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 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

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-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
    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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