The paper "The NEPHELE Meta-Orchestration Approach for Distributed Applications in the Computing Continuum" by our colleagues Dimitris Spatharakis, Nikos Filinis, Ioannis Dimolitsas, Eleni Fotopoulou, Constantinos Vassilakis, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Dimosthenis Masouros, Manolis Katsaragakis, Giacomo Genovese, Alex Carrega, Guillermo Gómez Chávez, Sergiy Remezov, Marco Jahn, Rosaria Rossini, Dimitrios Soudris and Symeon Papavassiliou with acknowledgement to NEPHELE has been accepted at SAMOS XXV - 25th International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation that will take place on June 28 - July 3, 2025.
SAMOS is a unique conference that not only deals with embedded systems but brings together every year researchers from both academia and industry on the quiet and inspiring northern mountainside of the Mediterranean island of Samos. The conference fosters collaboration rather than competition. Formal and intensive technical sessions are only held in the mornings. A lively panel or distinguished keynote speaker ends the formal part of the day, and leads nicely into the afternoons and evenings — reserved for informal discussions, good food, and the inviting Aegean Sea.
The conference papers will be published by Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science – LNCS and will be included in the DBLP Database, among other databases. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to contribute to a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP).
This paper details NEPHELE as a novel meta-orchestration approach for management of applications over programmable resources distributed across the computing continuum. Two main challenges are considered. The first challenge regards the management of Internet of Things (IoT) interoperability and convergence aspects with edge and cloud computing infrastructure. The second challenge regards the development of synergetic orchestration mechanisms that can facilitate the management of distributed applications across multi-cluster infrastructure.