SimCoT: Simulation of Distributed Systems across the Cloud-to-Thing Continuum

The Cloud-to-Thing Continuum is characterized by heterogeneous, dynamic computing environments spanning IoT, Edge, Fog, and Cloud infrastructures. Designing, deploying, and managing applications across these environments introduces significant challenges related to resource management, orchestration, scalability, reliability, performance, and energy efficiency. Modeling and simulation offer a powerful approach to investigating these challenges by enabling the evaluation of distributed systems and applications under diverse workloads, infrastructures, and operating conditions before their real-world deployment.

At the same time, advances in digital twins, emulation, experimentation, and AI/ML-based methods provide new opportunities for designing and evaluating complex distributed systems. These challenges have recently become a major focus of several ongoing EU Horizon projects (e.g. Swarmchestrate, and related initiatives such as the Cognitive Computing Continuum Cluster), driving the development of novel architectures, methods, tools, and real-world application use cases. Building on these developments, papers submitted to this special session are expected to investigate novel modeling and simulation approaches, tools, and methodologies for distributed computing environments.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: