Over the past six decades, the computing systems field has experienced significant
transformations, profoundly impacting society with transformational developments, such as …

Modern scientific research challenges require new technologies, integrated tools, reusable
and complex experiments in distributed computing infrastructures. But above all, computing …

The cloud continuum concept has drawn increasing attention from practitioners, academics,
and funding agencies and been adopted progressively. However, the concept remains …

IoT systems are becoming an essential part of our environment. Smart cities, smart
manufacturing, augmented reality, and self-driving cars are just some examples of the wide …

We consider a hierarchical edge-cloud architecture in which services are provided to mobile
users as chains of virtual network functions. Each service has specific computation …

The computing continuum enables new opportunities for managing big data pipelines
concerning efficient management of heterogeneous and untrustworthy resources. We …

The fog paradigm extends the cloud capabilities at the edge of the network. Fog computing-
based real-time applications (Online gaming, 5G, Healthcare 4.0, Industrial IoT, autonomous …

The energy consumption of Cloud–Edge systems is becoming a critical concern
economically, environmentally, and societally; some studies suggest data centers and …

Edge computing offers computational resources near data-generating devices to enable low-
latency access. Especially for smart city contexts, edge computing becomes inevitable for …

Edge computing has emerged as a critical infrastructure for deploying AI-driven
microservices, particularly for applications requiring low-latency and high-performance, such …