Cloud Continuum

Updates

• [October, 01] Deadline extended: October 16th

• [July, 07] Could Continuun Track Publication

About ACM SAC 2027

For the past forty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary confluence for researchers in applied computer science, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers worldwide. SAC 2027 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP).

Track on Cloud Continuum

The ACM SAC 2027 Track on Cloud Continuum welcomes paper submissions on all aspects of cloud computing research and applications, emphasizing those describing research on different forms of virtualization techniques as applied to systems computing.

Cloud computing has become a common commodity with many different providers and solutions. Several new 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, the goal of our track. 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 that we plan to focus on this year in this track. 

•     Energy Efficiency

•     AI-powered Services

•     Security

•     IoT Applications

•     Architectural Models

•     Serverless Computing

•     Elasticity

•     Storage virtualization

•     Sustainable Models

•     Programming Models

•     QoS for Applications

•     Cloud Infrastructure for AI 

•     Optimization and Performance Issues

•     Communication Protocols

•     Big Data

•     High-Performance Computing Applications

•     Innovative Cloud Applications and Experiences

•     Availability and Reliability

•     Microservices

•     New models (like spot instances)

•     Frameworks and APIs

•     HPC as a Service

•     Cloud-based Agentic Architecture

This track welcomes all related research to Cloud Continuum, including theoretical models, algorithms, benchmarks, practical results, experiments, and frameworks for cloud computing applications.

Submission Guidelines

The submissions should be in electronic format (PDF), based on original, unpublished work. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Peer groups with expertise in the tracks focus areas will blindly review submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the annual proceedings and ACM digital library.  Submission guidelines can be found on SAC 2026 Website.

Prospective papers should be submitted to the track using the EasyChair submission system. Regular papers and Poster papers are limited to 8 and 3 pages, respectively. A few key words should be provided. A paper cannot be sent to more than one track. Original manuscripts (regular papers) should be submitted in electronic format on the Cloud Continuum Track.

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