WoSC11 will be hybrid this year with both virtual and on-location formats. Please note that while hybrid formats will be supported for workshops, the Middleware 2025 steering committee wants the main conference to be held in in-person only. Prospective attendees of the workshop should keep this in mind if they plan to attend both WoSC11 and Middleware 2025.
Please visit the previous workshops website to see what you can expect.
2025-06-23: CFP available
Over the last ten years, Serverless Computing (Serverless) has gained an enthusiastic following in industry as a compelling paradigm for the deployment of cloud applications, and is enabled by the recent shift of enterprise application architectures to containers and microservices. Many of the major cloud vendors have released serverless platforms, including Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Microsoft Azure Functions, IBM Cloud Functions. Open source projects are gaining popularity in providing serverless computing as a service.
Recently, Kubernetes gained in popularity in enterprise and in academia. Several open source projects such as OpenFaaS and Knative aim to provide developers with serverless experience on top of Kubernetes by hiding low-level details. Auto-scalable Multi-tenant Kubernetes deployments like Google Cloud Run or IBM Code Engine also overcome previous limitations of Serverless Functions like duration, networking, and higher granularity (more vCPUs).
Serverless on the cloud is a somewhat mature research area with many conferences accepting papers on this topic. In the spirit of having this workshop serve as a venue for future and exploratory research directions, we will be evolving the workshop to include hybrid cloud environments, as well as edge and IoT devices. These next-gen computing architectures are becoming more common but have little support from serverless platforms and bring new challenges to old concerns such as resource optimization, scaling, cost, monitoring, and ease of use. The serverless experience becomes an important topic for emerging topics such as DevOps and Platform Engineering in industry and will be critical to the success of next-gen computing.
Building on the recent advances in generative AI, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and other types of Foundations Models (FMs), the workshop also plans to explore the use of hybrid serverless platforms to fine-tune, serve, and manage the lifecycle of LLMs with a focus on aspects such as use cases, resource allocations, optimizations, and using AI to improve serverless experience.
This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss their experiences and thoughts on future directions of serverless research.
Preliminary Date: Decemeber 2 (Monday) (to be confirmed)
Preliminary Time: 11am Hong Kong (11pm ET, 8pm PT, 5am CET) (to be confirmed)
Workshop location: hybrid: on-location and virtual (Zoom)
Workshop schedule (perliminary, subject to change)
TBA
Paul Castro, IBM Research
Pedro García López, University Rovira i Virgili
Vatche Ishakian, IBM Research
Vinod Muthusamy, IBM Research
Aleksander Slominski, IBM Research
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University & Formerly Microsoft Research
Arno Jacobsen, MSRG (Middleware Systems Research Group)
Cristina Abad, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (Ecuador)
Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marc Sánchez Artigas, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Azer Bestavros, Boston University
Tyler R. Caraza-Harter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rodrigo Fonseca, Microsoft
Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University & Formerly Microsoft Research
Pedro Garcia Lopez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
Volker Hilt, Bell Labs (Nokia)
Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Arno Jacobsen, MSRG (Middleware Systems Research Group)
Ali Kanso, Microsoft
Višnja Križanović, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Kyungyong Lee, Kookmin University
Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg
Wes Lloyd, University of Washington Tacoma
Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Lucas Nussbaum, LORIA, France
Maciej Pawlik, Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET of the University of Science and Technology in Cracow
Per Persson, Ericsson Research
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College
Rodric Rabbah, Nimbella and Apache OpenWhisk
Eric Rozner, University of Colorado Boulder
Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara
Third International Workshop on Serverless Computing Experience (WOSCx3) 2024 Virtual on June 19, 2024. List of talks with links to videos: https://www.serverlesscomputing.org/woscx3/program.html.
9th International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC9) December 11, 2023. In conjunction with ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference.
Second International Workshop on Serverless Computing Experience (WOSCx2) 2023 Virtual on June 22, 2023. List of talks with links to videos: https://www.serverlesscomputing.org/woscx2/#schedule.
Eighth International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC8) November 7, 2022. In conjunction with ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference.
First International Workshop on Serverless Computing Experience (WOSCx1) 2022 Virtual on June 16, 2022. List of talks with links to videos: https://www.serverlesscomputing.org/woscx1/program.html.
Seventh International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC7) Decemeber 7, 2021. In conjunction with ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference.
Sixth International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC6) in TU Delft, The Netherlands (virtual) on Decemeber 8, 2020. In conjunction with ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference.
Fifth International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC5) in UC Davis, CA, USA on Decemeber 9, 2019. In conjunction with 20th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference.
Fourth International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC4) in Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland on Decemeber 20, 2018. In conjunction with 11th IEEE/ACM UCC and 5th IEEE/ACM BDCAT.
Third International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC3) in San Francisco, CA, USA on July 2nd 2018 In conjunction with IEEE CLOUD 2018 affiliated with 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2018).
Second International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC2) 2017 in Las Vegas, NV, USA on December 12th, 2017 part of Middleware 2017.
First International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC) 2017 in Atlanta, GA, USA on June 5th, 2017 part of ICDCS 2017.
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