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************************************************************************************************** WSCC 2025: Euro-Par 2025 International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum Date: 25-26 August 2025 Location: Dresden, Germany Workshop web page: https://wscc.di.unipi.it/ Euro-Par web page: https://2025.euro-par.org/ Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2025 **************************************************************************************************

* Call for Papers The “Compute Continuum” paradigm is transforming how we manage the heterogeneity and dynamism of widespread computing resources. By seamlessly integrating resources across the edge, fog, and cloud, this paradigm enhances data locality, performance, availability, adaptability, energy efficiency, and other non-functional properties. This is made possible by overcoming resource fragmentation and segregation in tiers, allowing applications to be seamlessly executed and relocated along a continuum of resources spanning from the edge to the cloud. Besides consolidated vertical and horizontal scaling patterns, the Compute Continuum also introduces fine-grained adaptation actions tailored to specific infrastructure components (e.g., optimizing energy consumption or leveraging specialized hardware such as GPUs, FPGAs, and TPUs). These capabilities unlock significant benefits, including support for latency-sensitive applications, reduction of network bandwidth consumption, improved privacy protection, and enable the development of novel services across domains such as smart cities, healthcare, safety, and mobility. All of this should be achievable by application developers without having to worry about how and where the developed components will be executed. To fully harness the potential of the Compute Continuum, proactive, autonomous, and infrastructure-aware management is essential. This calls for novel interdisciplinary approaches that exploit optimization theory, control theory, machine learning, and artificial intelligence methods.

In this landscape, the workshop is willing to attract contributions in the area of distributed systems with particular emphasis on support for geographically distributed platforms and autonomic features to deal with variable workloads and environmental events, and take the best of heterogeneous and distributed infrastructures. A partial list of interesting topics of this workshop is the following:

- Scalable architectures and systems for the Compute Continuum - Orchestration, deployment, and management of resources and applications in the Compute Continuum - Programming models, languages and patterns for the Compute Continuum - Compute Continuum performance modeling and analysis - Function-as-a-Service and Backend-as-a-Service in the Compute Continuum - Energy-efficient and carbon-aware solutions for sustainable Compute Continuum - Lightweight virtualization for the Compute Continuum - AI-driven optimization and AI-related workloads in the Compute Continuum (e.g., federated, distributed, decentralized learning) - Scalable applications for the Compute Continuum (e.g., IoT, microservices, serverless) - Data processing and analytics in the Compute Continuum - Digital Twins and industry applications in the Compute Continuum - Prototypes and real-life experiments involving Compute Continuum - Heterogeneous hardware acceleration and domain-specific architectures - Workflows in the Compute Continuum - Convergence and integration of HPC and Continuum platforms - Resilience and fault-tolerant strategies for the Compute Continuum - Benchmarks, reproducibility frameworks, and real-world experimental platforms

* Submission Instructions The papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines. They should be between a minimum of 10 and maximum of 12 pages.

* Special Issue Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a Journal Special Issue. We are in contact to propose a Special Issue in a high-quality journal. Information will appear soon on the WSCC web site.

* Important Dates May 5th, 2025 Paper submission deadline June 23rd, 2025 Paper acceptance notifications July 7th, 2025 Camera-ready due

* Workshop Co-Chairs - Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Patrizio Dazzi, University of Pisa, Italy - Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa, Italy - Matteo Nardelli, Bank of Italy, Italy - Massimo Torquati, University of Pisa, Italy

We look forward to receiving your contributions!