12th IEEE/ACM International UCC/BDCAT'19 CloudAM'19 Workshop Chairs' Welcome Message & Organization

Abstract

Welcome to the 8th International Workshop on Cloud and Edge Computing, and Applications Management - CloudAM2019, which will be held in conjunction with the 12th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing Conference (UCC) in Auckland, New Zealand, from 2-5 December 2019. CloudAM is a successful series of workshops that bring together practitioners and researchers on current research advances on cloud computing, virtualization technologies and real applications. As it is anticipated that this interest will keep expanding with the emergence of edge computing infrastructures, this 8th edition of CloudAM will also cover the topics of edge and fog computing. Cloud and edge infrastructures can work together to fulfill requirements from a variety of applications, composing the so-called Cloud Continuum to the edge. Furthermore, clouds must provide appropriate levels of performance to large groups of diverse users, and those clouds are accessed through virtualized wide area networks, where edge/fog devices can act as a first layer of computing capacity closer to the user. Management systems are essential for that and thereby for the future success of the fog-cloud hierarchy. New systems, methods, and approaches for cloud and edge computing, virtualization, and applications management are to be discussed at this workshop. In this edition of CloudAM, we received six submissions and we could only accept three of them. On the other hand, another the CloudAM program also includes nine high-quality papers that were submitted to the UCC main track and directed for presentation in the workshop. All papers were reviewed and evaluated based on relevance, quality, and novelty. Overall, a number of 12 contributions, covering a broad number of topics, will be presented and discussed during a one-day workshop.