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Pre-Conference

Monday, December 8

08:15 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 10:30
Tutorial on Tackling Large Scale Event Variety in the Internet of Things
09:00 - 10:30
Workshop on Cross Cloud Brokers: Session 1
  • Configuration management as a multi­cloud enabler. Bart Vanbrabant (KU Leuven), Wouter Joosen (KU Leuven)
  • SCADAMAR: Scalable and data­efficient Internet MapReduce. Rodrigo Bruno (INESC ID), Paulo Ferreira (INESC ID / Technical University of Lisbon)
  • FederatedCloudSim: A SLA­aware federated cloud simulation framework. Andreas Kohne (Materna GmbH), Marc Spohr (Materna GmbH) and Lars Nagel (Universität Mainz)
09:00 - 10:30
Workshop on Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing: Session 1
  • Workshop overview M. Matos (INESC TEC and U. Minho)
  • Towards a Model@Runtime Middleware for Cyber Physical Systems. F. Javier Acosta Padilla (INRIA Rennes), F. Weis, J. Bourcier (IRISA, Université de Rennes 1)
  • An Architecture for a Smart Spaces Virtual Machine. L. Freitas (Universidade Federal de Goiás), F. Costa (Universidade Federal de Goiás), R. Rocha (Universidade Federal de Goiás), A. Allen (Georgia Southern University)
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:30
Tutorial on Tackling Large Scale Event Variety in the Internet of Things
11:00 - 12:30
Workshop on Cross Cloud Brokers: Session 2
  • Adaptive decision making in multi­cloud management. Faiza Samreen (Lancaster University), Gordon S. Blair (Lancaster University), Matthew Rowe (Lancaster University)
  • Preference­ based cloud service recommendation as a brokerage service. Ioannis Patiniotakis (National Technical University of Athens), Yiannis Verginadis (National Technical University of Athens), Gregoris Mentzas (National Technical University of Athens)
  • Using power measurements as a basis for workload placement in heterogeneous multi­cloud environments. Mascha Kurpicz (Université de Neuchâtel), Anita Sobe (Université de Neuchâtel), Pascal Felber (Université de Neuchâtel)
09:00 - 10:30
Workshop on Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing: Session 2
  • Multi-site Gargamel: Optimistic Synchronization for Reliable Geo-Replicated Databases. Pierpaolo Cincilla, Sébastien Monnet, Marc Shapiro (Inria and Université Pierre et Marie Curie UPMC - LIP6)
  • Speculative Client Execution in Deferred Update Replication. Balaji Arun, Sachin Hirve, Roberto Palmieri, Sebastiano Peluso, and Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech)
  • Geo-Replication with Arbitrary Faults. Marko Vukolic (Eurecom)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 17:30
Workshop on Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing (full day)
14:00 - 15:30
Tutorial on Designing resource-aware distributed system based on system level containers
14:00 - 15:30
Workshop on Cross Cloud Brokers: Session 3
  • Advanced service brokerage capabilities as the catalyst for future cloud service ecosystems. Anthony Simons (University of Sheffield), Konstantinos Bratanis (South East European Research Centre), Dimitrios Kourtesis (South East European Research Centre), Iraklis Paraskakis (South East European Research Centre), Simeon Veloudis (South East European Research Centre), Yiannis Verginadis (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems), Gregoris Mentzas (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems), Simone Braun (CAS Software AG) and Alessandro Rossini (SINTEF Oslo)
  • Design sessions on cloud broker architecture
14:00 - 15:30
Workshop on Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing: Session 3
  • Keynote: SALTY : A Middleware Toolkit for Building Feedbacks Control Loops. Romain Rouvoy (University of Lille 1, Inria)
15:30 - 16:00
Break
16:00 - 17:30
Tutorial on Designing resource-aware distributed system based on system level containers
16:00 - 17:30
Workshop Cross Cloud Brokers: Session 4
  • Merge of results and discussion
  • Invited Talk N. Janssens (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
16:00 - 17:30
Workshop on Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing: Session 4
  • Towards Efficient and Accurate Privacy Preserving Web Search. Albin Petit (LIRIS), Sonia Ben Mokhtar (LIRIS), Lionel Brunie (LIRIS), and Harald Kosch (University of Passau)
  • Moana: A Case for Redefining the Internet Service Abstraction. Yan Shvartzshnaider (University of Cambridge) and Max Ott (NICTA)
  • Distributed Event-Based System with Multiscoping for Multiscalability. Léon Lim (Institut Mines Télécom) and Denis Conan (Institut Mines Télécom)
  • Workshop wrap-up. Miguel Matos (INESC TEC and U. Minho)

