IECCONT workshop

The workshop “Next steps in IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum Evolution: Research and Practice”, organized by ICOS partners, sets the goal of presenting the visionary papers and talks from research and practice in the evolution of the computing continuum encompassing IoT, edge and cloud. From the challenges of system performance, management and ambitious vision towards a single MetaOS in the continuum, there is a broad set of topics to be addressed. This call invites for the technical presentations and interactive workshop sessions, including industrial leaders, researchers, developers and academics fostering the exchange of research findings and ideas as well as enabling research cooperation as well as industrial leadership. This workshop pushed the boundaries of what is currently possible with existing Cloud-Edge-IoT orchestration solutions, paving the way for the future “MetaOS” in a compute continuum.

This workshop (IECCONT 2024) was held on August 27th in Madrid in conjunction with the Euro-Par conference. With the audience of Euro-Par consisting mainly of researchers and developers from the areas of parallel and distributed processing, systems and infrastructures, this workshop managed to broaden the platform to exchange views, ideas and solutions regarding a new management paradigm for distributed systems, architectures and applications. 13 members with expertise in various areas formed the technical program committee. The workshop included a keynote, followed by two sessions of presentations consisting of a total of eight presentations, with about 10 attendees, resulting in fruitful discussions and exchange of ideas.

Out of a total of nine received submissions, we accepted eight papers after a thorough peer-reviewing process to be presented and included into the workshop proceedings. Each accepted paper was reviewed by three to four PC members who assessed the papers for quality, technical novelty and a strong link to the IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum. These accepted articles covered the three areas of 1) multi-component mapping; 2) Continuum security and secure communication; and 3) Workload orchestration and placement.