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UCC is a premier annual conference series aiming to provide a platform for researchers from both academia and industry to present new discoveries in the broad area of Cloud and Edge utility computing and applications.

Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015), Shanghai, China (UCC 2016), Austin, USA (UCC 2017), Zurich, Switzerland (UCC 2018), Auckland, New Zealand (UCC 2019), Leicester, UK (UCC 2020), Leicester, UK (UCC 2021), Vancouver, USA (UCC 2022), Taormina, Messina, Italy (UCC 2023) and Sharjah, UAE (UCC 2024).

Topics of Interest included (but not limited to):
Resource Management for Cloud-Edge Continuum:
Principles and Theoretical Foundations of Utility Computing
Architectural Models and Patterns (Virtualization, Containerization, Composition, Coordination, Choreography, Orchestration)
Formal and Qualitative Aspects
Middleware and Software Infrastructure
Networking and Network Management (ORAN, Cognitive Networks)
SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and XaaS
High Performance Computing (HPC)
Large Language Models (LLMs) to support resource management and orchestration/ coordination
Performance, Security and Scalability:
Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity Planning, and Elasticity
Security, Trust, Privacy and Policies
Autonomic, Adaptive, Self-* management, SLAs, Management, and Monitoring
Deployment Models (Private, Public, Hybrid, Federated, Aggregated, Inter-Cloud)
Performance Analysis and Modelling
Foundational self-* solutions (including use of LLM-based techniques)
Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Edge Continuum:
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
AI Solutions for Scheduling, Provisioning, and Deployment
Lightweight and edge-based machine learning
AI-based coordination
Agentic Computing
Robotics and latency-sensitive AI
Large Language Models (LLMs) and use of Generative AI
Applications, Systems, and new Computing Paradigms for Cloud-Edge Continuum:
Native Application Design, Programming Models, and Engineering
Serverless and Function-Based Applications (FaaS)
Microservices Architectures
Quantum Computing
Interfacing to Internet of Things (IoT) Applications
Utility-Driven Models and Mechanisms (e.g., Smart Cities, Mobility, Healthcare, Industry 4.0)
Micro Data Centers
Interfacing to Mobile Devices (Management, Hierarchy Models, Business Models)
Energy-Efficiency and Sustainability
Development Operations (DevOps)
Economic and Business Models
Digital Twins solutions
Business and Legal Implications Beyond Technology