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1 - CompSys 2024 (27-29 May 2024)

Welcome to CompSys 2024, a Computer Science conference designed to highlight Dutch Computer Systems and Networks research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration. We aim to provide a meeting space for network, computing, and computer system research and industry ideas.

The 7th edition will take place on 27-29 May 2024, in collaboration with NCCV, the Netherlands Conference on Computer Vision under the auspices of the ASCI research school.

The location for the 2024 edition of CompSys is the Ruwenberg Hotel (Ruwenbergstraat 7, 5271 AG Sint-Michielsgestel) in the Den Bosch region.

Building up on the success of the previous six editions (2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017), the seventh edition of the conference will emphasize efforts on community building and providing a forum to discuss ongoing and future projects among all members of academic research groups in the Netherlands.

The conference will focus on the major research and practice themes related to computer systems. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, panel discussions, and exciting early ideas. We strive for diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we especially welcome senior members of the research community, junior faculty members, PhD, master, or undergraduate students.


Latest news:


  • May 4 2024: the program is now online!
  • April 8 2024: NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY APRIL 12, 23:59 Dutch time!
  • 12 February 2024: You can now register for the conference. Registration deadline: May 10 2024.
  • 12 February 2024: Call for papers is now online.
Description Date
Abstract registration (not mandatory, but it helps us organize) 2 April 2024
Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED!) 12 April 2024, 23:59 Dutch time
Author notification 1 May 2024
Registration deadline 10 May 2024
In-person conference 27-29 May 2024

1.1 - Program

Day 1: MondayTimeTypeActivityPresenter(s)Author(s)
 9:45 - 10:00Welcome and Opening Remarks   
 10:00 - 11:00Keynote (chair: )KEYNOTE: Affordable and sustainable data- and compute-intensive radio astronomyRoelien Attema-Van Waas and Chris Broekema (ASTRON)Roelien Attema-Van Waas and Chris Broekema (ASTRON)
 11:00 - 11:30Break   
 11:30 - 12:30Research Talk (Chair: )Columbo: A Reasoning Framework for Kubernetes' Configuration Space Matthijs Jansen, Sacheendra Talluri, Krijn Doekemeijer, Nick Tehrany, Alexandru Iosup and Animesh Trivedi
  Research TalkLog Parsing in the Era of Modern Software SystemsStefan PetrescuStefan Petrescu
  Research TalkLeveraging Hardware Prefetching by Designing Datastructures around Strided Access PatternsMiguel BlomMiguel Blom, Kristian Rietveld and Rob van Nieuwpoort
 12:30-14:00Lunch break   
 14:00-15:00Research Talk (Chair: )Optimizing QoS in Wireless IoT Networks: A Cross-Layer based Experimental StudyKamran ZiaKamran Zia and Alessandro Chiumento
  Research TalkDesigning Energy-Efficient Cell-Free Wireless Networks: A Stochastic Geometry Based ApproachSyllas MagalhaesSyllas Magalhaes, Suzan Bayhan and Geert Heijenk
  Research TalkData On the Go: Seamless Data Routing for Intermittently-Powered Battery-Free SensingGaosheng Liu Gaosheng Liu and Lin Wang
 15:00-15:30Break   
 15:30-16:30Research Talk (Chair: )Kernel Launcher: C++ Library for Optimal-Performance Portable CUDA ApplicationsStijn Heldens Stijn Heldens and Ben van Werkhoven
  Research TalkAuto-tuning OpenACC Applications with Kernel TunerAlessio Sclocco Alessio Sclocco and Ben van Werkhoven
  Research TalkEfficient Search Space Construction for Auto-TuningFloris-Jan WillemsenFloris-Jan Willemsen and Ben van Werkhoven
 16:30 - 17:00Break   
 17:00-18:00Research Talk (Chair: )AI Workloads on GPU, Profile and AnalysisMahmoud Alasmar Mahmoud Alasmar and Kawsar Haghshenas
  Research TalkBenchmarking Dynamic Graph Processing Systems: a Case Study for BLADYGShaoshuai DuShaoshuai Du, Ana-Lucia Varbanescu and Andy D Pimentel
  Research TalkSystematic Performance Benchmarking of emerging HPC Processors for HemocellJelle van DijkJelle van Dijk, Gábor Závodszky and Ana Lucia Varbanescu
 18:00-18:30Time to check in / refreshfree time  
 18:30DinnerDinner  
Day 2: TuesdayTimeTypeActivityPresenter(s)Author(s)
 09:30-10:30Keynote (chair: )KEYNOTE, title to be announcedPrzemysław Pawełczak (TU Delft)Przemysław Pawełczak (TU Delft)
 10:30 - 11:00Break   
 11:00-12:30Research Talk (Chair: )Asynchronous Multi-Server Federated Learning for Geo-Distributed ClientsYuncong ZuoYuncong Zuo, Bart Cox, Jérémie Decouchant and Lydia Chen
  Research TalkHybrid Scheduling for Serverless FunctionsYuxuan ZhaoYuxuan Zhao, Weikang Weng and Alexandru Uta
  Research TalkPriCE: Privacy-Preserving and Cost-Effective Scheduling for Parallelizing the Large Medical Image Processing Workflow over Hybrid CloudsYuandou WangYuandou Wang, Neel Kanwal, Kjersti Engan, Chunming Rong, Paola Grosso and Zhiming Zhao
  Research TalkExDe: Design Space Exploration of Scheduler Architectures and Mechanisms for Serverless Data-processingSacheendra TalluriSacheendra Talluri, Nikolas Herbst, Cristina Abad, Tiziano De Matteis and Alexandru Iosup
 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch    
 14:00 -15:00JOINT Keynote (chair: )JOINT KEYNOTE WITH NCCV, title to be announcedLin Wang (Paderborn University)Lin Wang (Paderborn University)
 15:00 - 15:30Break   
 15:30-16:30Research Talk (Chair: )MoreFixes: A Large-Scale Dataset of CVE Fix Commits Mined through Enhanced Repository DiscoveryJafar AkhoundaliJafar Akhoundali, Sajad Rahim Nouri, Kristian Rietveld and Olga Gadyatskaya
  Research TalkSpecProbeGuard: A Reactive Defense Against Speculative Probing Attacks in the Linux KernelDave QuakkelaarDave Quakkelaar
  Research TalkExplanation of Clustering Methods for Distinguishing Android Malware FamilyRui LiRui Li, Olga Gadyatskaya and Feiyang Sun
 16:30 - 17:00Break   
 17:00-18:00Research Talk (Chair: )Boosting the Performance of Lightweight HAR Models with Attention and Knowledge DistillationÖzlem Durmaz Özlem Durmaz and Sümeyye Ağaç
  Research TalkVariational Inference and Mixed-Precision: Approximating Vision Transformers for the EdgeDewant KatareDewant Katare, Sam Leroux, Marijn Janssen and Aaron Yi Ding
  Research TalkTowards Complete Quantum Network Stacks, A SurveyZiyan ZhangZiyan Zhang, Chrysa Papagianni, Florian Speelman and Paola Grosso
 18:00 - 18:30Town hall & community session   
 18:30 - 20:30Dinner (joint with NCCV)   
 20:30Pubquiz (joint with NCCV)   
Day 3: WednesdayTimeTypeActivityPresenter(s)Author(s)
 10:00Research Talk (Chair: )FootPrinter: Quantifying Data Center Carbon FootprintDante NiewenhuisDante Niewenhuis, Sacheendra Talluri, Alexandru Iosup and Tiziano De Matteis
  Research TalkTowards a Workload Trace Archive for Metaverse SystemsRadu ApsanRadu Apsan, Damla Ural, Paul Daniëlse, Vlad-Andrei Cursaru, Eames Trinh, Jesse Donkervliet and Alexandru Iosup
  Research TalkEnabling Operational Data Analytics for Datacenters through Ontologies, Monitoring, and Simulation-based PredictionShekhar SumanShekhar Suman, Xiaoyu Chu, Dante Niewenhuis, Sacheendra Talluri, Tiziano De Matteis and Alexandru Iosup
 11:00 - 11:30Break   
 11:30 - 12:30Research Talk (Chair: )Reviving Storage Systems Education in the 21 st Century — An experience reportAnimesh TrivediAnimesh Trivedi, Matthijs Jansen, Krijn Doekemeijer, Sacheendra Talluri and Nick Tehrany
  Research TalkBFQ, Multiqueue-Deadline, or Kyber? Performance Characterization of Linux Storage Schedulers in the NVMe EraZebin RenZebin Ren, Krijn Doekemeijer, Nick Tehrany and Animesh Trivedi
  Research TalkZWAL: Rethinking Write-ahead Logs for ZNS SSDs with Zone AppendsKrijn DoekemeijerKrijn Doekemeijer, Zebin Ren, Nick Tehrany and Animesh Trivedi
 12:30 - 12.45Closing & Best Presentation Award    
 12.45 - 14.00Lunch  

1.2 - Keynote

We have the pleasure of welcoming our keynote speakers at CompSys'24.

Monday 27 May, 10:00
Title: Affordable and sustainable data- and compute-intensive radio astronomy
By Roelien Attema-Van Waas and Chris Broekema, ASTRON
Abstract: Radio astronomy is a relatively new area of science that relies heavily on the abundant availability of data- and compute-capacity. One could even argue that the advent of affordable compute power, in the form of general purpose mini-computers in the 1970s, made the construction of aperture synthesis arrays like the one in Westerbork possible. More recently, in the early 2000s, ASTRON designed and built the LOFAR telescope to take advantage of the steady increase of available compute power. This is one of the very first 'software telescopes', where a massive amount of complexity is offloaded from the hardware into the software (with all the appropriate growing pains we are only now starting to really understand).

This predictable and inevitable increase in compute capability can no longer be relied upon. Worse, we are now faced with instruments that can produce far more data than we can affordably process. For future telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array and even more ambitious later telescopes we could easily be overwhelmed by the virtual deluge of data being foisted on the scientist. I this talk we will briefly introduce radioastronomy and the specific R&D challenges and we will go into some detail on the anatomy of a modern large-scale distributed radio telescope, what processing needs to be done with the collected data, and how we are preparing to process the fire-hose of data to be collected by modern instruments. New and emerging technologies play a central role in this strategy.

Short bio: Chris Broekema has been employed by ASTRON, the Netherlands institute for radio astronomy, since 2003, first as a scientific programmer, now as a research staff member. Over the years he has focused most of his work on compute hardware design for radio astronomy. He has designed, built, procured, operated and worked on high-performance computing systems for the LOFAR telescope in the Netherlands, including some of the fastest supercomputers in the world at the time, since 2004. More recently his focus shifted to the computational and data-transport challenges in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), where he was responsible for the hardware platform design of the SKA Science Data Processor (SDP).

Apart from the direct work on telescopes described above, he has been doing applied research into compute- and data-transport systems for radio astronomy applications. His focus is on the various system aspects that impact the suitability and usability of particular compute- and data-transport systems for radio astronomy. He has published several papers on the subject, some of which are collected in this thesis. Finally, he served in various panels and review committees, most notably for the ASKAP science data processor and the ARTS system, and has presented his work numerous times, both nationally and internationally.

Tuesday 28 May, 9:30
Title: To be announced
By Przemysław Pawełczak, Associate Professor Embedded Systems Group, TU Delft
Abstract:
Short bio:
Tuesday 28 May, 14:00
Title: To be announced
Joint Keynote with NCCV, by Professor Lin Wang, Paderborn University
Abstract:
Short bio:

1.3 - Panel

To be announced.

1.4 - Organization

Organization

Name University/Organization
Vasilios Andrikopoulos (co-chair)University of Groningen
Suzan Bayhan (co-chair)University of Twente
Rob van Nieuwpoort (co-chair)Leiden University
Paula DiksASCI Office, TU Delft

Steering committee

Name University/Organization
Paola GrossoUniversity of Amsterdam
Fernando A. KuipersTU Delft
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversity of Twente
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam

1.5 - Location


Registration:

You can now register for the conference. Registration deadline: May 10 2024.

Location:

The location for the 2024 edition of CompSys is the Ruwenberg Hotel in the Den Bosch region, the Netherlands.

Hotel Ruwenberg

The hotel is situated in a 14th-century country estate in Sint-Michielsgestel with a long history. The history of castle ‘De Ruwenberg’ goes back to the 14th century and offers peaceful accommodation for those people searching for knowledge since many ages. The exact date of its construction is unknown, but on the clock tower the year 1357 is indicated as a date of origin. In 1884 the castle belonged to the friars of Tilburg and in that year the tower was threatened with destruction due to a heavy storm. Thanks to the good craftsmanship the roof timbers of a church, tower or castle were inscribed with the monogram and matching year. The following dates could be found during the repair: built in 1357 and acquired in 1851.

Please note that your overnight stays in this hotel are included in the registration fee.

1.6 - Submission details

Submission Guidelines

All contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted contributions will appear in the final program either as a short talk or a full presentation, depending on the reviews. All presentations will be made available in digital format, unless otherwise instructed by the authors. For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.

