The 1st Workshop on Secure and Reliable Edge Cloud Continuum

About SRECC'22

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Edge computing has emerged as an important paradigm that moves the computation and data storage of distributed services closer to users. The advent of 5G networks and the growing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices lead to more opportunities for data collection and processing with hybrid edge-cloud systems.

In this architecture, edge devices -- placed near where the data is being collected/accessed -- execute some of the processing while offloading other more complex work to the cloud, which is scalable on demand. The edge computing paradigm aims at leveraging the computational and storage capabilities of edge devices while resorting to cloud computing services for more demanding processing tasks that cannot be done at the edge.

However, edge-cloud architectures are inherently large-scale, distributed, unreliable, heterogeneous and have deployments with security concerns. This leads to the emergence of significant challenges for the scientific community to find solutions that provide all these characteristics.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the current state of the art, emerging challenges and trends, as well as novel solutions, implementations and deployments of reliable hybrid edge-cloud systems and applications.

The workshop is looking for submissions in the form of papers with no more than 6 pages describing novel contributions and results as well as experiments reports. The workshop welcomes contributions from both academia and industry.

All submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee, that will select the best submissions for presentation at the workshop. Regular papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published in conjunction with the proceedings of ISSRE.

Topics of Interest

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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Architectures for edge and cloud continuum
• Programming models for edge and cloud continuum
• Platforms and algorithms for edge-cloud distributed AI
• Federated algorithms for intelligent hybrid edge-cloud applications
• System assumptions for dependability and performance
• Security mechanisms for edge and cloud continuum (Intrusion detection and prevention)
• Challenges of distribution of existing applications leveraging edge computing and 5G/6G
• Data privacy and confidentiality

Committees

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Organizing Chairs

 

Bradley Schmerl, CMU

Ricardo Vilaça, INESC TEC & University of Minho

 

Technical Program Committee

 

Nuno Antunes, University of Coimbra

Etienne Rivière, UCLouvain

Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra

Valerio Schiavoni, Université de Neuchâtel

João Vinagre, INESC TEC & University of Porto

Andrey Brito, UFCG

João Vilela, FCUP, CISUC and INESC TEC

Tania Basso, UNICAMP

Submission and Formatting

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Submissions must adhere to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines as implemented by the following LaTeX/Word templates:

• LaTex Package (use bare_conf.tex) (ZIP)
• Word Template (DOCX)

Papers should not exceed six pages in IEEE style, including references and bios.

Paper submission will be done electronically through EasyChair

Each paper must be submitted as a single Portable Document Format (PDF) file. All fonts must be embedded. We also strongly recommend you print the file and review it for integrity (fonts, symbols, equations etc.) before submitting it. Please take a note of the following:

• The first page must include the title of the paper and a maximum 200-word abstract.
• The first page is not a separate page, but is a part of the paper (i.e., it has technical material in it). Thus, this page counts toward the total page budget for the paper.
• Pages should be numbered.
• The use of color for figures and graphs is allowed only if the paper turns out to be readable if printed in grayscale
• Symbols and labels used in the graphs should be readable as printed, without requiring on-screen magnification.

Accepted papers will be included in the ISSRE 2022 Workshop Proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. The papers will also be made available online from the Workshop web pages.

Acknowledgments

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