[hpc-announce] Special Issue Cloud Continuum - CALL FOR PAPERS Future Generation Computer Systems

[Wisser, Grace]

CALL FOR PAPERS Future Generation Computer Systems Special Issue
Special Issue on Cloud Continuum
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MOTIVATION AND SCOPE

Cloud computing has become a common commodity with many different providers and solutions. Several new architectural models are being developed and applied to ensure scalability, quality of service, and resilience. The models focus both on the providers, optimizing the use of their infrastructure, and on the users' side, optimizing the response times and/or costs. This scenario is becoming more complex with the possibility of having computing power close to the users on edge/fog models. All this scenario can be seen as the Cloud Continuum.

There are already some conferences that have the Cloud Continuum in their call-for-papers. However, only some of them have explicitly focused on the applications. We aim to attract a broader range of papers, from software engineering to High-Performance Computing applications. All of them will be discussed in the Cloud Continuum scenario.

The following list includes some of the major topics for this special issue:

*Energy Efficiency
*AI-powered Services
*Security
*IoT Applications
*Architectural Models
*Serverless Computing
*Elasticity
*Storage Virtualization
*Sustainable Models
*Programming Models
*QoS for Applications
*Optimization and Performance Issues
*Communication Protocols
*Big Data
*High-Performance Computing Applications
*Innovative Cloud Applications and Experiences
*Availability and Reliability
*Microservices
*New Models (e.g., spot instances)
*Frameworks and APIs
*HPC as a Service


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GUEST EDITORS

Alfredo Goldman
University of São Paulo, Brazil
gold at ime.usp.br


Eduardo Guerra
University of Bolzano, Italy
eduardo.guerra at unibz.it


Jean Luca Bez
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
jlbez at lbl.gov

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submission: August 30, 2025

Latest acceptance deadline for all papers: February 15, 2026

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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The FGCS’s submission system (Editorial Manager®) will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from April 15, 2025. When submitting your manuscript please select the article type VSI: Continuum.

All manuscripts must conform to the Guide for authors - Future Generation Computer Systems - ISSN 0167-739X | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier. Papers previously published in a conference must have at least 40% new content. The page limit for this special issue is 18 pages.

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MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING GUIDELINES

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Michela Taufer
Editor in Chief