To foster the broadest possible engagement and exchanging of ideas, CompSys 2024 does not claim copyright, making it possible for authors of accepted contributions to present work that has already been published or is in the process of being published elsewhere.

Important dates

Description Date
Abstract registration (not mandatory, but it helps us organize) 2 April 2024
Paper submission deadline EXTENDED: 12 April 2024, 23:59 Dutch time
Author notification 1 May 2024
Registration deadline 16 May 2024
In-person conference 27-29 May 2024

Submission types

CompSys 2024 welcomes three types of contributions: research papers, work-in-progress papers/early ideas, and negative/failed research results.

Long papers

Research papers on your best research results from the past year(s). This includes papers already submitted to and/or accepted at (inter)national conferences or workshops (please indicate the original venue in the submission form). Long papers (not exceeding 12 pages in double-column or 15 pages in LNCS format) can be submitted using any of the commonly used templates (e.g., ACM, IEEE, LNCS).

Short papers: Work-in-progress and early ideas

Since CompSys is a forum that encourages discussions about early and exciting ideas, we specifically welcome extended abstracts highlighting early ideas and work-in-progress papers. Such submissions are especially suitable for graduate and undergraduate students working towards finalizing their thesis or PhD students who have recently started or would like to share one of their preliminary results with the community. In particular, we encourage contributions in the form of short talks to share an early and not yet explored idea with the community to stimulate discussions and collect feedback. These talks might be particularly interesting for early-stage researchers. Submissions of early ideas or work-in-progress papers require a short paper of at most 2 pages (not including references) in IEEE double-column format or 4 pages (not including references) in LNCS single-column format. The paper should mention the research question being addressed, outline the novelty and/or originality of the idea, approach, or (initial) results, and contain a summary of preliminary results.

Negative research results

Like last year, we also solicit contributions sharing negative results, wrong methodologies, and/or invalidated hypothesis to share the lessons learned in the community and also once again remind to ourselves that a regular part of performing research is also about trying many ideas that may not lead to expected results. Submissions of negative research results papers require a short paper of at most 2 pages (not including references) in IEEE double-column format or 4 pages (not including references) in LNCS single-column format.

Submission Portal

All contributions are to be submitted through easychair.

1.7 - Contact

International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands

1.8 - Important Dates

Description Date
Abstract registration (not mandatory, but it helps us organize) 2 April 2024
Paper submission deadline EXTENDED: 12 April 2024, 23:59 Dutch time
Author notification 1 May 2024
Registration deadline 10 May 2024
In-person conference 27-29 May 2024

2 - Previous editions of the CompSys conference

2.1 - Compsys 2023

Latest news:


  • 29 June 2023: Congrations to the awardees for Best Short/Long Paper Award! Thanks to the sponsor IEEE Benelux COM/VT Jt. Chapter.
  • 31 May 2023: Registration is open! *Registration deadline: June 16, 2023
  • 3 May 2023: Draft program is online.
  • 23 February 2023: CompSys 2023 website up.

Featured Keynotes:

  • Bahare M Khorsandi (Nokia Bell Labs): 6G architecture driven design to connect the three worlds
  • Mitra Nasri (TU/e): The right action at the right time: past, present, and future trends in real-time systems design
  • Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL): A New Era In Wireless Networking: Millimeter Wave, RAN Virtualization, AI, and Joint Communication & Sensing
  • Frans Widdershoven (TUD/NXP): Pixelated Capacitive Sensors for Embedded Smart Multi-Sensing Application

Overarching Panel: Bridging the Gap - Industry Uptake of Advanced Research from Academia

  • Darkshina Dasari (Bosch), Geoffery Nelissen (TU/e), Fernando Kuipers (TU Delft) and Frank Mertz (KPN)

Welcome to CompSys 2023, a Computer Science conference designed to highlight Dutch Computer Systems and Networks research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration.

At CompSys, we aim to provide a meeting space for network, computing, and computer system research and industry ideas. Building up on the success of the previous five editions (2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017), the sixth edition of the conference will emphasize efforts on community building and providing a forum to discuss ongoing and future projects among all members of academic research groups in the Netherlands.

The conference will focus on the major research and practice themes related to computer systems. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, panel discussions, and exciting early ideas. We strive for diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we especially welcome senior members of the research community, junior faculty members, PhD, master, or undergraduate students.

2.1.1 - Program

Tuesday, June 27th Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
9:45 - Welcome and opening remarks Kuan-Hsun Chen Organization Committee
10:00 Keynote (Chair: Qing Wang) A New Era In Wireless Networking: Millimeter Wave, RAN Virtualization, AI, and Joint Communication & Sensing Haitham Hassanieh
11:00 Break
11:30 Research Talk (Chair: Qing Wang) A Trace-driven Performance Evaluation of Hash-based Task Placement Algorithms for Cache-enabled Serverless Computing Sacheendra Talluri Sacheendra Talluri, Nikolas Herbst, Cristina Abad, Animesh Trivedi and Alexandru Iosup
Research Talk Power Allocation for Multi-Cell Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks: Energy Efficiency vs. Throughput vs. Power Consumption Suzan Bayhan Syllas Magalhaes, Suzan Bayhan and Geert Heijenk
Research Talk When VLC Meets Under-Screen Camera Hanting Ye, Jie Xiong and Qing Wang
Research Talk Reducing Communication Cost in Federated Learning Saeed Khalilian Gourtani Saeed Khalilian Gourtani, Vasileios Tsouvalas, Tanir Ozcelebi and Nirvana Meratnia
Research Talk Servo: Increasing the Scalability of Modifiable Virtual Environments Using Serverless Computing Jesse Donkervliet, Javier Ron, Junyan Li, Tiberiu Iancu, Cristina Abad and Alexandru Iosup
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Research Talk (Chair: Kuan-Hsun Chen) Performance Characterization of Modern Storage Stacks: POSIX I/O, libaio, SPDK, and io_uring Zebin Ren Zebin Ren and Animesh Trivedi
Research Talk TropoDB: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a KV-Store for Zoned Namespace Devices Krijn Doekemeijer Krijn Doekemeijer and Animesh Trivedi
Research Talk Finding Cache-Friendly Multi-Dimensional Array Layouts Using Evolutionary Algorithms Stephen Nicholas Swatman Stephen Nicholas Swatman, Ana-Lucia Varbanescu and Andy Pimentel
Research Talk DPFS: DPU-Powered File System Virtualization Peter-Jan Gootzen Peter-Jan Gootzen, Jonas Pfefferle, Radu Stoica and Animesh Trivedi
Research Talk msF2FS: Design and Implementation of an NVMe ZNS SSD Optimized F2FS authors System Nick Tehrany Nick Tehrany, Krijn Doekemeijer and Animesh Trivedi
15:00 Break
15:30 Research Talk (Chair: Nirvana Meratnia) Dataset Distillation for Information Retrieval Applications Pooya Khandel Pooya Khandel, Andrew Yates and Ana Lucia Varbanescu
Research Talk Enhancing CNN Inference Latency on Edge Devices with Heterogeneous Multi-Processor SoCs: A Layer-Switched Execution Approach Ehsan Aghapour Ehsan Aghapour, Dolly Sapra, Andy Pimentel and Anuj Pathania
Research Talk Adaptive Random Forest on FPGA Frank Ridder Frank Ridder, Kuan-Hsun Chen and Nikolaos Alachiotis
Research Talk Adaptive Services Function Chain Orchestration For Digital Health Twin Use Cases: Heuristic-boosted Q-Learning Approach Jamila Alsayed Kassem Jamila Alsayed Kassem, Li Zhong, Arie Taal and Paola Grosso
16:30 Community Session Introduction of the CompSys Manifesto and the IPN FCSN SIG working groups Animesh Trivedi, Fernando Kuipers, and Alexandru Iosup Steering and Organization Committees
17:30 Drinks
18:30 Dinner + Social event
Wednesday, June 28th Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:00 Keynote (Chair: Qing Wang) 6G architecture driven design to connect the three worlds Bahare M Khorsandi
10:00 Break
10:30 Research Talk (Chair: Qing Wang) A Reference Architecture for Datacenter Scheduler Programming Abstractions: Design and Experiments Sacheendra Talluri Aratz Manterola Lasa, Sacheendra Talluri and Alexandru Iosup
Research Talk Thermal Management for S-NUCA Many-Cores via Synchronous Thread Rotations Yixian Shen Yixian Shen, Sobhan Niknam, Anuj Pathania and Andy Pimentel
Research Talk Investigation of FlexAlgo for User-driven Path Control Martyna Pawlus and Julia Kułacz Julia Kułacz, Martyna Pawlus, Leonardo Boldrini and Paola Grosso
Research Talk Monitoring Straggler Traffic Flows in Data Plane Habib Mostafaei Habib Mostafaei
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Keynote (Chair: Kuan-Hsun Chen) The right action at the right time: past, present, and future trends in real-time systems design Mitra Nasri
14:30 Break
15:00 Research Talk (Chair: Kuan-Hsun Chen) Efficient Instruction Set Extensions for Homomorphic Encryption Marco Brohet, Kartik Nayak and Francesco Regazzoni
Research Talk Let Me Unwind That For You: Exceptions to Backward-Edge Protection Victor Duta Victor Duta, Fabian Freyer, Fabio Pagani, Marius Muench and Cristiano Giuffrida
Research Talk Finding Profitable Chains of Execution in a Haystack Miguel Blom Miguel Blom and Kristian Rietveld
Research Talk SPRAV: Simple Post-Quantum Remote Attestation for RISC-V Devices Maximilian Barger Maximilian Barger, Marco Brohet and Francesco Regazzoni
16:00 Break
16:15 Research Talk (Chair: Nirvana Meratnia) Multi-Objective Optimization of Consumer Group Autoscaling in Message Broker Systems Diogo Landau Diogo Landau, Jorge Barbosa, Nishant Saurabh and Xavier Andrade
Research Talk Continuum: Automate Infrastructure Deployment and Benchmarking in the Compute Continuum Matthijs Jansen Matthijs Jansen, Linus Wagner, Animesh Trivedi and Alexandru Iosup
Research Talk A comparative analysis of GPGPU simulators Roman Dahm Roman Dahm and Ana Lucia Varbanescu
Research Talk Modeling Power Consumption for GPU Kernels Nick Breed Nick Breed, Ana Lucia Varbanescu and Stephen Nicholas Swatman
Research Talk How to Use iFogSim for Energy-Consumption Estimation Saeedeh Baneshi Saeedeh Baneshi, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Anuj Pathania, Benny Akesson and Andy Pimentel
17:30 Drinks and Social
18:30 Dinner
Thursday, June 29th Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:00 Panel (Chair: Nirvana Meratnia) Bridging the Gap - Industry Uptake of Advanced Research from Academia Dakshina Dasari, Geoffery Nelissen, Fernando Kuipers and Frank Mertz
10:00 Research Talk (Chair: Kuan-Hsun Chen) Assessment of Efficient Dispatching in FreeRTOS Florian Hagens Florian Hagens and Kuan-Hsun Chen
Research Talk Streaming Task Graph Scheduling for Dataflow Architectures Tiziano De Matteis Tiziano De Matteis, Lukas Gianinazzi, Johannes de Fine Licht and Torsten Hoefler
Research Talk Towards On-the-Fly Dynamic Load Balancing For A Cell Based Flow Simulation Jelle van Dijk Jelle van Dijk, Gábor Závodszky and Ana Lucia Varbanescu
10:45 Break
11:00 Keynote (Chair: Nirvana Meratnia) Pixelated Capacitive Sensors for Embedded Smart Multi-Sensing Application Frans Widdershoven
12:00 Closing and Awards Qing Wang Organization Committee
12:30 Lunch

2.1.2 - Keynote

We have the pleasure of welcoming our keynote speakers at CompSys'23.

Tuesday 27 June, 10:00
Title: A New Era In Wireless Networking: Millimeter Wave, RAN Virtualization, AI, and Joint Communication & Sensing
By Haitham Hassanieh
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Abstract: Wireless networks and sensors have become entrenched in every aspect of our lives, playing a central role in our homes, workplaces, and industries. With the rise of the Internet of Things and the increasing demand for mobile data, the world is witnessing an unprecedented boom in the number of wireless devices leading to significant research challenges. At the same time, new opportunities are emerging from the introduction of millimeter wave technology, RAN virtualization, and AI all the way to joint communication and sensing. In this talk, I will describe my team’s work on leveraging these opportunities to build scalable, practical, and efficient IoT and wireless technologies. I will describe our work on millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G wireless to enable fast beamforming and dense spatial reuse as well as our work on channel aware 5G RAN Slicing. I will then discuss how we leverage mmWave signals to enable through-fog high-resolution imaging for self-driving cars as well as contactless material sensing. I will also discuss how we can enable joint communication and sensing in next-generation wireless networks. Finally, I will touch on some of our work on enabling communication between micro and nano-implants using biomolecular communication.
Short bio: Haitham Hassanieh is an associate professor in the School of Communication and Computer Science at EPFL. His research is in the areas of wireless networks, mobile systems, sensing, and algorithms. Before joining EPFL, he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2016. His PhD thesis on the Sparse Fourier Transform won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Sprowls best thesis award at MIT, and TR10 Award for the top ten breakthrough technologies in 2012. His research has received best paper awards at ACM SIGCOMM and ACM MobiSys. He is also the recipient of the NSF Career Award, the Google Faculty Research Award, and the Alfred Sloan Foundation Fellowship.

