Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, cloud, edge, and fog computing have emerged at the center of ICT technology, re-shaping the future of computer networks and distributed applications accordingly. However, the rapid increase in the dynamicity, scale, diversity, and heterogeneity of cloud resources requires expert knowledge about complex orchestration operations, such as deployment, selection, runtime control, and monitoring of these resources to achieve the desired quality of service and to meet the service level agreement. Complex application technologies that comprise numerous virtual machines and components with diverse software and configuration dependencies immensely benefit from the advances in orchestration technologies. For instance, the creation of distributed applications based on containerized technologies has the prerequisite of the ability to orchestrate a fleet of containers at scale. Hybrid cloud orchestration that uses cases that arise from simultaneously harnessing public and private cloud are open research challenges.

This Special Issue focuses on novel solutions and innovative approaches that contribute to the field of cloud, fog, and edge computing provisioning and orchestration. Articles submitted to this Special Issue can also be concerned with the most significant recent developments in the area of application deployment automation, scientific workflows orchestration, and container allocation optimization for microservices on the distributed cloud infrastructure.

Papers in the relevant areas of orchestration, planning, auto-scaling, container optimization in cloud, and edge computing, including but not limited to the following, are invited:

• Performance monitoring, provisioning, and planning of container-based applications and infrastructure.
• Auto-scaling support for cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Model-based design, deployment, and management of containerized cloud services.
• Multi-cloud service deployment and orchestration technology.
• Softwarized networks for cloud and cloud-native computing.
• Orchestration of edge, fog, and cloud computing.
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence for cloud infrastructure management.
• Virtualization and containers for high-performance computing.

Prof. Dr. Choonhwa Lee
Prof. Dr. Eun-Sung Jung
Dr. Muhammad Hanif
Guest Editors

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• Orchestration
• Cloud application
• Virtualization and containerization
• Auto-scaling
• Multi-cloud applications
• Edge computing provisioning