The CECCM is the key element in the AC³. It should be self-managed and self-configured when handling applications LCM and managing the federated infrastructure resources (i.e., IT, networking, and data). Therefore, AI/ML should be natively supported to enable zero-touch management and configuration. Moreover, the application behaviour and CECC infrastructure should be adapted in a unified and harmonized manner to reduce the end-to-end execution time and maximize the use of local bandwidth. For this reason, we plan to use semantic and ontology techniques for providing a context-awareness dimension to the CECCM to orchestrate data source, application, user requests, and CECC infrastructure in an intertwined manner. Since the AC³ project builds on a federated infrastructure, hence security and trust will also be implemented inherently. The AC³ project innovates in the following key areas: (1) revisit the application definition and LCM, (2) zero-touch configuration and management of the CECC infrastructure including data, (3) and resource federation. These key areas consider AI/ML, security, energy, semantics and ontology, and trust as the key enablers.