F2C-DP 2018 - Workshop on Fog-to-Cloud Distributed Processing

Future service execution in different domains (e.g. smart cities, e-health, smart transportation, smart energy, etc.), will rely on a large and highly heterogeneous set of distributed devices, located from the edge to the cloud, empowering the development of innovative services. Such a distributed scenario is demanding substantial research efforts towards a novel management architecture, enabling a coordinated and efficient management of the whole set of resources from the edge up to the cloud, including all security and privacy aspects. Ongoing efforts are already devoted to overcome some of the envisioned management challenges, today visible through two main incipient research initiatives, such as the OpenFog Consortium reference architecture or the recently proposed Fog-to-cloud (F2C).
In such envisioned scenario, the main objective for the proposed workshop is to set the ground for researchers, scientist and members of the industrial community to interact each other, fueling new discussions in the emerging area coming out when shifting distributed services execution towards the edge. Analyzing the way existing programming models and distributed processing strategies may support such a scenario and to what extent these solutions should be extended or just replaced, is also fundamental to support the expected evolution in edge computing, taking care of Security and Privacy aspects. The workshop aims at opening new avenues for research in a very innovative and challenging scenario, and bring together the community of researchers interested in new programming paradigms, specially tailored to combined fog and cloud computing scenarios.
As a workshop series, this second mF2C workshop invites authors to present ideas about the application of programming models applied to distributed scenarios leveraging the particular constraints of combined fog and cloud computing scenarios. Submissions must not be previously submitted anywhere and must meet the submission guidelines for regular papers in the Euro-Par conference. The accepted papers will be published at Euro-Par conference proceedings.
Workshop Chairs:
Antonio Salis (Engineering), Italy
Rosa M.Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Spain
Xavi Masip (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Spain
Ana Juan (ATOS SA), Spain
The Technical program Committee is composed by the following experts:
Yaser Jararweh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA / Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Eduardo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Abdelhamid Mellouk, University Paris-Est Crèteil, France
Massimo Coppola, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Eduardo Quiñones, BSC, Spain
Roberto Cascella, ECSO, Belgium
Gianluigi Zanetti, CRS4, Italy
Marcello Coppola, ST Microelectronics Lyon, France
Filippo Gaudenzi, University of Milan, Italy
Eva Marín, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Toni Cortés, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Admela Jukan, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Jens Jensen, Sciences and Technology Facilities Council, UK
John Kennedy, Intel Research and Development, Ireland
Cristovao Cordeiro, SIXSQ, Switzerland
Matija Cankar, XLAB, Slovenia
Andrea Bartoli, Worldsensing, UK