Workshop date: April 16, 2023

Location: icpe2023.spec.org/venue/ 


Nowadays,  cloud computing is widely used by industry with an estimate of the worldwide cloud market of about 940 USD billions with a compound annual growth rate of about 16%.   Cloud computing provides, among the others, the capacity to run the backend of web applications, or to train artificial intelligence applications, or to run big data analytics.  However,  the accelerated migration towards mobile computing and Internet of Things, where a huge amount of data is generated by widespread end-devices, is determining the rise of the computing continuum paradigm, where resources are distributed among devices with highly heterogeneous capacities. This promises reduced latency and higher throughput thanks to local processing. However, in reality, there are still many open challenges concerning the fast development, testing, and operation of computing continuum software, especially when we must provide specific performance guarantees in the end-to-end application execution. Indeed, computing continua are inherently  fragmented, IoT/edge devices are highly heterogeneous providing different computing capabilities but also introducing proprietary development, deployment and operation frameworks. In this context, dominating the complexity of multiple coexisting frameworks, as well as managing component placement and resource allocation, become crucial to orchestrate at best the continuum resources.

The goal of the FastContinuum workshop is to foster discussion and collaboration among researchers from cloud/edge/fog/computing continuum and performance analysis communities, to share the relevant topics and results of the current approaches.


Accepted Papers

Full papers:

Diana María Naranjo Delgado, Manuel Contreras, Germán Moltó, Sebastián Risco, Ignacio Blanquer, Javier Prades and Federico Silla. On the Acceleration of FaaS using Remote GPU Virtualization.

George Kousiouris, Szymon Ambroziak, Blazej Zarzycki, Domenico Costantino, Stylianos Tsarsitalidis, Vasileios Katevas, Alessandro Mamelli and Teta Stamati. A Pattern-based Function and Workflow Visual Environment for FaaS Development across the Continuum.

Alberto Archetti, Eugenio Lomurno, Francesco Lattari, André Martin and Matteo Matteucci Heterogeneous. Datasets for Federated Survival Analysis Simulation.

Matthijs Jansen, Linus Wagner, Animesh Trivedi and Alexandru Iosup. Continuum: Automate Infrastructure Deployment and Benchmarking in the Compute Continuum.


Short papers:

Galia Nedeltcheva, Bin Xiang, Laureniu Niculut and Debora Benedetto. Challenges Towards Modeling and Generating Infrastructure-as-Code.

Josu Diaz-de-Arcaya, Eneko Osaba, Gorka Benguria, Iñaki Etxaniz, Jesus L. Lobo, Juncal Alonso, Ana I. Torre-Bastida and Aitor Almeida. IEM: A Unified Lifecycle Orchestrator for Multilingual IaC Deployments.

Matija Cankar, Nenad Petrović, Joao Pita Costa, Aleš Černivec, Jan Antič, Tomaž Martinčič and Dejan Štepec. Security in DevSecOps: Applying tools and machine learning to verifications and monitoring steps.


Proceedings:

ICPE: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3578244 

ICPE Companion: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3578245