Call for Papers

IEEE/ACM UCC 2025 Call for Papers

The 18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2025) will take place in Nantes (France) from December 1 to 4, 2025.

Conference Overview:

UCC is a premier annual conference series that serves as a significant platform for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. It aims to facilitate the presentation of new discoveries and high-quality contributions in Cloud, Edge and Computing Continuum. UCC 2025 is co-located with the 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2025).

Theme for UCC 2025:

“Agentic AI, Autonomics and Resilience”

Key Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline (firm): September 19, 2025

Acceptance Notification: October 20, 2025

Camera-Ready Papers Due: November 3, 2025

Conference Dates: December 1–4, 2025

Call for Papers Details:

Authors were invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts covering all areas of Cloud-Edge Continuum for utility computing and related paradigms such as Serverless, Distributed Computing, Agent-based systems, Autonomic Self-Management and Resilience (Fault Tolerance).

Topics of Interest included (but not limited to):

Resource Management for Cloud-Edge Continuum:

• Principles and Theoretical Foundations of Utility Computing

• Architectural Models and Patterns (Virtualization, Containerization, Composition, Coordination, Choreography, Orchestration)

• Formal and Qualitative Aspects

• Middleware and Software Infrastructure

• Networking and Network Management (ORAN, Cognitive Networks)

• SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and XaaS

• High Performance Computing (HPC)

• Large Language Models (LLMs) to support resource management and orchestration/ coordination

Performance, Security and Scalability:

• Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity Planning, and Elasticity

• Security, Trust, Privacy and Policies

• Autonomic, Adaptive, Self-* management, SLAs, Management, and Monitoring

• Deployment Models (Private, Public, Hybrid, Federated, Aggregated, Inter-Cloud)

• Performance Analysis and Modelling

• Foundational self-* solutions (including use of LLM-based techniques)

Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Edge Continuum:

• Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)

• AI Solutions for Scheduling, Provisioning, and Deployment

• Lightweight and edge-based machine learning

• AI-based coordination

• Agentic Computing

• Robotics and latency-sensitive AI

• Large Language Models (LLMs) and use of Generative AI

Applications, Systems, and new Computing Paradigms for Cloud-Edge Continuum:

• Native Application Design, Programming Models, and Engineering

• Serverless and Function-Based Applications (FaaS)

• Microservices Architectures

• Quantum Computing

• Interfacing to Internet of Things (IoT) Applications

• Utility-Driven Models and Mechanisms (e.g., Smart Cities, Mobility, Healthcare, Industry 4.0)

• Micro Data Centers

• Interfacing to Mobile Devices (Management, Hierarchy Models, Business Models)

• Energy-Efficiency and Sustainability

• Development Operations (DevOps)

• Economic and Business Models

• Digital Twins solutions

• Business and Legal Implications Beyond Technology

Submission Guidelines:

Papers to be submitted in PDF format.

Submissions must be original unpublished research, not under review elsewhere.

Note:

If Generative AI tools are used – these should be acknowledged in the paper, including reference to prompts used

Papers should not exceed ten (10) ACM-formatted double-column pages, including figures, tables, and references. Your submission is subject to a determination that you are not under any sanctions by ACM.

All manuscripts will go through a double-blind peer-review process. They will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, analytical rigor, quality of results and presentation, and relevance to the conference.

At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available online via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and ACM Digital Library.

Awards and Special Issues:

A selection committee will be established to acknowledge the best paper with an award during the conference. Authors of highly-rated papers from UCC 2025 will also be invited to submit extended versions to special issues in prestigious journals, including the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), IEEE Transactions on Services Computing.