Bestavros Gives Keynote Address at Cloud Control Workshop

Azer Bestravros, Warren Distinguished Professor and Hariri Institute Director, gives keynote address at the 11th Cloud Control Workshop, taking place June 12-14 in Sweden.

The high profile workshop aims to understand research challenges and foster multi-disciplinary research collaborations in cloud management, leveraging expertise in areas such as autonomic computing, control theory, distributed systems, energy management, machine learning, mathematical statistics, performance modeling, systems management, among others.

The workshop format includes a number of short presentations, discussion sessions, and Bestavros’ keynote address. His talk, titled “Mechanism Design and Implementation for Efficient and Trustworthy Cloud Markets,” will focus on the design mechanisms that allow control of attributes related to performance, reliability, security, privacy, and economic utility. Bestavros’ address will provide an overview of “cloud trustworthiness” and highlight models for the expressive specification of elastic cloud supply and demand that enable management and control of an efficient, trustworthy cloud marketplace. Additionally, he will provide an overview of the Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) project, the first prototypical implementation of an Open Cloud eXchange (OCX) marketplace that makes the adoption of these trustworthy mechanisms possible in an operational at-scale setting.