Workshops Day 1: Dec 14, 2026 (Parallel Tracks)

Time Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
8:00–8:30 Registration
8:30–10:00 WoAIS Session 1 WACE Session 1 Mid4CC Session 1
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–12:00 WoAIS Session 2 WACE Session 2 Mid4CC Session 2
12:00–1:00 Lunch
1:00–2:30 WoAIS Session 3 WACE Session 3 Mid4CC Session 3
2:30–3:00 Coffee Break
3:00–4:30 WoAIS Session 4 WACE Session 4

Workshops/Tutorials Day 2: Dec 15, 2026 (Parallel Tracks)

Time Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
8:00–8:30 Registration
8:30–10:00 Doctoral Symposium Session 1 Tutorial 1
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–12:00 MIND Session 1 Doctoral Symposium Session 2 Tutorial 2
12:00–1:00 Lunch
1:00–2:30 DICG Session 1 Doctoral Symposium Session 3 MAIoT Session 1
2:30–3:00 Coffee Break
3:00–4:30 DICG Session 2 Doctoral Symposium Session 4 MAIoT Session 2

Main Conference Day 1: Dec 16, 2026

Time Forum Room
8:00–9:00 Registration
9:00–9:30 Opening session
9:30–10:30 Keynote 1 - Seetharami R. Seelam (IBM, USA)
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 Session 1 - Physical AI and Robotics
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–14:00 Test-of-time Award
14:00–15:30 Session 2 - AI Systems
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:30 Session 3 - Memory Management
17:30–18:30 Posters & Demos
19:30–20:30 Reception

Main Conference Day 2: Dec 17, 2026

Time Forum Room
8:00–9:00 Registration
9:00–10:00 Keynote 2 - Carlo Curini (Azure, Spain)
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–12:30 Session 4 - Security and Privacy
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:30 Session 5 - Storage and Big Data
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–18:00 Session 6 - OS and Runtime Systems
18:00–19:30 Break
20:00–22:00 Banquet

Main Conference Day 3: Dec 18, 2026

Time Forum Room
8:00–9:00 Registration
9:00–10:00 Keynote 3 - Vana Kalogeraki (Athens University, Greece)
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–12:30 Session 7 - Distributed Systems
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:30 Session 8 - Industry session
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:30 Session 9 - Containers and Serverless Computing
17:30–17:45 Closing session

Main Conference Sessions

Opening Session

Time: Dec 16, 2026, 9:00–9:30
Room: Forum Room

Keynote 1

Time: Dec 16, 2026, 9:30–10:30
Room: Forum Room
Speaker: Seetharami R. Seelam
Title: An update on Quantum-Centric Supercomputing

Session 1 – Physical AI and Robotics

Time: Dec 16, 2026, 11:00–12:30
Room: Forum Room
Session Chair: TBD

  • [Big Ideas] Harness Engineering for Physical AI: Robot Middleware Is the Harness Layer
    S. Lee, J. Chae, K. Park
  • ros2probe: Non-intrusive, Kernel-selective Observability for Robot Operating System 2 Middleware
    J. Yu, S. Lee, Y. Choi, K. Park
  • Autopilots Need Parachutes: Lessons Learned from LLM-Automated Embedded ML Pipelines
    R. Morabito, G. Wu
  • Fulcrum: Optimizing Concurrent DNN Training and Inference on Edge Accelerators
    P. K., S. Taluri, P. Gupta, A. Saikia, K. Sahoo, A. Joshi, L. Karwa, K. Dhule, Y. Simmhan
  • ODIN: An Incremental Federated Learning Framework for Open-World Class Discovery in Smart Cities
    R. Banerjee, A. Sharma, D. Mehta, M. Nepal, S. Gawali, Y. Simmhan

