ALGOCLOUD 2026 - call for papers

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*ALGOCLOUD 2026* - 11th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects 
of Cloud Computing
Part of ALGO 2026, 31 August 31 – 4 September, L’Aquila, Italy
https://algo-conference.org/2026/algocloud
Submission deadline: 3^rd July 2026
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*_Scope

_*The International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing 
(ALGOCLOUD) is an annual event aiming to tackle the diverse new topics 
in the emerging area of algorithmic aspects of computing and data 
management in modern cloud-based systems interpreted broadly so as to 
include edge- and fog-based systems, cloudlets, cloud micro-services, 
virtualization environments, decentralized systems, as well as dynamic 
networks.

ALGOCLOUD aims at bringing together researchers, students, and 
practitioners to present research activities and results on topics 
related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern 
cloud-based systems. The 11th edition of this symposium (ALGOCLOUD 2026) 
is co-located with ALGO 2026, a leading international event of 
researchers working on algorithms and their engineering.

*_Invited Speaker_*
Bernardino Romera Paredes, Hiverge
Title: Evolving Superhuman Algorithms for Online Optimization Problems

*_Important Dates_*
Paper submission deadline: 3 July 2026
Notification to authors: 3 August 2026
Early registration: TBA
Camera-ready submission: TBA
Conference: 31 August – 1 September 2026

*_Call for Papers

_*ALGOCLOUD invites submissions covering theoretical, design, and 
implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. It specifically 
encourages novel algorithms related to cloud and edge computing, cloud 
architectures, and the cloud-edge continuum. Experimental work 
evaluating contemporary cloud-edge approaches and relevant applications 
is of particular interest. Additionally, ALGOCLOUD welcomes 
demonstration manuscripts showcasing successful system developments, as 
well as articles discussing experiences, use cases, and high-quality 
survey papers. We also encourage contributions on the algorithmic 
foundations of trustworthy cloud-edge systems, including security, 
privacy, and robustness of AI/ML and generative AI services. 
Contributions may encompass a broad spectrum of algorithms, practices, 
and techniques for modelling, building, and evaluating operations and 
services across various systems, including virtualized infrastructures, 
cloud computing platforms, edge computing platforms, fog computing 
platforms, data centers, cloud storage options, cloud data management, 
non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, 
decentralized systems, and dynamic networks.

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another 
journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

_Regular papers_: Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts 
reporting original unpublished research in the topics related to the 
symposium. A regular paper submission should clearly motivate the 
importance of the problem being addressed, discuss prior work and its 
relationship to the paper, explicitly and precisely state the paper’s 
key contributions, and outline the key technical ideas and methods used 
to achieve the main results. A regular paper submission should not 
exceed 12 pages, including title page and abstract but excluding 
references and an optional appendix. Authors should include all 
necessary details in their submission so that the Technical Program 
Committee (TPC) can judge the correctness, importance and originality of 
their work. Any material (e.g., proofs or experimental results) omitted 
(from the main part of 12 pages) due to space limitations can be put 
into the optional appendix, which will be read at the TPC’s discretion. 
Regular papers will be allotted up to 20 pages in the proceedings.

_Short papers_: A short paper submission may present work-in-progress on 
a specific topic, or work appeared elsewhere but is worth publicizing it 
in the symposium, or a demonstration of a system or library, or an 
experience/use-case paper, or a vision paper. Authors should clearly 
motivate the importance of their contribution, discuss prior work and 
its relationship to the paper, and in general provide sufficient details 
in their submission so that the TPC can judge the quality and importance 
of their work. A short paper submission should be at least 2 and at most 
8 pages. Short papers will be allotted up to 8 pages in the proceedings.

_Survey papers_: A survey paper submission concerns the write-up of a 
high-quality survey paper on an emerging hot topic. Authors are asked to 
submit a proposal between 5 and 10 pages that clearly motivates the 
importance of the topic and contains the structure of the survey paper 
along with the most important references that will be critically 
reviewed and presented. If the proposal is accepted, then authors will 
be given sufficient time to prepare the full version of their survey 
paper that needs to pass a quality control check by the TPC, in order to 
be finally accepted and appear in the proceedings. Survey papers will be 
allotted up to 40 pages in the proceedings.

