“Cloud-Edge-IoT Innovations in Manufacturing: Unveiling Market Insights and Use Cases” Webinar

The event was free and open to anyone interested in the cloud, edge, and IoT domains as well as related topics, including but not limited to Artificial Intelligence, Interoperability, ICT security and connectivity. Moreover, the event was particularly dedicated to manufacturing professionals, executives, and researchers interested in manufacturing and technology. More generally, the following profiles are especially invited to participate:

Business users: including companies and other industrial players interested in using CEI

Infrastructure and Tech Providers: including hardware, chips and device providers, system integrators and maintainers, edge and multi-cloud platforms, connectivity and open-source projects

Service and Application Providers: embedded intelligence and applications, computing, storage, analytics, network slices, orchestrators, security

Data Management: Intermediators, Connectors, Federators, Pipelines, Resellers, Brokers

Facilitators: including SDOs, public bodies, PPPs, industry associations, data spaces

Research, Development and Innovation: including R&D Industry Departments, Research Institutions and Universities, Research Associations, Digital Innovation Hubs. From aerOS project Eneko Rada (Innovalia), Maria Rossetti (MADE Competence Center) and Ignacio Lacalle (Universitat Politècnica de València) represented our project.

aerOS Co-organised workshop “THE WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT CLOUD CONTINUUM FOR B5G SERVICES”

A new Co-organised Workshop by aerOS entitled “THE WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT CLOUD CONTINUUM FOR B5G SERVICES”

There is Call for Papers deadline on August 20, 2023.

The workshop will take place on 3 November 2023, in the context of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking!
Beyond 5G (B5G) applications and services offer unprecedented opportunities for innovation and progress. Nonetheless, achieving such a vision requires a new breed of intelligent mechanisms, protocols and autonomous architectures capable of truly taking advantage of the entire edge-to-cloud computing spectrum.

In particular, cross-domain scenarios, which include multi-cloud and multi-provider, are mostly comprised of heterogeneous technological domains requiring intelligent, efficient and close coordination among all the parts. Such a federated and collaborative view has been set as the path forward for unlocking the required automation and flexibility and achieving the extreme requirements and constraints of such next generation of applications. In that sense, this workshop intends to cover four key strands:

Cross-domain edge-to-cloud continuum management.
Cloud continuum for B5G services, applications, and enablers.
AI nativeness in cloud-continuum: This strand focuses on the network and service intelligence.
Privacy, security, and trust in cross-domain cloud continuum

Find out more about the event here: https://cloudnet2023.ieee-cloudnet.org/authors/call-papers-workshops

EC AIOTI Webinar: Open Calls Opportunities

Ignacio Lacalle from Universitat Politècnica de València UPV presented aerOS Open Call upcoming opportunity in EC AIOTI Webinar: Open Calls Opportunities, 7 June 2023. You may find the video and the presentations here: https://aioti.eu/aioti-webinar-presenting-open-call-opportunities/

Cloud-Edge-IoT Innovations in Manufacturing: Unveiling Market Insights and Use Cases Webinar

The “Cloud-Edge-IoT Innovations in Manufacturing: Unveiling Market Insights and Use Cases” webinar will take place on 10th of July! It is a co-organized webinar by aerOS and FluiDOS project with the support of EUCLOUDEDGEIoT.

The manufacturing industry has witnessed a remarkable transformation in recent years, driven by rapid technological advancements. From automation to artificial intelligence, emerging trends are reshaping how factories operate and revolutionising traditional manufacturing processes. One of the key drivers of this transformation is the convergence of cloud computing, edge computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) into a seamless continuum. The CEI continuum offers unprecedented opportunities for manufacturers to optimise operations, enhance productivity, and unlock new levels of efficiency.

This UNLOCK CEI webinar, part of the EUCloudEdgeIoT.eu initiative, aims at providing in-depth market and industry insights for the manufacturing sector, with a specific focus on cloud-edge-IoT use cases.

The event will provide valuable information and knowledge to navigate the evolving manufacturing landscape and unlock the true potential of the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum in this sector.

