[hpc-announce] [CFP] IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2025)

[Daniel Cordeiro]

IEEE/ACM UCC 2025 Call for Papers
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The 18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud
Computing (UCC 2025) will take place in Nantes (France) from December
1 to 4, 2025.
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Conference Overview
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UCC is a premier annual conference series that serves as a significant
platform for researchers and practitioners from both academia and
industry. It aims to facilitate the presentation of new discoveries
and high-quality contributions in Cloud, Edge and Computing Continuum.
UCC 2025 is co-located with the 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference
on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2025).

Theme for UCC 2025:
“Agentic AI, Autonomics and Resilience”

Key Dates
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Original Paper Submission Deadline: August 10, 2025
Acceptance Notification: October 7, 2025
Camera Ready Papers Due: October 20, 2025
Conference Dates: December 1-4, 2025

Call for Papers Details
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Authors were invited to submit original, unpublished research
manuscripts covering all areas of Cloud-Edge Continuum for utility
computing and related paradigms such as Serverless, Distributed
Computing, Agent-based systems, Autonomic Self-Management and
Resilience (Fault Tolerance).

Topics of Interest included (but not limited to)
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Resource Management for Cloud-Edge Continuum:

- Principles and Theoretical Foundations of Utility Computing
- Architectural Models and Patterns (Virtualization, Containerization,
Composition, Coordination, Choreography, Orchestration)
- Formal and Qualitative Aspects
- Middleware and Software Infrastructure
- Networking and Network Management (ORAN, Cognitive Networks)
- SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and XaaS
- High Performance Computing (HPC)
- Large Language Models (LLMs) to support resource management and
orchestration/ coordination

Performance, Security and Scalability:
- Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity Planning, and Elasticity
- Security, Trust, Privacy and Policies
- Autonomic, Adaptive, Self-* management, SLAs, Management, and Monitoring
- Deployment Models (Private, Public, Hybrid, Federated, Aggregated,
Inter-Cloud)
- Performance Analysis and Modelling
- Foundational self-* solutions (including use of LLM-based techniques)

Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Edge Continuum:
- Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
- AI Solutions for Scheduling, Provisioning, and Deployment
- Lightweight and edge-based machine learning
- AI-based coordination
- Agentic Computing
- Robotics and latency-sensitive AI
- Large Language Models (LLMs) and use of Generative AI

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 (e.g., Smart Cities, Mobility,
Healthcare, Industry 4.0)
- Micro Data Centers
- Interfacing to Mobile Devices (Management, Hierarchy Models, Business Models)
- Energy-Efficiency and Sustainability
- Development Operations (DevOps)
- Economic and Business Models
- Digital Twins solutions
- Business and Legal Implications Beyond Technology


Submission Guidelines
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Papers to be submitted in PDF format.

Submissions must be original, unpublished research, not under review elsewhere.

Note: If Generative AI tools are used, these should be acknowledged in
the paper, including a reference to the prompts used.

Papers should not exceed ten (10) ACM-formatted double-column pages,
including figures, tables, and references. Your submission is subject
to a determination that you are not under any sanctions by ACM.

All manuscripts will go through a double-blind peer-review process.
They will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,
analytical rigor, quality of results and presentation, and relevance
to the conference.

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.

Awards and Special Issues
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A selection committee will be established to acknowledge the best
paper with an award during the conference. Authors of highly-rated
papers from UCC 2025 will also be invited to submit extended versions
to special issues in prestigious journals, including the ACM
Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), IEEE
Transactions on Services Computing.



-- 
Prof. Dr. Daniel Cordeiro
Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades - EACH|USP
Universidade de São Paulo
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