Cloud2Things 2024 - The 4th Workshop From Cloud to Things: harnessing pervasive data in the Computing Continuum

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Cloud2Things 2024 - The 4th Workshop From Cloud to Things: harnessing
pervasive data in the Computing Continuum
Biarritz, France
May 11, 2024 - https://cloud2things.netsons.org/2024/index.html

in conjunction with the 22st International Conference on Pervasive
Computing and Communications (PerCom 2022)

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MISSION:
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The Computing Continuum concept refers to the opportunity of taking
advantage of a broad computing context that mixes Cloud, Edge and IoT
resources, thus providing a “continuum” of computing services that
applications will be able to access in a transparent and uniform fashion.
This workshop encourages submissions that address opportunities and issues
of the computing continuum landscape, and proposes experimental solutions,
case studies, deployed systems and best practices in this specific research
context.
The workshop is an opportunity for researchers to gather and discuss the
advantages of integrating multiple computing infrastructure layers into a
unified and pervasive computing context capable of offering customers a
one-shop virtual place where services can be tailored and offered in a
transparent and uniform way.


TOPICS:
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Service design and Management

Service provisioning and monitoring in the computing continuum
Resource elasticity in pervasive contexts
Computation offload to Edge/IoT device
Cross-context and cross-domain service migration
Interoperability issues in the computing continuum
Orchestration of (micro)services in pervasive environments
Blockchain-based and ML-based resource orchestration
Smart solutions and strategies for the management of pervasive systems
Open-source frameworks and middlewares in the computing continuum


Data management and analytics

Scalable storage architectures in pervasive contexts;
Data migration issues in pervasive computing systems
Implementation of data pipes along the Things-to-Cloud path
Data governance in the computing continuum
Distributed Analytics in the computing continuum
Orchestration of Complex Mixed Data-parallel Dataflow Workloads in the
computing continuum


Network and communication management

Software-defined communication support in the continuum
End-to-end provisioning of network services in the continuum
QoS and SLA across heterogeneous networks


Digital Twins

Frameworks for Distributed Digital Twins (DDTs) in pervasive contexts
Design methodologies for DDTs
DDT-based applications and solutions in pervasive contexts
Resilient, scalable and secure DDTs


Non-functional features

Quality of Service and SLA of pervasive systems
Service continuity
Autonomic pervasive systems
Scalability and fault management in pervasive systems
Disaster recovery via pervasive solutions and systems (e.g. mesh networks,
UAV etc.)
Security and trust management in pervasive environments


Vertical domains

Smart City
Smart Industry
Smart Grid
Smart Agriculture
Smart Health



The use of Soft Computing/Computational Intelligence methods in facing
problems in the above topics is highly welcome, although not compulsory.


PAPER SUBMISSION:
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Authors are invited to submit their papers written in English in IEEE
double-column format (IEEE standard conference templates).
Papers can be either full, with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages,
or short, with a maximum length of four (4) printed pages.
In both cases, the number of pages includes figures, tables & references.
Submissions should contain original material and not be previously
published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
All papers will be reviewed for scientific quality by the Technical Program
Committee.


All papers should be submitted via EDAS using the following link:
https://edas.info/N30143

Paper submission implies the willingness of at least one author to
register, at the regular rate (non-student), and present the paper.
All accepted papers will be published as part of the Percom satellite
events proceedings.
Proceedings will be published by the IEEE and available online through IEEE
Digital Library (EI indexing).


BEST PAPER AWARD:
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A "Best Paper Award" certificate and a money price will be awarded by MDPI
Computers
will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the workshop,
selected by
the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality and outstanding
technical
quality of the paper, as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of
the
Program Committee.

SPECIAL ISSUES:
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Highly top rated papers from the workshop will be invited for submission of
extended version for publication in one of the following special issues:
- TBA

IMPORTANT DATES:
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Submission deadline: Dicember 1st, 2023 (Extended)
Notification of paper acceptance: January 8th, 2024
Submission of camera-ready papers: February 2nd, 2024

VENUE:
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Cloud2things will be held in Biarritz, France, during March 11-15, 2025, as
a physical event
at the CASINO MUNICIPAL 1 avenue Edouard VII 64200 BIARRITZ

CHAIRS
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Prof. Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, paolo.bellavista@unibo.it
Dr. Giuseppe Di Modica, University of Bologna, giuseppe.dimodica@unibo.it
Dr. Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, angalletta@unime.it
Dr. Ioannis Konstantinou, National Technical University of Athens,
ikons@cslab.ntua.gr

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