Wednesday 28 June, 09:00
Title: 6G architecture driven design to connect the three worlds
By Bahare M Khorsandi
Nokia Bell Labs
Abstract: The rapid evolution of wireless communication technologies has paved the way for the development of the next generation of cellular networks. Building upon the foundations laid by its predecessor, 5G, 6G aims to deliver unprecedented levels of connectivity, data rates, and latency reduction, catering to the diverse requirements of emerging applications such as network-as-a-sensor, the AI-native air interface, as well as mixed reality (XR), and autonomous systems. 6G is no longer a long-term aspiration. It is a framework of technologies that will become a reality by the end of the decade. We are transitioning from the idea-generation phase to systematization and proof-of-concept realization. this talk is dedicated to presenting the latest progress on many of the key technologies in the 6G ecosystem and the envision for future 6G systems.
Short bio: Bahare M. Khorsandi is a research engineer at Nokia Strategy and Technology based in Munich Germany. She is active in various internal and external 6G projects. Most recently, being a PMT member and work package lead in the European flagship project Hexa-X. She also actively contribute to the mobile architecture design in Hexa-X-II as well as German founded lighthouse project 6G-ANNA. She was awarded both her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Bologna/Italy in 2016 and 2020 respectively. Her main research interests are System architecture, Network analytics, and Automation.

Wednesday 28 June, 13:30
Title: The right action at the right time: past, present, and future trends in real-time systems design (slides available here)
By Mitra Nasri
Technical University Eindhoven (TU/e)
Abstract: Real-time systems are pervasive in the automotive, robotics, smart industry, manufacturing, and healthcare domains, where the system’s safety, dependability, or quality of service depends on both functional and temporal correctness, namely, performing the right actions at the right time. Guaranteeing temporal correctness often involves bounding the worst-case end-to-end response-time of the system (e.g., from the moment input data are sent by a sensor to the moment the system responds to it). Bounding the response-time, in turn, requires detailed knowledge about how the underlying hardware platform, operating system, and software components/applications interact with each other and how that interaction influences the timing behavior of the system.
This talk presents the past, current, and future trends in modeling, designing, and verifying real-time systems. It walks through the challenges that new hardware, software, and network technologies introduce in the verification of temporal correctness and discusses existing solutions and open research problems.
Short bio: Mitra Nasri is an Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She received her PhD from the University of Tehran, in 2015. Before joining TU/e, she was an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), a postdoc fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany, and a postdoc researcher at TU-Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Her research interests include modeling, designing, and verifying real-time systems. She has contributed to several outstanding scheduling policies for embedded real-time systems and a formal verification framework for timing analysis and assessment of temporal correctness of multicore real-time systems. To date, she has published more than 50 papers on those topics in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Her research has been recognized by the Best-Paper Award of RTAS’22 and RTNS’16, and the Outstanding-Paper Award of RTSS’20 and RTAS’17. Since 2022, she has been an executive member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS) which steers RTSS, RTAS and ICCPS conferences, and the IEEE Benelux chapter on Communication and Vehicular Technology (COM/VT). She has received a Delft Technology Fellowship Award (2018), an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Award for post-doctoral researchers (2016), and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship for young researchers (2013).

Thursday 29 June, 11:00
Title: Pixelated Capacitive Sensors for Embedded Smart Multi-Sensing Application
By Frans Widdershoven
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and NXP Semiconductors
Abstract: Autonomous smart IoT end-nodes need sensors to interact with their environment. Pixelated Capacitive Sensor (PCS) technology provides a true CMOS-compatible platform for embedding a variety of late-definable sensor functions in single generic CMOS chip, e.g. a microcontroller. This enables designing a variety of tiny low-power smart Edge-IoT applications without expensive upfront investments in modifying precious CMOS processes with long lead times. The PCS technology will be introduced and illustrated with examples. Challenges for embedded tinyML algorithms, necessary to add smartness, will be discussed.
Short bio: Frans Widdershoven is part-time full processor at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and Fellow at NXP Semiconductors. He received his Master’s degree from Eindhoven University of Technology and his Ph.D. degree from University of Twente. Before joining NXP in 2006, he worked at Philips Research Labs for 22.5 years. He has over 79 publications and conference contributions and 46 granted US patents. Currently, Frans works in the areas of machine learning, CMOS-based smart embedded sensors, and cryo-CMOS for quantum computing.

2.1.3 - Panel

Bridging the Gap - Industry Uptake of Advanced Research from Academia

Panelists: Dakshina Dasari (Bosch), Geoffery Nelissen (TU/e), Fernando Kuipers (TU Delft) and Frank Mertz (KPN)
Moderator: Nirvana Meratnia
When: 29.06 at 09:00
Bios:

Dakshina Dasari is a researcher at the Corporate Research Center, Robert Bosch GmbH in Renningen. She received her Ph.D. in 2014 from the Research Centre in Embedded Systems, University of Porto, in the area of timing analysis of real-time embedded systems on multi-cores. Her research interests include predictable execution and performance of embedded systems, design, modelling, implementation and analysis of real-time systems and computer architecture. Her current work encompasses the design and analysis of distributed embedded real-time applications which are deployed over the edge-cloud continuum, with a special focus on resource management considering communication semantics and timing constraints.
Prior to her Ph.D., she worked in the area of networking for around 5 years with Sun Microsystems, Vegayan Systems and Citrix Systems in India. On the academic front, Dakshina has co-authored more than 35 peer reviewed articles and has served on the technical program committee of several real-time system conferences.

Geoffrey Nelissen is an Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in the Interconnected Resource-aware Intelligent Systems group of the Mathematics and Computer Science department. He earned his PhD in January 2013 and his master degree in electrical engineering in 2008 from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium. His research activities are mostly related to the modelling and analysis of real-time embedded systems, scheduling on multicore platforms, design of time-predictable computing architectures and time-sensitive networking. His research interests span all theoretical and practical aspects of real-time embedded systems design with a particular emphasis on the analysis, configuration and time-predictable execution of parallel applications on multicore and distributed platforms. To date, he published 70+ papers on those topics in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Since 2022, he also chairs the steering committee of the International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems.
Before joining TU/e, he was on a tenure-track at the Research Centre in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems at ISEP and University of Porto from 2013 to 2020, and he visited the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems during 9 months in 2018.
Fernando Kuipers is a full professor and head of the Lab on Internet Science at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). In 2004, he obtained his Ph.D. degree cum laude, the highest possible distinction at TU Delft. His research focus is on network optimization, network resilience, Quality of Service, and Quality of Experience and addresses problems in Software-Defined Networking, Tactile Internet, Internet-of-Things, and critical infrastructures. His work on these subjects include numerous distinguished papers. Fernando Kuipers is senior member of the IEEE, was a visiting scholar at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (in 2009) and Columbia University in the City of New York (in 2016), is member of the ACM SIGCOMM executive committee, and is Vice-Chair of the IFIP Working Group 6.2 on Network and Internetwork Architectures. He co-founded the Do IoT fieldlab and PowerWeb and is part of the board of the TU Delft Safety & Security institute.

Frank Mertz is a Mobile Network Architect at KPN’s Technology Office. He holds a Ph.D. degree from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Prior to joining KPN in 2011, he worked at Deutsche Telekom in Bonn, Germany. At KPN, Frank has played various roles in advancing mobile network innovation. Being part of the founding team of KPN's Technology Labs, he was involved in various experiments with early-stage network technologies for IoT and 5G applications. He also coordinated the 5G field lab in Rotterdam, collaborating with Shell to implement Proof of Concepts of industrial 5G use cases. Currently, Frank focuses on incorporating new technical possibilities into KPN's mobile network to enable innovative services for customers. He actively promotes collaboration between academia and industry via Ph.D. co-supervision within the NExTWORKx program, a research collaboration between KPN and TU Delft on future telecommunication networks. He also delivers guest lectures at TU Delft on advancements in the mobile communication industry.

2.1.4 - Organization

Organization

Name University/Organization
Nirvana Meratnia (co-chair)Eindhoven University of Technology
Kuan-Hsun Chen (co-chair)University of Twente
Qing Wang (co-chair)TU Delft
Paula DiksASCI Office, TU Delft

Steering committee

Name University/Organization
Paola GrossoUniversity of Amsterdam
Fernando A. KuipersTU Delft
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversity of Twente
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Program committee

Name University/Organization
Nikolaos AlachiotisUniversity of Twente
Suzan BayhanUniversity of Twente
Alessandro ChiumentoUniversity of Twente
Jérémie DecouchantTU Delft
Viktoriya DegelerUniversity of Amsterdam
Anteneh GebregiorgisTU Delft
Ghayoor GillaniUniversity of Twente
Paola GrossoUniversity of Amsterdam
Boudewijn HaverkortTilburg University
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Erik vander KouweVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Guohao LanTU Delft
Habib MostafaeiEindhoven University of Technology
Mitra NasriEindhoven University of Technology
Marco OttaviUniversity of Twente / University of Rome Tor Vergata
Chrysa PapagianniUniversity of Amsterdam
Stjepan PicekRadboud University
Andy PimentelUniversity of Amsterdam
Aske PlaatLeiden University
Jan S. RellermeyerTU Delft / University of Hannover
Kristian RietveldLeiden University
Alessio ScloccoNetherlands eScience Center
Qun SongTU Delft
Animesh TrivediVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Fatih TurkmenUniversity of Groningen
Jacopo UrbaniVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rob van NieuwpoortUniversity of Amsterdam / Netherlands eScience center
Remco VeltkampUtrecht University
Jie YangTU Delft

2.1.5 - Location

The conference will be held at the Kontakt der Kontinenten in Soesterberg, The Netherlands.


2.1.6 - Submission details

CompSys-2023 invites you to submit two types of contributions: research papers and work-in-progress papers.

Submission Portal

Long papers

Research papers on your best research results from the past year(s). This includes papers already submitted to and/or accepted at (inter)national conferences or workshops (please indicate the original venue on the submission form).

Long papers (not exceeding 12 pages in double-column or 15 pages in LNCS format) can be submitted using any of the commonly used templates (e.g., ACM, IEEE, LNCS).

Short papers: Work-in-progress and early ideas

Since CompSys is a forum that encourages discussions about early and exciting ideas, we specifically welcome extended abstracts highlighting early ideas and work-in-progress papers. Such submissions are especially suitable for graduate and undergraduate students working towards finalizing their thesis or PhD students who have recently started or would like to share one of their preliminary results with the community.

In particular, we encourage contributions in the form of short talks to share an early and not yet explored idea with the community to stimulate discussions and collect feedback. These talks might be particularly interesting for early-stage researchers.

Submissions of early ideas or work-in-progress papers require a short paper of at most 2 pages (not including references) in IEEE double-column format. The paper should mention the research question being addressed, outline the novelty and/or originality of the idea, approach, or (initial) results, and contain a summary of preliminary results.

Negative research results

Being inspired by a new series of initiatives such as Perfail to also make discussing and sharing negative research results or serious research attempts which did not lead to expected results a regular part of performing research to let the research committee learns from each other's failure and together be more successful, for the first time in CompSys series, we also solicit contributions sharing negative results, wrong methodologies, and/or invalidated hypothesis.

Submissions of negative research results papers require a short paper of at most 2 pages (not including references) in IEEE double-column format.

No copyright: To foster the broadest possible engagement and exchange ideas, CompSys-2023 does not claim copyright, making it possible for you to present work that has already been published or is in the process of publishing elsewhere.

Three types of contributions can be submitted online via the EasyChair conference submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compsys2023. For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.

All contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted contributions will appear in the final program either as a short talk or a full presentation, depending on the reviews.

All presentations will be made available in digital format, unless otherwise instructed by the authors.

Outstanding contributions

The best three contributors (authors of a paper, idea, and/or presentation) at CompSys 2023 will be presented with an "Outstanding contribution" award in the final session of the conference.

2.1.7 - Contact

International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands

2.1.8 - Important Dates

Description Date
Abstract registration (not mandatory, but it helps us organize) 1 May 2023
Paper submission (EasyChair is available now) 14 May 2023 (firm, AOE)
Author notification 1 June 2023
Registration deadline (Page is open) 16 June 2023
In-person conference 27-29 June 2023

2.2 - Compsys 2022

Latest news:

  • 10 June 2022: CompSys 2022 is now over. We had a great time and hope to see the participants again next year!
  • 8 June 2022: The Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI) has appointed Henri Bal as (first) Honorary Member, “in appreciation for his continuous contributions to ASCI since its foundation.” (June 2022)
  • 8 June 2022: We have been very positively surprised by evident enthusiasm. Due to a number of registrations much larger than expected, we had to close registration a bit early. We are sorry for any uncomfortable consequences, but we have to operate at the limits of the hosting building.
  • 23 May 2022: Final program is online.
  • 1 May 2022: Registration is now possible.
  • 24 March 2022: CompSys 2022 dates and website up.

