CFP: ContinuumOps: DevOps for the Edge–Cloud Continuum, November 10-13, 2026, Ortigia-Syracuse (Sicily), Italy

ContinuumOps: DevOps for the Edge–Cloud Continuum
Workshop @ IEEE NCA 2026

Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit your work to the workshop:
ContinuumOps: DevOps for the Edge–Cloud Continuum
to be held in conjunction with IEEE NCA 2026 (Network Computing and Applications Conference).


Overview
The Cloud Continuum is emerging as a transformative paradigm that integrates edge, cloud, and device-level infrastructures into a unified and adaptive computing ecosystem. This shift enables applications to dynamically adapt across heterogeneous environments, optimizing for latency, cost, resilience, and energy efficiency.
However, this paradigm introduces significant challenges in how systems are designed, developed, deployed, and operated. Traditional DevOps approaches struggle to cope with issues such as:
* Highly heterogeneous infrastructures and service models
* Dynamic workload placement and mobility
* Intermittent connectivity and partial failures
* SLO/SLA enforcement in distributed environments
* Observability and reproducibility across the continuum
ContinuumOps aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore novel DevOps methodologies, tools, and architectures for Cloud Continuum environments.

Topics of Interest
We welcome submissions including (but not limited to):
* Foundations & Infrastructure
* Edge–cloud integration architectures
* Multi-edge/multi-cloud orchestration
* Distributed data platforms
* Serverless and FaaS across heterogeneous environments
* Hardware acceleration (GPU/TPU/NPU) along the continuum
* DevOps & Platform Engineering
* CI/CD pipelines for distributed environments
* Policy-driven DevOps and intent-based automation
* SLO/SLA-aware orchestration and operations
* Development & Testing
* Testing methodologies for mobile and ephemeral services
* Chaos engineering and fault injection
* Observability and monitoring in distributed systems
* Digital twins for validation and testing
* AI/ML Ops Across the Continuum
* Distributed MLOps and federated learning
* TinyML and edge AI pipelines
* AI-driven DevOps automation
* Lifecycle management for ML/LLM systems
* Networks & 6G Ecosystems
* DevOps for 6G/NGN infrastructures
* Network slicing and programmable networks
* Integration of RAN, edge, and cloud
* Applications & Use Cases
* Smart cities and Industry 5.0
* Autonomous and cyber-physical systems
* AR/VR/XR and immersive environments


📅 Important Dates (Tentative)
Submission deadline: 24 June 2026
Notification: 27 July 2026
Camera-ready: 17 August 2026
Workshop date: During IEEE NCA 2026 November 10-13 in Ortigia-Syracuse (Sicily), Italy

🔗 Submission & Website

Paper length: up to 6 pages
Submission site (EasyChair): https://edas.info/N35442
Workshop website: https://mmw_unibo.gitlab.io/continuumops/

👥 Organizers
Andrea Sabbioni, University of Bologna (Italy)
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
Chen Chen, Nottingham Trent University (UK)


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