[Event at CIG] CFP: Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC) co-located with Euro-Par 2025

[Matteo Nardelli]

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WSCC 2025: Euro-Par 2025 International Workshop on Scalable Compute
Continuum
Date: 25-26 August 2025
Location: Dresden, Germany
Workshop web page: https://wscc.di.unipi.it/
Euro-Par web page: https://2025.euro-par.org/
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2025
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* Call for Papers
The “Compute Continuum” paradigm is transforming how we manage the
heterogeneity and dynamism of widespread computing resources. By seamlessly
integrating resources across the edge, fog, and cloud, this paradigm
enhances data locality, performance, availability, adaptability, energy
efficiency, and other non-functional properties. This is made possible by
overcoming resource fragmentation and segregation in tiers, allowing
applications to be seamlessly executed and relocated along a continuum of
resources spanning from the edge to the cloud. Besides consolidated
vertical and horizontal scaling patterns, the Compute Continuum also
introduces fine-grained adaptation actions tailored to specific
infrastructure components (e.g., optimizing energy consumption or
leveraging specialized hardware such as GPUs, FPGAs, and TPUs). These
capabilities unlock significant benefits, including support for
 latency-sensitive applications, reduction of network bandwidth
consumption, improved privacy protection, and enable the development of
novel services across domains such as smart cities, healthcare, safety, and
mobility. All of this should be achievable by application developers
without having to worry about how and where the developed components will
be executed. To fully harness the potential  of the Compute Continuum,
proactive, autonomous, and infrastructure-aware management is essential.
This calls for novel interdisciplinary approaches that exploit optimization
theory, control theory, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
methods.

In this landscape, the workshop is willing to attract contributions in the
area of distributed systems with particular emphasis on support for
geographically distributed platforms and autonomic features to deal with
variable workloads and environmental events, and take the best of
heterogeneous and distributed infrastructures. A partial list of
interesting topics of this workshop is the following:

- Scalable architectures and systems for the Compute Continuum
- Orchestration, deployment, and management of resources and applications
in the Compute Continuum
- Programming models, languages and patterns for the Compute Continuum
- Compute Continuum performance modeling and analysis
- Function-as-a-Service and Backend-as-a-Service in the Compute Continuum
- Energy-efficient and carbon-aware solutions for sustainable Compute
Continuum
- Lightweight virtualization for the Compute Continuum
- AI-driven optimization and AI-related workloads in the Compute Continuum
(e.g., federated, distributed, decentralized learning)
- Scalable applications for the Compute Continuum (e.g., IoT,
microservices, serverless)
- Data processing and analytics in the Compute Continuum
- Digital Twins and industry applications in the Compute Continuum
- Prototypes and real-life experiments involving Compute Continuum
- Heterogeneous hardware acceleration and domain-specific architectures
- Workflows in the Compute Continuum
- Convergence and integration of HPC and Continuum platforms
- Resilience and fault-tolerant strategies for the Compute Continuum
- Benchmarks, reproducibility frameworks, and real-world experimental
platforms

* Submission Instructions
The papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. They
should be between a minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 pages.

* Special Issue
Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a Journal
Special Issue. We are in contact to propose a Special Issue in a
high-quality journal. Information will appear soon on the WSCC web site.

* Important Dates
  May 5th, 2025         Paper submission deadline
  June 23rd, 2025       Paper acceptance notifications
  July  7th, 2025         Camera-ready due

* Workshop Co-Chairs
 - Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
 - Patrizio Dazzi,     University of Pisa, Italy
 - Gabriele Mencagli,  University of Pisa, Italy
 - Matteo Nardelli,    Bank of Italy, Italy
 - Massimo Torquati,   University of Pisa, Italy

We look forward to receiving your contributions!