CDCGM 2015 Track Report: Convergence of Distributed Clouds, Grids and their Management

This track started with the first Cloud Computing session in WETICE2009 with the observation that the cloud computing evolution depends on research efforts from the infrastructure providers creating next generation hardware that is service friendly, service developers that embed business service intelligence in the network to create distributed business workflow execution, assure service delivery on a massive scale with global interoperability while dealing with non-functional requirements such as security, availability, performance, compliance, cost and fluctuations both in resources and workloads. It was pointed out that the architecture and evolution of the cloud is increasing data enter complexity by piling up new layers of management over the many layers that already exist. Current session proves the epigram by Jean-Baptiste (1849) "plus ça change, plus c\´est la mêeme chose." Literally "The more it changes, the more it\´s the same thing". In this conference, one paper presents the result of the discussions started in these sessions in 2009 that led to a policy based dynamic workflow orchestration independent of the infrastructure orchestration which eliminates the need for moving Virtual Machine images and interfaces to myriad infrastructure management systems at runtime. The architecture is derived from the well-understood and time-tested distributed systems such as cellular organisms, human organizational structures and telecommunication networks. In addition, eight full papers and three short papers continue to make progress on current state of the art. Based on the papers presented in these sessions over the last six years, we boldly predict that we are on the verge of a synthesis of the thesis of current state of the art and the anti-thesis of increasing complexity to address scaling and fluctuations in distributed systems.