*_Topics

_*Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
·Algorithms for Decentralized Systems
·Algorithms for Dynamic Networks
·Cloud-Edge Continuum
·IoT and Cloud Computing
·Fog and Edge Computing
·Mobile Edge Computing
·Stream processing for Cloud-Edge continuum
·In-network stream processing
·Serverless Computing
·Open datasets of Cloud-Edge workloads
·Infrastructure optimizations for Cloud-Edge applications
·Fault tolerance, reliability and resilience for Cloud-Edge Computing
·AI & Machine Learning for Cloud-Edge
·Federated Learning in Cloud-Edge Architectures
·Resource Management and Scheduling
·Resource Management in Mobile Edge Computing
·Scheduling, orchestration and resource provisioning in Cloud-Edge Computing
·Data Center and Infrastructure Management
·Distributed Caching and Load Balancing
·Distributed Storage management
·Privacy, Security, and Robustness for Cloud-Edge
·Robustness, safety and evaluation of AI/GenAI services in cloud-edge 
environments
·Game-theoretic Approaches for Cloud-Edge Computing
·Economic Models and Pricing
·Cloud-Edge deployment tools and their analysis
·Performance modelling and evaluation of Cloud-Edge applications
·Novel code deployment models
·Energy-efficiency and Power Management
·Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures
·Search and Retrieval Algorithms for cloud infrastructures
·Caching and Load-Balancing
·Storage Structures and Indexing for Cloud Database
·Decentralization and Blockchains
·Digital Twins in Cloud-Edge Computing Environments
·Cloud-Edge Computing for Next-Generation Networks
·Resilient Edge Systems for Critical Infrastructures

*_PROCEEDINGS_*
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer-Nature 
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

*_PAPER_*_*SUBMISSION

*_All papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair 
submission system at the
submission website: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud2026 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud2026>

Submissions must be in the form of a single pdf file prepared using the 
LNCS latex templates and style files (available, together with 
Springer’s authors’ guidelines, from 
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). 
Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available on Overleaf 
(https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj#.WsdHOy5uZpg).

By submitting a paper, the authors acknowledge that in case of 
acceptance at least one of the authors must register at ALGO/ALGOCLOUD 
2026 and present the paper (this holds for all types of papers, 
including accepted survey proposals).

Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In 
addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of 
all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a 
Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright 
form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the 
files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of 
the papers cannot be made. Accepted papers will be included in the 
post-proceedings published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science series.

*_AWARDS_*
Awards will be given to the best regular paper and the best student 
regular paper. A regular paper is eligible for the best student paper 
award if at least one of the authors is a full-time student (Bachelor, 
Master, or Ph.D.) at the time of submission and the student(s) must have 
made a major contribution to the paper. The TPC can decide to decline or 
to split the awards. Awards are sponsored by Springer.

*_COMMITTEES

_*_Program Committee Chairs
_José Luis Hernández Ramos, University of Murcia, Spain
Georgios Tsoumanis, Ionian University, Greece

_Program Committee_
Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece
Jorge Blasco, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Tolga Girici, TOBB University, Turkey
Tiziana Cattai, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Djamel Djenouri, University of the West of England, United Kingdom
Gordana Gardasevic, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Krzysztof Grochla, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of 
PAS, Poland
Stephan Krenn, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria
Rodolfo Oliveira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Zohaib Latif, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Athanasios Tsipis, Ionian University, Greece
Enrique Mármol Campos, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Eleni Christopoulou, Ionian University, Greece
Domenico Garlisi, University of Palermo, Italy
Nikolaos Giannakeas, University of Ioannina, Greece
Daniel Mauricio Jimenez Gutierrez, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

_Steering Committee_
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Spyros Sioutas, University of Patras, Greece
Peter Triantafillou, University of Warwick, UK
Christos Zaroliagis, University of Patras, Greece (Chair)

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