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Subject: [AISWorld] Special Issue on Edge Computing Optimization Using
Artificial Intelligence Methods
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 13:58:43 +0000
From: Naercio Magaia <ndmagaia(a)fc.ul.pt>
To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>
Dear Colleagues,
The growing importance of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the
ubiquitous high capacity provided by 5G technologies have brought the
specter of massive quantities of data being generated and/or consumed by
sensors, actuators, and smart devices. Such massive amounts of data
require considerable processing power, which is available in the cloud.
However, cloud-based computation and data delivery models do not allow
the stringent quality of service (QoS) guarantees to be efficiently
harnessed. The latter is due to the number of hops of wired networks
between the data endpoints and the cloud, which leads to a significant
increase in latency, which may dramatically affect real-time control and
other critical systems. Moreover, forwarding all the data generated by
such devices directly to the cloud may devour the network bandwidth,
leading to congestion. Therefore, it is necessary that critical
processing to be hosted closer to the endpoint devices, i.e., closer to
the sources and sinks of the data so that data can be processed and
filtered out by the time it reaches the cloud. This can be achieved
through Edge Computing (EC).
Efficient, scalable, and QoS-aware placement of IoT data processing jobs
in EC resources is a complex optimization problem and, currently, an
active research topic. As new jobs are created, they have to be assigned
computational resources dynamically, matching job requirements with the
cost, reliability, location (and mobility), besides the current
availability of the resources. Less critical or demanding communication
jobs may be offloaded to the cloud. The use of Artificial Intelligence
(AI) methods to jointly tackle the problem of job placement
optimization, including jobs belonging to AI-based data analytics
software, constitute currently active research topics addressed by this
Special Issue.
For this Special Issue, original scientific articles are welcome on the
following as well as closely related topics:
- AI-based algorithms to optimize job placement in EC
- AI software architectures favoring distributed computing job placement
in EC resources (e.g., Distributed Deep Neural Network architectures)
- AI-based mechanisms supporting open EC markets leveraging the
participation of third-party computing resources opportunistically
(e.g., parked autonomous vehicles)
- AI-based methods to optimize mobile EC resources' placement (e.g., EC
capable drones)
Guest Editors:
- Prof. Dr. António M.R.C. Grilo
- Prof. Dr. Paulo Rogerio Pereira
- Prof. Dr. Naércio Magaia