[p2prg] Looking for P2P Cloud papers

[Bill Yeager <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

If any of you know of research efforts regarding P2P Clouds, please pass this along. Hawaii is a great place to visit in January.

Thanks very much,
Bill

46th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science 
HICSS-46 - http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/
Software Technology Track Minitrack
Secure Cloud Computing 
Call for Papers

Conference site: Grand Wailea Hotel, Maui, Hawaii
Dates: January 7th -10th , 2013

1) Minitrack Title : Secure Cloud Computing 
Summary:
Cloud Computing offers SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS as cost effective ways of doing computation. Initiatives by Governments as well as large and small businesses are motivating the migration of localized data centers, and IT to Internet Cloud Computing facilities. This rapid deployment of Cloud Computing comes with a cost that can leave users open to vulnerabilities such as: Disruptions that may shutdown 24x7 computation availability of essential services since the concentration of government and or multiple businesses resources at a single site is a convenient target for effective cyber-attacks; Possible theft of Cloud resident software Intellectual Property and confidential Personal Information; and the unwarranted invasions of user data privacy because users and their data may reside in conflicting legal jurisdictions. Thus, building on the saliant security problem of Multi-tenancy we anticipate design science contributions with deep technical focus as well as broad management or legal orientation. The security challenges Cloud Computing is facing are enormus. In particular, the proposed minitrack attempts to bring together computer science and industrial researchers, as well as software architects and implementers that are currently working in this area. Consequently, with the above focus in mind, we anticipate submissions not limited to but in the scope of the following topics:

  - 	Security of Public versus Private Cloud services
  - 	Secure, virtual desktop deployment
  - 	Preventing Virtual-Machine co-residency attacks
  - 	Designing a secure Hyper-Visor
  - 	Preventing Intellectual Property and Personal Information theft
  - 	Monitoring, auditing Cloud Services
  - 	Cloud Computing Digital forensics
  - 	Guaranteeing “Five 9’s” availability
  - 	Methods to secure The Cloud against DDoS attacks
  - 	Vaccinating PaaS and IaaS Clouds against software viruses
  - 	Secure Cloud deployment of virtually accessible, confidential databases
  - 	Cloud based identity management
  - 	Data privacy and availability in Peer-to-Peer Clouds 
  - 	Customer migration from one Cloud provider to another
  - 	Guaranteeing customer data storage remains in customer consistent legal jurisdictions
  - 	Securing backup, archival and retrieval of customer data against virtual as well as physical attacks.
  - 	Secure cloud interoperability and Service Level Agreements
  - 	Rights and Policy Management in Cloud Computing and Services
  - 	Governance, Risk and Compliance in Cloud Computing and Services
  - 	Security in the Social Cloud of Things
  - 	Ethical, social and legal issues in Cloud Computing

Important 2012 Author Deadlines:

Before June 15	Authors can email abstracts to minitrack-chairs for guidance and indication.

June 15  Submit full manuscripts. The review is double-blind, and 
therefor, this initial submission must be without author names. 

August 15  Notification of Acceptance by Review System to authors.

Sept 15  Final paper submission.

Oct 1  Early Registration fee deadline. At least one author of each 
paper should register by this date in order secure publication 
in the Proceedings.

While not mandatory, authors are encouraged to mail abstracts to the minitrack-chairs before June 15 for guidance if there is doubt to whether or not the topics that are covered in the paper are appropriate for the mini-track.

Accepted papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Those selected for presentation will be included in the Conference Proceeding published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Minitrack-chairs:

* William J. Yeager (Primary Contact)
 Semi-retired: Formerly of Stanford University 
 and Sun Microsystems
 Email: [e-mail]

* Jean-Henry Morin
 University of Geneva - CUI 
 Institute of Services Science         
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 Route de Drize 7     
 CH-1227 Carouge, SWITZERLAND
 E-mail : [e-mail]