This webinar is co-organised with Meta Operating Systems projects of the EUCEI Community.

Find out more here: https://eucloudedgeiot.eu/cloud-edge-iot-innovations-in-manufacturing-unveiling-market-insights-and-use-cases/

Concertation and Consultation Meeting of EUCLOUDEDGEIoT

Our Project Coordinator, Professor Carlos Enrique Palau from Universitat Politècnica de València UPV and Vasilis Pitsilis from NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” presented insights of our project during the Concertation and Consultation Meeting of EUCLOUDEDGEIoT in Brussels! The meeting took place on 10th & 11th of May 2023.

The blurring barriers between Cloud and Edge computing are giving birth to a computing continuum where services and data must be managed and secured efficiently. Especially with new trends like the Metaverse, the demand for (hybrid) cloud computing services and edge computing is expected to skyrocket. As recent studies suggest, new data processing needs are appearing at the edge. This not only for reducing latency but also to ensure data availability and privacy protection.  Running and managing data analytics and AI where it is more efficient and effective is to be supported in the Cloud-Edge-IOT continuum.

Advancing the IoT can avoid skyrocketing communication and storage costs, energy consumption and produce benefits for citizens and businesses thanks to the integration of AI and Machine Learning. 

In addition, an open ecosystem built around Open Source and Open Standards is key to unleashing the potential of the European industry in driving green and digital transformation while preserving EU strategic autonomy. Software defined infrastructures based on Open Source and Open Standards will support the next step in the Cloud-Edge-IOT continuum while preventing lock-in and favouring a competitive economy for the benefit of EU citizens.

These trends have called for a shift towards the technical and business convergence of the so-far formally separated Cloud, Edge and IoT domains, towards an open Cloud, Edge and IoT Computing Continuum

In the recent years, the European community of researchers and innovators at work on the next generation Cloud, Edge and IoT computing has been growing in relevance, diversity and impact. For Europe to ensure its technological sovereignty and ground the vision of a computing continuum as the backbone of an open and inclusive society, it is necessary to overcome fragmentation, bring together organisations and individuals from different communities and leverage Open Source.The Concertation and Consultation on Computing Continuum: From Cloud to Edge to IoT meeting is a 2-day physical event organised within the context of the European, Cloud, Edge and IoT Continuum initiative by the OpenContinuum consortium in close collaboration with the UNLOCK-CEI and SW Forum projects and guided by the  European Commission DG CNECT E.2 and E.4 Units. Find out more here: https://eucloudedgeiot.eu/concertation-and-consultation-on-computing-continuum-from-cloud-to-edge-to-iot/

DEFEA 2023

InQbit and INFOLYSis partners were at DEFEA 2023 promoting our project with communication material! DEFEA took place on 9-11 May 2023, at Athens Metropolitan EXPO. DEFEA was addressed to several sectors such as defense and Security. fAt Defense Exhibition Athens top Greek defense industry manufacturers and the most important international companies presented the latest technologies and cutting-edge defense systems. You may find out more here: https://defea.gr/

7th Workshop on Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications (IoT-ECAW’23)

aerOS co-organises the 7th Workshop on Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications (IoT-ECAW’23) in Warsaw, Poland, 17–20 September, 2023 (organized within the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems-FedCSIS 2023 (IEEE: #57573), 16th International Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO’23), Track 3). Call for papers is open – Submission deadline 23 May 2023.

CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Workshop on Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications (IoT-ECAW’23), Warsaw, Poland, 17–20 September, 2023

(organized within the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems-FedCSIS 2023 (IEEE: #57573), 16th International Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO’23), Track 3)

Strict submission deadline: May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 AOE (no extensions)

KEY FACTS:

Proceedings: submitted to IEEE Digital Library; indexing: DBLP, Scopus and Web of Science; organized within framework of the ASSIST-IoT project; 70 punktów parametrycznych MEiN

Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it.


Statement concerning LLMs

Recognizing developing issue that affects all academic disciplines, we would like to state that, in principle, papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) are prohibited, unless the produced text is used within the experimental part of the work.


