, and how management itself might benefit from virtualization and the Cloud. Submissions on topics related to managing Clouds, virtualization of distributed resources/services and work in management standardization are thus particularly encouraged.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    Cloud
        Management of Compute Clouds
        Management of Storage Clouds
        Software Defined Networking
        Use of Virtualization for Management
    Key management issues
        Infrastructure for management
        Managing IaaS infrastructure
        Use and extension of management standards
        System management techniques
        Network, Server, and Desktop management
        Information models for management
        Instrumentation and metrics for management
        Diagnostics and Fault management
        Management Behavior and State modeling
    Web services and SOA
        Managing SaaS infrastructure
        Web services based management
        Development and use of management protocols
        Use of SOA in management of distributed systems
    New management paradigms
        Management automation
        Policy-based management
    Experience implementing and deploying management technology

Submission

Authors are requested to submit either long or short papers via the conference submission software.

    Long papers presenting research results (up to 9 pages in IEEE 2-column format, including references)
    Short papers describing research work-in-progress or position statements (up to 4 pages in IEEE 2-column format, including references)

Important Dates

Paper Submission: April 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: September 1, 2014
Camera Ready Papers to Easy Chair: October 1, 2014
Camera Ready Papers for proceedings: October 1, 2014
 
Publication

Submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. After the notification the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore proceedings.