SCALABILITY 2025 : The Second International Conference on Systems Scalability and Expandability

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- SCALABILITY 2025, The Second International Conference on Systems Scalability and Expandability

SCALABILITY 2025 is scheduled to be October 26 - 30, 2025 in Barcelona, Spain under the TechWorld 2025 umbrella.

The submission deadline is July 8, 2025.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

All events will be held in a hybrid mode: on site, online, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, pdf slides.

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============== SCALABILITY 2025 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


SCALABILITY 2025, The Second International Conference on Systems Scalability and Expandability

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2025/SCALABILITY25.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2025/SubmitSCALABILITY25.html


Event schedule: October 26 - 30, 2025


Contributions:

- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]


Submission deadline: July 8, 2025


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: https://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: https://www.thinkmind.org


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


SCALABILITY 2025 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2025/CfPSCALABILITY25.html

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SCALABILITY 2025 Tracks (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


Scalability-driven Data Centers and Cloud computing solutions

- Scalability concepts, challenges, and taxonomies

- Scalability vs. Availability, Performance, and Resilience

- Scalability vs Security in edge resources (Privacy, Trust)

- Scalability and High-Performance Computing (HPC)

- Opportunistic and cheap computing

- Scalability: Data Center vs the Cloud Computation vs Micro Data Centers

- Scalability: Clouds vs Edge clouds vs Edge computing vs Fog computing

- Scalable architectures for on-site Data centers, in Cloud Data Centers and Cloud computing

- Scalability mechanisms (virtualization, containerization, optimal placement of virtual machines)

- Patterns-driven scalability (distribution, caching, and asynchronous processing)

- Design for scalability (load balancing, preventive monitoring, predictive scalability changes)

- Scalability for mobile computing (mobile devices)

- Data-driven Scalability design (big data, stream data, etc.)


Scalable Systems/Platforms

- Delivery models scalability (On Premise; Co-location; Hosting; Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS); Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS); Software-as-a-Service (SaaS); Business-Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS))

- Cost and scalability trade-off (CAPEX, OPEX)

- Scalability and elasticity of Cloud Services for BPaaS

- Centralized/decentralized Cloud computing versus Edge/Fog computing

- Vertical, Horizontal, and Hybrid Scalability

- Built-in scalability and self-triggered scalability actions

- Intelligent computing and caching at the network edge


Scalable Hardware/Software Solutions

- Software agile scalable methodologies

- Design Scalable Software (micro-services, containerization, avoid bottlenecks, single point of failure, favor horizontal scaling, scalability architectural patterns, cashing, APIs, tracking scalability metrics. asynchronous processing, etc.)

- Scalable programming

- Operating Systems supporting scalability

- Scalable Hardware: scalable racks, CPU speed, hardware reconfiguration via matrix, on-chip reconfiguration, scalable servers, blade servers, scalable (multiple) WAN connections, API Gateways, etc.)

- Hardware Solid State Drives (SSDs)

- Scalable predictive pre-cashing mechanisms

- Redundancy clusters and server load balancing for failover

- Scalable protocols and algorithms

- Scalability in Tier Platforms


Storage/Data Bases

- Data-driven frameworks in edge/fog computation

- Scaling via Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

- Emerging High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads

- Storage optimization in in Deep Learning Frameworks

- Data Exchange in HPC Multi-component workflows

- Management frameworks for Deep learning

- Multi-tiered storage to accelerate I/O, parallel I/O

- Scalability of Databases, Storage, and I/O memory access

- Scalability and Bottleneck on Databases access (I/O)

- Scalable Storages: Databases, NoSQL storages, Service Registries, File systems, etc.

- Redundancy clusters and server load balancing for failover

- Scaling in NoSQL, schemaless databases


Distributed Edge/Fog Computing Scalability

- Edge/Fog/Cloudlets computing- specific scalability aspects

- Scalability metrics and monitoring in distributed computing environment

- Horizontal and vertical scalability in edge/fog computing

- Scalability in mixed systems - centralized cloud and edge/fog computing

- Management, orchestration, and resource scheduling for scaling in edge/fog computing

- Scalable storage and data management for edge/fog computing

- Scalability of edge/fog systems in mission critical applications

- VM migration for scaling in fog/edge and mobile computing

- SDN control in edge/fog computing- scalability aspects

- Intelligent computing and caching at the network edge

- Machine learning and Deep learning at the edge

- Multi-domain, multi-operator, and end-to-end edge/fog systems

- Multi-access edge (MEC) computing scalability

- Edge/fog computing scalability in IoT environments

- Edge computing and 5G


Scalability monitoring/management

- Scaling Strategies (Manual/Scheduled/Automatic)

- Tailored monitoring frameworks (e.g., AWS Cloudwatch for AWS -Amazon)

- Management of incremental backup

- Preventive scaling (adaptive frequency for scaling changes, dynamic, auto-scaling)

- SDN control of network topology and connectivity in edge/fog computing- scalability aspects

- Orchestration and management - scalability-oriented design

- Multi-domain, multi-operator, and end-to-end edge/fog systems

- Scalability aspects in sliced systems

- Scalability of Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Pattern-based scalability

- Management of cold/warm/hot stand-by scalability components insider Data Centers

- Datasets for pre-testing scalability via Load tests

- Autonomic and cognitive management support for scalability

- Scalable solutions for managed cloud-based databases (e.g., AWS Dynamodb, Google Firestore)


Services/Access/Experiments

- Client virtualization (desktop, apps)

- User requirements for scalability

- Interfaces and User-oriented scalability

- Personalized, reactive, adaptable interactions

- User scalability via "pay as you go" (with resource allocation mechanisms)

- Service scalability in different platforms

- Access control, QoS/QoE/SLAs, feedback interactions

- Massive scalability platforms (Internet-based systems: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter)

- Experiences, experiments, lessons learned, open issues (OpenStack Cloud, Azure, etc.)


Where is scalability important (and counting)?

- Edge computing scalability in IoT environments

- Massive scalability platforms (Internet-based systems: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter)

- Scalability in Industry 4.0/5.0

- Scalability-oriented design in 5G/6G sliced systems

- Scalability for autonomous vehicles and smart health

- Scalability on monitoring energy systems

- Fluid dynamics - physical simulation coupled with deep learning

- Neuroscience/brain models and scalable simulations

- Scalable systems (hydrodynamics, nuclear reactions, gravity, thermal conduction, magnetic fields, and radiation)


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SCALABILITY 2025 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2025/ComSCALABILITY25.html


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Lorena Parra Boronat, Universitat Politecnica de Barcelona, Spain

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