WESS 2025

1st International Workshop on

EDGE-AI: Scale and Security

(WESS 2025)

1st International Workshop on

EDGE-AI: Scale and Security

(WESS 2025)

in conjunction with

18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing

(UCC 2025)

December 1-4, 2025 - Nantes, France

https://ucc2025.gitlabpages.inria.fr/web/

WESS 2025: Workshop on EDGE-AI: Scale and Security aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to address the most pressing challenges in scaling AI at the edge while ensuring system-wide security, privacy, and trust.

WESS 2025 will be held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2025) - during 1-4 December, 2025 in Nantes, France. All accepted workshop papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by ACM and made available online via IEEE Digital Library and ACM Digital Library.

Topics of Interest

Previously unpublished contributions in EdgeAI are solicited including (but not limited to):

Scalability and System Design
- Architectures for scalable and distributed AI inference at the edge
- Hierarchical cloud–fog–edge orchestration models
- Lightweight, interoperable frameworks and virtualization techniques for scalable Edge AI deployment
- Horizontal scaling strategies for real-time edge networks
- Dynamic workload balancing and elastic resource allocation in multi-tenant edge-cloud environments
- Scalable communication models and 5G/6G integration for Edge AI
Security, Privacy, and Reliability
- Secure model deployment and runtime verification for Edge AI
- Intrusion detection and anomaly monitoring in distributed edge environments
- Privacy-preserving machine learning and secure data processing techniques for Edge AI
- Blockchain and decentralized trust mechanisms for distributed Edge AI
- Robust authentication and access control on resource-constrained edge nodes
- Threat modeling and risk assessment in Edge AI systems
- Secure data aggregation and consensus mechanisms in edge networks
- Secure and reliable communication protocols for Edge AI systems
Resource and Task Management
- Adaptive and predictive task scheduling and offloading for latency-sensitive Edge AI workloads
- Real-time resource monitoring and feedback loops for model control
- Energy-aware model selection and runtime switching
- Multi-agent task negotiation and coordination in edge networks
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) assurance in shared edge environments
- Resource optimization and cost-aware computation allocation across edge, fog, and cloud layers
Applications and Performance Evaluation
- Secure Edge AI in autonomous vehicles and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks
- Real-time threat detection in industrial IoT networks
- Benchmarking energy consumption and model performance at scale
- Frameworks for simulating and testing Edge AI deployment scenarios
- Metrics and KPIs for evaluating scalability and system trust
- Resilience testing: fault tolerance in distributed Edge AI
- Use-case comparisons between centralized and edge-based security policies

Workshop Chairs

Dr. Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Durham University, UK. (Email: gagangeet.s.aujla@durham.ac.uk)
Dr. Umit Demirbaga, Bartin University, Turkiye. (Email: udemirbaga@bartin.edu.tr)
Dr. Maninderpal Singh, Southerm Methodist University, USA. (Email: maninderpals@smu.edu)
Prof. Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK. (Email: ranaof@cardiff.ac.uk)

Publicity Chairs

Dr. Amritpal Singh, Northumbria University, UK. (Email: amritpal.singh@durham.ac.uk)
Dr. Vikasdeep Singh Mann, CGC Jhanjeri, India. (Email: Mannvikasdeep@gmail.com)

Paper Submission

The WESS 2025 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed six (6) pages in length, following the main conference format (i.e., ACM double-column, all items included).

Submission Link at HotCRP
All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Your submission is subject to a determination that you are not under any sanctions by IEEE.
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop in person.
At least one author of each accepted submission must register at full (i.e., non-student) rate.
All workshop participants must register under the UCC/BDCAT 2025 conference fee.
Accepted papers will be considered in the conference proceedings published by the ACM, and will be made online through the IEEE Xplore and ACM Digital Libraries.

For further submission guideline: see IEEE/ACM UCC 2025 webpage at https://ucc2025.gitlabpages.inria.fr/web/

Important Dates

- - Papers Submission Deadline: October 18, 2025
  - Notification of Acceptance: November 13, 2025
  - Deadline for Camera-ready Papers: Mid November 2025
  - Deadline for Author Registration: [refer UCC website]
  - Workshop date: December 1-4, 2025 (Exact date to be determined)

Technical Program Committee

- - Prof. Albert Y. Zomaya, Univeristy of Sydney, Australia
  - Prof. Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle Univeristy, UK
  - Prof. Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia
  - Prof. Harpreet Singh Dhillon, Virginia Tech, USA
  - Prof. Amir H Gandomi, UTS, Australia
  - Prof. Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
  - Prof. Valentina Balas, Univeristy of Arad, Romania
  - Prof. Berk Canberk, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
  - Prof. Uttam Ghosh, Meharry Medical College, USA
  - Dr. Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
  - Dr. Wanqing Tu, Durham University, UK
  - Dr. Anish Jindal, Durham University, UK
  - Dr. Amit Dua, BITS, Pilani, India
  - Dr. Devki Nandan Jha, Newcastle University, UK
  - Dr. Ayan Mondal, IIT Indore, India
  - Dr. Nitin Auluck, IIT Ropar, India
  - Dr. Amitabh Trehan, Durham University, UK
  - Prof. Gabriele Gianini, Università degli Studi di of Milano, Italy

Past Workshops

BlockCPS Series

1st International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2021), December 6 - 8, Leicester, UK (https://sites.google.com/view/blockcps2021)
2nd International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2022), December 6 - 9, Vancouver, Washington, USA (https://sites.google.com/view/blockcps2022)
3rd International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2024), December 16 - 19, Sharjah, UAE (https://sites.google.com/view/blockcps2024)

BlockSecSDN Series

1st Workshop of “BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE Infocom, June 2020, Toronto, Canada. (https://infocom2020.ieee-infocom.org/workshop-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities)
2nd Workshop of “BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICC, May 2022, Seoul, South Korea. (https://icc2022.ieee-icc.org/program/workshops/ws-21-workshop-blocksecsdn-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart)
3rd Workshop of “BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICC, June 2023, Rome, Italy. (https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-11-workshop-blocksecsdn-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities)
4th Workshop of “BlockSecSDN: Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICC, June 2024, Denver, CO, USA. (https://icc2024.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-20-blocksecsdn-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities)

SecSDN Series

1st Workshop of “SDN5GSC: Software-defined Networking for 5G Architecture in Smart Communities”, Half-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE Globecom at Abu Dhabi, 9th Dec 2018. (https://globecom2018.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-21-sdn5gsc-software-defined-networking-5g-architecture-smart-communities)
2nd Workshop of “SecSDN: Secure and Dependable Software Defined Networking for Sustainable Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICC, 24 May 2019, Shanghai, China. (https://icc2019.ieee-icc.org/workshop/w27-secsdn-secure-and-dependable-software-defined-networking-sustainable-smart-communities)
3rd Workshop of “SecSDN: Secure and Dependable Software Defined Networking for Sustainable Smart Communities”, Full-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE ICC at Ireland, July 2020. (https://icc2020.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-06-secsdn-secure-and-dependable-software-defined-networking-sustainable-smart)
4th Workshop of “SecSDN: Secure and Dependable Software Defined Networking for Sustainable Smart Communities”, Half-day workshop in conjunction with IEEE Globecom, December 2020. (https://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/ws-19-workshop-secure-and-dependable-software-defined-networking-sustainable-smart)

EdgeAI-DSN Series

1st Workshop of “EDGEAI-DSN: EdgeAI for distributed systems and networks”, in conjunction with ICDCN 2024 at IIT Madras, India, 4-7 January 2024. (https://sites.google.com/view/edgeai-dsn2024/home)

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