The Internet of Things is a technology which is rapidly emerging around the world. IoT applications include: smart city initiatives, wearable devices aimed to real-time health monitoring, smart homes and buildings, smart vehicles, environment monitoring, intelligent border protection, logistics support. The Internet of Things is a paradigm that assumes a pervasive presence in the environment of many smart things, including sensors, actuators, embedded systems and other similar devices. Widespread connectivity, getting cheaper smart devices and a great demand for data, testify to that the IoT will continue to grow by leaps and bounds. The business models of various industries are being redesigned on basis of the IoT paradigm. But the successful deployment of the IoT is conditioned by the progress in solving many problems. These issues are as the following:

The integration of heterogeneous sensors and systems with different technologies taking account environmental constraints, and data confidentiality levels;
Big challenges on information management for the applications of IoT in different fields (trustworthiness, provenance, privacy);
Security challenges related to co-existence and interconnection of many IoT networks;
Challenges related to reliability and dependability, especially when the IoT becomes the mission critical component;
Zero-configuration or other convenient approaches to simplify the deployment and configuration of IoT and self-healing of IoT networks;
Knowledge discovery, especially semantic and syntactical discovering of the information from data provided by IoT.
The IoT technical session is seeking original, high quality research papers related to such topics. The session will also solicit papers about current implementation efforts, research results, as well as position statements from industry and academia regarding applications of IoT. The focus areas will be, but not limited to, the challenges on networking and information management, security and ensuring privacy, logistics, situation awareness, and medical care.

Topics

The IoT session is seeking original, high quality research papers related to following topics:

Future communication technologies (Future Internet; Wireless Sensor Networks; Web-services, 5G, 4G, LTE, LTE-Advanced; WLAN, WPAN; Small cell Networks…) for IoT,
Intelligent Internet Communication,
IoT Standards,
Networking Technologies for IoT,
Protocols and Algorithms for IoT,
Self-Organization and Self-Healing of IoT Networks,
Object Naming, Security and Privacy in the IoT Environment,
Security Issues of IoT,
Integration of Heterogeneous Networks, Sensors and Systems,
Context Modeling, Reasoning and Context-aware Computing,
Fault-Tolerant Networking for Content Dissemination,
IoT Architecture Design, Interoperability and Technologies,
Data or Power Management for IoT,
Fog – Cloud Interactions and Enabling Protocols,
Reliability and Dependability of mission critical IoT,
Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles (UAV) Platforms, Swarms and Networking,
Data Analytics for IoT,
Artificial Intelligence and IoT,
Applications of IoT (Healthcare, Military, Logistics, Supply Chains, Agriculture, …),
E-commerce and IoT.
The session will also solicit papers about current implementation efforts, research results, as well as position statements from industry and academia regarding applications of IoT. Focus areas will be, but not limited to above mentioned topics.

Submission rules:

Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files.
The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). IEEE style templates are available here.
Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
– Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.
Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database.
Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according to information here.
Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS technical sessions.
Important dates:

Paper submission (strict deadline): May 23, 2023, 23:59:59 (AoE; there will be no extension)
Position paper submission: June 7, 2023
Author notification: July 11, 2023
Final paper submission and registration: July 31, 2023
Payment (early fee deadline): July 26, 2023
Conference date: September 17-20, 2023
IoT_ECAW Committee: https://fedcsis.org/sessions/nsa/iot-ecaw/committee
IoT_ECAW is organized within the framework of the aerOS project: https://aeros-project.eu/

SUBMIT your papers at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fedcsis2023

“COMMON TAXONOMY FOR EU METAOS” workshop

As we explained during the EUCloudEdgeIoT launch event (February 8th) one of the goals of Task Force 3 (Architecture) is to develop a shared taxonomy for all European projects and initiatives in our field of expertise. The idea is that everyone uses the same words to refer to the same things, eliminating ambiguities and duplication of terminology and being as specific as possible. EUCloudEdgeIoT will process your inputs and provide the European Union with this commonly agreed taxonomy

So, this workshop gathered representatives of EU MetaOS projects to work collaboratively on the development of a common standardised taxonomy for all MetaOs European projects. The workshop held online and lasted 2 hours, on April 4th.