Welcome to CompSys 2022, a Computer Science conference designed to showcase the success stories of Dutch Computer Systems research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration.

At CompSys, we aim to provide a meeting space for research and industry ideas in the area of computing and computer science. Building up on the success of the previous four editions (2021, 2019, 2018, 2017), the fifth edition of the conference will emphasize efforts on community building and providing a forum to discuss ongoing and future projects among all members of academic research groups in the Netherlands.

This year CompSys is back as an in-person conference, for two and a half days!.

The conference will focus on the major research and practice themes related to computer systems. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, panel discussions, and exciting new ideas. We strive for a diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we welcome senior members of the research community, junior faculty members, Ph.D., and master students.

2.2.1 - Important Dates

Description Date
Abstract registration (not mandatory, but it helps us organize) 5 May 2022
Paper submission (EasyChair is available now) 15 May 2022
Author notification 25 May 2022
In-person conference 8-10 June 2022

2.2.2 - Organization

Organization
Name University/Organization
Jérémie Decouchant (co-chair)TU Delft
Chrysa Papagianni (co-chair)Universiteit van Amsterdam
Paula DiksASCI Office, TU Delft
Program committee
Name University/Organization
Henri BalVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Suzan BayhanUniversiteit Twente
Jérémie DecouchantTechnische Universiteit Delft
Viktoriya DegelerUniversiteit Groningen
Cees de LaatUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Dick EpemaTechnische Universiteit Delft
Paola GrossoUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Boudewijn HaverkortUniversiteit Tilburg
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boris KoldehofeUniversiteit Groningen
Rob van NieuwpoorteScience Center
Chrysa PapagianniUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Stjepan PicekRadboud Universiteit
Andy PimentelUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Aske PlaatUniversiteit Leiden
Jan S. RellermeyerTechnische Universiteit Delft
Kristian RietveldUniversiteit Leiden
Stefanie RoosTechnische Universiteit Delft
Alessio ScloccoeScience Center
Animesh TrivediVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Fatih TurkmenUniversiteit Groningen
Jacopo UrbaniVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Visara UroviUniversiteit Maastricht
Alexandru UtaUniversiteit Leiden
Eric van der KouweVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Remco VeltkampUniversiteit Utrecht
Lin WangVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marco ZunigaTechnische Universiteit Delft
Student Volunteers
Name University/Organization
Bart CoxTU Delft
Cyril Shih-Huan HsuUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Steering committee
Name University/Organization
Cristiano GiuffridaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jacopo UrbaniVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Marco ZunigaTU Delft

2.2.3 - Submission details

CompSys-2022 invites you to submit two types of contributions: research papers and work-in-progress papers.

Submission Portal

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compsys2022. For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.

Long papers

Research papers on your best research results from the past year(s). This includes papers already submitted to and/or accepted at international conferences or workshops (please indicate the original venue on the submission form).

Long papers (preferably not exceeding 12 pages in double-column or 15 pages in LNCS format) can be submitted using any of the commonly used templates (e.g., ACM, IEEE, LNCS) so that no reformatting should be needed in most cases.

Short papers: Work-in-progress

Since CompSys is a forum that encourages discussions about new and exciting ideas, we specifically welcome extended abstracts and work-in-progress papers. Such submissions are especially suitable for MSc students working towards finalizing their theses or PhD students who have recently started.

Submissions of new ideas or work-in-progress papers requires an short paper of at most 2 pages (not including references) in ACM or IEEE double-column format. The paper should mention the research question being addressed, outline the novelty and/or originality of the idea, approach, or results, and contain a summary of preliminary results.

Flash talks: New ideas

We also encourage participants to register to give a short talk (less than 5 minutes) to share a research direction with the community, stimulate offline discussions and collect feedback. In particular, we encourage early stage researchers (PhD, MSc, BSc) who do not have yet enough results to write a paper to seize the opportunity to talk about their work.

No copyright: To foster the broadest possible engagement and exchange ideas, CompSys-2022 does not claim copyright, making it possible for you to present work that has already been published or is in the process of publishing elsewhere.

Both types of contributions can be submitted online via the EasyChair conference submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compsys2022. For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.

All contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee, which assigns an accepted contribution to either a short talk or a full presentation, depending on the advice of the reviewers.

All presentations will be made available in digital format, unless otherwise instructed by the authors.

Outstanding contributions

The best three contributors (authors of a paper, idea, and/or presentation) at CompSys 2022 will be presented with an "Outstanding contribution" award in the final session of the conference.

2.2.4 - Program

The full program is available below. Short paper talks should last around 7 minutes, and long paper talks around 15 minutes.

Wednesday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
9:45 - Welcome and opening remarks Jérémie Decouchant and Chrysa Papagianni
10:00 Long Paper (8213) Tiny Autoscalers for Tiny Workloads: Dynamic CPU Allocation for Serverless Functions Yuxuan Zhao and Alexandru Uta
10:20 Long Paper (5567) Dyconits: Scaling Minecraft-like Services through Dynamically Managed Inconsistency Jesse Donkervliet, Jim Cuijpers and Alexandru Iosup
10:40 Long Paper (3722) Towards A Robust Meta-Reinforcement Learning-Based Scheduling Framework for Time Critical Tasks in Cloud Environments Hongyun Liu, Peng Chen and Zhiming Zhao
11:00 Break
11:10 Long Paper (7368) A Bayesian Game-Enhanced Auction Model for Federated Cloud Services Using Blockchain Zeshun Shi, Huan Zhou, Cees de Laat and Zhiming Zhao
11:30 Long Paper (7572) Live Video Analytics as a Service Guilherme Henrique Apostolo, Pablo Bauszat, Vinod Nigade, Henri E. Bal and Lin Wang
11:50 Break
12:00 Long Paper (1351) tUPL: Towards a novel way of (parallel) programming Kristian Rietveld and Harry Wijshoff
12:20 Long Paper (2736) Lightning: Scaling the GPU Programming Model Beyond a Single GPU Stijn Heldens, Pieter Hijma, Ben van Werkhoven, Jason Maassen and Rob V. van Nieuwpoort
12:40 Lunch
13:30 Long Paper (8172) SMITE: A Statistical Model of Thread Imbalance for Stochastic SIMT Workloads Stephen Nicholas Swatman, Ana-Lucia Varbanescu, Attila Krasznahorkay and Andy Pimentel
13:50 Short Paper (3330) Exhaustive Performance Exploration of Instruction Ordering on OOO-Processors Rens Dofferhoff and Kristian Rietveld
14:00 Short Paper (7855) Hardware Memory Protection for Multicore Architectures Marco Brohet, Ionut Mihalcea, Roberto Avanzi, Andreas Sandberg and Francesco Regazzoni
14:10 Short Paper (3022) Adaptive Memory (Re-)Allocation for Modern Workloads Weikang Weng, Alexandru Uta and Jan Rellermeyer
14:20 Short Paper (6727) Understanding NVMe Zoned Namespace (ZNS) Devices Nick Tehrany and Animesh Trivedi
14:30 Break
15:00 Long Paper (3879) DangZero: Efficient Use-After-Free Detection via Direct Page Table Access Floris Gorter, Koen Koning, Herbert Bos and Cristiano Giuffrida
15:20 Short Paper (1250) Hyperion: A Unified, Zero-CPU Data-Processing Unit (DPU) Marco Spaziani Brunella, Marco Bonola and Animesh Trivedi
15:30 Short Paper (5641) The SPEC-RG Reference Architecture for The Edge Continuum Matthijs Jansen, Auday Al-Dulaimy, Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Animesh Trivedi and Alexandru Iosup
15:40 Short Paper (5963) Analytical performance modeling for complex scientific applications Jelle van Dijk, Gábor Závodszky and Ana Lucia Varbanescu
15:50 Short Paper (2029) AMOOSE: A Domain Specific Language for the Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment Miguel Blom, Kristian Rietveld, Harry Wijshoff and Simon Portegies Zwart
16:00 Break
16:10 Keynote + Career award 25 Years of Parallel and Distributed Computing Research in ASCI Henri Bal
17:10 Drinks
18:00 Dinner
20:00 Social event Brewery visit
Thursday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:00 Short Paper (5088) User-driven path control through Intent-Based Networking for Inter-domain Networks Anne-Ruth Meijer, Leonardo Boldrini, Ralph Koning and Paola Grosso
09:10 Short Paper (1740) User association in mmWave networks with beamforming and multi-connectivity Lotte Weedage, Suzan Bayhan and Clara Stegehuis
09:20 Long Paper (1590) Tracking container network connections in a Digital Data Marketplace with P4 Sara Shakeri, Lourens Veen and Paola Grosso
9:40 Break
09:50 Short Paper (3934) Implications of using PCEPS in PCE-based multi-domain networks Leonardo Boldrini, Matteo Bachiddu and Paola Grosso
10:00 Long Paper (7331) Evaluating the Performance of Virtual Network Function Chaining within Healthcare Use Cases Jamila Alsayed Kassem, Adam Belloum, Tim Müller and Paola Grosso
10:20 Long Paper (1226) SLAs Decomposition for Network Slicing: A Deep Neural Network Approach Cyril Shih-Huan Hsu, Danny De Vleeschauwer and Chrysa Papagianni
10:40 Break
11:00 Short Paper (6393) A Robust and accurate performance anomaly detection and prediction framework Ruyue Xin, Hongyun Liu, Peng Chen and Zhiming Zhao
11:10 Short Paper (0516) Exploiting time series disorder in attempt to improve generalizability of anomaly detectors in streaming data Natalia Karpova
11:20 Long Paper (9357) Defending OC-SVM based IDS from poisoning attacks Lu Zhang, Reginald Cushing and Paola Grosso
11:40 Break
11:50 Long Paper (2289) MASA: Responsive Multi-DNN Inference on the Edge Bart Cox, Jeroen Galjaard, Amirmasoud Ghiassi, Robert Birke and Lydia Y. Chen
12:10 Long Paper (8592) Fed-TGAN: Federated Learning Framework for Synthesizing Tabular Data Zilong Zhao, Robert Birke and Lydia Chen
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Keynote BRIDGES – An Advanced Global Infrastructure for Network Experimentation. Jerry Sobiesky
14:30 Break
15:00 Industry Panel
17:00 Drinks
18:00 Dinner
Friday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:00 Short Paper (3324) MUSE: A Trustworthy Vertical Federated Feature Selection Framework Xinyuan Ji
09:10 Long Paper (6769) Bias in Automated Speaker Recognition Wiebke Toussaint Hutiri and Aaron Ding
09:30 Long Paper (3493) Are Concept Drift Detectors Ready for Production? A Comparative Study Lorena Poenaru-Olaru, Luis Cruz, Arie van Deursen and Jan Rellermeyer
09:50 Short Paper (7088) Efficient Sampling of User Interactions in Information Retrieval Pooya Khandel, Andrew Yates and Ana Lucia Varbanescu
10:00 Long Paper (2881) FreezOff: A Middleware for Heterogeneous Federated Learning Systems Bart Cox, Lydia Chen and Jérémie Decouchant
10:20 Long Paper (0815) AGIC: Approximate Gradient Inversion Attack on Federated Learning Jin Xu, Chi Hong, Jiyue Huang, Lydia Chen and Jérémie Decouchant
10:40 Break
11:00 Keynote The Responsible Internet - a new security pillar for the Internet Ralf Holz
12:00 Closing and awards Jérémie Decouchant and Chrysa Papagianni
12:30 Lunch

2.2.5 - Panel

CompSys 2021 : Industry panel

Panelists: Dimitra Gkorou (ASML), Kenny Pool (Dell), Vincent van Beek (Solvinity), Jerry Sobiesky (NORDUnet)
Moderator: Paola Grosso
When: Thursday 9 June 2022, 15:00-16:00.
Bios:

Dimitra Gkorou is a Senior Data Scientist and the technical leader of the Applied Data Science competence with ASML, the leading manufacturer of lithography machines. Her interests focus on machine learning, human in the loop, control, and pattern recognition. Part of her responsibilities include the data science roadmap updates, technical meetings, selected trainings and knowledge sharing. Before ASML, she had worked as a data analyst at the Amsterdam-based startup Xomnia. She holds a PhD from EEMCS of Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She also frequently gives seminars on coding and data analytics. She is part of the Organizing Committee of PyData Eindhoven (since 2019) and other workshops on Artificial Intelligence for Manufacturing.
Vincent van Beek is the head of Software Engineering and distinguished engineer at Solvinity. After a decade of software development, he switched focus and finished his Master’s Degree in Computer Science at Delft University of Technology. In 2015 he started as a Computer Science researcher at Solvinity combining his job as a DevOps team lead with a PhD research track at Delft University of Technology. His research mainly focuses on resource management and scheduling of virtual computing infrastructure. After 7 years of DevOps now back to Software Engineering, building the future of Solvinity. Topics like serverless, CI/CD, reliable and secure software development are key to the success in the future.

