Special issue on fog and cloud computing for cooperative information system management

Walid Gaaloul (1, 2, 3) , Zhangbing Zhou (2, 3, 4) , Hervé Panetto (5) , Liang Zhang (6)

1 ACMES-SAMOVAR - Architecture, Cloud continuum, formal Models, artificial intElligence and Services in distributed computing
2 TSP - INF - Département Informatique
3 IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
4 China University of Geosciences [Beijing]
5 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
6 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien

The adoption of Cloud Computing in Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) is on a rise. Cloud Computing provides a uniform and scalable solution, and offers a novel paradigm that allows computational resources from multiple organisations and providers to cooperate as component services. In domains like smart city and smart transportation, CIS benefit nowadays from smart things, which generate lots of heterogeneous data in a real-time fashion. To do so, CIS require the interconnection and interoperation of various neighbouring smart things in a collective fashion. With the increasing hardware capabilities, smart things can collect and process data and execute services on the edge of the network in a timely manner. Therefore, CIS need to be implemented at the network edge to facilitate an increasing demand for effective collaborating neighbouring smart things. Fog computing is emerging as a complement to cloud computing, which attempts to deploy CIS closer to users with low-latency and high-rate services at the network edge. There is a critical need of investigating Cloud and Fog computing from different aspects for addressing CIS to meet the requirement like interconnection, interoperability, optimisation, and deployment of computational resources and smart things. This special issue dedicates to the research challenges and opportunities in terms of concepts, states of the art, standards, designs, implementations, and running experiments or applications relevant to the convergence of fog computing/edge computing/cloud computing in CIS. We invited research works that provide new solutions, novel methods, or newfound knowledge and results for addressing the above challenges. After a rigorous review process, we accepted 10 submissions, distributed mainly in following groups: i) cloud resource management, ii) heterogeneous data management , iii) container framework and system, iv) service and business process techniques, and v) cloud solution.

Mots clés: Cloud computing; Cooperative information system; Fog computing

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur

Walid Gaaloul, Zhangbing Zhou, Hervé Panetto, Liang Zhang. Special issue on fog and cloud computing for cooperative information system management: challenges and opportunities. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020, 109, pp.704-705. ⟨10.1016/j.future.2020.02.060⟩. ⟨hal-02888680⟩