[hpc-announce] CFP: 7th International Workshop on Cloud, IoT and Fog Systems (CIFS 2025) @ UCC 2025, Nantes, France

[Sakman Mehmet Cihan (sakm)]

Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the 7th International Workshop on Cloud, IoT and Fog Systems (and Security) — CIFS 2025, which will be held in conjunction with the 18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2025) in Nantes, France, from December 1–4, 2025.
Workshop Website: https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://cifs.servicelaboratory.ch/cifs2025/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!YsmD5Axw9ajGGXDs4ToocsxhpAg_HDyRPuVX7bezeijhROV4DIJjCJPgBmU8WvO8o8WdZY5s7QwG1pbG_Gnu$ 
Submission Page: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cifs2025__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!YsmD5Axw9ajGGXDs4ToocsxhpAg_HDyRPuVX7bezeijhROV4DIJjCJPgBmU8WvO8o8WdZY5s7QwG1kvcGB2m$ 

DESCRIPTION

In today’s digital landscape, the increase of sensors, IoT devices, and cyber-physical systems across domains such as agriculture, cities, industry, and healthcare continues to accelerate. Advances in communication efficiency drive this growth, compute capabilities, and the emergence of flexible computing paradigms—such as fog, serverless, and cloud-edge continuum architectures.
While these innovations enable powerful new applications, they also introduce challenges related to security, deployment models, data management, interoperability, and real-time responsiveness. Furthermore, the integration of AI/ML, robotics, and large-scale computing into these environments demands robust and scalable system design, middleware, and performance-aware management.
The CIFS workshop focuses on addressing these challenges and opportunities across the full spectrum of sensor-driven, cloud-native, and intelligent systems. Researchers and practitioners are invited to share contributions—from theoretical models to practical deployments—that advance our understanding of distributed intelligence, secure and efficient computing infrastructure, and utility computing in IoT and cyber-physical environments.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

- IoT-fog-cloud pipelines, architectures and continuums in various domains, from industrial deployments to smart cities
- Smartness, adaptivity, fluidity and dynamicity for processing sensed data across distributed systems
- Computing paradigms: multi-cloud, fog, serverless, osmotic, continuum computing
- Applied cloud technology for IoT/Cyber-Physical systems, AI/ML domains, e-Health, smart cities, and digital twins
- Applications in digitalised health care, ecology, agriculture, urban planning and other fields
- Cross-border, cross-provider, and cross-stack security issues in complex computing environments
- Principles and foundations of utility computing, federated cloud, and ultrascale scheduling
- Artificial Intelligence in the Cloud-Edge Continuum: Edge intelligence, large language models (LLMs), cognitive computing, and distributed deep learning
- End-to-end reliability and security concepts across IoT-fog-cloud continuums
- Middleware, tools, and services across the stack (XaaS), including delivery networks and mobile edge computing
- Privacy, scalability and economics considerations as well as trade-offs
- Security in fog/edge computing, IoT, Cyber-Physical systems, and cloud continuum


SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submitted manuscripts must represent original unpublished research not currently under review elsewhere. Submissions must be in PDF format and may not exceed six (6) ACM-formatted double-column pages, including all content. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind process and evaluated based on originality, technical quality, presentation, and relevance. Please ensure your submission does not contain author names or identifiable hyperlinks.
At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop in person, and register at the full (non-student) rate. All workshop participants must register under the UCC/BDCAT 2025 conference registration. Final acceptance is conditional on the workshop being approved by UCC/BDCAT organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth - AOE)
- Paper Submission Deadline: September 28, 2025
- Notification of Acceptance: October 26, 2025
- Camera-Ready Deadline: November 14, 2025

WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
- Mehmet Cihan Sakman, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Urs Seiler, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise International, Switzerland
- Sashko Ristov, University of Innsbruck, Austria

We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Nantes!
Best regards,
CIFS 2025 Organizing Committee