Distributed Systems for Emerging Computing: Platform and Application

In recent years, the new computing paradigms such as serverless computing, edge computing and blockchain-based computing have attracted much attention in both academia and industrial communities. Distributed systems and applications play fundamental roles in connecting the underlying computers, network and devices for collaboration, as well as providing new services for users. However, due to the increasing complexity of the large-scale and dynamic heterogeneous resource, and the new requirements and features, these distributed systems and applications will face many challenges in terms of their efficiency, flexibility and algorithms. This editorial discusses the state-of-the-art advancements in distributed systems and applications for the emerging computing.