2.2.6 - Keynote

We have the pleasure of welcoming our keynote speakers at CompSys'22.

Wednesday 8 June, 16:00-17:00
Title: 25 Years of Parallel and Distributed Computing Research in ASCI (slides available here)
By Henri Bal
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Abstract: This talk discusses earlier and current research on parallel and distributed computing that I did in the context of the ASCI research school. It looks back at the origins and impact of ASCI and its DAS (Distributed ASCI Supercomputer) infrastructure. It then discusses several research projects, including the Ibis distributed computing project, many-core (GPU) programming, smartphone computing & IoT (Swan), and edge/cloud computing (Clownfish). Throughout the presentation, I will also cover numerous applications, from domains like imaging, AI, climate modelling, astronomy, and airport surveillance.
Short bio: Henri E. Bal is a full professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit, where he leads the High Performance Distributed Computing group. He also is the head of the Computer Systems section of the Department of Computer Science and chair of the Science Committee of the department. He was Scientific Director of the ASCI research school, Member of the Academia Europeana and winner of the Euro-Par 2014 Achievement Award. He has been Program Chair of CCGrid and HPDC and PC member of numerous conferences.

Thursday 9 June, 13:30-14:30
Title: BRIDGES – An Advanced Global Infrastructure for Network Experimentation.
By Jerry Sobieski
NORDUnet
Abstract: Over the last 20 years the networks serving the research and education community have become a critical infrastructure to universities and science laboratories the use them worldwide. However, this success has made these networks less malleable and unable to provide the structural or architectural flexibility desired by researchers to experiment with novel approaches to future advanced cyber-infrastructure and services. The next 20 years will usher in many new requirements and capabilities related to cyber-infrastructure that will require a highly flexible, interconnected global canvas that can provide both leading edge performance and a high degree of research malleability to support disruptive experimental service deployments. BRIDGES is high performance testbed networking facility that spans the Atlantic to bind networking and computer science research inititives in US and Europe. This talk will provide an overview of the motivation, architecture, and services concepts BRIDGES is making available to support these research futures.
Short bio: Jerry Sobieski is currently co-Principle Investigator on the BRIDGES Project lead by George Mason University in Virginia. BRIDGES is a US National Science Foundation funded program constructing a high performance intercontinental network spanning the Atlantic Ocean to support advanced network and distributed e-science applications among collaborating researchers in the US and Europe. Prior to this role at GMU and BRIDGES, he worked with Nordic Universities Network (NORDUnet, Copenhagen) as Director of International Research. He served as Activity Leader in the GEANT Project to develop the GEANT Testbed Service – an advanced virtualized service architecture for constructing experimental networks across Europe.

Prior to his work in Europe, he has served as Director of Research at the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads – the regional R&E network serving the Washington DC region, and worked for Internet2 during the design and deployment US R&E backbone network in the early 2000’s.

He has led or participated in a number of collaborative international efforts including: The specification the Network Service Interface protocol standard (NSI); the Global Lambda Integrated Facility (GLIF) consortium, the GLIF Automated Open Lightpath Exchange initiative “AutoGOLE” (an international networking testbed spanning multiple continents), and development efforts for ITU protocol standards.

Friday 10 June, 11:00-12:00
Title: The Responsible Internet - a new security pillar for the Internet
By Ralf Holz
Design and Analysis of Communication Systems group, University of Twente
Abstract: While our online security posture has improved substantially in the past two decades, suprisingly much still leaves to be desired - in particular, incentives for better security are still oddly misaligned with business considerations. In this talk, we present the Responsible Internet, a new security pillar for the Internet that is agnostic to technological developments and aims at re-aligning security incentives and boosting overall deployment security. In a nutshell, the Responsible Internet is to the Internet what Responsible AI is to Artificial Intelligence: it adds critical properties that provide stakeholders and users with the means to use the Internet safely and securely. These properties are Controllability, Accountability, and Transparency. By showcasing a number of empirical results from the past 20 years, we demonstrate that recording and logging insights into global network operations allows to hold operators accountable and ultimately shifts the incentives for operators towards investing into better security if they wish to remain competitive. We then show how data flows on the Internet can be steered (Controllability) based on these insights into operations (Transparency) and how one can verify that operators also act as promised (Accountability). The Responsible Internet, whose development is currently kick-started in a 2m EUR multidisciplinary project within the Dutch national research agenda, is an enabler of Digital Sovereignty: it gives end-users a way to determine how their data is handled in transit, and it provides new business opportunities for operators. We conclude with an invitation to join this effort and collaborate on this new paradigm.
Short bio: Ralf Holz is an Associate Professor in Empirical Security and Internet Evolution in the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems Group at the University of Twente. His research interests revolve around understanding and improving the Internet for everyone, with a particular focus on security aspects. Most recently, he has been working on Global-scale measurement of Internet service deployments and their security Data-driven security mechanisms Analysis of emerging technology and its implications He views his work through the lens of real-world implications. The tech is not always what matters—it’s the embedding in our world that makes it meaningful. Hence, he works with other disciplines and industry alike to make the Internet a safer, more secure, and altogether more interesting and useful place.

2.2.7 - Registration

2.2.8 - Location

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The conference will be held at the Kasteel De Vanenburg in Putten, The Netherlands.

The hotel is situated in a 17th-century country estate in Putten in the Dutch province of Gelderland with a long history. The building is a national heritage site (Rijksmonument) of the Netherlands. The hotel is situated close to the Strand Nulde and Lake Nuldernauw. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasteel_De_Vanenburg

Please note that your overnight stays in this hotel are included in the registration fee.


Arrival by public transport: The hotel is situated conveniently close to a NS stop (Putten). It takes a 20 mins walk to reach the hotel from the stop. Find your connection at 9292 here.

Arrival by car: Use the address Vanenburgerallee 13, 3882 RH Putten in your GPS.

2.2.9 - Contact

International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands

2.3 - Compsys 2021

Future Computer Systems and Networking Research in the Netherlands: A Manifesto

For the past year, we have been working on a Manifesto on the future of Computer Systems and Networking research in the Netherlands (CompSysNL). The CompSysNL Manifesto is now online [1]; a 2-page executive summary ready for sending around is also available [2]. We are a large, cross-institutional community of scientists and technology experts (30+ co-signatories, 7 universities, 5 research institutes and organizations, etc.) Also check out who’s who in CompSysNL [3].
#CompSysNL #Manifesto #computersystems #computernetworks #infrastructure #ICT

References:

  1. Executive Summary (2 pages) https://bit.ly/ManifestoCompSysNLSummary
  2. Full version (40+ pages) https://bit.ly/ManifestoCompSysNL
  3. Who’s who in CompSysNL? https://bit.ly/CompSysNLWhosWho

Latest news:

  • Sep-Oct 2021: We are updating the website to meet the needs of the IPN Special Interest Group on Future Computer Systems and Networking (FCSN)
  • June 28-29th, 2021: CompSys takes place, thanks everyone for participation. All slides (including the keynotes) and papers are available online in the SurfDrive. Please see the awards winners below.
  • June 21st, 2021: Ask Us Anything panel confirmed, see https://www.compsys.science/2021/panel. Please prepare your questions for the panel!
  • June 13th, 2021: Detailed program schedule is now online. Please register (free of charge!) to receive details about the online platforms.
  • May 22nd, 2021: Two exciting keynote talks from Prof. Dr. Theo Rasing and Prof. Dr. Marieke Huisman are confirmed, see https://www.compsys.science/2021/keynote for details.
  • May 11th, 2021: Deadline extension of a week, new deadline for paper submission: May 21st, 2021 (Friday 23:59).
  • April 26th, 2021: Registration details and paper submission details are now available.
  • April 15th, 2021: CompSys 2021 dates and website up.

Awards:

  • Best Presentation Award: Danilo de Goede, Duncan Kampert and Ana-Lucia Varbanescu, The Cost of AlphaZero: the Hive Case.
  • CompSys'21 PubQuiz Winner: Corne Lukken
Congratulations!

Welcome to CompSys 2021, a Computer Science conference designed to showcase the success stories of Dutch Computer Systems research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration.

At CompSys, we aim to provide a meeting space for research and industry ideas in the area of computing and computer science. Building up on the success of the previous three years (2019, 2018, 2017), the fifth edition of the conference will emphasize efforts on community building and providing a forum to discuss ongoing projects among all members of academic research groups in the Netherlands.

This year the conference will take place online (for the first time), for two half days (1-6pm). The conference will focus on the major research and practice themes related to computer systems. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, panel discussions, and exciting new ideas. We strive for a diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we welcome senior members of the research community, junior faculty members, Ph.D., and master students.

2.3.1 - Important Dates

Date Description
April 26th, Monday, 2021Registration details are now available.
April 30th, Friday, 2021The submission system opens (EasyChair is available now).

May 21st, 23:59 CEST, 2021 (extended)

Deadline for submitting your contribution.
June 11th, Friday, 2021Author notification.
June 28-29 (1-5pm), 2021The conference takes place online (more details to follow).

2.3.2 - Organization

Organization
Name University/Organization
Animesh Trivedi (chair)VU, Amsterdam
Paula DiksASCI Office, TU Delft
Program committee
Name University/Organization
Henri BalVU Amsterdam
Suzan BayhanUniversity of Twente
Bala ChandrasekaranVU Amsterdam
Dick EpemaTU Delft
Paula GrossoUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Boris KoldehofeUniversity of Groningen
Rob van NieuwpoortNetherlands eScience center
Chrysa PapagianniUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Andy PimentelUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Jan S. RellermeyerTU Delft
Stefanie RoosTU Delft
Alexandru UtaUniversiteit Leiden
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Shihan WangUtrecht University
Lin WangVU Amsterdam
Student Volunteers
Name University/Organization
Nick TehranyTU Delft
Steering committee
Name University/Organization
Cristiano GiuffridaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jacopo UrbaniVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Marco ZunigaTU Delft

2.3.3 - Submission details

CompSys-2021 invites you to submit two types of contributions: research papers and work-in-progress papers.

Submission Portal

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compsys2021. For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.

Long papers

Research papers on your best research results from the past year(s). This includes papers already submitted to and/or accepted at international conferences or workshops (please indicate the original venue on the submission form).

Long papers (preferably not exceeding 12 pages in double-column or 15 pages in LNCS format) can be submitted using any of the commonly used templates (e.g., ACM, IEEE, LNCS) so that no reformatting should be needed in most cases.

Short papers: New ideas or work-in-progress

Since CompSys is a forum that encourages discussions about new and exciting ideas, we specifically welcome extended abstracts and work-in-progress papers. Such submissions are especially suitable for MSc students working towards finalizing their theses or PhD students who have recently started.

Submissions of new ideas or work-in-progress papers requires an short paper of at most 2 pages (not including references) in ACM or IEEE double-column format. The paper should mention the research question being addressed, outline the novelty and/or originality of the idea, approach, or results, and contain a summary of preliminary results.

No copyright To foster the broadest possible engagement and exchange ideas, CompSys-2021 does not claim copyright, making it possible for you to present work that has already been published or is in the process of publishing elsewhere.

Both types of contributions can be submitted online via the EasyChair conference submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compsys2021. For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.

All contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee, which assigns an accepted contribution to either a short talk or a full presentation, depending on the advice of the reviewers.

All presentations will be made available in digital format, unless otherwise instructed by the authors.

Outstanding contributions

The best three contributors (authors of a paper, idea, and/or presentation) at CompSys 2021 will be presented with an "Outstanding contribution" award in the final session of the conference.

2.3.4 - Program

The full program is available below. All final paper prints and presentations are available in the SurfDrive link sent to registered participants.

