MASCOTS 2024

DAY 1: Monday, October 21, 2024,

8:30-13:00 Registration desk open

9:00-9:15 MASCOTS Workshop Opening

9:15-10:55 Workshop Session 1
Session chair: Krzysztof Grochla, IITIS PAN

• Knowledge Distillation for Real-Time Classification of Early Media
  in Voice Communications

  Kemal Altwlkany, Hadžem Hadžić, Amar Kurić and Emanuel Lacic

• Best-Effort Power Model Serving for Energy Quantification of Cloud
  Instances
  Sunyanan Choochotkaew, Tatsuhiro Chiba, Marcelo Amaral, Rina Nakazawa, Scott Trent, Eun Kyung Lee, Umamaheswari Devi, Tamar Eilam and Huamin Chen

• Multi-Objective Optimization in Asynchronous Environments: An
  Evolutionary Game Theory Approach
  Paweł Jarosz and Adam Marszałek

• Graph-based Modeling and Simulation of Emergency Services Communication Systems
  Jardi Martinez Jordan and Michael Stiber
• DILATON: Multi-dimensional Quantum Deficit Algorithm for Multi-tenant SSD Resource Allocation [online presentation]
  Shirish Bahirat, Madhurima Ray and Hamed Seyedroudbari

10:55-11:15 Break

11:15-11:30 Main Conference opening

11:30-12:30 Keynote I:
Session chair: Erol Gelenbe, IITIS PAN
What does Performance Mean for Large Language Models?
                   Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 1 – Performance Modeling
Session chair: Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh

• The Non-Saturated Multiserver Job Queuing Model with Two Job Classes: a Matrix Geometric Analysis

  Adityo Anggraito, Diletta Olliaro, Marco Ajmone Marsan and Andrea Marin

• Response time in a pair of processor sharing queues with Join-the-Shortest-Queue scheduling
  Julianna Bor and Peter G Harrison

• On an Adaptive-Quasi-Deterministic Transmission Policy Queueing Model

  Jacob Bergquist, Erol Gelenbe and Karl Sigman

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-17:00 Session 2 – Performance Evaluation
Session chair: Karl Sigman, Columbia University

• Approximating Closed Queueing Networks in Semi-Markov Random Environments
  Yaqi Zhou, Matthew Sheldon and Giuliano Casale
• Impact of energy leakage on the energy performance of green IoT nodes
  Godlove Suila Kuaban, Tadeusz Czachorski, Erol Gelenbe, Valery Nkemeni, Piotr Pecka and Piotr Czekalski

• Enabling Quantum Computer Simulation under Minimal Precision Floating-Point using Irrational Value Decomposition
  Hyoju Seo and Yongtae Kim

DAY 2: Tuesday, October 22, 2024

9:00-10:30 Session 3 – Machine Learning and Security
Session chair: Y.C. Tay, National University of Singapore

• Evaluating Convolutional Neural Networks via measuring similarity of their first-layer filters and Gabor filters

  Katarzyna Filus, Joanna Domanska and Jerzy Klamka

• Fast and Accurate DNN Performance Estimation across Diverse Hardware Platforms [online presentation]
  Vishwas Vasudeva Kakrannaya, Siddhartha Balakrishna Rai, Anand Sivasubramaniam and Timothy Zhu
• Homomorphic Encryption Enabled Delta Encoding
  David Hasselquist, János Dani and Niklas Carlsson

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 Session 4 – Storage Systems
Session chair: Luisa Massari, University of Pavia

• Towards A Unified Garbage Collection Strategy in ZNS Key-Value Store File Systems Using Same-Victim GC
  Hamin Hwangbo, Joseph Ro, Sungjin Byeon, Safdar Jamil, Junyoung Han, Jooyoung Hwang and Youngjae Kim
• Reliability Evaluation of Automated Tape Library Systems
  Ilias Iliadis and Mark Lantz

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00 Session 5 – Architecture
Session chair: Ilias Iliadis, IBM Research Europe

