INtelligent Systems and ParadIgms for Next GeneRation Computing Evolution (INSPIRE) is an international workshop focused at bringing computing system research developments. Its objective is on performance optimization of computing systems and enhancing the performance of computing using Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Edge, as well as designing new computing services for optimised application deployment using Edge AI. Several challenges exist in this field, including not only the development and execution of new systems and algorithms, but also the optimisation of isolated or integrated computing systems for sustainable cost-effective and eco-friendly practises.

Submission Guidelines

The INSPIRE workshop accepts poster ideas for presentations of new work or work-in-progress on testbeds, evaluation methods and outcomes, and creative prototypes for critical infrastructure. Papers outlining fresh findings, problems with the literature, real-world applications, case studies, and commercial applications are encouraged. In order to advance the conversation, it is also encouraged that current research, opinion, visionary, and student papers be submitted. 

List of Topics

• Cloud and fog/edge computing environments

• IoT and Edge computing

• Cloud/Edge surveys and taxonomies

• Edge AI

• Performance modeling & evaluation

• QoS/QoE management in the cloud/edge

• Green cloud computing

• Mobile clouds and mobile edge computing

• Autonomic cloud computing

• Cloud Continuum – IoT/Smart Cities integration

• Distributed Storage and I/O Systems: 

• Storage in the Edge

• Sustainable and Green Computing

• Thermal-aware Resource Management  

• Service oriented architectures

• Utility computing models

• Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems.

• Virtualized hardware (GPUs, FPGAs etc.)

• Programming models

• Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies.

• decentralized computing systems.

• Resource Management and Scheduling

• Performance Modelling and Evaluation

• Simulation

• Energy-efficient software/applications

• Energy consumption models

• Performance evaluation metrics

• Large Scale Machine Learning,

• AI at the Edge and in the Cloud

• Federated learning

• AI/ML for workload prediction, application scheduling

• Serverless Computing

• Future Internet (5G/6G)

• Cloud Edge Continuum

• Micro Services

• Cloud-Economics

• Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health,

• IoT-enabled Smart Systems and Applications.

• Digital Twins and Industry 4.0.

• Autonomous systems

• Applications for Cloud-to-Things continuum

• Cyber-Security and Privacy

• Resilient Distributed Systems

• Advance Topics (Neuromorphic computing; Quantum computing, biologically-inspired computing)

Committees

Honorary Chairs

• Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

Workshop Chairs

• Sukhpal Singh Gill, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Email : s.s.gill@qmul.ac.uk

• Oktay Cetinkaya, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Email : oktay.cetinkaya@eng.ox.ac.uk

• Houbing Herbert Song, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA. Email: songh@umbc.edu

• Qassim Nasir, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, U.A.E. Email: nasir@sharjah.ac.ae

Venue

The conference will be held in University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to s.s.gill@qmul.ac.uk