SEC 2027: The Twelfth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing

Edge computing is a computing paradigm in which server resources, ranging from credit-card-sized computers to small data centers, are placed close to the sources where data and information are generated. Application and system developers use these resources to enable a new class of latency- and bandwidth-sensitive applications that current cloud architectures cannot support. Edge computing is a counterpoint to the consolidation of computing into massive data centers, which has dominated cloud computing for well over a decade. Terms such as micro data centers, intelligent edges, cloudlets, and fog are often used interchangeably to describe it. As AI moves into the physical world through robots, vehicles, drones, and smart infrastructure, the edge is also becoming a natural home for physical intelligence.

SEC is a premier forum where researchers, engineers, students, entrepreneurs, and government officials come together to discuss the opportunities and challenges of rethinking cloud architectures and embracing edge computing. The symposium seeks innovative research on the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of computer systems and applications at the network edge. SEC takes a broad view of edge computing and welcomes contributions from all areas of systems practice. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Edge computing infrastructure and edge-enabled applications
• Cellular infrastructure for edge computing
• Edge computing as an enabler of 5G/6G applications and services
• Networking from clients to the edge and from the edge to the cloud
• IoT hubs
• Algorithms and techniques for machine learning and AI at the edge
• Physical and embodied AI systems at the edge, such as robotics and autonomous systems
• Geo-distributed analytics and indexing on edge nodes
• Hardware architectures for edge computing and devices
• Monitoring, management, and diagnosis in edge computing
• Resource management and reliability for edge computing
• Security and privacy issues
• Vehicular, enterprise, and manufacturing systems
• Programming models and toolkits

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