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                            First International 
          Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Data Processing (HotCDP'12)

                       http://hotcdp12.doc.ic.ac.uk

                             April 10th, 2012
                             Bern, Switzerland
                     In conjunction with EuroSys 2012
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Processing large data sets in the cloud has been dominated by the map/reduce
programming model, originally proposed by Google and widely adopted through the
Apache Hadoop implementation. Over the years, developers have identified
weaknesses of processing data sets in batches and have proposed
alternatives. One such alternative is continuous processing of data
streams. This is particularly suitable for applications in online analytics,
monitoring, financial data processing and fraud detection that require timely
processing of data, making the delay introduced by batch processing highly
undesirable. This processing paradigm has led to the development of systems
such as Yahoo! S4 and Twitter Storm.

The cloud ecosystem, however, is rather rich in application requirements. While
map/reduce and stream processing together cover a large fraction of the
development space, there are still many applications that are better served by
different models and systems. The main goal of the Workshop on Hot Topics in
Cloud Data Processing (HotCDP) is to foster research in large-scale data
processing and gather both researchers and practitioners working on data
processing techniques. The venue will favor work on radical alternatives to
existing models and new designs to process data in the cloud. Our goal is to
attract research work that will underpin the next generation of scalable,
interactive data processing applications in the cloud.

#### Topics ####
The topics of the workshop relate to various aspects of cloud data processing,
which includes but is not limited to:

- predictability in the cloud
- vertical and horizontal scalability
- elasticity and adaptive scheduling
- new processing paradigms
- programming models
- fault tolerance
- resource allocation
- lightweight isolation mechanisms
- data management issues
- software design and architectures
- secure data management, data isolation and confidentiality

#### Submission #### 
Paper submissions may not exceed 5 pages double column, including everything
(i.e., figures, tables, references, appendices, etc.), and should use a 10pt
font (by specifying \documentclass[10pt,twocolumn]{sigplanconf}).  Papers must
be formatted according to the ACM SIGPLAN style, for which templates are
available for both LaTeX and Word (http://eurosys2012.unibe.ch/submissions).

Workshop papers should be submitted as described on the workshop webpage
(http://hotcdp12.doc.ic.ac.uk). Accepted papers will be published as part of
the ACM Digital Library (to be confirmed).

#### Important dates ####
January 27, 2012          Paper submission deadline (extended)
February 27, 2012         Notification of acceptance
March 5, 2012             Camera-ready submission deadline
April 10, 2012            Workshop

#### Workshop organizers and program chairs ####
Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden)
Flavio Junqueira (Yahoo! Research)
Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London)

#### Technical program committee ####
Roberto Baldoni, University of Rome “La Sapienza, Italy
Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA
Brian Cooper, Google, USA
Michael Franklin, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Steven Hand, University of Cambridge, UK
Ruediger Kapitza, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Ben Reed, Yahoo! Research, USA
Alexander L. Wolf, Imperial College London, UK 
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