CLOUD COMPUTING 2026, The Seventeenth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization

Type: conference

Notes: IARIA Conference.

Editors:
Christoph P. Neumann, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Germany
Malte Prieß, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Kunal Rao, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA
Herodotos Herodotou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-68558-373-6

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from April 19, 2026 to April 23, 2026

Articles: there are 13 articles

A Modular Kubernetes Workload Simulator for Evaluating Learning-Based Scheduling Policies
Marios Touloupou, Syed Mafooq Ul Hassan, Jacopo Castellini, Pablo Strasser, Alexandros Kalousis, and Herodotos Herodotou
keywords: Kubernetes; workload simulation; workload scheduling; experimentation.

Platform-Agnostic Resource and Application Profiles for Heterogeneous Cloud–Edge–Device Orchestration
Nektarios Deligiannakis, Amr Mousa, Vassilis Papataxiarhis, Michalis Loukeris, and Stathes Hadjiefthymiades
keywords: Platform-Agnostic Modeling; Kubernetes; Cloud-Edge Continuum; Orchestration; Schema Validation; Application Pro- files; Distributed Systems

Hypertool: A Resource Abstraction and Lifecycle Management Framework for Heterogeneous Cloud Environments
Michael Loukeris, Nektarios Deligiannakis, Vassilis Papataxiarhis, Panagiotis Kechriniotis, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, Syed Mafooq Ul Hassan, Herodotos Herodotou, and Nicolas Louca
keywords: Abstraction; Distributed Cloud Environ- ments; Kubernetes; Node Lifecycle Management; Heterogeneous Computing; Declarative Data Models; Orchestration.

Agentic Placement of Microservices on the Computing Continuum
Kunal Rao, Giuseppe Coviello, and Srimat Chakradhar
keywords: Computing continuum; Edge–cloud placement; Mi- croservices; Agentic workflows; Large language models; Workflow orchestration; Latency-aware decision making.

LLM Fine-Tuning with aiDAPTIV+: A Viable Training Strategy on Resource-Constrained Compute Platforms
Abhishek Patel, Krishan Gopal Gupta, Shashank Sharma, Sowmya Shree, and Sanjay Wandhekar
keywords: MiPhi aiDAPTIV+; HPC; Token Throughput Optimization.

Stress-Testing the Robustness of LLM-Based Causal Inference
Ankitkumar Patel, Jigarkumar Patel, Amit Kumar, Supreetha Sreeram, and Venkatesh Kulkarni
keywords: Causal discovery; large language models (LLMs); uncertainty; evaluation metrics; sensitivity analysis.

Towards Global Multi-Cloud Strategies: Insights into AWS and Alibaba Cloud Synergy
Martin G. Zizler, Malte Prieß, and Christoph P. Neumann
keywords: Cloud Computing; Multi-Cloud; AWS; Alibaba Cloud; Infrastructure-as-Code

A Multi-Resource Power Modeling Framework for Energy-Aware Cloud Simulation in CloudSim
Awet Teklemariam Ghebrekidan and Raju Shrestha
keywords: Cloud computing; energy efficiency; power modeling; multi-resource simulation; CloudSim; datacenter sustainability

Accelerated Flow Processing in Kubernetes Overlay Networks
Srinath Vasudevan and Khaled Harfoush
keywords: Kubernetes; Calico; Overlay Networks; Receive Flow Steering; Receive Packet Steering.

The Final Frontier of Orchestration: Bringing Kubernetes to On-Field and Embedded Devices Beyond Cloud-to-Edge Continuum
Pallav Kumar Deb, Jorge Carola, Susmit Shegokar, and Wolfgang Forstmeier
keywords: cloud–edge–field continuum; orchestration; kubernetes; webassembly (WASM); constrained devices

A Cloud-Native Architecture for Human-in-Control LLM-Assisted OpenSearch in Investigative Settings
Benjamin Puhani, Kai Brehmer, and Malte Prieß
keywords: OpenSearch; Information Retrieval; Semantic Search; Investigative Settings; Enron Dataset

Power-Aware Container Placement Mechanism for CaaS Systems
Abdulelah Alwabel
keywords: Container; Container Placement; CaaS; PCP; Cloud; Optimization

From Intent to Deploy: Validator-Centric Multi-Agent Orchestration for Reliable Infrastructure-as-Code
Rana Nameer Hussain Khan, Dawood Wasif, Jin-Hee Cho, and Ali R Butt
keywords: Infrastructure as Code; multi-agent systems; Large Language Models; program synthesis; policy as code