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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">14th Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS 2024)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Co-located with 29th IEEE ISCC 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">26th-29th June, Paris, France - </span>
<a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fmocs2024&data=05%7C02%7C%7C4b365c74f2734a2b99cc08dc6369901a%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638494552248852879%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Tujn33ivBs0kqrC%2FS6KlBVCrY6wXs17cZy1H45wAmuk%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://sites.google.com/view/mocs2024" shash="LxBMXcAZgYnV5nSRK8e9F2KfNSjT71fuVvyEFdvrtgZpdEqTBxTVczKpeq6LxKDU5hlUPRNqnlRnxKvVul82yewsJccU5hdFqv6Poz+D0Rl++enWISPjS5i8/sUhONGJy5Jgso3O/9GdEPeNWQ/cl0gSIxMaEPNCBw9AtfhSXG4="><span lang="EN-US">https://sites.google.com/view/mocs2024</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The last years have witnessed a permanent change of vision of cloud systems, evolving from a centralized system to a highly distributed environment. Nowadays, the most important stakeholders such as private companies,
public agencies, research communities and citizens rely on the cloud for a number of purposes, ranging from sharing hardware infrastructures to software, data, and sensing services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The services designed for complex scenarios such as smart cities, Agriculture 4.0 and the upcoming Industry 5.0, pave the path for a new era of highly distributed and cognitive clouds. For instance, the complexity of
human dynamics in a city can be better analysed by decentralising the infrastructure, analysing how the distributed infrastructure has to be evolved at runtime, integrating and opening the data and sharing the services. The distributed and cognitive cloud
paradigm is a key enabling technology, whereby applications and network functions are hosted in the cloud-to-thing continuum, and their placement can evolve depending on the context. Despite such a rapid (re-)evolution of edge-cloud systems, the extremely
heterogeneous smart city applications (sensing as a service, crowd sensing, etc.) makes the satisfaction of all the requirements a big challenge. In this context, emergent paradigms like artificial intelligence (AI), privacy-enhancing technologies (PET), cybersecurity,
blockchain (BC), and metaverse are key enablers for cloud-to-thing systems to shape the development of autonomic orchestration and networking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The focus of MoCS 2024 is in the convergence of distributed clouds, cognitive clouds, digital twins and privacy-aware applications for complex scenarios like smart cities and learning-driven approaches for urban planning.
The workshop aims at disseminating results on both theoretical and applicative aspects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Application of distributed clouds to smart cities services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Models for context-aware crowdsensing techniques at urban-level scale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Human-enabled Edge Computing (HEC) paradigm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Computing continuum for smart cities services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Cognitives cloud for smart cities services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Digital twins for smart cities services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Edge data center deployment in urban environments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- ML- and AI-based approaches cloud/edge-based smart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">city applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- AI-driven models, architectures, and frameworks for edge computing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Experiences on the (re)use of open platforms for cloudintegrated smart cities services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Design and evaluation tools for scalability and efficient resource allocation in smart cities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Design and application of cloud/edge technologies to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- ML-evaluation for automatic road anomaly detection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Vehicular cloud architectures for provisioning of smart cities services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Models and paradigms for the management of cloud/MEC services within/between data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Data-driven approaches for smart transportation in urban areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Blockchain solutions for secure and reliable transactions between counterparts in data sharing/trading.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Security and privacy techniques to cloud/edge-based smart city applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Post-quantum security and privacy for smart city applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Design and evaluation of microservices-based networking for 5G edge networks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Edge AI for next generation O-RAN architecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submission Guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Authors are invited to submit original technical papers for publication in MoCS 2024. Manuscripts must be written in English, in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, and their length should not exceed 6 pages (including
tables, figures, references and appendices).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Authors can find the IEEE double-column conference proceedings template at the following link:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieee.org%2Fconferences_events%2Fconferences%2Fpublishing%2Ftemplates.html&data=05%7C02%7C%7C4b365c74f2734a2b99cc08dc6369901a%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638494552248852879%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BOpFQeNhiE3jdbbDmzxH76Nm164CKneePkn0DuD3IlA%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" shash="Wod0N4/IfuBZ7ceVpSNHzYZ/HmzB5OWI4SQ2hYUgscxd0Y6yqcwybUTe3dXssPixXpU/X5HhEW7melj7T73+1Xqsx2k6a/WmFWpgy9IJOVTy6pUwySFxGVL7fkeAPerx8tzmrrVG7eFzNGmPpS8uD65blLxGPq7H3rY59RYneP8="><span lang="EN-US">https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Paper Review and Publication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers must be presented by at least one of their authors, who must also register for the conference. Only accepted and presented papers
will appear in the ISCC 2024 proceedings and submitted for inclusion to IEEEXplore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submission deadline EXTENDED: April 30th, 2024 (FIRM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Notifications: May 23rd, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Camera-ready: June 1st, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Workshop Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jaime Galán-Jiménez, University of Extremadura<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pericle Perazzo, University of Pisa<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Armando Ruggeri, University of Messina<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Domenico Scotece, University of Bologna<o:p></o:p></p>
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