[hpc-announce] CFP- “17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024)”

[Rajkumar Buyya]

“17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing 
(UCC 2024)”

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, December 16-19, 2024.

Website:
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We are pleased to inform you that the “17th IEEE/ACM International 
Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024)” will be held in 
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates between 16 and and 19 December, 2024.
The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing 
(UCC) is a premier annual conference series aiming to provide a platform 
for researchers from both academia and industry to present new 
discoveries and high-quality contributions in the broad area of Cloud, 
Edge and Computing Continuum utility computing and applications. The 
conference features keynotes, posters, workshops and a student 
symposium. UCC 2024 will be held in conjunction with the 11th IEEE/ACM 
International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and 
Technologies (BDCAT 2024).

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts 
in all areas of Cloud-Edge Continuum for utility computing and related 
computing paradigms such as Serverless, Distributed Computing and 
Function as a Service. The theme of this year is Self-adaptive and 
Autonomic Cloud, Edge, and Utility Computing in the Era of Large 
Language Models (LLM). The theme will explore new synergies between 
self-* and autonomous management of cloud, edge and their computing 
utilities and LLM approaches and solutions. We invite novel 
contributions with excellent balance between sound and rigorous 
foundational research and experimental results that relate to this 
year’s theme and to the general UCC topics, as below.
A selection of papers of highest quality that relate to this year’s 
theme will be invited to a special issue in ACM Transactions on 
Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS).
UCC 2024 topics of interest include but not limited to:


1. Resource Management for Cloud-Edge Continuum:
• Principles and Theoretical Foundations of Utility Computing
• Architectural Models and Patterns to achieve Utility; Virtualization, 
Containerization, Composition and Orchestration
• Formal and Qualitative Aspects
• Middleware and Stacks
• Networking and Network Management
• Saas, Paas, Iaas and XaaS
2. Resource Management and Scalability:
• Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity planning and Elasticity
• Security, Trust, Privacy, Policies and Blockchains
3. Autonomic, Adaptive, Self-*, SLAs, Management and Monitoring; Designs 
and Deployment Models:
• Private, Public, Hybrid, Federated, Aggregated, Inter-Cloud; High 
Performance Computing (HPC)
• Performance Analysis and Modelling
• Foundational self-* solutions, possibly leveraging LLM techniques (see 
this year theme)
4. Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Edge Continuum and Utility Computing:
• Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
• Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Scheduling
• Provisioning and Deployment
• Lightweight machine learning for edge learning
• Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Orchestration
• GPU as a Service (GPUaaS), Artificial Intelligence as a Service 
(AIaaS); Support for Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) or ETL Pipelines
• Machine Learning Cloud Frameworks; Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure
• Distributed, Federated, Collaborative Learning, and Large Language 
Models (LLM).
5. Applications, Systems and new Computing Paradigms for Cloud-Edge 
Continuum:
• Native Application Design, Programming Models and Engineering
• Serverless and Function-Based Applications (FaaS)
• Microservices Architectures, Quantum Computing
• Interfacing to Internet of Things, (IoT) Applications
• Utility-Driven Models and Mechanisms in All Domains (e.g., Smart 
Cities, Mobility, Healthcare, Industry 4.0)
• Micro Data Centers
• Interfacing to Mobile Devices: Management, Hierarchy Models and 
Business Models
• Energy-Efficiency and Sustainability; Development; Operations (DevOps)
• Economic and Business Models
• Business and Legal Implications Beyond Technology
• Digital Twins solutions.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted manuscripts must represent original unpublished research that 
is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. 
Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed ten (10) 
ACM-formatted *double-column* pages, including figures,
tables, and references. All manuscripts undergo a double-blind 
peer-review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, 
originality, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, 
quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference 
attendees. Your submission is subject to a determination that you are 
not under any sanctions by ACM.
At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference 
in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. The 
conference proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available 
online via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and ACM Digital Library.

IMPORTANT DATES
Time zone: Anywhere in the world!
Paper Submissions Due: 10 August 2024
Acceptance Notification: 7 October 2024
Camera Ready Papers Due: 20 October 2024


AWARDS AND SPECIAL ISSUES
A selection commission chaired by the UCC 2024 technical programme 
committee will select and acknowledge the best paper to receive an award 
during the conference.
Authors of highly rated papers from UCC 2024 will be invited to submit 
an extended version to special issues of prestigious journals.