Monday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
12:45 - Welcome and opening remarks Animesh Trivedi
13:00 Keynote Ultrafast magnetism and Brain-inspired approaches for Green ICT Theo Rasing
14:00 Break
14:15 Paper presentation Rocket: Efficient and Scalable All-Pairs Computations on Heterogeneous Platforms Stijn Heldens, Pieter Hijma, Ben van Werkhoven, Jason Maassen, Henri Bal and Rob van Nieuwpoort
14:25 Paper presentation Clownfish: Edge and Cloud Symbiosis for Video Stream Analytics Vinod Nigade, Lin Wang and Henri Bal
14:35 Paper presentation OpenDC 2.0: Convenient Modeling and Simulation of Emerging Technology in Cloud Datacenters Fabian Mastenbroek, Georgios Andreadis, Soufiane Jounaid, Wenchen Lai, Jacob Burley, Jaro Bosch, Erwin van Eyk, Laurens Versluis, Vincent van Beek and Alexandru Iosup
14:45 Paper presentation Profiling and discriminating of containerized ML applications in Digital Data Marketplaces (DDM) Lu Zhang, Reginald Cushing, Ralph Koning, Cees De Laat and Paola Grosso
14:55 Paper presentation DDLBench: Towards a Scalable Benchmarking Infrastructure for Distributed Deep Learning Matthijs Jansen, Valeriu Codreanu and Ana-Lucia Varbanescu
15:05 Work-in-progress presentation A Memory-Centric Partitioning Scheme for Large-Scale Pipeline-Parallel DNN Training Henk Dreuning, Rob van Nieuwpoort and Henri Bal
15:15 Break
15:30 Paper presentation Practical Byzantine Reliable Broadcast on Partially Connected Networks Silvia Bonomi, Jérémie Decouchant, Giovanni Farina, Vincent Rahli and Sebastien Tixeuil
15:40 Paper presentation MATCH: A Decentralized Middleware for Fair Matchmaking In Peer-to-Peer Markets Martijn de Vos, Georgy Ishmaev and Johan Pouwelse
15:50 Paper presentation ZCSD: a Computational Storage Device over Zoned Namespaces SSDs Corne Lukken, Giulia Frascaria and Animesh Trivedi
16:00 Break
16:10 Panel Discussion The Present and Future of Computer and Network Systems in the Netherlands Alexandru Iosup, Paola Grosso, Kees De Laat, Lydia Chen, with Animesh Trivedi
17:00 Break
17:15 Work-in-progress presentation Energy Harvesting for Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Workloads Nick Breed, Quincy Bakker and Ana-Lucia Varbanescu
17:25 Work-in-progress presentation A Case for a Programmable Edge Storage Middleware Giulia Frascaria, Animesh Trivedi and Lin Wang
17:35 Paper presentation EPI Framework: Approach for traffic redirection through containerised network functions Jamila Alsayed Kassem, Onno Valkering, Adam Belloum and Paola Grosso
17:45 - Break
18:00 Social Activity CompSys PubQuiz Evening
Tuesday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
12:45 - Welcome and opening remarks Animesh Trivedi
13:00 Keynote Automated Verification of Parallel Nested DFS with the VerCors verifier Marieke Huisman
14:00 Break
14:15 Paper presentation Zero-Cost, Arrow-Enabled Data Interface for Apache Spark Sebastiaan Alvarez Rodriguez and Alex Uta
14:25 Paper presentation Dyconits: Scaling Minecraft-like Services through Dynamically Managed Inconsistency Jesse Donkervliet, Jim Cuijpers and Alexandru Iosup
14:35 Work-in-progress presentation Porting VexCL kernels on Xilinx FPGAs Tristan Laan and Ana-Lucia Varbanescu
14:45 Work-in-progress presentation Exploring the scaling performance of Hemocell: a framework for blood flow simulations Jelle van Dijk, Max van der Kolk, Gábor Závodszky and Ana-Lucia Varbanescu
14:55 Paper presentation ParPBM: A Novel Parallel Position Based Click Model Pooya Khandel, Ilya Markov and Ana-Lucia Varbanescu
15:05 Paper presentation Credit Scoring Prediction using Graph Features Lorena Poenaru-Olaru, Judith Redi, Arthur Hovanesyan and Huijuan Wang
15:15 Break
15:30 Panel Discussion CompSys'21 Ask Us Anything session Suzan Bayhan, Bala Chandrasekaran, Dick Epema, Paola Grosso, with Animesh Trivedi
16:15 Break
16:30 Paper presentation Evaluation of Container Overlays for Secure Data Sharing Sara Shakeri, Lourens Veen and Paola Grosso
16:40 Paper presentation How Lightning’s Routing Diminishes its Anonymity Satwik Prabhu Kumble, Dick Epema and Stefanie Roos
16:50 Work-in-progress presentation Periscope: Censorship-Resistant Off-Chain Traffic Tunneling Emiel de Smidt and Stefanie Roos
17:00 Paper presentation GradeML: Towards Holistic Performance Analysis for Machine Learning Workflows Tim Hegeman, Matthijs Jansen, Alexandru Iosup and Animesh Trivedi
17:10 Work-in-progress presentation Using AI to Speed-up Strongly Connected Components Calculation Dante Niewenhuis and Ana-Lucia Varbanescu
17:20 Work-in-progress presentation The Cost of AlphaZero: the Hive Case Danilo de Goede, Duncan Kampert and Ana-Lucia Varbanescu
17:30 Concluding remarks Animesh Trivedi
17:45 - Social evening - the online rooms will remain open

2.3.5 - Panel

The Present and Future of Computer and Network Systems in the Netherlands

Panelists: Alexandru Iosup (VU Amsterdam), Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam), Kees De Laat (University of Amsterdam), Lydia Chen (TU Delft) with Animesh Trivedi (VU Amsterdam).
When: Monday 28th, June 2021, 4-5pm.
Details: Our modern society and competitive economy depend on a strong digital foundation and, in turn, on sustained computer systems research and innovation. Computer systems, ranging from small, embedded devices to large data centers and the networks that connect them, are a remarkable technology area with an outstanding impact on society. About two-thirds of the Dutch yearly GDP of 1 trillion is based on datacenters, but the investment in R&D in this area is not proportional and also not matching investments in other areas. In this panel, we open the discussion about why this is the case, why it shouldn't, and what we can do about it.

CompSys 2021 : Ask Us Anything!

Panelist: Suzan Bayhan, Bala Chandrasekaran, Dick Epema, and Paola Grosso
Moderator: Animesh Trivedi
When: Tuesday 29th, June 2021, 3:30-4:15pm.
Details: A Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) inspired Q&A session where you can ask our panelists anything related to their opinions (e.g., on research, education, funding), their approach towards work, work-life balance, academic life, and all the big questions regarding life, the universe and everything.

Bio

Suzan Bayhan is an assistant professor at the University of Twente (UT). She earned her Ph.D. in computer engineering in 2012 from Bogazici University. Before joining UT, she worked at the University of Helsinki and TU Berlin as a researcher. She received the best paper awards at ACM ICN '15 and IEEE WoWMoM '20, and the best demo award at IEEE INFOCOM '20. Her current research interests include spectrum sharing, the coexistence of wireless networks, WiFi and LTE resource management, and edge computing.
Bala Chandrasekaran is an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and his research focusses on the performance and security aspects of networked systems. Prior to joining the VU, he was a senior researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, Germany. He graduated with a PhD in 2016 from Duke University in Durham, USA.
Dick Epema is professor of Computer Science at Delft University of Technology. He leads the Distributed Systems Group, which has two research themes. In cooperative systems, the holy grail is trust in the internet, with such topics as blockchain technology and self-sovereign identities, to allow any two entities to interact in a trusted way without central, trusted third parties. In distributed machine-learning systems, the goal is to extract optimal efficiency from datacenters for machine-learning applications.
Paula Grosso is associate professor at the Institute for Informatics at the University of Amsterdam. She leads the Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) group, which researches the emerging architectures that can support the operations of multiscale systems across the Future Internet. She has an extensive record of contribution to international projects and she is currently involved with her group in numerous of EU-funded projects, among them GN4-3, FEd4FIRE+.

2.3.6 - Keynote

We have the pleasure of welcoming our keynote speakers at CompSys'21.

Monday June 28th, 1:00-2:00pm
Ultrafast magnetism and Brain-inspired approaches for Green ICT
By Prof. Dr. Theo Rasing
Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Abstract The explosive growth of digital data use and storage has led to an enormous rise in global energy consumption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), which already stands at 7% of the world electricity consumption1. New ICT technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence push this exponentially increasing energy requirement even more, though the underlying hardware paradigm is utterly inefficient: tasks like pattern recognition can be performed by the human brain with only 20W, while conventional (super)computers require 10 MW. Therefore, the development of radically new physical principles that combine energy-efficiency with high speeds and high densities is crucial for a sustainable future. One of those is the use of non-thermodynamic routes that promises orders of magnitude faster and more energy efficient manipulation of bits2. Another one is neuromorphic computing, that is inspired by the notion that our brain uses a million times less energy than a supercomputer while, at least for some tasks, it even outperforms the latter. In this talk, I will discuss the state of the art in ultrafast manipulation of magnetic bits and present some first results3 to implement brain-inspired computing concepts in magnetic materials that operate close to these ultimate limits.
[1] Lannoo, B. Energy consumption of ICT Networks. TREND Final Workshop Brussels (2013), PDF.
[2] A. Kirilyuk, A. V. Kimel and Th. Rasing, Ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetic order, Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 2731-2784 (2010).
[3] A. Chakravarty, J.H. Mentink, C. S. Davies, K. Yamada, A.V. Kimel and Th. Rasing, Supervised learning of an opto-magnetic neural network with ultrashort laser pulses, Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 192407 (2019)
Short bio Theo Rasing is professor of physics at Radboud University, Nijmegen, member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences and Academia Europaea, honorary professor Wuhan University of Technology, honorary member Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg, recipient ERC Synergy Grant 2019, ERC Advanced Grant 2013 and Spinoza Award 2008, highest scientific award of the Netherlands. His research focuses on the study and control of the properties of functional (molecular/ photonic/magnetic) nanomaterials on ultrafast (femtosecond) timescales. He has co-authored over 500 papers (h= 61, WoS), including 43 Physical Review Letters and 18 in Nature Group journals and co-inventor on 4 patent applications. A Physical Review Letters of 2007 was mentioned as a Breakthrough of the year by Science.

Tuesday June 29th, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Automated Verification of Parallel Nested DFS with the VerCors verifier
Prof. Dr. Marieke Huisman
University of Twente
Abstract The VerCors verifier is a tool set for the verification of parallel and concurrent software. Its main characteristics are (i) that it can verify programs under different concurrency models, written in high-level programming languages, such as for example in Java, OpenCL and OpenMP; and (ii) that it can reason not only about race freedom and memory safety, but also about functional correctness. In this talk I will first give an overview of the VerCors verifier, and how it has been used for the verification of many different parallel and concurrent algorithms.

In the second part of my talk I will zoom in on the verification of a parallel model checking algorithm. Model checking algorithms are typically complex algorithms whose correctness is crucial for the usability of a model checker. However, establishing the correctness of such algorithms can be challenging, and is often done manually. Model checking algorithms are often parallelized for efficiency reasons, which makes them even more error-prone, and thus we need to use mechanized techniques to reason about their correctness. I will show how we used Vercors to mechanically verify the parallel nested depth first algorithm of Laarman et al. We also show how having a mechanized proof supports the easy verification of various optimizations of the algorithm. As far as we are aware, this is the first deductive verification of a multi-core model checking algorithm.

Short bio Marieke Huisman is well-known for her work on program verification and specification, and software reliability. At the University of Twente, she leads the Formal Methods and Tools group. In 2011, she obtained an ERC Starting Grant for the VerCors project on the verification of concurrent software, where she studied practical verification of concurrent programs, and developed verification techniques for advanced programming and specification constructs. All verifications are supported by the VerCors tool set. In follow-up projects, the results have been expanded to programming languages for other parallel computing paradigms, such as GPUs and distribution (EU project CARP, NWO Top project VerDi). She currently is working on adding support to reason at a more abstract level, and to increase the level of automation of the verification process, as part of her NWO VICI project Mercedes (2018 - 2022). In 2013, she received the Netherlands Prize for ICT research 2013.

2.3.7 - Registration

Participation in CompSys 2021 is free of charge, but registration is required.

To register: please send an email to: asci-office AT tudelft.nl and you will receive a link with logistics details a few days before the conference.

2.3.8 - Location

The conference will take place online. We are going to us the following tools

  • Zoom -- the primay tool where the paper presentations and main conference activities take place.
  • https://www.wonder.me/ -- parallel discussion and networking virtual rooms, open 24x7. Feel free to join and leave as you like.
  • CompSysNL Slack channel -- where we have dedicated channels to keep the discussion going and provide a platform for further collaboration.

Please register for the conference (free of charge!) to get details about the platforms and tools, at https://www.compsys.science/2021/registration.

2.3.9 - Contact

International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands

2.4 - Compsys 2020

March 31, 2020 update: Due to the recent Covid-19 outbreak, we have decided to cancel CompSys 2020. It is quite unfortunate, but the well being of our community is the top priority these days. We will carry over our preparations from 2020 to 2021. Meanwhile, everyone - stay safe and healthy!

Welcome to CompSys 2020, a Computer Science conference designed to showcase the success stories of Dutch Computer Systems research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration.

At CompSys, we aim to provide a meeting space for research and industry ideas in the area of computing and computer science. Building up on the success of the previous three years (2019, 2018, 2017), the fourth edition of the conference will emphasize efforts on community building and providing a forum to discuss ongoing projects among all members of academic research groups in the Netherlands.

The conference lasts two days and focuses on the major research and practice themes related to computer systems. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, panel discussions, and exciting new ideas. We strive for a diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we welcome senior members of the research community, junior faculty members, Ph.D., and master students.

2.4.1 - Important Dates

CompSys 2020 is cancelled. Please see the notice at https://www.compsys.science/2020/home/

Date Description
March 31st, 2020Conference registration open.
April 1st, 2020The submission system opens.
April 15th, 2020Deadline for submitting your contribution.
May 15th, 2020Author notification.
June 8-9, 2020The conference takes place in Kasteel De Vanenburg.