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Tuesday, December 9

08:15 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 10:30
Doctoral Symposium
  • Keynote: Lessons learned from 20PhD’s and 40 defenses. Wouter Joosen (Minds-DistriNet, KULeuven)
  • Improving the energy efficiency of software systems for multi-core architectures. Maxime Colmant (ADEME, University Lille, Inria), Romain Rouvoy (University Lille, Inria), Lionel Seinturier (University Lille, Inria)
09:00 - 10:30
Tutorial on Green Big Data Processing using Hadoop: An introductory
09:00 - 10:30
Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware: Session 1
  • Opening Remarks
  • Cerise: an RDF Store with Adaptive Data Reallocation. H. Kobashi, N. Carvalho, B. Hu (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe), T. Saeki (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)
  • Adaptation for the Masses: Towards Decentralized Adaptation in Large-Scale P2P Recommenders. D. Frey, AM. Kermarrec (INRIA), C. Maddock, A. Mauthe (Lancaster University), F. Taiani (University of Rennes 1, IRISA)
  • Bridging the Application Knowledge Gap – Using Ontology-based Situation Recognition to Support Energy-Aware Resource Scheduling. M. Hahnel, J. Mendez, V. Thost, AY. Turhan (TU Dresden)
  • Session Panel
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:30
Doctoral Symposium
  • A middleware-based approach for QoS-aware deployment of service choreography in the cloud. Raphael Gomes (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil and INRIA, Paris-Rocquencourt), Fábio Costa (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil), Ricardo da Rocha (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil), Nikolaos Georgantas (INRIA, Paris-Rocquencourt)
  • Testimony: A PhD Testimonial at completion. Jef Marien (KULeuven)
  • Testimony: A PhD Testimonial at half-way. Ansar Rafique (KULeuven)
  • Panel: Life after PhD. Gordon Blair (Lancaster Unvieristy), Luís Veiga (INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa), and more TBA.
11:00 - 12:30
Tutorial on Green Big Data Processing using Hadoop: An introductory
11:00 - 12:30
Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware: Session 2
  • Enabling Component-based Mobile Cloud Computing with the AIOLOS Middleware. S. Bohez, E. De Coninck, T. Verbelen (Ghent University – iMinds), P. Simoens (Ghent University), B. Dhoedt (Ghent University – iMinds)
  • Towards a new model for cyber foraging. D. Lima, H. Miranda (Universidade de Lisboa), F. Taiani (University of Rennes 1, IRISA)
  • Middleware for Reflective Web Service Choreographies on the Cloud. T. Furtado (University of São Paulo), E. Francesquini (University of Campinas), N. Lago, F. Kon (University of São Paulo)
  • Session Panel
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Tutorial on Coccinelle for the Working Programmer
14:00 - 15:30
Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware: Session 3
  • A Middleware for Managing Dynamic Software Adaptation. R. Oliveira Vasconcelos, I. Vasconcelos, M. Endler (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio)
  • Analyzing Impacts of Adaptations on Cost, Risk, and Quality – An Experience Report. A. Garcha Singh (University of Oslo), A. Omerovic, F. Chauvel, N. Ferry (SINTEF)
  • SNOOP: Privacy preserving middleware for secure multi-party computations. A. Andersen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
  • Session Panel
14:00 - 15:30
Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT: Session 1
  • Introduction and Welcome
  • Keynote: Towards Middleware for IoT: Challenges and Capabilities. Thais Batista (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte)
  • Taming the Interoperability Challenges of Complex IoT Systems. Paul Grace, Justan Barbosa, Brian Pickering, Mike Surridge (United Kingdom, IT Innovation, University of Southampton)
  • Enabling resource sharing in heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks. Jef Maerien, Sam Michiels, Christophe Huygens, Danny Hughes, Wouter Joosen (iMinds-DistriNet, KU Leuven)
15:30 - 16:00
Break
16:00 - 17:30
Tutorial on Coccinelle for the Working Programmer
16:00 - 17:30
Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware: Session 4
  • Wrap up Session
16:00 - 17:30
Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT: Session 2
  • QoC-Aware Context Data Distribution in the Internet of Things., Pierrick Marie (IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier), Léon Lim, Atif Manzoor, Sophie Chabridon, Denis Conan (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis), Thierry Desprats (IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier)
  • Mood-Fatigue Analyzer: Towards Context-aware Mobile Sensing Applications for Safe Driving. Wenyan Hu (Nankai University), Xiping Hu (University of British Columbia), Junqi Deng (University of Hong Kong), Chunsheng Zhu (University of British Columbia), Edith C. H. Ngai (Uppsala University), Victor C. M. Leung (University of British Columbia)
  • Kali2Much: A context middleware for autonomic adaptation-driven platform. Keling Da, Philippe Roose, Marc Dalmau and Joseba Novado (IUT de Bayonne, University of Pau)
  • Discussion and Reflection
  • Closing Remarks

