[Air-L] IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2018) (Deadline: Dec. 20, 2017)

[Zhuozhao Li]

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2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2018)
                   May 1-3, 2018, Washington DC, USA

                URL:  http://www.cloudbus.org/fog/icfec2018/

In conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2018 (18th IEEE/ACM International
Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing: 
https://ccgrid2018.seas.gwu.edu/).

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                            Call for Papers

**************** (Papers due: extended to Dec. 20, 2017)  *************

The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to Washington DC for the
2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing. The Conference
will be held as part of/in conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2018, which is
sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery).
Call for papers

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm promises to make "things" such as
physical objects with sensing capabilities and/or attached with tags, mobile
objects such as smart phones and vehicles, consumer electronic devices and
home appliances such as fridge, television, healthcare devices, as part of
the Internet environment. In cloud-centric IoT applications, the sensor data
from these "things" is extracted, accumulated and processed at the
public/private clouds, leading to significant latencies.

To satisfy the ever increasing demand for Cloud Computing resources from
emerging applications such as Internet-of-Things (IoT), academics and
industry experts are now advocating for going from large-centralized Cloud
Computing infrastructures to micro data centres located at the edge of the
network. These micro data centres are often closer to a user (geographically
and in access latency) compared to the centralised cloud data centre. The
aim of utilizing such edge resources is to off load computation that would
have "traditionally" been carried out at the cloud data centre to a resource
that is closer to a user or edge devices. This vision also acknowledges the
variation in network latency from an end user to cloud data centre. Whereas
the network around a data centre is often high capacity and speed, that near
the user device may have variably properties (in terms of resilience,
bandwidth, latency, etc).

Referred to as "Fog/Edge computing", this paradigm is expected to improve
the agility of cloud service deployments in addition to bringing computing
resources closer to end-users. On the one hand, the development of Fog and
Edge clouds includes dedicated facilities, operating system, network and
middleware techniques to build and operate such micro data centres that host
virtualized computing resources. On the other hand, the use of Fog and Edge
clouds requires extension to current programming models and propose new
abstractions that will allow developers to design new applications that take
benefit from such massively distributed systems. The use of this approach
also opens up other challenges in: security and privacy (as a user now needs
to "trust" every micro data centre they interact with), support for resource
management for mobile users who transfer session from one micro data centre
to another, and support for "embedding" such micro data centres into devices
(e.g. cars, buildings, etc.).

The conference seeks to attract contributions covering both theory and
practice of any of the aforementioned challenges, from the management
software stack to domain-specific applications.


Topics of interest (but are not limited to):

     Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge Computing
     Middleware for Fog/Edge infrastructures
     Programming models and runtime systems for Fog/Edge Computing
     Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures
     Fog/Edge storage
     Monitoring/metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures
     Fog/Edge Computing applications
     Latency/locality-critical applications
     Legal issues in Fog/Edge clouds
     Security and privacy - including support for new cryptographic
approaches
     Modelling Fog/Edge environments - e.g. using process networks,
agent-based models, Peer-2-Peer systems, etc.
     Performance monitoring and modelling
     Applications of Fog/Edge Computing

Organisation:

General Chairs:

     Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
     Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Program Chairs:

     Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
     Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA

Publication Chairs:

     Maria Fazio, University of Messina, Italy
     Jia Rao, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Steering Committee

     Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
     Adrien Lebre (Inria, France)
     Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
     Anthony Simonet (Inria, France)
     Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA
     Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy

For more information on the organization, see organization page.
Important Dates for Submission:

Papers due: extended to Dec. 20, 2017

Author notifications of Acceptance: January 31, 2018

Camera Ready Paper: February 14, 2018

Registration aligned with CCGRID Deadlines: http://ccgrid2018.seas.gwu.edu/
Paper submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. 
Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not
exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including all figures, tables and
references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. See formatting
templates for details: 
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without
review. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts
will be reviewed and judged on technical strength, originality,
significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the
conference attendees.

The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society
Conference Publishing Services. Submitted papers must represent original
unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other
conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be
rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not
limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the
authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due
date, exceeding the page limit, or not appropriately structured may not be
considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more information.
The paper submission online system is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfec2018.
Publication

Proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference
Publishing Services. Paper submitted could be accepted as REGULAR paper (10
pages) or SHORT papers (4 pages), depending on the review scores.


Special Issue:


Authors of highly rated papers from ICFEC 2018 will be invited to submit an
extended version to a special issue of the Journal of Software: 
Practice and Experience (SPE): Software Tools and Techniques for Fog and
Edge Computing
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X/homepage/SI-
SPE-FogEdgeComputing.pdf),
published by Wiley Press.
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