CC boasts a rich and extensive history, originating with early pioneering events like Cloud 2009 in Shanghai and Cloud 2010 in Melbourne. Officially launching as UCC, the conference has since spanned the globe for nearly two decades at the forefront of the cloud revolution. The research and standards discussed at our conferences have directly contributed to the evolution of utility computing. By nurturing an environment of knowledge exchange, UCC continues to foster innovations that improve the sustainability, performance, and accessibility of computing worldwide.

We invite you to submit your latest work and join a community of pioneers dedicated to engineering the future of cloud computing. See you at UCC 2026!

Submission Guidelines

Papers to be submitted in PDF format. Full papers should not exceed ten (10) IEEE conference format with double-column pages, including figures, tables, and references. Short paper should not exceed four (4) papers, and poster submissions should have at most two (2) pages in length. All submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, analytical rigor, quality of results and presentation, and relevance to the conference.

Submissions must be original unpublished research, not under review elsewhere.

List of Topics

Authors were invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts covering all areas of Cloud-Edge Continuum for utility computing and related paradigms such as Serverless, Distributed Computing,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.

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
  • Serverless execution models and management techniques
  • Networking and Network Management (ORAN, Cognitive Networks)
  • SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and XaaS
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Orbital and Space infrastructure and resource management (LEO constellations, Edge-Cloud-Space continuum, etc.)
• Performance, Security and Scalability
  • Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity Planning, and Elasticity
  • Security, Trust, Privacy and Policies
  • Autonomic, Adaptive, Self-* management, SLOs, 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
  • Distributed and Compound AI
  • Novel runtime models for distributed AI (e.g., model selection, model splitting, energy consumption, etc.)
  • Distributed Machine Learning and Machine Learning Operations
  • AI Solutions for Scheduling, Provisioning, and Deployment
  • Lightweight and edge-based machine learning
  • AI-based (distributed) coordination and orchestration
  • Agentic Computing
  • Quantum edge and quantum federated machine learning
  • Robotics and latency-sensitive AI
  • Space-based AI
• Applications, Systems, and new Computing Paradigms for Cloud-Edge Continuum
  • Native Application Design, Programming Models, and Engineering
  • Serverless and Function-Based (FaaS) Applications Frameworks and Middleware
  • Microservices Architectures
  • Orbital and Space Computing
  • Data centers in space
  • 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

Committees

Program Committee

To be announced

Organizing Committee

https://ucc2026.ufsc.br/committee/organizing-committee/

Invited Speakers

To be announced

Publication

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and made available online via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Venue

The conference will be held in Florianapolis, Brazil: https://ucc2026.ufsc.br/venue/about-florianopolis.

Sponsors

IEEE, ACM, CNPQ, Technical Community on Scalable Computing.