Events

A National Conference on Methods and Models in Computing (NCM2C) was organized by the the Parallel/distributed Systems Group on 18-19 December, 2006 at School of Computer and Systems Sciences, JNU. The objective of NCM2C was to provide a forum to the researchers of all the disciplines, especially in Computer Science, to deliberate on their models with the scientist across India. The scope and theme of the conference is made wide enough to deliberate and explore interdisciplinary research by learning the development in other disciplines. NCM2C, 2006 was a humble effort to gather prominent researchers for interdisciplinary evolution of researches. The areas covered were:

Databases, Data Warehouses and Mining, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Computational Complexity, Optimization, Modeling and Simulation, Programming Languages, Embedded Systems Wireless and Mobile Computing Computer Networks and Security Parallel and Distributed Computing Multimedia and Graphics.

Some of the Key Speakers of the conference were:
Prof. Suresh Chandra, IIT Delhi
Prof. A.K.Tripathi, IT BHU, Varanasi
Prof. Y. Narahari, IISc, Banglore

School of Computer and Systems Sciences organized an International Research Workshop in Cloud Computing (RWCC-2014) on September 26-27, 2014 at Convention Centre, JNU. The workshop was meant to provide an opportunity to the participants to upgrade their knowledge in recent advances in Information Technology with special focus on research issues in Cloud Computing.
Eminent Researchers from India and abroad delivered the talks and demonstrated their research work in the area of Cloud Computing. Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia gave a keynote address on Market-Oriented Cloud Computing & Big Data Applications. Dr. Sanjiva Dubey, who is GTS Service Delivery Executive, Asia Pacific, IBM Global, discussed about Managerial Challenges and Strategies for Cloud Adoption. Prof. Jemal H. Abawajy, Professor at School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia, discussed about Security issues in Cloud. Prof. Rammohan Rao Kotagiri, Professor of Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia deliberated upon New Trends in Data Mining and Cloud-based Big Data. The workshop also had a practicing Advocate of Supreme Court of India, Mr. Pavan Duggal who has made an immense impact with an international reputation as an expert and authority on Cyberlaw and E-Commerce law. He deliberated upon the legal aspects in Cloud and the use and misuse of Indian laws in Cloud Computing. Prof. Anil Kumar Tripathi, a renowned Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, spoke about the Issues, Challenges and Problems in Dealing with the Non Functional Aspects in Cloud Computing Investigative Research. 
Next day of the workshop had a complete lab session handled by Dr. K. Raghavendra, Scientist at ADRIN, Department of Space, Govt. of India and Mr. Rajinder Sandhu of Gurunanak Dev University, Amritsar. About 150 delegates from India and abroad participated in the workshop. Briefly, the topics that have been covered in the workshop are as follows. 
• Technologies for creating Cloud Computing Environment on a Network of Computers
• Tools for building Cloud applications
• Initiating innovative R&D projects in Cloud computing
Some of the Key Speakers of the conference were:
Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia 
Prof. Anil Kumar Tripathi, Banaras Hindu University, India
Pavan Duggal, Practicing Advocate of Supreme Court of India
Dr. Sanjiva Dubey, GTS Service Delivery Executive, Asia Pacific IBM Global
Prof. Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
Sri K. Raghavendra, Scientist, ADRIN, Department of Space, Govt. of India

Consequent to last year, School of Computer and Systems Sciences organized 2nd International Research Workshop in Cloud Computing (RWCC-2015) on December 22-23, 2015 at Convention Centre, JNU.
Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the IT industry. Numerous IT vendors are promising to offer computation, storage, and application hosting services and to provide coverage in several continents, offering service level agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime promises for their services. While these “clouds” are the natural evolution of traditional data centers, they are distinguished by exposing resources (computation, data, and applications) as standards-based Web services and following a “utility” pricing model where customers are charged based on their utilization of computational resources, storage, and transfer of data. They offer subscription-based access to infrastructure, platforms, and applications that are popularly referred to as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platformas a Service), and SaaS (Software as a Service). 
Researchers from India and abroad attended and demonstrated their research pursuits in the area of Cloud Computing. First day of the Workshop was delighted with few distinguished talks. Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia gave a keynote address on Innovative Solutions for Deployment of Big Data Applications on Computing Clouds. Dr. K Raghavendra, Senior Scientist, ISRO, Hyderabad, India, demonstrated on some Cloud computing Programming Models, Thread, Task and MapReduce. Dr. Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India delivered on Leveraging Cloud Computing for Big Data Platforms followed by a talk on Issues and Challenges in Cloud Dependability Modeling by Prof. A.K. Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi, India.
Next Day of the workshop opened with a talk by Dr. Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Penn State University, USA on Reducing Peak Power Costs in Cloud Data Centers. Hands on training session was organized by Mr. Anupinder Singh of Superwits Academy, Ludhiana, India. First he gave an Introduction to CloudSim and its architecture followed by simulating various scenarios using CLoudsim. In this, he elaborated on how to test various research models developed for Cloud using CloudSim. 
Overall, the topics that have been covered in the workshop are as follows. 
• Technologies for creating Cloud Computing Environment on a Network of Computers
• Tools for building Cloud applications
• Initiating innovative R&D projects in Cloud computing
Some of the Key Speakers of the Workshop were:
Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Anil Kumar Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India
Dr. K Raghavendra, Senior Scientist, ISRO, Hyderabad, India
Dr. Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Dr. Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Penn State University, USA
Mr. Anupinder Singh, Superwits Academy, Ludhiana, India.