• Caspian: A Carbon-aware Workload Scheduler in Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Environments
  Tayebeh Bahreini, Asser Tantawi and Olivier Tardieu
• Cosmos discovery: Quantitative assessment of Cosmos blockchain
  Daria Smuseva, Ivan Malakhov, Andrea Marin, Carla Piazza and Sabina Rossi
• Cloud Reamer: Enabling Inference Services in Training Clusters
  Osama Khan, Gwanjong Park, Junyeol Yu and Euiseong Seo
• d-MALIBOO: a Bayesian Optimization framework for dealing with Discrete Variables
  Roberto Sala, Bruno Guindani, Danilo Ardagna and Alessandra Guglielmi

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-17:30 Session 6 – Networks
Session chair: Olivier Tardieu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

• Slicify: Fault Injection Testing for Network Partitions
  Seba Khaleel, Sreeharsha Udayashankar and Samer Al-Kiswany

• Load Balancing in Large WiFi Networks Using DQL-MultiMDP with Constrained Clustering

  Mohamed Bellouch, Lynda Zitoune, Iyad Lahsen-Cherif and Véronique Vèque

• Leveraging Mobility Simulations with Realistic Origin-Destination Trajectory Filling [online presentation]
  Augusto Cesar Souza Araujo Domingues, Fabrício Aguiar Silva, Leticia Pinto, Rosangela Helena Loschi and Antonio Loureiro
  
• Scalability Analysis of Linear LoRa Mesh Networks
  Nalith Udugampola, Xiaoyu Ai, Binghao Li and Aruna Seneviratne
  

DAY 3: Wednesday, October 23, 2024

9:00-10:00 Session 7 – GPU Performance 
Session chair: Miltiadis Siavvas, CERTH

• Optimizing GPU Multiplexing for Efficient and Cost-Effective Access to Diverse Large Language Models in GPU Clusters
  Yue Zhu, Chen Wang, Max Calman, Rina Nakazawa and Eun Kyung Lee
• LLMPerf: GPU Performance Modeling meets Large Language Models
  Minh-Khoi Nguyen-Nhat, Hoang Duy Nguyen Do, Huyen Thao Le and Tuan Thanh Dao

10:00-10:25 Break

10:25 EuroCyberSec2024 Workshop Opening

10.30-11.30 Keynote III:
Session chair: Erol Gelenbe, IITIS PAN
Security Aspects in the Evolved IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum Paradigm
                   Valeria Loscri, Inria-Lille

11:30-12:30 EuroCyberSec2024 Session I
Session chair: Maria Carla Calzarossa, University of Pavia

• A pipeline for processing large datasets of potentially malicious binaries with rate-limited access to a cloud-based malware analysis platform,
  Dávid Maliga, Roland Nagy and Levente Buttyán
• Transforming the Field of Vulnerability Prediction: Are Large Language Models the key?
  Miltiadis Siavvas, Ilias Kalouptsoglou, Erol Gelenbe, Dionysios Kehagias and Dimitrios Tzovaras
• Vulnerability prediction using pre-trained models: An empirical evaluation,
  Ilias Kalouptsoglou, Miltiadis Siavvas, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Dionysios Kehagias and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:10 EuroCyberSec2024 Session II
Session chair: Valeria Loscri, Inria-Lille

• A Prolog-based Approach to Self-Evaluated, Declarative and Zero-Knowledge Verifiable Policies,
  Martin Farkas, Balázs Ádám Toldi, Bertalan Zoltán Péter and Imre Kocsis
• Deep Learning Intrusion Detection and Mitigation of DoS Attacks,
  Mohammed Nasereddin, Mert Nakip and Erol Gelenbe
• Mitigation of Covert Communications in MQTT Topics Through Small Language Models,
  Camilla Cespi Polisiani, Marco Zuppelli, Maria Carla Calzarossa, Luca Caviglione and Massimo Guarascio
• Buffer Access Monitoring for Enhanced Buffer Overflow Detection in Fuzzing,
  Ramon Barakat, Silvan Josten and Martin A. Schneider
• An Associated Random Neural Network Detects Intrusions and Estimates Attack Graphs,
  Mert Nakip and Erol Gelenbe

15:10-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 Closing of MASCOTS’24 & Lessons Learned