Call for papers

Cloud computing architectures and related paradigms are gaining an ever increasing degree of popularity and interest both from the industrial and scientific community. They allow customers to “outsource” the management of physical resources by renting a variable amount of resources according to their actual needs, in a pay-per-use fashion. With the emergence of edge computing infrastructures, new problems and exploitation opportunities surface. Cloud and edge infrastructures can work together to fulfill requirements from a variety of applications, composing the so-called Cloud/Edge Continuum. Clouds must provide appropriate levels of performance to large groups of different users, whereas Edge resources act as a first layer of computing capacity that is closer to the user, reducing the service latency and increasing the exploitable portion of network bandwidth. Edge infrastructures typically belong to different administrative domains, are resource constrained with respect to central Clouds, and are composed of a very heterogeneous set of resources, introducing new challenges in the fields of security, orchestration and resource management. From a business point of view, organizations can benefit from the distributed nature of Edge computing to deploy dedicated services on a contextor time basis to serve certain areas. From a technological perspective, the scalability, interoperability, and efficient (de-)allocation of resources at the edge can enable a whole new set of scenarios. Interactive and time-sensitive services can be partially extended toward the edge, thereby closing the proximity gap with (potential) users. Data collection can happen within geographical / administrative bounds, ensuring compliance with data privacy and data retention policies. Real-time data-driven decisions can be promptly taken without Cloud data exchanges and related latencies. Improvement and innovation opportunities like these call for new solutions and theoretical frameworks. The FRAME workshop aims at bringing together cloud and edge computing experts from academia and industry in order to identify new challenges, discuss novel systems, methods, and approaches for the management of resources in cloud-edge infrastructures, as well as to promote this vision toward academia and industry stakeholders.