Workshops
Workshops co-organized with the main conference:
Thomas Michael Bohnert, Victor Ion Munteanu (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland), Dana Petcu, Teodor-Florin Fortis (West University of Timisoara, Romania)
Room : TD 9
- 09:00 - 10:30
- Welcome & Session 1
- Welcome to AIMC’15.
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Reliable Cloud-Applications: an Implementation through Service Orchestration. Florian Dudouet, Andy Edmonds and Michael Erne
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ResilientVM: High Performance Virtual Machine Recovery in the Cloud. Valentina Salapura and Rick Harper
- 11:00 - 12:30
- Session 2
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MaaS Advanced Provisioning and Reservation System. Alexandru Sirbu, Cristian Pop and Florin Pop
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An architecture for self-managing microservices. Giovanni Toffetti Carughi, Sandro Brunner, Martin Blochinger, Florian Dudouet and Andrew Edmonds
- Open talks
Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France), Roch Glitho (Concordia University, Canada), Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Telecom – Telecom Sud Paris, France)
Room : TD 12
- 09:00 - 10:30
- Session 1: Implementations and Case-Studies — Roch Glitho
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Introduction. Roch Glitho
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A Case-Study in All-Web Rich Interpersonal Communication Services. Francois Toutain, and Emmanuel Le Huerou (Orange Labs)
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WebRTC based Remote Collaborative Online Learning Platform. Hyeontaek Oh, Sanghong Ahn, Jun Kyun Choi, and Jinhong Yang (KAIST)
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Performance analysis of the Janus WebRTC gateway. Alessandro Amirante (University of Napoli Federico II) Tobia Castaldi, Lorenzo Miniero (Meetecho s.r.l.) Simon Pietro Romano (University of Napoli Federico II)
11:00 – 12:30
Session 2: Circumventing the Roadblocks – Stéphane Tuffin
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Toward automatic update from callbacks to Promises. Etienne Brodu, Stephane Frenot (DICE, CITI Insa Lyon / Inria Grenoble Rhone-Alpes) and Frederic Oble (Worldline)
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QoS Degradation based Reimbursement for Real-time Communication. Mohammad Aazam and Eui-Nam Huh (Kyung Hee University)
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Keynote. Roberto Minverva
14: - 15:30
Session 3: Forthcoming issues — Stéphane Frénot
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On Embedded Real Time Media Communications. Jean-Charles Gregoire (INRS)
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On Webco Interoperability. Francois Toutain, Emmanuel Le Huerou, and Eric Beaufils (Orange Labs)
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An API proposal for integrating Sensor Data into Web Apps and WebRTC. Joao Azevedo, Ricardo Lopes Pereira (INESC-ID/Instituto Superior Tecnico) and Paulo Chainho (PT Inovacao)
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Specialized network services for WebRTC. TURN-based architecture proposal. Ewa Janczukowicz, Arnaud Braud, Stephane Tuffin, Gael Fromentoux (Orange Labs) Ahmed Bouabdallah, and Jean-Marie Bonnin (Telecom Bretagne)
- 16:30 – 18:00
- Session 4 : BoF session – Stéphane Tuffin & Roch Glitho
- Research agenda on All-web real-time systems for the coming years.
