[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.] Please find below a call for papers for ICFEC’2017 ** Submission deadline: January 13th, 2017 ** http://fec-conf.gforge.inria.fr/ ** Colocated with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2017 ** May 14th 2017 − Madrid, Spain ------------------------ The 1st International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC'2017) Madrid, May 14th 2017 http://fec-conf.gforge.inria.fr/ CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to Madrid for the 1st International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing. The Conference will be held as part of/in conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid, which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). To satisfy the ever increasing demand for Cloud Computing resources, academics and industry experts are now advocating for going from large-centralized Cloud Computing infrastructures to smaller ones, massively distributed at the edge of the network. The Fog and Edge Computing paradigms are expected to improve the agility of cloud service deployments in addition to bringing computing resources closer to end-users. Co-located with the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) in Madrid, Spain on May 14th 2017, the first International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing will be a forum gathering a large community around all the challenges related to this new generation of Utility Computing. On the one hand, the development of Fog and Edge clouds includes dedicated facilities, operating system, network and middleware techniques to build and operate a set of small and geographically distant data centers that host virtualized computing resources. On the other hand, the use of Fog and Edge clouds requires to extend current programming models and to propose new abstractions that will allow developers to design new applications that take benefit from such massively distributed systems. The conference seeks to attract theoretical and technical contributions to any of the aforementioned challenges, from the management software stack to domain-specific applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, 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 IMPORTANT DATES * Technical papers submission deadline: January 13th, 2016 * Authors notifications: Feb. 15th, 2017 * Camera-ready paper: Feb. 28th, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION 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. Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fec2017. 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 (6 pages), depending on the review scores. ORGANISATION * General Chairs: - Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK) - Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Ashiq Anjum (University of Derby, UK) * Program Chairs: - Anthony Simonet (Inria, France) - Shangguang Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) - Adrien Lebre (Inria, France) * Program Committee Members - Frederico Alvares De Oliveira (Ecole des Mines Nantes, Inria, France) - Luis Antunes Veiga (Technical University of Lisbon, INESC-ID, Portugal) - Luiz F. Bittencourt (University of Campinas, USA) - Jesus Carretero (University of Madrid, Spain) - Yvonne Coady (University of Victoria, Canada) - Helene Coullon (Ecoles des Mines de Nantes, Inria, France) - Thierry Coupaye (Orange Labs, France) - Frederic Desprez (Inria, France) - Javier Diaz-Montes (Rutgers University, USA) - Gilles Fedak (Inria, University of Lyon, France) - Renato Figueiredo (University of Florida, USA) - Matthew Forshaw (Newcastle University, UK) - Harshit Gupta (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) - Philipp Leitner (University Of Zurich, Switzerland) - Manolis Marazakis (ICS-Forth, Greece) - Christine Morin (Inria, France) - Satish Narayana Srirama (University of Tartu, Estonia) - Benoit Parrein (University of Nantes, France) - Ioan Petri (School of Engineering, Cardiff University, UK) - Guillaume Pierre (IRISA, University of Rennes, France) - Aravinda Rao (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Stefan Schulte (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) - Stefano Secci (LIP6 UPMC, France) - Wei Tan (IBM, USA) - Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz (University of Zaragoza, Spain) - Amir Vahid Dastjerdi (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Zibin Zheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) * Publicity chair: - Carlos Westphall (University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)