[Dbworld] The 1st International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2017)

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The 1st International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2017)
June 25 - June 30, 2017, Hilton Village, Honolulu, HI, USA 
http://theFogComputing.org
*************************************** HIGHLIGHTS ************************************
-One Best paper and one Best student paper
-Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to Special Issues at IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), International Journal of Services Computing (IJSC), and International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM). TSC and JWSR are SCI & EI indexed. 
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Human beings have been cooperating, competing, and entertaining ourselves by providing and consuming all kinds of services. We build, deploy, publish, and discover services, and with the current prevailing technology, we use clouds that are formed of computers and servers connected by the Internet, and developed using wire-based and wireless technology.  Many enterprises and large organizations have begun to adopt small and mobile devices, sensors and actuators that provide data and services to users or other devices, and those devices will become more intelligent as technology progresses.  We must deal with huge amount of data, big data that must be transferred from/to distant, sometimes very distant sources, stored and processed by data and compute clouds. As direct service links between clouds may not enable fast enough data access, reliability could be jeopardized, availability cannot be completely guaranteed, and the entire system is subject to security attacks, there i!
 s a need for significant future improvements. Due to the sizes of enterprises and large organizations, some smaller clouds, that could be stationary as well as mobile, are being proposed to improve these metrics. This is where the concept of Edge Computing, together with the necessary and possible intelligent management and control at the edge, comes to play.  

“Edge Computing” is a process of building a distributed system in which some applications, as well as computation and storage services, are provided and managed by (i) central clouds and smart devices, the edge of networks in small proximity to mobile devices, sensors, and end users; and (ii) others are provided and managed by the center cloud and a set of small in-between local clouds supporting IoT at the edge. This dual architecture allows for Edge Computing. Edge Computing is practically a cloud-based middle layer between the center cloud and the edges, hardware and software that provide specialized services. The problem is how to execute such a process, how to manage the whole system, how to define and create Fogs and Edges, provide workflow, and how to provide Edge Computing (compute, storage, networking) services. Many open problems still exist, as they are not even properly specified, as the Edge Computing itself is not fully yet defined.

IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE) aims to become a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Edge computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Edge computing. EDGE covers the localized resource sharing and connections with the cloud.

Topics of the EDGE 2017, goal of the conference, and unique features that other conferences do not have. 

The major topics of the conference are as follows:
-	Architecture of Edge Computing systems
-	Public and Private Mobile Clouds in Edge Computing
-	Software of Edge Computing
-	Hybrid clouds in Edge Computing
-	Programming the Edge Computing
-	Functionality of Edge Computing systems
-	Communication among Edges of an Edge Computing system
-	Communication between Edges and central cloud in an Edge Computing system
-	Migration services in Edge Computing systems
-	Workflows in Edge Computing
-	Green Edge Computing
-	Reliability in Edge Computing systems
-	Availability in Edge Computing systems
-	Security and Privacy in Edge Computing systems
-	Trust in Edge Computing
-	Quality of Service in Edge Computing
-	Pricing and Billing in Edge Computing
-	Applications of Edge Computing
-	Mission critical Edge Computing 

The Proceedings of EDGE is EI indexed.

General Chairs
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Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
HongZhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Program Chairs
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Andrzej M Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia
Min Luo, Huawei, USA

Important dates:
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Paper Submission Due Date: March 10, 2017
Decision Notification (Electronic): May 1, 2017
Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 15, 2017 
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