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Conference

Wednesday, December 10

08:00 - 08:45
Registration
08:45 - 09:00
Opening
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote 1: Towards Data Center Systems (Edouard Bugnion)
10:00 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 12:35
Research session 1 (5 papers): Middleware for Emerging Cloud Computing
  • Tiera: Towards Flexible Multi-Tiered Cloud Storage Instances. Ajaykrishna Raghavan (University of Minnesota Twin Cities), Abhishek Chandra (University of Minnesota Twin Cities), Jon Weissman (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)
  • G-DUR: A Middleware for Assembling, Analyzing, and Improving Transactional Protocols. Masoud Saeida Ardekani (INRIA & Université Pierre et Marie Curie & LIP6), Pierre Sutra (University of Neuchâtel), Marc Shapiro (INRIA & Université Pierre et Marie Curie & LIP6)
  • LVD: Lean Virtual Disks. Gaurab Basu (IBM Research India), Shripad Nadgowda (IBM Research India), Akshat Verma (IBM Research India)
  • Trustworthy Geographically Fenced Hybrid Clouds. K. R. Jayaram (IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center), David Safford (IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center), Upendra Sharma (IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center), Vijay Naik (IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center), Dimitrios Pendarakis (IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center), Shu Tao (IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center)
  • StackSync: Bringing Elasticity to Dropbox-like File Synchronization. Pedro Garcia Lopez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Sergi Toda (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Cristian Cotes (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Marc Sanchez-Artigas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), John Lenton (Canonical)
12:35 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 16:05
Research Session 2 (5 papers): Middleware for Data-Intensive Computing
  • Slider: Incremental Sliding Window Analytics. Pramod Bhatotia (MPI-SWS), Umut Acar (Carnegie Mellon University), Flavio Junqueira (Microsoft Research Cambridge), Rodrigo Rodrigues (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
  • Fast, Expressive Top-k Matching. William Culhane (Purdue University), K. R. Jayaram (IBM Research), Patrick Eugster (Purdue University)
  • HyRec: Leveraging browsers for scalable recommenders. Antoine Boutet (INRIA Rennes), Davide Frey (INRIA Rennes), Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL), Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA Rennes), Rhicheek Patra (EPFL)
  • Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments with Adaptive Task Tuning. Dazhao Cheng (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Jia Rao (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Yanfei Guo (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Xiaobo Zhou (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)
  • Thematic Event Processing. Souleiman Hasan (National University of Ireland), Edward Curry (National University of Ireland)
16:05 - 17:15
Break & Poster session
17:15 - 18:00
Business meeting
18:15 - 21:00
Welcome reception at city hall

