May 5-9 , 2025 - Toronto, Canada

8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf 2025)

Overview

The HotCloudPerf workshop proposes a meeting venue for academics and practitioners, from experts to trainees, in the field of cloud computing performance. The new understanding of cloud computing covers the full computational continuum from data centers to edge resources to IoT sensors and devices. The workshop aims to engage this community and to lead to the development of new methodological aspects for gaining a deeper understanding not only of cloud performance, but also of cloud operation and behavior, through diverse quantitative evaluation tools, including benchmarks, metrics, and workload generators. The workshop focuses on novel cloud properties such as elasticity, performance isolation, dependability, and other non-functional system properties, in addition to classical performance-related metrics such as response time, throughput, scalability, and efficiency.

Acknowledgement

The HotCloudPerf workshop is technically sponsored by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)’s Research Group (RG) and is organized annually by the RG Cloud Group. HotCloudPerf has emerged from the series of yearly meetings organized by the RG Cloud Group, since 2013. The RG Cloud Group group is taking a broad approach, relevant for both academia and industry, to cloud benchmarking, quantitative evaluation, and experimental analysis.

Keynotes

TBA

Topics


Cloud computing environments, applications, and systems should be understood in the broad sense and include works looking at the computing continuum (i.e. IoT-edge/fog-cloud). 

Important Dates

January 17, 2025, AoE    

January 24, 2025, AoE

February 17, 2025

February 26, 2025                

May 5-9, 202

Abstract due (informative, new submissions welcomed)

Papers due

Author Notification

Camera-ready deadline

Workshop day

Submission Types


Format

The format of the submissions is single-blind and needs to follow the ACM format of the companion conference, ICPE.

All presented papers will have a good amount of time allocated for Q&A plus feedback. In addition, the presentation session will be wrapped up by a 10-15 min discussion. 

ACM Instructions for Authors

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Submission Site

Articles and talk-only contributions are required to be submitted via HotCRP. The link will be added when available.

Call for Papers

You can find the full Call for Papers (CfP) here: CfP

Organizing Committee




Advisory Board

Klervie Toczé, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands

André Bauer, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Dragi Kimovski, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Daniele Bonetta, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands



To contact the chairs, you can email: TBD


Cristina L. Abad, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador

Nikolas Herbst, University of Würzburg, Germany

Alexandru Iosup, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Program Committee (preliminary)

Cristina Abad, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral

Andre Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC

Tiziano De Matteis,  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Wilhelm Hasselbring, University of Kiel

Nikolas Herbst, University of Würzburg

Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Dragi Kimovski, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Tania Lorido, Roblox

Narges Mehran, University of Klagenfurt, Austria


Zahra Najafabadi, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Issam Rais, The Arctic University of Norway 

Prateek Sharma, Indiana University Bloomington 

Josef Spillner, ZHAW School of Engineering, Zurich

Sacheendra Talluri, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Klervie Toczé, Linköpings universitet

Petr Tůma, Charles University

André van Hoorn, University of Hamburg

Chen Wang, IBM