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Closing and future steps. Roch Glitho
Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete in Chania, Greece), Etienne Rivière (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Luis Veiga (Técnico Lisboa - ULisboa / INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal)
Room Amphi F
- 9:15 - 10:30
- Opening and Session 1
- Introduction and welcome
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Characterizing the Spatio-temporal Burstiness of Storage Workloads. Mei Li, Xu Gao, Yanjun Wu, Chen Zhao and Mingshu Li
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Robustness Testing of IaaS Cloud Platforms: A State-Based Approach. Domenico Cotroneo, Flavio Frattini, Roberto Pietrantuono and Stefano Russo
- 11:00 - 12:30
- Session 2
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V4VSockets: low-overhead intra-node communication in Xen. Anastassios Nanos, Stefanos Gerangelos, Ioanna Alifieraki and Nectarios Koziris
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Sparkle: Adaptive Sample Based Scheduling for Cluster Computing. Chunliang Hao, Jie Shen, Heng Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Yanjun Wu and Mingshu Li
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EU project highlight: CoherentPaaS. Blending SQL, NoSQL, and CEP Ricardo Jimenez-Peris. CEO and Co-Founder LeanXcale
- 14:00 - 15:30
- Session 3: Keynote
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Analytics on Graphs with a Trillion Edges. Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel (EPFL)
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EU project highlight: HARNESS. Bringing real hardware heterogeneity to the cloud
- 16:30 - 17:30
- Session 4
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SCOLARS-DV: Scalable Task Validation over the Internet. Fernando Costa and Paulo Ferreira
- EU project highlight: LeanBigData: Real-Time Big Data Analytics Ricardo Jimenez-Peris. CEO and Co-Founder LeanXcale
Juan Caballero (IMDEA Software Institute), Michalis Polychronakis (Stony Brook University)
Room : TD 13
- 9:00 – 10:30
- Keynote
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Welcome and introduction. Juan Caballero
- Keynote
- 11:00 – 12:30
- Session 2
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Deployment Challenges in Log-Based PKI Enhancements. Stephanos Matsumoto (Carnegie Mellon University), Pawel Szalachowski, Adrian Perrig (ETH Zurich)
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A study on data de-pseudonymization in the smart grid. Valentin Tudor, Magnus Almgren, Marina Papatriantafilou (Chalmers University of Technology)
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Fox in the Trap: Thwarting Masqueraders via Automated Decoy Document Deployment. Jonathan Voris (New York Institute of Technology), Jill Jermyn, Nathaniel Boggs, Salvatore Stolfo (Columbia University)
- 14:00 – 15:30
- Invited talk & Session 3: Web & Mobile (Part A)
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Security applications of GPUs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Giorgos Vasiliadis
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Two-factor Authentication: Is the World Ready? Quantifying 2FA Adoption. Thanasis Petsas, Giorgos Tsirantonakis, Elias Athanasopoulos, Sotiris Ioannidis (FORTH)
- 16:30 – 18:00
- Session 4: Web & Mobile (Part B)
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Collaborative Filtering Under a Sybil Attack: Analysis of a Privacy Threat. Davide Frey, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Antoine Rault (INRIA), Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL)
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Mobile Device Fingerprinting Considered Harmful for Risk-based Authentication. Jan Spooren, Davy Preuveneers, Wouter Joosen (iMinds-DistriNet, KU Leuven)
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Exploring Reverse Engineering Symptoms in Android apps. Hugo Gonzalez, Natalia Stakhanova (University of New Brunswick)
Carlos Baquero (INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal), Marco Serafini (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Room : TD 11
- 08:30 – 10:30
- Welcome, Keynote & Session 1 — Lindsey Kuper
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Welcome and opening. Marco Serafini and Carlos Baquero
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Keynote - Yesquel: scalable SQL storage for web applications. Marcos Aguilera (VMware Inc., USA)
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Claret: Using Data Types for Highly Concurrent Distributed Transactions. Brandon Holt, Irene Zhang, Dan Ports, Mark Oskin and Luis Ceze
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A Study of CRDTs that do Computations. David Navalho, Sérgio Duarte and Nuno Preguiça
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Minimizing Coordination in Replicated Systems. Cheng Li, João Leitão, Allen Clement, Nuno Preguiça and Rodrigo Rodrigues
- 11:00 – 12:30
- Session 2 — Rodrigo Rodrigues
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Designing a causally consistent protocol for geo-distributed partial replication. Tyler Crain and Marc Shapiro
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Adaptive Strength Geo–Replication Strategy. Amadeo Asco and Annette Bieniusa
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Reducing the Vulnerability Window in Distributed Transactional Protocol. Manuel Bravo, Paolo Romano, Luís Rodrigues and Peter Van Roy
- 14:00 – 15:30
- Keynote & Session 3
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Keynote - CRDTs in production. Peter Bourgon (SoundCloud, Germany)
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Analysing and Optimising Parallel Snapshot Isolation. Giovanni Bernardi, Andrea Cerone, Alexey Gotsman and Hongseok Yang
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Lasp: A Language for Distributed, Eventually Consistent Computations with CRDTs. Christopher Meiklejohn and Peter Van Roy
