The 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Paradigms for Next Generation Computing Evolution (INSPIRE) 

DESCRIPTION 

INtelligent Systems and ParadIgms for Next GeneRation Computing Evolution (INSPIRE) is an international workshop focused at bringing computing system research developments. Its objective is on performance optimization of computing systems and enhancing the performance of computing using Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Edge, as well as designing new computing services for optimised application deployment using Edge AI. Several challenges exist in this field, including not only the development and execution of new systems and algorithms, but also the optimisation of isolated or integrated computing systems for sustainable cost-effective and eco-friendly practises.

PURPOSE

This workshop aims to unite a number scholars from academia, business, and governmental organisations with an emphasis on analysing the new challenges of modern computing systems and building innovative solutions with the aid of modern technologies like AI, Serverless, and Quantum Computing. The workshop will provide a venue for discussing methods design, real testbeds, experimental evaluation, prototypes, and empirical characterisation of AI, Serverless, and Quantum Computing in modern computing systems.  The workshop will promote debates on outstanding challenges in the area, such as cost-effective computing system solutions, energy-efficient and resilient system architectures, standards, and applications for an eco-friendly environment. The INSPIRE workshop accepts poster ideas for presentations of new work or work-in-progress on testbeds, evaluation methods and outcomes, and creative prototypes for critical infrastructure. Papers outlining fresh findings, problems with the literature, real-world applications, case studies, and commercial applications are encouraged. In order to advance the conversation, it is also encouraged that current research, opinion, visionary, and student papers be submitted. Overall topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

• Cloud and fog/edge computing environments

• IoT and Edge computing

• Cloud/Edge surveys and taxonomies

• Edge AI

• Performance modeling & evaluation

• QoS/QoE management in the cloud/edge

• Green cloud computing

• Mobile clouds and mobile edge computing

• Autonomic cloud computing

• Cloud Continuum – IoT/Smart Cities integration

• Distributed Storage and I/O Systems: 

• Storage in the Edge

• Sustainable and Green Computing

• Thermal-aware Resource Management  

• Service oriented architectures

• Utility computing models

• Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems.

• Virtualized hardware (GPUs, FPGAs etc.)

• Programming models

• Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies.

• decentralized computing systems.

• Resource Management and Scheduling

• Performance Modelling and Evaluation

• Simulation

• Energy-efficient software/applications

• Energy consumption models

• Performance evaluation metrics

• Large Scale Machine Learning,

• AI at the Edge and in the Cloud

• Federated learning

• AI/ML for workload prediction, application scheduling

• Serverless Computing

• Future Internet (5G/6G)

• Cloud Edge Continuum

• Micro Services

• Cloud-Economics

• Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health,

• IoT-enabled Smart Systems and Applications.

• Digital Twins and Industry 4.0.

• Autonomous systems

• Applications for Cloud-to-Things continuum

• Cyber-Security and Privacy

• Resilient Distributed Systems

• Advance Topics (Neuromorphic computing; Quantum computing, biologically-inspired computing)

SUBMISSION

The INSPIRE workshop invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers should not exceed 6 pages single-spaced double-column, using standard IEEE format for conference proceedings. Additional pages might be purchased upon the approval of the proceedings chair.

• Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through the following link: Easychair Submission Link

• Submission requires the willingness of at least one of the authors to register for an early full and non-student fee and present the paper.

• All selected papers for this workshop are peer-reviewed and proceedings will be published by IEEE and made available online via the IEEE Digital Library.

• All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. 

DATES

• Timezone: Anywhere in the world!

• Paper submission due: September 01, 2026 

• Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2026 

• Final camera-ready papers due: October 15, 2026 

• Early full, non-student author registration: [refer UCC website] 

• Workshop scheduled dates: December 01-04, 2026 (Exact date to be determined)

WORKSHOP TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

• Steve Uhlig, Queen Mary University of London, UK

• Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada

• Salil S. Kanhere, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia.

• Oktay Cetinkaya, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

• Ravinder Singh Zandu PhD, UK

• Soumya K. Ghosh, IIT Kharagpur, India

• Ajith Kumar Parlikad, University of Cambridge, UK

• Felix Cuadrado, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain

• Thar Baker, University of Brighton, UK

• Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK

• Carlo Ottaviani, University of York, UK

• Panos Patros, Raygun Performance Monitoring, New Zealand 

• Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China

• Minxian Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

• Shreya Ghosh, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA

• Mohit Kumar, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India

• Sanjay Misra, Ostfold University, Halden, Norway

• Priyansh Arora, Microsoft, Schiphol, Netherlands

• Kamalpreet Kaur, Cymax Group Technologies, British Columbia, Canada

• Raghubir Singh, University of Bath, UK

• Prabal Verma, National Institute of Technology, Sringar, India

• Avtar Singh, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India

• Sree Pragna Machupalli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

• Leon Schlote, Detecon International GmbH, Munich, Germany

• David Haunschild, Detecon International GmbH, Munich, Germany

• Surendra Kumar, GLA University, Mathura, India

• Anu Sayal, Taylor's University, Malaysia. 

• Jay Tharwani, NetApp, North Carolina, United States

• Mrinal Ahlawat, Google, USA

• Amira Rayane Benamer, Aneo, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

• Sukhpal Singh Gill, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Email : s.s.gill@qmul.ac.uk

• Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK. Email: ranaof@cardiff.ac.uk

• Houbing Herbert Song, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA. Email: songh@umbc.edu

Honorary Chairs 

• Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS

After the publication of proceeding of the workshop, the selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for a special issue of the Elsevier IoT (Q1 Journal with IF = 7). The details of this special issue will be uploaded on workshop website and also communicated to you via email after the publication of workshop proceedings.

Previous Editions

• The 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Paradigms for Next Generation Computing Evolution (INSPIRE 2025) in conjunction with the 18th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing Conference (UCC), Dec 01 - Dec 04, 2025 – Nantes, France.

• The 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Paradigms for Next Generation Computing Evolution (INSPIRE 2024) in conjunction with the 17th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing Conference (UCC), Dec 16 - Dec 19, 2024 – Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

• The First International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Paradigms for Next Generation Computing Evolution (INSPIRE 2023) in conjunction with the 16th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing Conference (UCC), 4-7 December 2023 – Taormina (Messina), Italy