MASCOTS 2024
October 21-23, 2024
Krakow, Poland
Preliminary program of the MASCOTS 2024 Conference
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 CommunicationsKemal 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 ChenMulti-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 HarrisonOn 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
17:00-18:00 Keynote II:
Session chair: Tadeusz Czachorski, IITIS PAN
Title TBD
Karol Życzkowski, Jagiellonian University
19:00 Conference Banquet
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
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-KiswanyLoad 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
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 - Deep Learning Intrusion Detection and Mitigation of DoS Attacks,
Mohammed Nasereddin, Mert Nakip and Erol Gelenbe - A Prolog-based Approach to Self-Evaluated, Declarative and Zero-Knowledge Verifiable Policies,
Martin Farkas, Balázs Ádám Toldi, Bertalan Zoltán Péter and Imre Kocsis
12:20-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:10 EuroCyberSec2024 Session II
Session chair: Valeria Loscri, Inria-Lille
- Mitigation of Covert Communications in MQTT Topics Through Small Language Models,
Camilla Cespi Polisiani, Marco Zuppelli, Maria Carla Calzarossa, Luca Caviglione and Massimo Guarascio - Transforming the Field of Vulnerability Prediction: Are Large Language Models the key?
Miltiadis Siavvas, Ilias Kalouptsoglou, Erol Gelenbe, Dionysios Kehagias and Dimitrios Tzovaras - 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 - Vulnerability prediction using pre-trained models: An empirical evaluation,
Ilias Kalouptsoglou, Miltiadis Siavvas, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Dionysios Kehagias and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou
15:10-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 Closing of MASCOTS’24 & Lessons Learned
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