School of Computer and Systems Sciences organized 3rd International Research Workshop in Cloud Computing (RWCC-2016) on December 22-23, 2016 at Convention Centre, JNU. This was the third yearly workshop consecutively. Previous two workshops focused more on Cloud aspect and Cloud related research issues. The focus of RWCC-2016 was more on IoT related research and technologies as the Cloud world is evolving towards IoT. 
Though, Cloud computing is here since last many years still the discipline is not yet saturated. As it has become a business model, numerous IT vendors promise to offer computation, storage, and application hosting services. Also to provide coverage in several continents, a service level agreements (SLA) is executed for their services. While these “clouds” are the natural evolution of traditional data centers, they are distinguished by exposing resources (computation, data, and applications) as standards-based Web services and following a “utility” pricing model where customers are charged based on their utilization of computational resources, storage, and transfer of data. They offer subscription-based access to infrastructure, platforms, and applications.
Researchers from India and abroad attended and demonstrated their research pursuits in the area of Cloud Computing and IoT related technologies. The first day of the Research Workshop was equipped with many distinguished talks from Academia and Industry. Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia gave a keynote address on “New Frontiers in Cloud Computing for Big Data and Internet-of-Things (IoT) Applications”. It was followed by a talk of a well-known researcher and Professor in Economics Prof. Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU, who spoke on “On some aspects of scoring auctions”. This was very relevant as the cloud resource provisioning highly apply Auction/Bargaining. The post lunch session on December 22, 2016 had three important talks by renowned researchers. Prof. Debashis Saha, MIS and Computer Science Group, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, delivered a keynote on “Emerging Role of Cloud Computing in IoT-enabled Industry 4.0”. Dr. Karthik Bharadwaj, CEO and Founder, meghasevA Pvt Ltd, Sydney, Australia, spoke on “The Application of Cloud Computing and Internet-of-Things (IoT) in Energy Conservation and Efficient Energy Utilization”. Dr. Satish Narayana Srirama, Head of Mobile & Cloud Lab, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia delivered on “Mobile and Cloud Centric Internet of Things”. 
The Next Day of the workshop started with the keynote by Dr. Geetha Manjunath, who is heading the Data Analytics Research Group of Xerox Research Centre, Banglore. She gave the industry touch and correlated Cloud and Big Data speaking on “Cloud requirements for Big Data Applications”. The next to speak was Prof. Jemal H. Abawajy, Professor & Director, Distributed System and Security Research Cluster, Deakin University, Australia. He delivered a keynote on “Energy-efficient cloud data-centre scheduling algorithm”. A young professor from Sweden, Dr. Karan Mitra, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden spoke on “A Mobile Cloud Computing System and Probabilistic Cloud QoS Diagnosis and Prediction”. Hands on training session was organized by Mr. Anupinder Singh of Superwits Academy, Ludhiana, India. He started with an Introduction to CloudSim and its architecture followed by simulating various scenarios using CLoudsim. In this, he elaborated on how to test various research models developed for Cloud using CloudSim. 
The Key Speakers of the Workshop were:
Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
Prof. Debashsis Saha, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Prof. Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU
Geetha Manjunath, Data Analytics Research, Xerox Research Centre, India
Satish Narayana Srirama, Head of Mobile & Cloud Lab Institute of Computer Science University of Tartu, Estonia
Karthik Bharadwaj, CEO and Founder, meghasevA Pvt Ltd, Sydney, Australia
Karan Mitra, Assistant Professor at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Mr. Anupinder Singh, Superwits Academy, Ludhiana, India.

Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia   Presentation
Prof. Anil Kumar Tripathi, Banaras Hindu University, India  Presentation
Prof. Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia  Presentation
Prof. Debashis Saha, IIM Calctta, India  Presentation

Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia   Presentation
Dr. Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Penn State University, USA  Presentation
Dr. Yogesh Simmhan, IISc, Bangalore  Presentation
 

Prof. Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia  Presentation
Prof. Debashsis Saha, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta  Presentation
Prof. Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU  Presentation
Geetha Manjunath, Data Analytics Research, Xerox Research Centre, India  Presentation
Satish Narayana Srirama, Head of Mobile & Cloud Lab Institute of Computer Science University of Tartu, Estonia  Presentation
Karthik Bharadwaj, CEO and Founder, meghasevA Pvt Ltd, Sydney, Australia  Presentation
Karan Mitra, Assistant Professor at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden  Presentation
Mr. Anupinder Singh, Superwits Academy, Ludhiana, India.  Presentation