Call For Papers Deadline Extension to December 1, 2010 for International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems (IJCCBS) Special Issue on "Resilient Servers and Data Centres"

[Richard E Harper]

Greetings!

This is to inform you that the submittal deadline for the subject Call for
Papers has been extended to December 1, 2010.

(We apologize for any replicates of this email that you may receive.)

Here is an abbreviated CFP:

    International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems  (IJCCBS)

                              Call For Papers


          Special Issue on: "Resilient Servers and Data Centres"


Guest Editors:
Lisa Spainhower, IBM Systems and Technology Group, USA
Rick Harper, IBM Research, USA


Widespread deployment of heterogeneous virtualized systems in cloud
computing and warehouse-scale data centres, often used for
business-critical applications, introduces new challenges and opportunities
for technological advances and innovation. This special issue seeks
experimental, experiential, and theoretical papers dealing with a variety
of questions concerning innovations for resilience in modern IT systems.


This issue will present questions which include but are not limited to:
      In addition to the more traditional definitions of high availability
      and fault tolerance, the ability to respond robustly to a wide
      variety of changes has become extremely important in modern dynamic
      IT structures; is a new conception of resilience needed?
      Economics of resilience: How much is enough and what is it worth? Do
      we have adequate specification of resilience objectives to facilitate
      a global economic ecosystem in which workload resilience goals can be
      specified, bid, purchased, and measured?
      Disasters, DOS attacks, viral outbreaks, thermal issues, power
      outages, operator strikes, mass upgrades and maintenance actions are
      significant impairments to resilience; what new impairments to
      resilience arise in modern scale distributed data centres?
      How do distributed and cloud computing exacerbate and/or mitigate
      some of these impairments?
      How do we achieve economically viable (e.g., cost effective, green,
      efficient, easy-to-manage) geographical-scale resilience in
      computing?
      Complex systems management challenges: How do multiple managers and
      domains of ownership interact in vast-scale IT systems?
      What new techniques are needed for modelling, testing, validation of
      resilient systems and data centres?
      What design, analysis, validation, problem prediction, and test
      technologies are applicable and might be transferable from the
      safety-critical, manufacturing, and industrial domains to the IT
      domain?
      How can problem prediction and proactive avoidance be used to improve
      the resilience of these systems in light of the new classes of
      hazards that they face?

The full CFP may be accessed at
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1357.

Regards,
Lisa Spainhower
Rick Harper
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