[agents] [CfP] 1st ASMECC workshop on Autonomic and Self-* Management for the Edge-Cloud Continuum (ASMECC 2023) - co-located with ACSOS'23 (FINAL CALL)

[Roberto Casadei]

# 1st ASMECC Workshop on Autonomic and Self-* Management for the 
Edge-Cloud Continuum (ASMECC 2023)

The 1st ASMECC Workshop on Autonomic and Self-* Management for the 
Edge-Cloud Continuum (ASMECC 2023) is co-located with the 4th IEEE 
International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing 
Systems (ACSOS 2023) that will take place in Toronto, Canada on 
September 25-29, 2023.

## Important Dates

* Abstract deadline: July 1st, 2023 (soft)
* Submission deadline: July 10th, 2023
* Notification: July 31st, 2023
* Camera-ready submission: August 5th, 2023
* Workshop date: September 25-29, 2023 (TBD)

All times are intended in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) timezone.

## Scope and Topics

Edge-cloud computing continuum paradigms (e.g. edge, fog, mist 
computing) enable distributed and pervasive computing and networking to 
support a variety of novel ICT-based applications and services. They 
represent a deployment target and a management plane for the software 
elements (components, microservices, functions) making up modern 
distributed applications. The heterogeneity, pervasiveness, dynamism, 
and interplay with applications, that characterise the cloud-edge 
continuum provide significant opportunities and challenges, in terms of 
operational flexibility and efficiency. A major challenge lies in 
supporting the autonomic management of applications while respecting and 
opportunistically optimising against the set of constraints, 
requirements, and preferences indicated by applications, users, owners, 
and providers. Edge-cloud continua have to become intelligent, embedding 
cognitive-like capabilities for monitoring, reasoning, planning, and acting.

A number of specific issues arise, requiring novel ideas and techniques 
to be developed. For instance, how can MAPE-K architectures be adapted 
to work on the edge-cloud continuum? How may learning be exploited to 
refine dynamic deployment policies or anticipate changes? How can the 
learned models be explained? What programming models can be used to 
adequately express application logic independently of its deployment 
across the continuum? What formal specification languages can support 
architectural descriptions while enabling analysis of properties of 
interest? How can the infrastructure self-organise into resilient 
structures supporting connectivity and distributed task allocation? How 
to promote sustainability and energy/resource-efficiency across the 
edge-cloud continuum? These are just a few research questions that may 
be investigated. But the investigation itself requires tools, 
simulators, and benchmarks to conduct experiments in controlled 
environments without incurring in the costs of running experiments in 
real-world settings. This workshop solicits papers that investigate on 
the use of autonomic/self-* techniques to understand, design, and 
develop solutions on/for the edge-fog-cloud continuum. The topics of 
interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Algorithms for self-adaptive/self-organising management of 
applications across the edge-fog-cloud continuum
- Devops solutions for the edge-fog-cloud continuum
- Languages for the specification of deployments, applications, or 
management policies
- AI techniques for the edge-fog-cloud continuum
- ML techniques for the edge-fog-cloud continuum
- Mathematical methods supporting modelling and algorithmic solutions 
for the edge-fog-cloud and its management issues
- Soft computing techniques for the edge-fog-cloud continuum
- Self-* techniques for the edge-fog-cloud continuum
- Theories and models at the basis of applications and platforms on the 
edge-fog-cloud continuum
- Tools or simulators for the edge-fog-cloud continuum
- Edge-cloud computing for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems
- Edge-cloud computing for swarm systems

## Submission instructions

Originality. Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not 
concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere.

Kinds of submissions. Submitted papers should provide original research 
contributions, and must not exceed 6 pages (including references; up to 
two additional pages may be purchased for CR). The workshop welcomes 
different kinds of research work: theoretical, experimental, review, 
tool, application.

Format. All paper submissions should follow the formatting indications 
of the main conference, i.e., IEEE 8.5” x 11” Two-Column Format (IEEE 
Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings).

E-submission site: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsos2023>
NOTE: upon submission, you have to select the track “Workshop on 
Autonomic and Self-* Management for the Edge-Cloud Continuum”.

## Review process

Reviews. Papers will be peer reviewed for originality, relevance to 
themes, significance, presentation, soundness, and overall quality – 
emphasising breadth and relevance to the topics of the workshop. All 
papers will be reviewed by a TPC with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper. 
Reviews will be single-blind.

## Post-acceptance instructions

Registration and presentation. At least one of the authors of every 
accepted paper must register and present the paper at the workshop.

Publication and indexing. All accepted and presented papers will be 
submitted to IEEE Xplore and indexing databases like Elsevier, IET, and 
Scopus.

## Workshop Chairs

- Roberto Casadei (Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy)
- Lukas Esterle (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Stefano Forti (University of Pisa, Italy)

For any inquiry, please contact us at <asmecc23.workshop at easychair.org>.