4th International Workshop on Cloud, IoT and Fog Systems (and Security) — CIFS 2022 (previous editions: CIFS 2019, CIFS 2020, CIFS 2021)
Co-located with the 15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing — UCC 2022
Vancouver, Washington, USA, December 9, 2022
Thanks to all workshop participants. See you next year and perhaps consider a paper submission to DASMEC @ CCGrid 2023 in the meantime!

Programme on December 9

CIFS Workshop
Title Authors/Speakers
10:30-11:00 A practical example when serverless containers are better than Kubernetes Florian Forster, CEO and co-founder, Zitadel, Switzerland
11:00-11:30 SI22: A Dataset for Analysis of DDoS Attack on the Cloud Salih Ismail (Heriot Watt University, UAE) Hani Ragab Hassen (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Mike Just (Heriot-Watt University, UK) Hind Zantout (Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus, UAE)
11:30-12:00 Use of multilevel resource clustering for service placement in fog computing environments Helberth Borelli (Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis / Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil) Fábio Moreira Costa (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil) Sérgio Teixeira de Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil)
12:00-12:30 Optimized Damage Assessment in Large Datasets in Cloud Brajendra Panda (University of Arkansas, USA) Shruthi Ramakrishnan (University of Arkansas, USA)
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:00 On the Power Consumption of Serverless Functions: An Evaluation of OpenFaaS Abdulaziz Alhindi (University of Leeds, UK) Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK)
14:00-14:30 Efficiently Improving the Performance of Serverless Applications with Microtask-based Scheduling Sacheendra Talluri (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Sven Lankester (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Bogdan Ene (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Jesse Donkervliet (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Animesh Trivedi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Alexandru Iosup (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
14:30-15:30 Discussion: Emerging Topics in IoT-Fog-Cloud Continuums Moderator: Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Description

Highly sophisticated compute networks, encompassing small networked sensors and hyperscaler clouds, are becoming a mainstream technology concern. The density of sensing increases, as does the frequency and amount of data generation. Monolithic big data frameworks do not fit well into this scheme and moreover do not reflect well the distinct operational models and responsibilities due to conventional handling of credentials. At the same time, developer-accessible cloud DevOps frameworks are increasingly becoming a choice to run at edge nodes, leading to diverse IoT-edge/fog-cloud continuum models for programming and deployment.

The CIFS workshop gathers researchers and innovators around the challenges of building and operating complex computing topologies and associated cloud architectures around the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems, bridging the digital world with our environment. It calls for research and experience reports, from the algorithm level to completed production systems, in order to advance the knowledge resulting from progress in overcoming the challenges. CIFS also welcomes data-centric studies, simulations, testbeds and similar helpful software solutions.

This year, in the face of the increasing complexity and massive scale of things-to-cloud applications and deployments in the real world, CIFS particularly welcomes submissions focused on the cloud-native security and resilience aspects of such applications.

Topics of Interest

We solicit research papers (up to 6p) and technical industry reports (typically 3-6p) on the following topics:
  • IoT-fog-cloud pipelines, architectures and continuums in various domains, from industrial deployments to smart cities
  • Smartness, adaptivity, fluidity and dynamicity for processing sensed data
  • Computing paradigms: multi-cloud, fog, serverless, osmotic, continuum computing
  • Applications in digitalised health care, ecology, agriculture, urban planning and other fields
  • Secure cloud/fog computing concepts (homomorphic encryption, enclaves, hardware security modules, stealth computing, coded computing among others)
  • Long-term distributed messaging and data storage security and proof-of-ownership/provision/retrievability
  • End-to-end reliability and security concepts across IoT-fog-cloud continuums
  • Physical and digital security of IoT deployments, smart meters and other end devices
  • Privacy, scalability and economics considerations as well as trade-offs
  • Cross-border, cross-provider and cross-stack security issues
  • Human factors: simplicity and controllability of complex CPS and CPSoS
  • Security, identity management and multitenancy in clouds and continuums

Submission Information

Submitted papers should contain results or reports not already published or submitted elsewhere, in IEEE format. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three programme committee members. The evaluation will be based on originality, relevance of the problem to the workshop topics, technical strength, quality of results, and clarity of the presentation. The publication of the workshop proceeding with all accepted papers will be by the IEEE and will appear in the same or companion volume as the UCC 2022 and BDCAT 2022 conferences. At least one author of each accepted submission must register in full and attend the workshop to present and all workshop participants must pay the IEEE conference or workshop registration fee.

Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cifs2022

Important Dates

  • Submission September 16, 2022 (Final)
  • Notification October 16, 2022
  • Camera-ready October 28, 2022
All deadlines are indicated as AOE - Anywhere On Earth.

Technical Programme Committee

  • Riccardo Pinciroli, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
  • George Kousiouris, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
  • Daniel Batista, IME - USP, Brazil
  • Nicola Ferrier, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  • Joel Coffman, United States Air Force Academy, USA
  • Paul Pop, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  • Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
  • Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Coordinated Science Laboratory, USA
  • Jens Jensen, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
  • Andrea Sabbioni, University of Bologna, Italy

    • Workshop Organisers

    • Panagiotis Gkikopoulos, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
    • Cristina Abad, ESPOL, Ecuador
    • Florian Forster, CEO and co-founder, Zitadel, Switzerland