[Contiki-developers] IEEE/ACM UCC 2025 - Call for Workshops

[Daniel C. <dan...@us...>]

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The 18th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, December
1-4, 2025 in Nantes, France.

https://ucc-conference.org/

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The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)
is a premier annual conference series aiming to provide a platform for
researchers from both academia and industry to present discoveries and
high-quality contributions in the broad area of Cloud, Edge, and Computing
Continuum utility computing and applications. The conference features
keynotes, posters, workshops, and a student symposium.

UCC 2025 will be held in conjunction with the 12th IEEE/ACM International
Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies (BDCAT
2025) in Nantes, France.

The UCC 2025 Organizing Committee invites proposals for half-day or one-day
workshops to be held prior to or immediately after the main conference. The
workshops aim to spark discussions on cutting-edge, emerging, visionary,
and sometimes controversial topics. Workshops should be designed to
encourage lively interaction and discussion, and a plan to achieve this
must be clearly outlined in the workshop proposals.

The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for promoting the
workshop by distributing the call for papers, soliciting submissions,
managing the reviewing processes, and finalizing the workshop program. At
least two organizers should plan to be physically present at the workshop
to ensure highly interactive participation and discussions. Workshop
organizers must ensure at least 3 high-quality reviews per paper and an
acceptance rate no higher than 50%.

We encourage workshops on both established research topics to promote newly
developed ideas, as well as workshops on emerging topics with a sufficient
body of research being carried out cross-cutting across utility and cloud
research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Applied Cloud Technology for Scientific Computing,
IoT/Cyber-Physical/Robotics, AI/ML Domains, e-Health, Smart City, Digital
Twins, Earth Observation, etc.

- Architectural, Programming, and Deployment Models for Clouds and the
Cloud-Edge Continuum.

- Artificial Intelligence in the Cloud-Edge Continuum, Edge Intelligence,
and Cognitive Computing Continuum.

- Enablers: Serverless Computing, Advanced Containerization, Virtualization
Technologies, and Trusted Computing Environments.

- Cloud-Edge Continuum Management: Autonomic, Adaptive, Self-*, SLAs,
Performance Models, Monitoring, Sustainability, and Legal/Compliance.

- Cloud-Edge Continuum Middleware, Stacks, Tools, Delivery Networks, and
Services at All Layers (XaaS) as well as Mobile Edge Computing.

- Utility-Driven Models and Mechanisms for Cloud Federations & Hybrid
Clouds.

- Principles and Theoretical Foundations of Utility Computing, Including
Pricing and Service Models.

- Scalability and Resource Management: Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity
Planning, Parallelism, and Elasticity.

- Ultrascale Clouds, Deep Learning, LLMs, HPC, and further Frontiers.

The page limit for accepted regular workshop papers is 6 pages, including
all figures, tables, and references. Each paper should be presented in
person at the workshop.

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Workshop Proposal Submission Instructions

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CONTEXT & SCOPE

Proposals for workshops should be submitted in PDF format, must not exceed
4 pages (font 11pt) in length, and contain the following information:

- The name and acronym of the workshop.

- An abstract of the workshop and how it is aligned with/complements the
topics of UCC.

- A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.

- The names, affiliations, email, and short bio (up to 10 lines) of the
workshop organizers.

- A list of potential program committee members, program committee chairs,
and their prior experience with organizing workshops/conferences. This
international committee should comprise at least 10 people knowledgeable
about the technical issues to be addressed, with a balanced background, and
preferably with no more than 2 members from the same institution.

- A list of topics of interest.

- A description of the expected structure of the workshop (papers, invited
talks, panel discussions, etc.) specifying the desired/planned length of
the workshop (half day or full day).

- Estimation of the audience size.

- History of previous occurrences of the workshop, including attendance,
the number of papers or presentations submitted and accepted, and the links
to the corresponding websites (if any).

- A publicity plan for attracting submissions and attendees. Please also
include the expected number of submissions, accepted papers, and attendees
that you anticipate for a successful workshop.

- Possible related special issues of indexed journals.

- A preliminary call for papers with deadlines (see “Important Dates”
sections)

Submit your workshop proposal by e-mail to the chairs:
gui...@im... , sil...@in... ,
th...@ni...

IMPORTANT DATES

    Workshop Proposals Due: 02 July 2025

    Notification of Acceptance: 09 July 2025

    URL of Workshop: 16 July 2025

    Camera-ready & Registration: October 2025

    Workshops: 1-5 December 2025

Note: Workshops may be approved and announced early based on the quality of
the proposal and the track record of their previous editions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Workshop organizers will be responsible for:

- Setting up the submission system of their choice.

- Inviting TPC members.

- Producing a website and a “Call for Papers/Participation” for their
workshop. The URL should be sent to the UCC Workshops chairs. The call must
clearly state that the workshop is open to all members of the Cloud, Edge,
Fog, Big Data, Grid, and Cluster Computing communities.

- Ensuring that all workshop papers are a maximum of 6 pages in length,
following the main conference format. Additional pages may be purchased (in
some circumstances), subject to approval by the proceedings chair.

- Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference web page
and program.

- Selecting participants and determining the workshop format.

- Advertising the workshop beyond the conference web page.

- Assisting in producing a camera-ready version of the workshop proceedings.

- Ensuring that at least one workshop organizer attends the conference in
person to manage the workshop sessions.

The UCC 2025 Conference Organizing Committee will be responsible for:

- Providing a link to the workshop’s website on the main conference site.

- Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop.

- Determining the workshop date and time in conjunction with the organizers.

- Providing copies of the workshop proceedings to attendees. Workshop
proceedings will be published by IEEE following the UCC conference
proceedings for the current year.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

- If the workshop does not attract enough submissions, the UCC 2025
Organizing Committee may merge it with another workshop or cancel it.

- Workshop organizers must ensure high-quality reviews with at least 3
reviews per paper and an acceptance rate no higher than 50%.

- Workshops are not automatically endorsed by IEEE or ACM and should not
use these organizations’ names in their titles.