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Thursday, December 11

08:00 - 08:30
Registration
08:30 - 09:30
Keynote 2: The Software-Defined Building: A Machine for Living (Randy Katz)
09:40 - 10:30
Research Session 3 (2 papers): Reliability and Fault-Tolerance 1
  • Affinity-Aware Checkpoint Restart. Ajay Saini (NCSU), Arash Rezaei (NCSU), Frank Mueller (NCSU), Paul Hargrove (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Eric Roman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
  • Mutable Checkpoint-Restart: Automating Live Update for Generic Server Programs. Cristiano Giuffrida (VU University Amsterdam), Calin Iorgulescu (EPFL), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (VU University Amsterdam)
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:40
Research Session 4 (4 papers): Consistency and Scalability
  • Consensus Inside. Tudor David (EPFL), Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL), Maysam Yabandeh (Twitter)
  • A Framework for the Dynamic Evolution of Highly-Available Dataflow Programs. Sebastian Ertel (Technische Universität Dresden), Pascal Felber (Université de Neuchâtel)
  • Building global and scalable systems with Atomic Multicast. Samuel Benz (Università della Svizzera italiana), Parisa Jalili Marandi (Università della Svizzera italiana), Fernando Pedone (Università della Svizzera italiana), Benoit Garbinato (University of Lausanne)
  • Strong Consistency in Cache Augmented SQL Systems. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (USC), Jason Yap (USC), Hieu Nguyen (USC)
12:40 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 16:05
Research Session 5 (5 papers) : Middleware for Mobile Devices and Ubiquitous Computing (Publish-Subscribe)
  • SOUP: An Online Social Network By The People, For The People. David Koll (University of Goettinge), Jun Li (University of Oregon), Xiaoming Fu (University of Goettingen)
  • SenSocial: A Middleware for Integrating Online Social Networks and Mobile Sensing Data Streams. Abhinav Mehrotra (University of Birmingham), Veljko Pejovic (University of Birmingham), Mirco Musolesi (University of Birmingham)
  • PLEROMA: A SDN-based High Performance Publish/Subscribe Middleware. Muhammad Adnan Tariq (University of Stuttgart), Boris Koldehofe (University Of Stuttgart), Sukanya Bhowmik (University Of Stuttgart), Kurt Rothermel (University Of Stuttgart)
  • CrowdWiFi: Efficient Crowdsensing of Roadside WiFi Networks. Di Wu (Imperial College London), Qiang Liu (University of California Irvine), Yuan Zhang (University of California Irvine), Julie McCann (Imperial College London), Amelia Regan (University of California Irvine), Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California Irvine)
  • Publish/Subscribe Network Designs for Multiplayer Games. Cesar Canas (McGill University), Kaiwen Zhang (University of Toronto), Bettina Kemme (McGill University), Jorg Kienzle (McGill University), Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)
16:05 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 17:50
Industry Session (5 papers)
  • The X-Flex Cross-Platform Scheduler: Who’s The Fairest Of Them All? Joel Wolf (IBM Research), Zubair Nabi (IBM Research), Viswanath Nagarajan (University of Michigan), Robert Saccone (IBM Research), Rohit Wagle (IBM Research), Kirsten Hildrum (IBM Research), Edward Pring (IBM Research), Kanthi Sarpatwar (University of Maryland)
  • Virtual GPS: A Middleware for Power Efficient Localization of Smartphones Using Cross Layer Approach. Sravan Kumar Thokala (Qualcomm and University Of Colorado, Boulder), Pranav Koundinya (University of Houston), Shivakant Mishra (University Of Colorado, Boulder), Larry Shi (University of Houston)
  • PMWare: A Middleware for Discovering and Managing Places of Human Interest. Kuldeep Yadav (Xerox Research Centre), Abhishek Kumar (Xerox Research Centre), Prateek Jassal (EMC Corporation), Vinayak Naik (IIIT-Delhi)
  • Scheduling Online Repartitioning in OLTP Systems. Kaiji Chen (University of Southern Denmark), Yongluan Zhou (University of Southern Denmark), Yu Cao (EMC Labs China)
  • Improving Readiness for Enterprise Migration to the Cloud. Jill Jermyn (Columbia University), Jinho Hwang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Kun Bai (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Maja Vukovic (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Nikos Anerousis (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Salvatore Stolfo (Columbia University)
18:30 - 23:30
Social event & Banquet

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Friday, December 12

08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:30
10 years best paper & invited talk
09:40 - 10:30
Research Session 6 (2 papers): Reliability and Fault-Tolerance 2
  • Stage-Aware Anomaly Detection through Tracking Log Points. Saeed Ghanbari (University of Toronto), Ali B. Hashemi (University of Toronto), Cristiana Amza (University of Toronto)
  • Archie: A Speculative Replicated Transactional System. Sachin Hirve (Virginia Tech), Roberto Palmieri (Virginia Tech), Binoy Ravindran (Virginia Tech)
10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:40
Research Session 7 (4 papers): Performance
  • Mitigating Interference in Cloud Services by Middleware Reconfiguration. Amiya Maji (Purdue University), Subrata Mitra (Purdue University), Bowen Zhou (Purdue University), Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University), Akshat Verma (IBM Research India)
  • CAMP: A Cost Adaptive Multi-Queue Eviction Policy for Key-Value Stores. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (USC), Sandy Irani (UCI), Jenny Lam (UCI), Jason Yap (USC)
  • Stay-Away, protecting sensitive applications from performance interference. Navaneeth Rameshan (UPC), Leandro Navarro (UPC), Enric Monte (UPC), Vladimir Vlassov (KTH)
  • Virtual Machine Consolidation in the Wild. Akshat Verma (IBM Research India), Juhi Bagrodia (IIT), Vimmi Jaiswal (JIMS)
12:40 - 12:45
Closing

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