2.4.2 - Contact

International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands

2.5 - Compsys 2019

Welcome to CompSys 2019, a Computer Science conference designed to showcase the success stories of Dutch Computer Systems research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration.

At CompSys, we aim to provide a meeting space for research and industry ideas in the area of computing and computer science. Building up on the success of the previous two years, the third edition of the conference will emphasize efforts on community building and providing a forum to discuss ongoing projects among all members of academic research groups in the Netherlands.

The conference lasts two and a half days and focuses on the major research and practice themes related to computer systems. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, panel discussions, and exciting new ideas. We strive for a diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we welcome senior members of the research community, junior faculty members, Ph.D., and master students.

2.5.1 - Important Dates

Date Description
April 5, 2019The submission system opens.
April 12, 2019Conference registration open.
April 26, 2019

May 1, 2019 (extended)

Deadline for submitting your contribution.
May 17, 2019Author notification.
June 3-5, 2019The conference takes place in Doorn.

2.5.2 - Organization

Program committee

Name University/Organization
Jan S. Rellermeyer (co-chair)TU Delft
Ana Lucia Varbanescu (co-chair)Universiteit van Amsterdam
Henri BalVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Lydia Y. ChenTU Delft
Henk CorporaalTU Eindhoven
Dick EpemaTU Delft
Pieter HijmaUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Cees de LaatUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Koen LangendoenTU Delft
Marc X. MakkesVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rob van NieuwpoortNetherlands eScience center
Andy PimentelUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Aske PlaatUniversiteit Leiden
Anna SperottoUniversiteit Twente
Animesh TrivediVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexandru UtaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Steering committee
Name University/Organization
Cristiano GiuffridaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jacopo UrbaniVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Marco ZunigaTU Delft

2.5.3 - Submission details

CompSys-2019 invites you to submit two types of contributions: research papers and work-in-progress papers.

Long papers

Research papers on your best research results from the past year(s). This includes papers already submitted to and/or accepted at international conferences or workshops (please indicate the original venue on the submission form).

Long papers (not exceeding 12 pages in double-column or 15 pages in LNCS format) can be submitted using any of the commonly used templates (e.g., ACM, IEEE, LNCS) so that no reformatting should be needed in most cases.

Short papers: New ideas or work-in-progress

Since CompSys is a forum that encourages discussions about new and exciting ideas, we specifically welcome extended abstracts and work-in-progress papers. Such submissions are especially suitable for MSc students working towards finalizing their theses or PhD students who have recently started.

Submissions of new ideas or work-in-progress papers requires an short paper of at most 2 pages (not including references) in ACM or IEEE double-column format. The paper should mention the research question being addressed, outline the novelty and/or originality of the idea, approach, or results, and contain a summary of preliminary results.

No copyright

To foster the broadest possible engagement and exchange ideas, CompSys-2019 does not claim copyright, making it possible for you to present work that has already been published or is in the process of publishing elsewhere.

For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.

All contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee, which assigns an accepted contribution to either a short talk or a full presentation, depending on the advice of the reviewers.

All presentations will be made available in digital format, unless otherwise instructed by the authors.

Outstanding contributions

The best three contributors (authors of a paper, idea, and/or presentation) at CompSys 2019 will be presented with an “Outstanding contribution” award in the final session of the conference.

2.5.4 - Program

View/Download the full program.

Monday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
11:00 Coffee Arrival and welcome The organizers
11:30 Keynote Shared-Memory Heterogeneous Computing Peter Hofstee
12:30 Lunch
13:30 FT SoK: Off The Chain Transactions Lewis Gudgeon, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Stefanie Roos, Patrick McCorry and Arthur Gervais
14:00 FT Modeling of collaboration archetypes in digital market places Lu Zhang, Reginald Cushing, Cees De Laat and Paola Grosso
14:30 ST Towards High Performance Big Data Processing Sobhan Omranian Khorasani, Jan S. Rellermeyer, and Dick Epema
14:45 ST The Landscape of Exascale Research - Data-Driven Literature Analysis Stijn Heldens, Pieter Hijma, Ben van Werkhoven, Jason Maassen, A.S.Z. Belloum, and Rob V. van Nieuwpoort
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 FT Implementing Stencil Problems in Chapel: An Experience Report Per Fuchs, Pieter Hijma and Clemens Grelck
16:00 Panel Career in Industry Joris Cramwinckel (Ortec Finance) and Animesh Trivedi (until recently in IBM Research Zurich)
18:30 Dinner @ Hotel restaurant
Tuesday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:30 Welcome Day 2 The organizers
09:40 Short Introductions New Faces in ASCI various
10:00 FT Methodological Principles for Reproducible Performance Evaluation in Cloud Computing Alessandro Papadopoulos, Laurens Versluis, André Bauer, Nikolas Herbst, Jóakim von Kistowski, Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Cristina Abad, José Amaral, Petr Tůma and Alexandru Iosup
10:30 FT Operating Permissioned Blockchain in Clouds: A Performance Study of Hyperledger Sawtooth Zeshun Shi, Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Jayachander Surbiryala, Cees de Laat and Zhiming Zhao
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 FT Parallel graph community detection algorithms for the KM3NeT project Konrad Karas, Stijn Heldens and Ben van Werkhoven
12:00 FT Graphless: Toward Serverless Graph Processing Lucian Toader, Alexandru Uta, Ahmed Musaafir and Alexandru Iosup
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Keynote Multi-scale astronomical simulations of non-linear phenomena Simon Portegies Zwart
14:30 ST Graph Processing in OpenCL: Performance vs. Portability Rick Watertor
14:45 ST High-throughput conversion of Apache Parquet files to Apache Arrow in-memory format using FPGA's Lars van Leeuwen, Johan Peltenburg, Jian Fang, Zaid Al-Ars, and Peter Hofstee
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 FT Albis: High-Performance File Format for Big Data Systems Animesh Trivedi, Patrick Stuedi, Jonas Pfefferle, Adrian Schuepbach and Bernard Metzler
16:00 Presentation NWO - Update on current and upcoming funding opportunities. Yvette Tuin
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Drinks and Social event
Wednesday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:30 Keynote Riding on the Edge: The Fun, Risks, and Lessons Aaron Ding
10:30 ST Using a permissioned blockchain for securing data transactions on the data market Rens van der Veldt and Yuri Demchenko
10:45 ST Performance Engineering in the ATLAS Particle Physics Experiment Stephen Nicholas Swatman
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 FT XChange: A Decentralized, Blockchain-based Mechanism for Generic Trade at Scale Martijn de Vos and Johan Pouwelse
12:00 Closing The organizers
12:30 Lunch

2.5.5 - Panel

Joris Cramwinckel from Ortec Finance and Animesh Trivedi (recently joined the VU after a successfull career in IBM Research Zurich) talk about career opportunities and tradeoffs in industry.

2.5.6 - Keynote

We have the pleasure of welcoming three keynote speakers at CompSys'19.

Monday June 3rd, 11:30-12:30
Shared-Memory Heterogeneous Computing
By Dr. Peter Hofstee
IBM Research, Austin, TX
Abstract Shared-memory heterogeneous computing is gaining ground, but poses challenges to the programming community that are at least as large as those that resulted from the single- to multi-core transition. This talk covers some of the architectural foundations, drawing some lessons from the Cell Broadband Engine ( and the Roadrunner supercomputer ) more than a decade ago, then looks at how this approach is working out in recent systems with shared memory combinations of CPUs and GPUs and/or FPGAs, and finally examines how it is likely to evolve.
Short bio Dr. Peter Hofstee is best known for his contributions to Heterogeneous computing as the chief architect of the Synergistic Processor Elements in the Cell Broadband Engine processor used in the Sony PlayStation 3, and the first supercomputer to reach sustained Petaflop operation. After returning to IBM research in 2011 he has focused on optimizing the system roadmap for big data, analytics, and cloud, including the use of accelerated compute. His early research work on coherently attached reconfigurable acceleration on POWER7 paved the way for the new coherent attach processor interface on POWER8. Peter Hofstee is an IBM Master Inventor with more than 100 issued patents and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Tuesday June 4th, 13:30-14:30
By Prof. Simon Portegies Zwart
Observatory, Leiden University
Abstract Energy and momentum are conserved in Newton's laws of gravitation. Numerical integration of the equations of motion should comply to these requirements in order to guarantee the correctness of a solution, but this turns out to be insufficient. The steady growth of numerical errors and the exponential divergence, renders numerical solutions over more than a dynamical time-scale meaningless. Even time reversibility is not a guarantee for finding the definitive solution to the numerical few-body problem. As a consequence, numerical N-body simulations produce questionable results. Using brute force integrations to arbitrary numerical precision I will demonstrate empirically that the statistics of an ensemble of resonant 3-body interactions is independent of the precision of the numerical integration, and conclude that, although individual solutions using common integration methods are unreliable, an ensemble of approximate 3-body solutions accurately represent the ensemble of true solutions.
Short bio Since 2009 Simon Portegies Zwart leads an interdisciplinary research team on Computational Astrophysics at the Sterrewacht Leiden (CAstLe). This team is currently composedof 1 software engineer, 2 postdoctoralresearchers, 6 PhD students and 4 MSc students. The aim of this team is to study the universe by means ofsimulation. The specific areas of research in astrophysics include the evolution of exotic planetary systems,the evolution of binary (and higher order multiple) stars, and the dynamical evolution of dense stellar systemssuch as globular clusters and galactic nuclei. From a computational point of view the research group aimsat the development of simulation environments for solving the equations for gravitational dynamics, stellarstructure and evolution, hydrodynamics and radiative transfer. Calculations are performed on computers builtby the research group and equipped with GRAPE hardware or graphical processing units (GPU) but also usingsupercomputers and grids.

Wednesday June 5th, 9:30-10:30
Riding on the Edge: The Fun, Risks, and Lessons
By Dr. Aaron Ding
ESS Group, TU Delft
Abstract This talk will introduce three initiatives on edge computing, namely FLAMeS, LocalVLC, and FADES, intended for edge analytics, communication and offloading. Besides sharing first-hand experience on system development and insights, the talk will reveal several pitfalls and lessons learned through live cases. The goal is twofold: 1) to disclose blind spots and interesting directions in the edge domain that deserve further investigations, and 2) to share observations on doing research in a “buzzword” domain, especially what may hinder us from transferring the (mostly fun) system work into solid scientific outcome.TBD
Short bioDr. Aaron Ding is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering Systems and Services in TU Delft. He has over 12 years of R&D experience across EU, UK and USA. Prior to joining TU Delft, he has worked at TU Munich in Germany, at Columbia University in USA, at University of Cambridge in UK, and at University of Helsinki in Finland. He obtained his MSc and PhD both with distinction from the Department of Computer Science (Birthplace of Linux) at University of Helsinki. His PhD was supervised by Prof. Sasu Tarkoma and Prof. Jon Crowcroft at University of Cambridge. Aaron's research focuses on edge computing, IoT architecture and distributed networking services. He is a two-time recipient of Nokia Foundation Scholarships, and awarded the Best Paper of ACM EdgeSys, ACM SIGCOMM Best of CCR and PhD fellowships from the Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki. Aaron is the founder of ACM EdgeSys and co-chaired IEEE HotPOST. He is the co-founder of FCG series, a joint initiative to promote active collaborations between top European and Asian research institutes, including Cambridge, Delft, Helsinki, Leuven, London, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm, MPI, EPFL, IMDEA, HKUST, Peking, Tsinghua, and Fudan.

2.5.7 - Registration

2.5.8 - Location

The conference will be held at the Kaap Doorn Conferentiecentrum in Doorn, The Netherlands.

This location is located in the heart of the National Park Utrecht Hill Ridge, in its own extensive grounds, perfect for an enjoyable walk. Cross the road next to the hotel to wander around the miles of beautiful woodlands of the hill ridge.

Please note that your overnight stays in this hotel, are included in the registration fee.


Arrival by public transport: There is a bus stop Doorn, Kaap Doorn right in front of the hotel. The bus line 50 has stops at the train station Driebergen-Zeist and Veenendaal-De Klomp. Find your connection here.

Arrival by car:Use the address Leersumsestraatweg 4 en 6, 3941 KA Doorn in your GPS.

2.5.9 - Contact

International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands

2.6 - Compsys 2018

Photo: Landgoed ISVW

Welcome to CompSys 2018, a Computer Science conference designed to showcase the success stories of Dutch Computer Systems research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration.

At CompSys, we aim to provide a meeting space for research and industry ideas in the area of computing and computer science, for a community we estimate at a few hundred nationally and a few thousand internationally. In this second edition, the conference will continue last year's efforts on community building, providing a forum to discuss ongoing projects for both senior researchers and experienced engineers, and Ph.D. and M.Sc. students in the Netherlands.

The conference lasts three days and focuses on the major research and practice themes related to computing and computer science. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, and exciting new ideas. We strive for a diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we welcome both senior members of the research community, and Ph.D. and M.Sc. students.

2.6.1 - Compsys 2018

Photo: Landgoed ISVW

Welcome to CompSys 2018, a Computer Science conference designed to showcase the success stories of Dutch Computer Systems research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration.

