The 1st International Workshop on Urgent Analytics for Distributed Computing (QuickPar 2023)

Co-located with 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023)

Full day, 28 or 29 August

Limassol, Cyprus

http://quickpar.github.io

Workshop Scope

Urgent Computing refers to a class of scientific applications that enable important decision-making under time and quality constraints while maintaining desired confidence. Urgent Computing's overarching goal is to predict the outcome of scenarios early enough to prevent critical situations or mitigate their negative consequences.

This workshop seeks scientific contributions that leverage the aggregation of heterogeneous resources along the data path from the Edge to the Cloud/HPC, also known as the Computing Continuum, to support critical analytics applications. Data-driven dynamic workflows, which combine knowledge from multiple data sources and integrate it on-demand with distributed, large-scale computational models, are some of the canonical use cases for this theme.

Submission Guidelines

We are looking for original high-quality research and position papers on urgent applications, services, and system software for the computing continuum. Authors are invited to submit papers electronically, through EasyChair. The papers should be submitted in PDF, following the Springer LNCS format . Paper length must not exceed 12 pages (including references). All submitted manuscripts will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate (papers that show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review).

List of Topics

Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to):

• Algorithms, models and systems considerations in designing urgent applications in the Computing Continuum
• Programming support for user expectations and constraints in terms of response time, solution quality, data resolution, cost, energy, etc.
• Run-time techniques to provide flexible execution models for computation and communication.
• Resource management frameworks and interfaces supporting scheduling, resource allocations and application execution for the computing continuum.
• Use of AI and ML techniques to steer urgency in systems and applications.
• Experiences and use cases applying urgent science to computing continuum infrastructures.
• Autonomic Computing in the Computing Continuum
• Resource Management and Scheduling in the Computing Continuum
• Distributed Machine Learning in the Computing Continuum
• Edge Intelligence models and architectures
• Policy driven service and resource life-cycle management

Important dates

• Paper Deadline: May 5, 2023
• Author Notification: June 19, 2023
• Camera ready papers: July 2, 2023
• Workshop (Full Day): August 28 or 29, 2023

Committees

Program Committee

• TBA

Workshop Chairs

• Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Inria
• Manish Parashar, University of Utah

Publication

Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop, will be published in a revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference.

Venue

The conference will be held in St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to daniel.balouek-thomert@inria.fr