Call for Papers
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for the
1st SIMULATION OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ACROSS THE CLOUD-TO-THING CONTINUUM (SimCoT)
special session at the
35th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP)

Webpage
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https://iotcloud.sed.inf.szte.hu/simcot/


Location
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Barcelona, Spain


Date
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March 17-19, 2027


Scope
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The Cloud-to-Thing Continuum is characterized by heterogeneous, dynamic computing environments spanning IoT, Edge, Fog, and Cloud infrastructures. Designing, deploying, and managing applications across these environments introduces significant challenges related to resource management, orchestration, scalability, reliability, performance, and energy efficiency. Modeling and simulation offer a powerful approach to investigating these challenges by enabling the evaluation of distributed systems and applications under diverse workloads, infrastructures, and operating conditions before their real-world deployment. At the same time, advances in digital twins, emulation, experimentation, and AI/ML-based methods provide new opportunities for designing and evaluating complex distributed systems. These challenges have recently become a major focus of several ongoing EU Horizon projects (e.g. Swarmchestrate, and related initiatives, such as the Cognitive Computing Continuum Cluster), driving the development of novel architectures, methods, tools, and real-world application use cases. Building on these developments, papers submitted to this special session are expected to investigate novel modeling and simulation approaches, tools, and methodologies for distributed computing environments. The session aims to bring together contributions from the modeling and simulation community as well as broader research on distributed systems across the Cloud-to-Thing Continuum.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Modeling and simulation of IoT, Edge, Fog, and Cloud systems
- Simulation frameworks, tools, methodologies, and testbeds for distributed systems
- Modeling and simulation of large-scale distributed systems and workloads
- Digital twins of distributed infrastructures
- Reproducibility, validation, and benchmarking of distributed system simulators
- Hybrid approaches combining simulation, emulation, and real-world experimentation
- Decentralized application-level orchestration and deployment
- Resource management, scheduling, and optimization in distributed systems
- Performance, scalability, reliability, and energy efficiency of distributed applications
- AI/ML-based methods for federative and autonomous distributed systems
- Results and use cases from EU Horizon projects on next-generation distributed systems
- Any other relevant topic related to modeling, simulation, and management across the Cloud-to-Thing continuum


Submission guidelines
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Papers report original, unpublished work and are reviewed double-blind. The review process is double-blind, and all papers need to be “best-effort” anonymized. Remove author names, affiliations, and identifying acknowledgements from the manuscript prior to submission.
We strongly encourage making code and data available anonymously (e.g., in an anonymous GitHub repository via Anonymous GitHub or in a Dropbox folder).
Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in length (must follow the IEEE Conference Proceedings Format - double-column, 10pt size fonts) including a 150-200 word abstract.
Papers submitted for the special session must be submitted through the conference submission system with an indication of the name of the special session.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register with a regular registration and present the paper at the conference.
Accepted papers are published through IEEE CPS and submitted for indexing in Scopus and other major services.

Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=pdp2027

Please note, as the first step of the submission procedure, authors must pick the SimCoT special session in order to be considered for inclusion within the session.


Important dates
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Deadline for paper submission: November 09, 2026
Acceptance notification: December 14, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: January 25, 2027
Conference: March 17-19, 2027


Session Chairs
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Attila Kertesz, University of Szeged, Hungary
Amjad Ullah, Edinburgh Napier University, UK


Programme Committee
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(Subject to changes)

- Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Gabor Kecskemeti, University of Miskolc, Hungary
- Jozsef Kovacs, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
- Yiannis Verginadis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- Andras Markus, University of Szeged, Hungary
- Amy L. Murphy, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy
- Philipp Leitner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Anne-Cecile Orgerie, CNRS, France
- Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK
- Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
- Valeria Cardellini, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy
- Posco Tso, Loughborough University, UK