Chairs

• Prof. Dr. Djamshid Tavangarian (University of Rostock, Germany)
• Dr. Daniel Versick (Unversity of Rostock, Germany)

Description

Virtualization techniques have been used for decades in many fields of sciences. Especially in the domain of computer science the impact of virtualization is continuously rising. Whereas virtualization is a fundamental technology in mainframe systems since the 60s it now succeeds in virtually every computer science domain (e. g. cloud computing, hardware abstraction of multi-core architectures, improving energy efficiency in intelligent energy systems, load balancing, embedded systems). Virtualization offers the opportunity to improve and simplify resource utilization. Therefore, virtualization is considered as one of the major technologies towards resource provision on demand and energy-efficient green computing platforms. Thus, the generic virtualization approach represents technologies that might be the basis to novel ideas that change our thinking about computing systems.

This special track aims at the presentation of innovative approaches and current developments in conjunction with virtualization concepts. Potentials of virtualization in novel application domains shall be discussed.

Topics

• Virtualization techniques and methods in various application domains (e.g. virtual computing)
• Approaches for improving the efficiency of existing virtualization concepts (e. g. server virtualization, storage virtualization, and network virtualization)
• Virtualization applications (e.g. virtualization in intelligent energy systems, or embedded devices)
• Trusted virtual environments
• Load balancing and load aggregation methods (e. g. live migration techniques for dynamic server virtualization)
• Virtualization regarding collective intelligence
• Performance evaluation of virtualized components
• Self-organization in virtualized environments