The 19th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2026) will take place in Florianópolis (Brazil) from December 1 to 4, 2026.

UCC is a premier annual conference that serves as a significant platform for researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. It aims to facilitate the presentation of new discoveries and high-quality contributions in Cloud, Edge and the Computing Continuum. IEEE/ACM UCC 2026 is co-located with the 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (IEEE BDCAT 2026).

Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC 2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015), Shanghai, China (UCC 2016), Austin, USA (UCC 2017), Zurich, Switzerland (UCC 2018), Auckland, New Zealand (UCC 2019), Leicester, UK (UCC 2020), Leicester, UK (UCC 2021), Vancouver, USA (UCC 2022), Taormina, Italy (UCC 2023), Sharjah, UAE (UCC 2024), and Nantes, France (UCC 2025).

Advancing intelligent, autonomous, and next-gen computing across the edge-cloud-space computing continuum.

Authors were invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts covering all areas of Cloud-Edge Continuum for utility computing and related paradigms such as Serverless, Distributed Computing, Agent-based systems, Autonomic Self-Management and Resilience.

Topics of Interest included (but not limited to):

• Resource Management for Cloud-Edge Continuum
  • Principles and Theoretical Foundations of Utility Computing
  • Architectural Models and Patterns (Virtualization, Containerization, Composition, Coordination, Choreography, Orchestration)
  • Formal and Qualitative Aspects
  • Middleware and Software Infrastructure
  • Serverless Systems and Architectures
  • Networking and Network Management (ORAN, Cognitive Networks)
  • SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and XaaS
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)
  • Orbital and Space infrastructure and resource management (LEO constellations, Edge-Cloud-Space continuum, etc.)
• Performance, Security and Scalability
  • Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity Planning, and Elasticity
  • Security, Trust, Privacy and Policies
  • Autonomic, Adaptive, Self-* management, SLOs, SLAs, Management, and Monitoring
  • Deployment Models (Private, Public, Hybrid, Federated, Aggregated, Inter-Cloud)
  • Performance Analysis and Modelling
  • Foundational self-* solutions (including use of LLM-based techniques)
• Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Edge Continuum
  • Distributed and Compound AI Systems and Architectures
  • Novel Runtime Models and System Design for distributed AI (e.g., model selection, model splitting, energy consumption, etc.)
  • Distributed Machine Learning and Machine Learning Operations
  • AI Solutions for Scheduling, Provisioning, and Deployment
  • Lightweight and edge-based machine learning
  • AI-based (distributed) coordination and orchestration
  • Agentic Computing and Architectures
  • Quantum edge and quantum federated machine learning
  • Robotics and latency-sensitive AI
  • Space-based AI
  • Autonomous AI systems
  • Hardware–Software Co-Design for Next-Gen AI Systems
• Applications, Systems, and new Computing Paradigms for Cloud-Edge Continuum
  • Native Application Design, Programming Models, and Engineering
  • Serverless and Function-Based (FaaS) Applications Frameworks and Middleware
  • Microservices Architectures
  • Orbital and Space Computing
  • Data centers in space
  • Quantum Computing Systems and Architectures
  • Interfacing to Internet of Things (IoT) Applications
  • Utility-Driven Models and Mechanisms (e.g., Smart Cities, Mobility, Healthcare, Industry 4.0)
  • Micro Data Centers
  • Interfacing to Mobile Devices (Management, Hierarchy Models, Business Models)
  • Energy-Efficiency and Sustainability
  • Development Operations (DevOps)
  • Economic and Business Models
  • Digital Twins solutions
  • Business and Legal Implications Beyond Technology

All manuscripts will go through a double-blind peer-review process. Papers to be submitted in PDF format. Full papers should not exceed ten (10) IEEE conference format with double-column pages, including figures, tables, and references. Short paper should not exceed four (4) papers, and poster submissions should have at most two (2) pages in length. All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, analytical rigor, quality of results and presentation, and relevance to the conference.

Submissions must be original unpublished research, not under review elsewhere.

Please submit your anonymized paper through the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ucc2026

Paper Submission Deadline:	September 11, 2026 (extended, hard deadline)
Acceptance Notification:	October 10, 2026 (updated)
Camera-Ready Papers Due:	October 15, 2026
Conference Dates:	December 1–4, 2026

• Use of generative AI tools:
  • The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any article submitted to an IEEE publication. The AI system used shall be identified, and specific sections of the article that use AI-generated content shall be identified and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the level at which the AI system was used to generate the content.
  • The use of AI systems for editing and grammar enhancement is common practice and, as such, is generally outside the intent of the above policy. In this case, disclosure as noted above is not required, but recommended.
  • If using an AI system for editing and grammar, exclude the reference section; otherwise, the tool may make unwanted changes. Always double check AI-generated results.
• UCC is an in-person conference. In order to appear in the final proceedings, all accepted contributions from all tracks are expected to be presented in person during the conference. For special inquiries, please contact the general chairs.
• For each accepted contribution, a full registration (i.e., not a student registration) is required, even if a student is the main author of the paper and/or is presenting at the conference. Additionally, student registrations must be validated as specified on the registration page.
• The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and made available online via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library