MOCS2019

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The 9th Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems MoCS 2019

In conjunction with IEEE ISCC 2019 - Barcelona, Spain ** The last years have witnessed a permanent change of vision of cloud  systems. Nowadays, the most important stakeholders such as private  companies, public agencies, research communities and citizens rely on  the cloud for a number of purposes, stemming from sharing hardware  infrastructures to software, data, and sensing services. The services designed for complex scenarios like Multi-Access Edge  Computing (MEC), smart cities, and the upcoming Industry 4.0, pave the  path for a new era of the cloud. The complexity of human dynamics in a  city can be better analyzed by decentralizing the infrastructure,  integrating and opening the data and sharing the services. The MEC  paradigm, standardized by ETSI, is a key enabling technology for  upcoming 5G networks, whereby applications and network functions are hosted in edge cloud data centers. By being closer to the end-user,  besides better supporting low-latency applications, MEC systems are a  candidate architecture for such a decentralized, context-aware  infrastructure. Despite such a rapid (re-)evolution of cloud systems, it  remains unclear whether current solutions are able to support these  emergent application scenarios. Through sensing as a service processes,  crowd-sensed data is made available to the cloud stakeholders. Some of  them like citizens become data contributors, customers and service  consumers at the same time. This data exchange calls for secure and  reliable data trading transactions between the counterparts. Blockchain  technology provides the stakeholders with a transparent, unalterable,  ordered ledger by enabling a decentralized and secure environment.  Solutions for its integration in the cloud for smart-city services are  however yet to appear. The MoCS workshop started following the "cloud" stream 8 years ago. The  focus of the 9th MoCS edition is in the convergence of cloud paradigm in  form of MEC to support low-latency, context-aware applications for  complex scenarios like smart cities and solutions for secure  transactions in data trading. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Application of cloud and MEC systems to smart cities services; * Models for context-aware crowdsensing techniques at urban-level scale; * Integration of cloud/edge systems and mobile crowdsensing systems  through Human-enabled Edge Computing (HEC) paradigm; * Experiences on the (re)use of open platforms for cloud-integrated  smart cities services; * Design and evaluation tools for scalability and efficient resource  allocation in smart cities; * Models and design inter-play between mobility agents (citizens,  vehicles) in urban environments; * Design and application of cloud/edge technologies to Intelligent  Transport Systems (ITS);   * Vehicular cloud architectures for provisioning of smart cities  services;   * Adaptive solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost-effective cloud  management and services provision; * Models and paradigms for the management of cloud/MEC services  within/between data centres (intra- /inter-domain) and their deployment  in urban environment; * Application of machine learning techniques to cloud/edge-based smart  city applications; * Cloud/edge-based automation tools applied to robotic science for smart  cities; * Pricing schemes, bargaining mechanisms and economics for trading data  in cloud/edge environments; * Blockchain solutions for secure and reliable transactions between the  counterparts in data sharing/trading. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Paper Submission: March 31, 2019 Notification of Acceptance:  May 3, 2019 Final Paper: May 10, 2019 ** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ** Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for  publication in MoCS 2019. Manuscripts should be written in English with  a maximum paper length of 6 printed pages for full papers and 4 pages  for short papers. No more than 20\% of short papers will be accepted.  All manuscripts should adhere to the IEEE double column conference proceedings  (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html). Authors  are invited to submit their papers using EDAS at 

. Papers exceeding 6 pages will  not be accepted by EDAS. At least one author of each accepted paper is  required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only  registered and presented papers will be included in the ISCC 2019 Proceedings and submitted for  inclusion to IEEE Xplore library. The IEEE ISCC Proceedings have been  indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the IEEE ISCC  Workshops publication venues with very high visibility and impact in  both Computer and Communications areas. Please, contact the Workshop Organizers for any inquiry regarding the  submission of manuscripts.

** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ** Workshop Co-Chairs Claudio Fiandrino (IMDEA Networks, ES) Javier Berrocal (University of Extremadura, ES) Andrea Capponi (University of Luxembourg, LU) Publicity Co-Chairs Guido Cantelmo (Technical University of Munich, GE) Antonino Galletta (University of Messina, IT) Publication Chair Maria Fazio (University of Messina, IT) Web Chair Piergiorgio Vitello (University of Luxembourg, LU) Steering Committee Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna, IT) Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, IT) Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa, CA) Massimo Villari (University of Messina, IT) ** SOCIAL MEDIA ** Stay tuned on our social networks:

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