CALL FOR PAPERS** ** **FIRST WORKSHOP ON "Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on Clouds and P2P (LSDVE)" *

CALL FOR PAPERS**
**
**FIRST WORKSHOP ON  "Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on
Clouds and P2P (LSDVE)" *

Aachen, Germany
August 27th 2013
LSDVE Workshop <http://www.di.unipi.it/%7Ericci/LSDVE.html>
held  in conjunction ofEuropar 2013 <http://www.europar2013.org/>

*Workshop Theme:*

Distributed Virtual Environments (DVE) enable geographically
distant users to communicate, interact and collaborate within a virtual
environment.
Collaborative multimedia applications, networked computer games,
distributed simulation environments,
Collaborative-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) are examples of DVEs. In
particular,
online gaming entertainment has acquired lots of popularity in the last
years
from both industry and research communities. The market size of online
gaming has
received a 5 billion $ evaluation in 2010, while the number of total
users have
reached around 20 million worldwide.
With the emergence of readily available cloud platforms, game developers
have the opportunity of deploying their networked games in the cloud,
or supporting their network solutions with hybrid P2P/Server-Client
architectures
with dynamically adapting cloud support. This brings possibilities to
smaller developers that were reserved for the big studios until recently.
Whether the existing cloud architectures are suitable for such
high-interactivity loads,
is not yet properly documented, and this workshop will encourage
research into these basic questions.
The LSDVE workshop aims  to provide a venue for researchers to present
and discuss
important aspects of Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments. The
workshop's
aim is to investigate open challenges such as latency reduction/hiding
techniques
for guaranteeing real time constraints, efficient management of
networked resources,
large-scale processing of user information, privacy and security issues,
state consistency/persistence.
The workshop will both present assessment of current state and introduce
further directions.

*Topics of interest include but are not limited to: *

* Cloud based DVE
* Exploiting Cloud Elasticity for DVE
* Resource provisioning and Quality of Service
* P2P Overlays for DVE
* Hybrid P2P/Cloud Architectures
* Latency Reduction and Hiding
* Scaling techniques
* Consistency/Persistence issues
* Massive-scale state and user data processing
* Security and Privacy
* Content Streaming
* Integration of Mobile/Cloud platforms for DVE
* DVE Implementation: parallel/distributed frameworks
* multi-platform DVE support (phones, tablets, laptop,...)
* Performance characterization, modelling and benchmarking of real
large-scale DVE

*Organizing Commettee :*

Laura Ricci: Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa,
Italy.
Alexandru Iosup: TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands.
Andreas Petlund: Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Radu Prodan: Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck,
Innsbruck,Austria

*Program Commette:*

Maha Abdallah, University of Paris VI, France
Emanuele Carlini, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Massimo Coppola, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Abennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Holland
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Raffaele Perego, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Andreas Petlund,  Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Shun Yun Hu, National Central University, Taiwan
Alexey Vinel, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

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*KEY DATES*

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: July 8 , 2013
Submission of Camera Ready: October 3 2013
Workshop: August 27 2013

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All accepted and presented papers will be included in the Workshop
proceedings that will be published in a separate
LNCS Euro-Par 2013 Workshop volume after the conference.
Full papers should not exceed 10 pages in Springer LNCS style.

For more information, please contact the organizers or visit the workshop
website: http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/LSDVE.html
<http://www.di.unipi.it/%7Ericci/LSDVE.html>