NGIoT Newsflash #14

The latest issue of the NGIoT Newsflash is now available! In this issue you may find all the latest details on the NGIoT related projects. You may also find information about the last NGIoT event and all the recently published papers.
You may find the Newsflash online here: https://mailchi.mp/07524a94d64f/ngiot-newsflash-mar-23?e=3383e2e9b7

aerOS minitrack in HICSS57 – Call for papers

8 April 2023
Minitrack in Cognitive Cloud Continuum Ecosystems: Theory and Practice (HICSS57 co-organised by aerOS and ASSIST-IoT projects as part of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)), Honolulu, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2024. Call for papers opens soon. Submission deadline 15 June 2023.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cognitive Cloud Continuum Ecosystems: Theory and Practice, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2024 – part of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)), Honolulu, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2024. HICSS57 Minitrack co-organised by aerOS and ASSIST-IoT projects. More info here: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-57/software-technology/#cognitive-cloud-continuum-ecosystems-theory-and-practice-minitrack

Call for papers is now open. Deadline submission June 15, 2023 | 11:59 pm HST.

Cognitive Cloud is an enhanced Cloud-Fog-Edge system that is capable of sensing its environment, learning from it, and opportunistically and dynamically adapting its computational loads to the user intents. Here, the core enabling technologies, for management of resources, services and data are AI/ML techniques, which infuse the cognitive aspects into the continuum.

This minitrack intends to solicit papers that discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of Cognitive Cloud Ecosystems from a system perspective. Topics of interest include:

Architectures for the Cognitive Cloud for systems that are user-aware, self-aware and (semi-)autonomous; address the need for real-time capable solutions; and solve performance challenges, such as data streaming and
filtering near/at the edge, overcoming latency and network constraints
Service mesh networking that controls service-to-service communication across cognitive cloud ecosystem
Orchestration of (sub)systems in the Cognitive Cloud, possibly subdivided into orchestration of resources, services, and data (including zero-touch approaches)
Use of distributed AI across the Cognitive Cloud to make it intelligent
Interconnection of Cognitive Clouds with Data Spaces
Security, privacy and trust (likely, by design) in a multi-tenet de-centralized systems, possibly with no single point of governance
Interoperability across the Cognitive Cloud Ecosystems to cope with the increased complexity of vast numbers of heterogeneous devices, while supporting demands for data sharing combined with the demand for protection of privacy
Role of intelligent devices, drawing from applicable results in micro/nano/bio technologies, including resource-aware hardware/software concepts, low power processor platforms integrating computing, networking, storage and acceleration elements, new communication schemes and topologies that range from the cloud continuum towards mesh, and securing computing and communication at device level with constrained resources
Tactile/contextual Internet of Things based on human-centric sensing/actuating, augmented/virtual reality and new service capabilities such as integration with parallel and opportunistic computing capabilities, neuromorphic and contextual computing.
Energy aware systems from the perspective of systems integration for efficient deployment of services and use of resources in the Cognitive Cloud
Strategies for the deployment of hyper-distributed applications in the Cognitive Cloud from services description to dynamic reorganization of the deployment
Extreme data processing applications and Frugal AI in the cognitive cloud
Applications of Cognitive Cloud including implementation of ecosystems, pilots, lessons learned, barriers, etc.
Important Dates

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2023 | 11:59 pm HST


Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: August 17, 2023 | 11:59 pm HST
Deadline for Submission of Final Manuscript for Publication: September 22, 2023 | 11:59 pm HST
Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-57: October 1, 2023 | 11:59 pm HST
Submission instructions are available at https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/

Minitrack Co-Chairs

Marcin Paprzycki (Primary Contact)
Polish Academy of Sciences
marcin.paprzycki@ibspan.waw.pl

Maria Ganzha
Polish Academy of Sciences
m.ganzha@mini.pw.edu.pl

Harilaos Koumaras
Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications
koumaras@iit.demokritos.gr

Carlos Palau
Univeristat Politecnica de Valencia
cpalau@dcom.upv.es