Track Chair:
Sami Yangui, Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Toulouse, France
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Akram Hakiri, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France
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Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy
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Scope
This track is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry worldwide to advance the theories, technologies, and applications of parallel and distributed systems. Original contributions to the theory, design, analysis, implementation, application in the field, or a survey of state of the art in contributions are solicited. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. Technical topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Topics
Focus Area 1: Fog/Edge/Cloud Computing
– Cloud Computing System & Architectures
– Edge/Fog Computing System & Architectures
– Storage and Data Architectures
– Hybrid-clouds and Multi-clouds Integration
– Distributed and Parallel Query Processing
– Resource, Energy and Data Management
– Cloud Metering and Monitoring
– Containers and Serverless Computing
– Cloud Service Adaptation and Automation
– Cloud Federation and Service Composition
– Fog/edge resources scheduling, allocation and management
Fog/edge Real-time load prediction
– Power-Aware and Green Computing

Focus Area 2: Internet of Things (IoT)/Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
– RFID, sensor data, and services related to the IoT/CPS
– Services for IoT/CPS platforms and applications
– Service-oriented protocols for IoT/CPS applications

Focus Area 3: Blockchain as a distributed system
– Blockchain and smart business transactions
– Blockchain and smart contracts
– Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
– Blockchain in cyber-physical systems
– Blockchain in edge and cloud computing