Session 2 – AI Systems

Time: Dec 16, 2026, 14:00–15:30
Room: Forum Room
Session Chair: TBD

  • [Big Ideas] Memory as Middleware for Self-Improving AI Agents
    K. Jayaram, V. Ishakian, V. Muthusamy, G. Thomas, P. Oum, G. Fang
  • Reducing Excess in Generation: Energy-Efficient Optimization for Large Language Models
    D. Xiang, J. Su, W. Xu, K. Chu, Z. Shen, T. Ding, Y. Zhang, R. Wu, W. Zhang
  • User-Space Priority-Aware GPU Sharing for Modern Machine Learning Inference Stacks
    A. Peri, V. Kalogeraki
  • PaceServe: Priority-Adaptive Coordinated Execution for LLM Inference Tasks
    A. Ikram, X. Li, S. Elnikety, S. Bagchi
  • CacheSolidarity: Preventing Prefix Caching Side Channels in Multi-tenant LLM Serving Systems
    P. Pennas, K. Papaioannou, M. Guarnieri, T. Doudali

Session 3 – Memory Management

Time: Dec 16, 2026, 16:00–17:30
Room: Forum Room
Session Chair: TBD

  • [Big Ideas] What Memory Is Worth: Allocating a Shared Budget from RL Reward Curves
    K. Bora
  • PIM-CACHE: High-Efficiency Content-Aware Copy for Processing-In-Memory
    P. Yuhala, M. Mwaisela, P. Felber, V. Schiavoni
  • TierScale: Power Management for CXL-Enabled Tiered Memory
    H. Park, G. Park, K. Kang, S. Lee, C. Kim, D. Kim
  • NTSM: OS-Level Memory Middleware for Scaling AI Without Boundaries
    A. Noohi, M. Derispour, S. Ebrahimi, A. Barbalace
  • Go Huge or Go Home: Flexible Hugepage Swapping for Cloud VMs
    A. Ttofari, M. Pandurov, L. Humbel, D. Le Quoc, S. Bergman, D. Sepp, S. Chandrasekaran, S. Santhanam, C. Ye, W. Wang

Posters & Demos

Time: Dec 16, 2026, 17:30–18:30
Room: Forum Room

Session Chair: Marc Sanchez Artigas (URV, Spain)

  • TBD

Keynote 2

Time: Dec 17, 2026, 9:00–10:00
Room: Forum Room
Speaker: Carlo Curini (Azure, Spain)
Title: TBD

Session 4 – Security and Privacy

Time: Dec 17, 2026, 10:30–12:30
Room: Forum Room
Session Chair: TBD

  • Requalizer: A Co-designed Information Flow Control and Quality of Service Management Framework
    K. Jung, S. Gopalakrishnan, K. Pattabiraman
  • Styx: Collaborative and Private Data Processing With TEE-Enforced Sticky Policy
    S. Zhao, W. Wang, N. Li, Z. Lin
  • Hares: A Framework for Transparent and Cross-Architecture Enclave Offloading
    A. Sundarasamy, X. Wang, C. Bilbao, B. Ravindran
  • Rethinking Virtual Machine Monitors for Better Security in Clouds
    A. Mehrab, R. Nikolaev, B. Ravindran
  • Mazu: Keyless Workload Authentication for Service Meshes
    A. Poudel, P. Niroula, C. MacDonald, L. Gloudemans, S. Herwig
  • ConfPG Confidential Process Groups: Zero-Effort Configuration for Process-Based TEEs
    R. Schambach, P. Kariuki, A. Martin, C. Fetzer

Session 5 – Storage and Big Data

Time: Dec 17, 2026, 13:30–15:30
Room: Forum Room
Session Chair: TBD

  • Predictive Append: A New I/O Mechanism for Intra-Zone Parallelism in ZNS-Supporting File Systems
    Y. Ro, C. Lee, S. Hwang, J. Hwang, H. Kim, Y. Kim
  • Catapults to the Rescue: Accelerating Vector Search by Exploiting Query Locality
    S. Abuzakuk, A. Kermarrec, R. Pires, M. Randl, M. de Vos
  • A Tale of Scale: Enabling Scalable and Holistic Storage QoS for Exascale HPC Systems
    M. Miranda, Y. Tanimura, J. Haga, A. Ruhela, S. Harrell, J. Cazes, J. Pereira, R. Macedo, J. Paulo
  • ZeroRAG: Adaptive Semantic Peer Routing for Decentralized Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    P. Neague, Q. Stokkink, M. de Vos, R. Pires, M. Randl, A. Kermarrec, J. Pouwelse
  • FaaStream: Unifying Streaming and Batch Data Processing in Public FaaS Platforms
    G. Finol, R. Gracia-Tinedo, P. García-López
  • CHILL: Cold and Hot Isolation for Lightweight Learning-based CDN Cache Eviction
    N. Sugiura, D. Fujiki, H. Matsutani