- 16:30 – 18:00
- Session 4 — Sean Cribs
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An empirical perspective on causal consistency. Alejandro Zlatko Tomsic, Tyler Crain and Marc Shapiro
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On the Consistency of Heterogeneous Composite Objects. Alysson Bessani, Ricardo Mendes and Tiago Oliveira
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Collaborative offline web applications using Conflict-free Replicated Data Types. Santiago Castiñeira and Annette Bieniusa
Chris Rossbach (VMware Research)
Room : Amphi G
- 09:45 – 10:30
- Welcome & Invited Talk
- Marcos Aguilera (VMware Research Group)
- 11:00 – 12:30
- Session 1: Parallelism — Kornilios Kourtis
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Adaptive Parallelism Tuning for Coexisting Transactional Memory Applications: A Fair and Decentralized Approach. Amin Mohtasham and Joao Barreto (INESC-ID Lisboa)
- Marcos Aguilera (VMware Research Group)
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Albatross: Systems Support for Augmented Reality. Chris Rossbach (VMware Research Group) and Emmett Witchel (UT Austin)
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Supporting input dependent access pattern algorithms on GPUs using GPUfs. Sagi Shahar and Mark Silberstein (Technion)
- 14:00 - 14:30
- Invited Talk
- 14:30 – 15:30
- Session 2 — Chris Rossbach
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Utility Proportional Fairness in Parallel Transactional Memory Applications. Amin Mohtasham and Joao Barreto (INESC-ID Lisboa)
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Core Surprise Removal (CSR) in Commodity OS. Noam Shalev (Technion), Yaron Weinsberg (IBM Labs) and Idit Keidar (Technion)
Paolo Costa, Dushyanth Narayanan (Microsoft Research)
Room : Amphi H
- 09:00 – 10:30
- Session 1
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Using shared non-volatile memory in scale-out software. Stanko Novakovic (EPFL), Kimberly Keeton (HP Labs), Paolo Faraboschi (HP Labs) , Robert Schreiber (HP Labs), Edouard Bugnion (EPFL)
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Rack-scale Data Processing System. Jana Giceva, D. Makreshanski, C. Barthels, A. Dovis, G. Alonso (ETH Zurich)
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Heterogeneous Memory & Its Impact on Rack-Scale Computing. Babak Falsafi (EPFL)
- 11:00 – 12:30
- Session 2
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Atomic Broadcast for the Rack-Scale Computer. Matthew Grosvenor (University of Cambridge), Marwan Fayed (University of Stirling), Andrew W. Moore (University of Cambridge)
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Do we need Rack-scale Coordination? Alysson Bessani (University of Lisboa)
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Think outside the rack. John Wilkes, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Steven Hand (Google)
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Market-Driven Resource Allocation in Rack-Scale Systems. Muli Ben-Yehuda, Lior Segev, Ariel Maislos, Etay Bogner, Ron Asher (Stratoscale)
- 14:00 – 15:30
- Session 3
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Slim Fly: A Cost Effective Low-Diameter Network Topology. Torsten Hoefler, Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich)
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Bridging the Gap between Networking and End-Host Computing. Noa Zilberman, Andrew W. Moore (University of Cambridge)
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Reconfigurable network topologies at rack scale. Sergey Legtchenko, Nicholas Chen, Daniel Cletheroe, Ant Rowstron (Microsoft Research)
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Towards Reconfigurable Rack-Scale Networking. Tyler Szepesi, Bernard Wong, Tim Brecht, Sajjad Rizvi (University of Waterloo)
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Reliable and Highly-Available Non-Volatile Main Memory System. Yiying Zhang, Steven Swanson (University of California, San Diego)
- 16:30 – 17:15
- Panel discussion
Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen), Simon Peter (University of Washington)
Room : TD 8
- 9:15 - 9:30
- Welcome
- 9:30 - 10:30
- Invited Talk
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How to get a (Systems) PhD. Steve Hand (Google)
- 11:00 - 12:30
- Session 1 — Simon Peter
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Life on the Edge Network. Heidi Howard (Cambridge University)
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Energy Efficiency in Heterogeneous Data Centers. Mascha Kurpicz (Université de Neuchâtel)
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Predictable execution times on modern multi-core systems by cache-aware OS design. Hendrik Borghorst (TU Dortmund)
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In-memory analytics over large dynamic graphs. Jasmina Malicevic (EPFL)
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Rack-aware operating systems. Moritz Hoffmann (ETH Zurich)
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Hardening the Reliable Computing Base. Tobias Stumpf (TU Dresden)
- 14:00 - 15:30
- Session 2 — Philippe Bonnet
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Hardware-protected Execution in an Untrusted Cloud. Stefan Brenner (TU Braunschweig)
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Virtio-SCIF: Enabling Xeon Phi capabilities on Virtual Machines. Stefanos Gerangelos (NTU Athens)
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Integrated Cloud Computing Architecture to Guarantee Network SLAs. Kyungwoon Lee (Korea University)
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Analysis and Prediction of Users and Content Popularity on Online Social Networks. Samin Mohammadi (Institut Mines-Telecom)
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Enhancing Internet of Things with Reconfigurable Hardware and Software. Fan Yang (KU Leuven)