EdgeWays 2020

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline 25 June, 2020

Decision notification 12 July, 2020

Final version due 27 July, 2020

Workshop date 28 September, 2020

Topics of Interest

We solicit original high quality papers focused on different areas of research and practices on Edge adoption and migration based on (but not limited to) the following topics:

Processes, patterns and frameworks

• Edge adoption strategies
• Edge adoption processes
• Edge adoption best practices
• Edge adoption patterns, styles and tactics
• Edge adoption reference models
• Adoption verification and validation

Empirical studies

• Empirical studies, secondary studies or surveys on edge adoption
• Edge adoption lessons learned
• Industrial case studies or experience reports on edge adoption

Crosscutting concerns

• Tool support for edge adoption
• Governance in edge adoption
• Edge adoption project management and planning
• Crosscutting concerns in edge adoption (training, organizational change)
• Effort and cost estimation in edge adoption
• Business models for edge adoption and migration
• Quality concerns in edge adoption strategies
• Software licensing and infrastructure procurement in edge adoption
• Privacy and law issues
• Resiliency, observability, telemetry, traceability, safety, and security in edge contexts

Architecture evolution, adaptation and transformation

• Evolution, scaling, adaptation of edge architectures
• Model-driven approaches for edge architectures
• Software architecture recovery for edge computing
• Single tenant architecture transformation to multi-tenant architectures
• Adaptation of organizational business processes in edge computing
• Adaptation of services and supporting infrastructure
• Edge friendly (re)design
• Edge resilient and edge native design
• Programming support for edge adoption
• Traffic management in edge contexts

Infrastructure and data challenges

• Edge computing delivery models
• Organizational data in the edge
• Data migration strategies in the edge
• Container platforms

Hybrid and multi-edge management

• Application distribution and portability in edge computing
• Hybrid, multi-edge deployment of application components
• Availability and resiliency in edge computing

Using microservices and serverless architectures for edge services

• Migrating monolithic architecture to micro service architecture
• Serverless architecture specifics
• Migrating to big data systems using Serverless Architecture
• From centralized governance to decentralized governance for micro services
• Service failure and resiliency in micro services and concerns in migration processes
• Edge architecture specifics
• Service meshes in edge contexts

DevOps process and edge adoption

• Infrastructure automation for edge computing
• Restructuring cross-functional teams to team organization around business capabilities

DevOps and Continuous Development

• DevOps and edge
• Containerisation edge computing

Submission Guidelines

We seek submissions of both full and short papers. Full papers (maximum 12 pages) should describe original research, empirical studies or experience reports on cloud architectures, adoption and migration, while short papers (maximum 8 pages) should describe on-going research or early empirical results. All papers must be written in English and follow Springer's LNCS formatting instructions. Papers must be submitted in PDF using the EasyChair online submission system.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of presentation, and their adequacy to the workshop. Accepted papers will appear in a joint ESOCC 2020 Workshops Proceedings to be published in Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. We are also considering the possibility to invite authors of the workshop's best papers to publish extended versions of their work in a special issue of a related international journal or in a book on cloud migration.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ESOCC 2020 conference.