Scope

Today, a large number of enterprises and individuals rely on services offered by clouds to meet their computational and storage demands. However, in general, no single cloud provider is able to provide all the features a user may need in a cost-efficient way, while satisfying the user’s security and performance requirements. For instance, even the most dominant cloud providers have limited geographical presence. Cloud federation enables end users to integrate segregated resources from different cloud providers. The use of Multi-Clouds offers more freedom to the cloud users, and increases the granularity of choices in the application deployment. Growing interest in Multi-Clouds pushes the need to investigate a large number of under-explored research topics, ranging from Multi-Cloud resource provisioning, application deployments, automated configurations, federated networking, adaptations, security, and privacy. Moreover, with the growing need of real-time data analytics and critical event handling by many modern applications, such as in the Internet of Things (IoT), it is evident that the centralized compute and storage model offered by cloud computing is not suitable for such applications, due to high end-to-end latencies. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), on the other hand, enables a computing and storage infrastructure provisioned closely to the end-users at the edge of a cellular network. Combining MEC in Multi-Cloud infrastructures can help to combat latency challenges imposed by the cloudcentric architectures. The intent of our workshop is to bring together people from research and industry, in order to provide a discussion forum for state-of-the-art topics related to cloud, multi-cloud and mobile edge computing technology, networks and applications. The International Workshop on Recent Advances for Multi-Clouds and Mobile Edge Computing (M²EC 2019) will include full-paper sessions as well as a poster session (with short presentations) to introduce preliminary ideas as well as work in progress. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in Springer Series "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing". The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.

Topics of Interest

The main topics to be addressed include (but are not limited to):

• Design and implementation of Multi-Cloud and Cross-Cloud systems
• Networking technologies for Cloud federation
• Multi-Cloud middleware
• Cloud/Multi-Cloud resilience, robustness, load balancing, failover handling
• Cloud/Multi-Cloud monitoring, adaptation and scalability
• Cloud/Multi-Cloud security and privacy
• Cloud/Multi-Cloud use-case applications
• Cloud/Multi-Cloud (application) monitoring, adaptation and scalability
• Adaptive Multi-Cloud application provisioning
• Design and provisioning of Big Data, Multi-Cloud applications
• Inter-operability in Multi-Clouds
• Mobile Edge Computing systems
• Mobile Edge Computing for 5G network infrastructures
• Design and provisioning of Mobile Edge Computing applications
• Quality of Service in Multi-Cloud setups
• Efficient distributed storage techniques
• Low-latency transport protocols
• Low-latency storage
• Resilient networks and systems
• Multi-Homed systems and advanced transport protocols
• Applications and algorithms for Big Data and Mobile Edge Computing (Multi-)Clouds
• Application deployment and support for legacy applications

Paper Submission

Step 1: Paper Submission For Review

Please adhere to the following guidelines when preparing your manuscript for review.

1. Authors are invited to submit full or short papers for presentation at the conference. Full papers of up to 10 pages in Lecture Notes Style of Springer Proceedings (http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conftools/Springer/For-the-authors-LECTURE-NOTES-TEMPLATES.zip) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 6 camera-ready pages in length. Short papers will be presented in a poster format and are published in the proceedings. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. Please ensure that your paper is formatted in accordance with the guidelines. Visit http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/aina/2019/guidelines.php for detailed paper formatting instructions.
2. Submit your paper using the EDAS online submission system: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25291&track=93326. (You can also navigate to the AINA-2019 entry in EDAS (https://edas.info/N25291), then select «Workshop-M2EC-2019: The International Workshop on Multi-Clouds and Mobile Edge Computing (M2EC-2019)».)
3. Each paper will undergo independent review by at least three reviewers. You will receive an e-mail notification of the outcome of this review.

Step 2: Author Registration and Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission

The information on the camera-ready paper submission is sent to authors of accepted papers by e-mail.

Accepted Papers

M²EC 2019

The complete BibTeX references in a single file can be found here!

