[hpc-announce] CFP - Software Tools and Techniques for Fog and Edge Computing

[Rajkumar Buyya]

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                   Special Issue on
    Software Tools and Techniques for Fog and Edge Computing
     Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press)
          https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097024x


                      Call for Papers

Full call can be accessed from:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1097024x/homepage/special_issues.htm

The Special issue seeks to attract contributions covering both theory 
and practice of all aspects of Software Tools and Techniques for Fog and 
Edge Computing.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge Computing
* Middleware for Fog/Edge infrastructures
* Programming models and runtime systems for Fog/Edge Computing
* Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures
* Fog/Edge storage
* Monitoring/metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures
* Fog/Edge Computing applications
* Latency/locality
* critical applications
* Legal issues in Fog/Edge clouds
* Security and privacy–including support for new cryptographic approaches
* Modelling Fog/Edge environments –e.g. using process networks, agent-
based models, Peer-2-Peer systems, etc.
* Performance monitoring and modelling
* Applications of Fog/Edge Computing

Important Dates
Submission due date:  July 30, 2018
Notification of acceptance:  September 30, 2018
Submission of final manuscript: November 30, 2018
Publication date: 1st Quarter, 2019 (Tentative)

Guest Editors
Prof. Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK
A/Prof. Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
A/Prof. Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA
Prof. Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Prof. Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
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