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13th Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS 2023)
Co-located with 28th IEEE ISCC 2023

9 July, Tunis Tunisia     –   https://sites.google.com/view/mocs2023

Associated to the Special Issue “Computing Continuum and Federated Learning for Smart Cities”
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The services designed for complex scenarios such as smart cities, agriculture 4.0, and the upcoming Industry 5.0, pave the path for a new era of highly distributed and cognitive clouds. The distributed and cognitive cloud paradigm is a key enabling technology, whereby applications and network functions are hosted in the cloud-to-thing continuum, and their placement can evolve depending on the context. Despite such a rapid (re-)evolution of edge-cloud systems, the extremely heterogeneous smart city applications (sensing as a service, crowd sensing, etc.) make the satisfaction of all the requirements a big challenge. In this context, emergent paradigms like artificial intelligence (AI), privacy-enhancing technologies (PET), cybersecurity, blockchain (BC), and metaverse are key enablers for cloud-to-thing systems to shape the development of autonomic orchestration and networking.

The focus of MoCS 2023 is on the convergence of distributed clouds, cognitive clouds, digital twins, and privacy-aware applications for complex scenarios like smart cities and learning-driven approaches for urban planning.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
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– Application of distributed clouds to smart cities services.
– Models for context-aware crowdsensing techniques at an urban-level scale.
– Human-enabled Edge Computing (HEC) paradigm.
– Computing continuum for smart cities services.
– Cognitives cloud for smart cities services.
– Digital twins for smart cities services.
– Edge data center deployment in urban environments.
– ML- and AI-based approaches to cloud/edge-based smart city applications.
– AI-driven models, architectures, and frameworks for edge computing.
– Experiences on the (re)use of open platforms for cloud-integrated smart cities services.
– Design and evaluation tools for scalability and efficient resource allocation in smart cities.
– Design and application of cloud/edge technologies to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
– Vehicular cloud architectures for provisioning of smart cities services.
– Models and paradigms for the management of cloud/MEC services within/between data.
– Data-driven approaches for smart transportation in urban areas.
– Blockchain solutions for secure and reliable transactions between counterparts in data sharing/trading.
– Security and privacy techniques for cloud/edge-based smart city applications.
– Post-quantum security and privacy for smart city applications.

Submission Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit original technical papers for publication in MoCS 2023. Manuscripts should be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format including tables, figures, references, and appendices. 

Authors can find the IEEE double-column conference proceedings template at the following link:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be included in the ISCC 2023 Proceedings.

Paper Publication
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Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2023 Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEEXplore. 

In addition, the best papers will be proposed to submit an extended version to the Special Issue “Computing Continuum and Federated Learning for Smart Cities” which will be published in the “Computer Networks” journal