• Verginadis, Yiannis; Patiniotakis, Ioannis and Mentzas, Gregoris: «A Context-aware Service for Authorizing Multi-Cloud Deployments» (), [BibTeX, XML].

• Luo, Yu; Zhou, Xing; Dreibholz, Thomas and Kuang, Hanbao: «A Real-Time Video Streaming System over IPv6+MPTCP Technology» (), [BibTeX, XML].

• Hong, Jiangshui; Dreibholz, Thomas; Schenkel, Joseph Adam and Hu, Jiaxi Alessia: «An Overview of Multi-Cloud Computing» (), [BibTeX, XML].

• Horn, Geir; Skrzypek, Paweł; Materka, Katarzyna and Przeździęk, Tomasz: «Cost Benefits of Multi-Cloud Deployment of Dynamic Computational Intelligence Applications» (), [BibTeX, XML].

• Pradhan, Dipesh and Zahid, Feroz: «Data Center Clustering for Geographically Distributed Cloud Deployments» (), [BibTeX, XML].

• Papageorgiou, Nikos; Apostolou, Dimitris; Verginadis, Yiannis; Tsagkaropoulos, Andreas and Mentzas, Gregoris: «Situation Detection on the Edge» (), [BibTeX, XML].

• Mohebi, Nicolay and Zahid, Feroz: «Towards Realistic Simulations of Arbitrary Cross-Cloud Workloads» (), [BibTeX, XML].

Publications list generated on 07.02.2019 11:11:34 CET by Thomas Dreibholz's BibTeXConv script.

Organizing Committee

General Chairs:

• Dimitris Apostolou, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Athens, Greece)
• Thomas Dreibholz, Simula@OsloMet – Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering (Oslo, Norway)
• Feroz Zahid, Simula Research Laboratory (Fornebu, Akershus, Norway)

Publicity Chairs:

• Xing Zhou, Hainan University (Haikou, Hainan, China)
• Paweł Skrzypek, 7bulls.com (Warsaw, Poland)

Program Committee (in alphabetical order):

• Dimitris Apostolou, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Athens, Greece)
• Xuejun Cai, Ericsson (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Jörg Domaschka, Ulm University (Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
• Thomas Dreibholz, Simula@OsloMet – Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering (Oslo, Norway)
• Ahmed Elmokashfi, Simula@OsloMet – Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering (Oslo, Norway)
• Ernst Gunnar Gran, NTNU Gjøvik (Gjøvik, Oppland, Norway)
• Ralph Holz, University of Sydney (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
• Geir Horn, University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
• Quentin Jacquemart, CRNS (Sophia Antipolis, France)
• Kyriakos Kritikos, FORTH, Institute of Computer Science (Heraklion, Greece)
• Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio, United States)
• Sabita Maharjan, Simula@OsloMet – Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering (Oslo, Norway)
• Somnath Mazumdar, Simula Research Laboratory (Fornebu, Akershus, Norway)
• Omer Rana, Cardiff University (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
• Samuel Rodrigo-Mocholí, Graphcore (Oslo, Norway)
• Jesús Escudero-Sahuquillo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
• Paresh Saxena, BITS Pilani University (Hyderabad, India)
• Jawwad Shamsi, FAST NUCES (Karachi, Pakistan)
• Tor Skeie, Fabriscale Technologies (Fornebu, Akershus, Norway)
• Paweł Skrzypek, 7bulls.com (Warsaw, Poland)
• Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Salman Taherizadeh, Jozef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Amir Taherkordi, University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
• Yiannis Verginadis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Athens, Greece)
• Øyvind Ytrehus, University of Bergen (Bergen, Hordaland, Norway)
• Feroz Zahid, Simula Research Laboratory (Fornebu, Akershus, Norway)
• Xing Zhou, Hainan University (Haikou, Hainan, China)

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: December 31, 2018
• Author Notification: January 15, 2019
• Author Registration: January 25, 2019
• Camera-Ready Paper Submission: January 25, 2019

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• Call for Papers (PDF file