The Third International Workshop on Distributed Fog Services Design (DFSD 2020)

Smart spaces, such as smart cities and smart buildings, are proliferating into a massive scale, thereby, Internet of Things (IoT) data, services and applications are being pressed to move to the Cloud. IoT Cloud integration can enable ubiquitous cyber-physical services and powerful processing of IoT data beyond the capability of individual things. This has been recently extended from the core of the network to the edge of the network (i.e., Fog Computing) to address better mobility support, locationawareness and low latency. Therefore, IoT applications will be further distributed throughout the network, including routers and dedicated computing nodes. With this new trend in sight, developing applications using cloud and fog computing resources introduces many challenges with respect to programing, networking, and service abstraction and distribution. In particular, in large-scale IoT applications with massive number of services, the way to model, develop and distributed services at device-, fog-, and cloud-levels is a top priority design challenge in this area.
This workshop aims to bring together experts from academia and industry that are working in distributed computing aspects of fog platforms, including middleware-related design concerns. The goal is to present and explore novel approaches and recent results of the research community and the industry bodies, and debate on and discuss priorities and challenges in the research agenda.

Scope

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Fog computing distributed architectures and frameworks
• Fog-level task and service modeling and distribution
• Large-scale deployments and Fog
• Distributed resource management models for Fog
• Machine learning for Fog mobility and resource allocation
• Cloud and Fog integration
• Middleware for Fog infrastructures
• Programming models and abstractions for Fog
• Dynamic programming models for Fog
• Fog mobility
• Performance (low latency and scalability)
• Heterogeneity and Interoperability of Fog devices

Submission Instructions and Formatting Requirements

The papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. Full papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages (two column format). The page limits include figures, tables, and references. All submitted papers will be judged through singleblind reviewing. Please submit your papers using this link.

Important Dates

Paper submissions: August 28, 2020    September 6, 2020
Notification: September 30, 2020
Camera ready: October 16, 2020

Organizer

• Amir Taherkordi, University of Oslo, Norway

Technical Program Committee (tentative)

Boris Koldehofe, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Etienne Elie, Intel, USA
Bin Cheng, NEC Labs, Heidelberg, Germany
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
Shiqiang Wang, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Sirajum Munir, Bosch Research and Technology Center, USA
Christos Tsigkanos, TU Wien, Austria
Frank Alexander Kraemer, NTNU, Norway
Stephane Delbruel, KU Leuven, Belgium
Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany
Amy Murphy, Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Italy
Angelo Corsaro, ADLINK, France
Geir Horn, University of Oslo, Norway
Gowri Ramachandran, University of Southern California, USA