Euro-Par 2024 | TPDS | International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

Special Section on New Tools and Techniques for the Distributed Computing Continuum (DCC)

IEEE TPDS, a forum for the publication of peer-reviewed, high-quality original papers showing original peer-reviewed research papers and timely review articles that deal with the latest research relating to parallel and distributed systems such as models of computation, data-intensive parallel algorithms, scalability of algorithms, and data structures, is seeking original manuscripts for a Special Section on New Tools and Techniques the Distributed Computing Continuum (DCC). Decisions on submissions will be made in the second half of 2024.

Due to the continuously growing complexity and heterogeneity of parallel and distributed system architectures, traditional client-server architectures have been expanded to include multiple layers, from Cloud and HPC computing to Edge computing, which has created a new paradigm called the Distributed Computing Continuum (DCC). With the increased deployment of coupled applications, the need for strong scaling with extreme scale parallelism, and the increasing reliance on complex and dynamic workflows, there is a strong need of new tools and techniques to develop and optimize applications in the computing continuum that are able to combine the underlying infrastructure of all the computing tiers in order to extract a maximum of efficiency while minimizing the usage of resources, specially energy, and the makespan of the applications.

The special issue will provide a forum for presenting research works from diverse areas from the computing continuum such us distributed scheduling, resource management, cloud-edge computing, workflows management, distributed data analytics and AI techniques in the DCC, and computational science applications.

Areas of Interest

We are looking for original high-quality papers on applications, services, and system software for distributed Computing Continuum systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Interoperable programming environments for heterogeneous architectures at scale
New tools for scalability in the Computing Continuum.
Workflow environments for the Computing Continuum.
Multicriteria scheduling algorithms for the Computing Continuum.
Workload characterization and modelling.
Parallel programming in the edge and in the computing continuum.
Data management in Edge devices and the computing continuum.
Middleware and programming models for processing large-scale data
IoT data management and analytics in cloud and serverless models
Optimizing I/O with ad-hoc storage systems.
Coupling distributed simulations with in-situ data analysis
Artificial Intelligence in the IoT-Edge-Cloud continuum.
Privacy and trust in the Computing Continuum
Large-scale green computing systems to optimize energy in the Computing Continuum
Innovative applications and case studies in the Computing Continuum.

Timeline

The timeline for the submission and review process is as follows. All deadlines are 23:59 (11:59pm) anywhere on earth.

Submission deadline: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . October 15th, 2024

Editors

Prof. Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
Ass. Prof. Javier Garcia-Blas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
Prof. Sameer Shende. University of Oregon, USA.

Submission Instructions

Submissions to the special section will be received as TPDS regular papers (survey and comment-style papers are not allowed). Please check submission instructions (including page limit, manuscript format, and author templates) on the TPDS Guide for Authors.

Please note that review versions of the papers are limited to 12 pages, and overlength page charges are only for the final versions of the papers. Papers longer than 12 pages will not be considered.
The TPDS reproducibility pilot is not available for submissions to this special section.
Supplementary materials will not be considered for submissions to this special section.
Submissions are *NOT* double blind. Authors can disclose their names, and they can freely cite their previous work without referring to it in a third-party fashion.

Authors can submit papers until the deadline through ScholarOne. Once you start the submission process, in Step 1 of the process, you’ll be asked to pick a “Type” for the paper. Please pick “DCC-New Tools and Techniques for the Distributed Computing Continuum”

Extension of Prior Papers

The special issue will be open to any author, but it will also invite extended versions of selected papers of the EUROPAR 2024 conference, whose topics match the scope of this special issue. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers to ensure a very high quality of papers selected for the special issue. Extended versions of papers from EUROPAR 2024 should include at least 30% of new contents.

Reviews

All submissions deemed suitable by the editors to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production to be published in the special issue.

Inquiries, including questions about appropriate topics, may be sent electronically to Jesus Carretero
<jesus.carretero@remove-this.uc3m.es>.