UCC is a premier annual conference that serves as a significant platform for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. It aims to facilitate the presentation of new discoveries and high-quality contributions in Cloud, Edge and the Computing Continuum. IEEE/ACM UCC 2026 is co-located with the 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies (IEEE/ACM BDCAT 2026).

Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC 2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015), Shanghai, China (UCC 2016), Austin, USA (UCC 2017), Zurich, Switzerland (UCC 2018), Auckland, New Zealand (UCC 2019), Leicester, UK (UCC 2020), Leicester, UK (UCC 2021), Vancouver, USA (UCC 2022), Taormina, Italy (UCC 2023), Sharjah, UAE (UCC 2024), and Nantes, France (UCC 2025).

Theme for UCC 2026:
Advancing intelligent, autonomous, and next-gen computing across the edge-cloud-space computing continuum.


Key Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: August 19, 2026.
Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2026
Camera-Ready Papers Due: October 15, 2026
Conference Dates: December 1–4, 2026


Call for Papers Details:

Authors were invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts covering all areas of Cloud-Edge Continuum for utility computing and related paradigms such as Serverless, Distributed Computing,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
Serverless Systems and Architectures
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 Systems and Architectures
Novel Runtime Models and System Design 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 and Architectures
Quantum edge and quantum federated machine learning
Robotics and latency-sensitive AI
Space-based AI
Autonomous AI systems
Hardware–Software Co-Design for Next-Gen AI Systems

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 Systems and Architectures
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


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.
Please submit your paper through the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ucc2026

Additional notes:
If Generative AI tools are used, these should be acknowledged in the paper.
At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference and present the paper in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and made available online via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.