Session 6 – OS and Runtime Systems

Time: Dec 17, 2026, 16:00–18:00
Room: Forum Room
Session Chair: TBD

  • SymbPart: Efficient Key-Value Store Partitioning via Symbolic Execution
    F. Rola, A. Hyvärinen, P. Romano, M. Matos
  • Exhaustive system call interception on RISC-V
    O. Monticelli, M. Santimaria, M. Aldinucci, I. Colonnelli
  • JITTER: A Framework for Dynamic Operating-System Specialisation that came Just-in-Time
    M. Ott, P. Raffeck, V. Sieh, W. Schröder-Preikschat, R. Kapitza, H. Herzog, T. Hönig
  • FLORCA: A Lightweight Runtime for Dynamic Serverless Function Coordination and Execution
    P. Gritsch, T. Oberroither, H. Stecher, M. Felderer, S. Ristov
  • ClosureFlow: Reifying Closure Semantics for Sound Taint Analysis of Cloud-Native Code
    Y. Wang, Y. Zhou, J. Ji, H. Si, S. Cao, X. Zhang
  • No More Idle GPUs: Decoupling GPU Contexts from Container Lifetimes in Serverless ML Inference
    M. Pandey, Y. Kwon

Keynote 3

Time: Dec 18, 2026, 9:00–10:00
Room: Forum Room
Speaker: Vana Kalogeraki (Athens University, Greece)
Title: Rethinking Middleware for Distributed AI

Session 7 – Distributed Systems

Time: Dec 18, 2026, 10:30–12:30
Room: Forum Room
Session Chair: TBD

  • STLT: A Novel System for Energy-Aware Distributed Inference in the Edge-Cloud-Space Continuum
    A. Stanisic, M. Gravara, J. Herrera, S. Nastic
  • SmartSched: Fine-Grained and Deterministic Parallel Execution for Smart Contracts
    H. Feng, C. Wang, L. Wu, Y. Zhou
  • Rollup Data Compression via an Implicit Dictionary
    C. Lee
  • Nemo-Nemo: CFT DAG-based Consensus in the WAN
    R. Kerur, P. Tennage, P. Jovanovic, D. Malkhi, A. Sonnino, I. Zablotchi
  • Fidelis: Exploiting Task Similarity for Low-overhead Distributed Workflow Audit and Replay
    T. Azaz, R. Ahmad, A. Adibifar, D. Thain, T. Malik
  • Seeing Through NAT with Ripple: Retrofitting Service Dependency Discovery in Networked Distributed Systems
    D. Landau, G. Blanken, J. Barbosa, N. Saurabh

Session 8 – Industry Papers

Time: Dec 18, 2026, 13:30–15:30
Room: Forum Room
Session Chair: TBD

  • TBA

Session 9 – Containers and Serverless Computing

Time: Dec 18, 2026, 16:00–17:30
Room: Forum Room
Session Chair: TBD

  • [Short Paper] Peridot: An I/O-Extensible Execution Environment for WebAssembly Containers
    P. Sarroca, M. Alvarez-Ruiz, M. Sanchez-Artigas, A. Trivedi, B. Metzler
  • Aceso: Latency-Aware Geo-Distribution of Microservices for Cost-Effective Carbon Reduction
    G. Christofidi, F. Alvarez-Terribas, I. Roumpos, N. Kourtellis, T. Doudali
  • Fast Container Orchestration for Dynamic and Ephemeral Workloads
    A. Alaei, M. Karsten
  • FaaSpot: Fault-Tolerant Serverless Workflow Execution on Spot Instances
    B. Patel, S. Harsha, K. Oh, I. Kim
  • KubePACS: Kubernetes Cluster Using Performant, Highly Available, and Cost Efficient Spot Instances
    T. Kim, K. Kim, E. Molina-Giménez, P. García-López, K. Lee