7th International Workshop on Cloud, IoT and Fog Systems (and Security) — CIFS 2025 (previous editions: CIFS 2020, CIFS 2021, CIFS 2022, CIFS 2023, CIFS 2024)
Co-located with the 18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing — UCC 2025
Nantes, France, December 1-4, 2025

Submission page:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cifs2025


Description

In today’s digital landscape, the increase of sensors, IoT devices, and cyber-physical systems across domains such as agriculture, cities, industry, and healthcare continues to accelerate. Advances in communication efficiency drive this growth, compute capabilities, and the emergence of flexible computing paradigms—such as fog, serverless, and cloud-edge continuum architectures. While these innovations enable powerful new applications, they also introduce challenges related to security, deployment models, data management, interoperability, and real-time responsiveness. Furthermore, the integration of AI/ML, robotics, and large-scale computing into these environments demands robust and scalable system design, middleware, and performance-aware management. The CIFS workshop focuses on addressing these challenges and opportunities across the full spectrum of sensor-driven, cloud-native, and intelligent systems. Researchers and practitioners are invited to share contributions—from theoretical models to practical deployments—that advance our understanding of distributed intelligence, secure and efficient computing infrastructure, and utility computing in IoT and cyber-physical environments.

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 across distributed systems
  • Computing paradigms: multi-cloud, fog, serverless, osmotic, continuum computing
  • Applied cloud technology for IoT/Cyber-Physical systems, AI/ML domains, e-Health, smart cities, and digital twins
  • Applications in digitalised health care, ecology, agriculture, urban planning and other fields
  • Cross-border, cross-provider, and cross-stack security issues in complex computing environments.
  • Principles and foundations of utility computing, federated cloud, and ultrascale scheduling
  • Artificial Intelligence in the Cloud-Edge Continuum: Edge intelligence, large language models (LLMs), cognitive computing, and distributed deep learning.
  • End-to-end reliability and security concepts across IoT-fog-cloud continuums
  • Middleware, tools, and services across the stack (XaaS), including delivery networks and mobile edge computing
  • Privacy, scalability and economics considerations as well as trade-offs
  • Security in fog/edge computing, IoT, Cyber-Physical systems, and cloud continuums

Submission Information

Submitted manuscripts must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed six (6) ACM-formatted *double-column* pages, including figures, tables, and references. All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Your submission is subject to a determination that you are not under any sanctions by ACM.

Please note: Starting in 2023, submissions and reviews follow a double-blind model. Please submit without author names/affiliations and without hyperlinks that could reveal your origin or identity.

At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop in person. Additionally, at least one author must register at the full (i.e., non-student) rate. All workshop participants must register under the UCC/BDCAT 2025 conference fee. Please note that acceptance of a workshop paper is conditional on the final decision by UCC/BDCAT organizers regarding whether the workshop will take place.

Important Dates

  • Paper Submissions Due: September 28, 2025
  • Acceptance Notification: October 26, 2025
  • Camera Ready Papers Due: November 14, 2025
All deadlines are indicated as AOE - Anywhere On Earth.

Technical Programme Committee

  • Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
  • Jens Jensen, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
  • András Márkus, University of Szeged, Hungary
  • Jamilson Ramalho Dantas, Center for Informatics, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
  • Edvard Martins de Oliveira, Federal University of Itajubá, Brazil
  • Erdal Özdoğan, Bursa Uludag University, Türkiye
  • Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Nishant Saurabh, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Workshop Organisers

  • Mehmet Cihan Sakman, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
  • Urs Seiler, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise International, Switzerland
  • Sashko Ristov, University of Innsbruck, Austria