At CompSys, we aim to provide a meeting space for research and industry ideas in the area of computing and computer science, for a community we estimate at a few hundred nationally and a few thousand internationally. In this second edition, the conference will continue last year's efforts on community building, providing a forum to discuss ongoing projects for both senior researchers and experienced engineers, and Ph.D. and M.Sc. students in the Netherlands.

The conference lasts three days and focuses on the major research and practice themes related to computing and computer science. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, and exciting new ideas. We strive for a diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we welcome both senior members of the research community, and Ph.D. and M.Sc. students.

2.6.1.1 - Important Dates

Date Description
April 24, 2018The submission system opens.
May 28, 2018 - Extended!Deadline for submitting your contribution.
June 8, 2018Conference registration open.
June 11, 2018Author notification (delayed due to EasyChair issues).
June 18-20, 2018The conference takes place in Leusden.

2.6.1.2 - Organization

Program committee

Name University/Organization
Henri BalVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Henk CorporaalTU Eindhoven
Jan RellermeyerDelft University of Technology
Cees de LaatUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Paola GrossoUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Andy PimentelUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alessio ScloccoNLeSC
Marc MakkesVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pieter HijmaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Henk SipsDelft University of Technology
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Erik van der KouweUniversiteit Leiden
Remko VeltkampUtrecht University
Zekeriya ErkinDelft University of Technology
Aske PlaatUniversiteit Leiden
Kaveh RazaviVrije Universiteit
Zhiming ZhaoUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Steering committee
Name University/Organization
Cristiano GiuffridaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jacopo UrbaniVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Marco ZunigaDelft University of Technology

2.6.1.3 - Submission details

CompSys-2018 invites you to submit two types of contributions: research papers and work-in-progress papers.

Research papers

Research papers could/should contain your best research results from the past year(s). We do ask you to only submit work that has not been presented at CompSys before.

Submissions of work already published elsewhere can be submitted in the original format (not exceeding 12 pages in double-column format or 15 pages in LNCS format) - no reformatting should be needed. We do advise you to include information about the original venue for the publication.

Work-in-progress papers

As CompSys is a forum that encourages discussions about new and exciting ideas, we specifically welcome this year short abstracts and work-in-progress papers.

Such submissions are especially suitable for MSc students working towards finalizing their theses.

Submissions of work-in-progress papers requires a short abstract of at most 2 pages. The abstract should include on the research question being addressed, the novelty and/or originality of the idea, approach, or results, and a summary of preliminary results.

No copyright

To foster the broadest possible engagement and exchange ideas, CompSys-2018 does not claim copyright, making it possible for you to present work that has already been published or is in the process of publishing elsewhere.

Both types of contributions can be submitted online via the EasyChair conference submission system.

For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.

All contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee, which assigns an accepted contribution to either a short talk or a full presentation, depending on the advice of the reviewers.

All presentations will be made available in digital format, unless otherwise instructed by the authors.

Outstanding contributions

The best three contributors (authors of a paper, idea, and/or presentation) at CompSys 2018 will be presented with an “Outstanding contribution” award in the final session of the conference.

2.6.1.4 - Program

View/Download the full program.

Monday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
10:30 Coffee Arrival and welcome The organizers
11:00 FT A Trace-Based Performance Study of Autoscaling Workloads of Workflows in Datacenters Laurens Versluis, Mihai Neacsu and Alexandru Iosup
11:30 FT Yardstick: A Benchmark for Minecraft-like Services Jerom van der Sar, Jesse Donkervliet and Alexandru Iosup
12:00 FT POSUM: A Portfolio Scheduler for MapReduce Workloads Maria Voinea and Alexandru Iosup
12:30 Lunch
13:30 ST The Apertif Monitor for Bursts Encountered in Real-time (AMBER) auto-tuning optimization with genetic algorithms Klim Mikhailov and Alessio Sclocco
13:50 ST Track Reconstruction with Cellular Automaton: a Performance Engineering Case-study in HEP Julius Roeder, Roel Aaij, Ana Varbanescu and Gerhard Raven
14:10 ST SAT Simplification on GPU Architectures Muhammad Osama and Anton Wijs
14:30 ST Experience Report: Automating Experimental Setup and Data Management Merijn Verstraaten
14:50 ST Approximate-based FPGA Configuration Memory Vulnerability Factor Mahsa Mousavi, Hamid Reza Pourshaghaghi, Mohammad Tahghighi and Henk Corporaal
15:10 Coffee break
15:40 ST ECSched: Efficient Container Scheduling on Heterogeneous Clusters Yang Hu, Huan Zhou, Cees De Laat and Zhiming Zhao
16:00 ST A Blockchain-based Micro-Economy of Bandwidth Tokens Martijn de Vos and Johan Pouwelse
16:20 ST Real-time Money Routing by Trusting Strangers with your Funds Martijn de Vos and Johan Pouwelse
16:40 Panel: Career Choices
18:30 Dinner @ Hotel restaurant
20:30 Pub Quiz @ Hotel bar
Tuesday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:00 FT Large Scale Stream Analytics using a Resource-constrained Edge Roshan Bharath Das, Gabriele Di Bernardo and Henri Bal
09:30 FT Delta Pointers: Buffer Overflow Checks Without the Checks Taddeus Kroes, Koen Koning, Erik van der Kouwe, Herbert Bos and Cristiano Giuffrida
10:00 FT GuardION: Practical Mitigation of DMA-Based Rowhammer Attacks on ARM Victor van der Veen, Martina Lindorfer, Yanick Fratantonio, Harikrishnan Padmanabha Pillai, Giovanni Vigna, Christopher Kruegel, Herbert Bos and Kaveh Razavi
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Keynote Programming networks Paola Grosso
12:00 ST CloudsStorm: An Application-driven Framework to Enhance the Programmability and Controllability of Cloud Virtual Infrastructures Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Cees De Laat and Zhiming Zhao
12:20 Lunch
13:30 ST Towards using Program Dependency Graphs for plagiarism detection in Python Thomas Schaper and Ana Varbanescu
13:50 ST Maintainable Production: Mapping Quality Change to Developer Contributions Michael Olivari
14:10 ST Unit test generation using machine learning Laurence Saes, Joop Snijder and Ana Oprescu
14:30 ST A rule-based process management system for the customer service domain Gerben van der Huizen
14:50 ST Language-independent volume measurement Edwin Ouwehand
15:10 Social event
18:30 Dinner
Wed Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:00 Keynote Large-Scale Graph Processing for Network-Driven Insights in Finance and Economics Frank Takes
10:00 FT The Graphalytics Ecosystem: From Competitions to Performance Analysis Ahmed Musaafir, Tim Hegeman, Wing Lung Ngai, Alexandru Uta and Alexandru Iosup
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 FT A Beginner's Guide to Estimating and Improving Performance Portability Henk Dreuning, Ana Lucia Varbanescu and Roel Heirman
11:30 FT A Jungle Computing approach to common image source identification in large collections of images B. van Werkhoven, P. Hijma, C.J.H. Jacobs, J. Maassen, Z.J.M.H. Geradts and H.E. Bal
12:00 FT Towards HPC and Big Data Convergence: a Graph Processing Study on Intel Knights Landing Alexandru Uta, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Ahmed Musaafir, Chris Lemaire and Alexandru Iosup

2.6.1.5 - Panel

This year's CompSys will feature a panel on Career Choices. The format is simple: a few senior researchers will answer your questions related to your future steps in your career. The panelists are:

  • Dr. Corina Stratan, TopDesk
  • Dr. Jan Rellermeyer, TUDelft
  • Dr. Clemens Grelck, UvA
  • Dr. Anton Wijs, TU/e
  • Prof.dr. Rob van Nieuwpoort, NLeSC & UvA
  • Prof.dr. Henri Bal, VU

The panel will start with a brief introduction from each panelist (3-5 minutes), and 1 piece of advice for the audience. We estimate this will take about 25 minutes. Next, we will open the floor for questions from the audience.

We accept questions online and live.

Every question from the audience (up to 3 per person) will be awarded a small prize!

Please join us in a useful and interactive discussion about (y)our careers.

2.6.1.6 - Keynote

We have the pleasure of welcoming two keynote speakers at CompSys'18.

Tuesday, 19-06-2018 at 11:00am
Programming networks
By Dr. Paola Grosso
Systems and Networking Lab, UvA
Abstract Current advances in designing and engineering computer networks offer a path toward autonomous and flexible networking decisions. An key element toward this behavior is network programmability. Future networks will be able to react to external events, such as security incidents, and efficiently change their topology and behavior. In this talk I will present our latest research results in this area, and identify the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Short bio Dr. Paola Grosso is associate professor in the Systems and Networking Lab at the University of Amsterdam. She is the coordinator and lead researcher of all the group activities in the field of multi-scale networks and systems. Her research interests lie in the creation of sustainable e-Infrastructures, relying on the provisioning and design of programmable networks. She currently participates in several national projects, such as SARNET, DL4LD, SecConNet and in EU H2020-funded projects such as FED4FIRE+, GN4 and ENVRIPLUS.

Wednesday, 20-06-2018 at 09:00am
Large-Scale Graph Processing for Network-Driven Insights in Finance and Economics
By Dr. Frank Takes
LIACS, Leiden University
Abstract The interdisciplinary field of network science aims to extract meaningful knowledge from network data. In this talk we explore different aspects of this field, related to the efficient computation of network measures, large-scale network visualization and flow simulation. Each of these aspects in one way or the other involves a number of HPC-related methodologies. In addition, when applied to a large-scale dataset of millions of connected corporations across the globe, we demonstrate how we can use these algorithms to obtain new insights in the underlying data. For example, they allow us to better understand the community structure of our global economy, its underlying social structure, but also topics in finance and economics, such as tax evasion.
Short bio Frank Takes is an assistant professor at the computer science department of Leiden University, working on algorithms for extracting actionable knowledge from real-world network data; a field known as computational network science. He is involved in several projects with the Dutch government, the NWO eScience center and Statistics Netherlands (CBS), and is a visiting fellow at the CORPNET research group of the University of Amsterdam, where he works in an interdisciplinary research team on understanding large-scale networks of corporations.

2.6.1.7 - Registration

Registration has been closed by the organizers of this event.

2.6.1.8 - Location

The conference will be held at the Landgoed ISVW Leusden, The Netherlands.

This location is located in a peaceful, wooded setting near estate Den Treek. For an impression of the hotel and its surroundings please click here.

Please note that your overnight stays in this hotel, are included in the registration fee.

ISVW offers their visitors a shuttle service (€12,50) from Amersfoort train station. This shuttle service must be reserved at a minimum of 3 hours upfront via email or by phone 033-2588849. You'll get a recite from the driver if you are able to reimburse these costs at your University. For more information how to get there and away; please refer to the hotels website.

2.6.1.9 - Contact

International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands

2.7 - Compsys 2017

After several years of collocation with ICT.OPEN, the Dutch computing and computer science community has decided to also host an independent annual conference, with an enlarged and more international scope. The goal of this event is to provide a meeting space for research and industry ideas in the area of computing and computer science, for a community we estimate at a few hundred nationally and a few thousand internationally. In this first edition, the conference will focus on community building, providing a forum to discuss ongoing projects for both senior researchers and experienced engineers, and Ph.D. and M.Sc. students in the Netherlands.

The conference lasts three days and focuses on the major research and practice themes related to computing and computer science. We envision a diverse program, from keynotes on advanced topics to project overviews emphasizing the strengths of Dutch and international IT projects, from presentations from Ph.D. and M.Sc. students to tutorials on building a career in computing and computer science.

This first edition is organized as a retreat: consider asking the organizers for a Birds-of-a-Feather meeting or a session on your interests.

2.7.1 - Distinguished Presentation Awards

Congratulations to all our Distinguished Presentation Award winners!

Long and Junior Paper Award

Ahmed Musaafir

Title: Expanding graph datasets using sampling
Long Paper Award

Stijn Heldens

Title: High-Performance Graph Processing on Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Platforms
Long Paper Award

Roshan Bharath Das

Title: Cowbird: A Flexible Cloud-based Framework for Combining Smartphone Sensors and IoT
Short Paper Award

Mark Wijvliet

Title: Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architectures in the Past 25 Years: Overview and Classification
Junior Paper Award

Jerom van der Sar

Title: Opencraft: Towards Massivizing Modifiable Virtual Environments

2.7.2 - Important Dates

Date Description
April 2, 2017The submission system opens.
May 08, 2017Deadline for submitting your article.
May 25, 2017Author notification, conference registration open.
June 19-21, 2017The conference takes place in Vught.

2.7.3 - Organization

Program committee

Name University/Organization
Marco AielloRU Groningen
Henri BalVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Henk Corporaal TU Eindhoven
Dick Epema Delft University of Technology
Cees de Laat Universiteit van Amsterdam
Cristiano Giuffrida Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Paola Grosso Universiteit van Amsterdam
Boudewijn Haverkort Universiteit Twente
Marieke Huisman Universiteit Twente
Alexandru Iosup Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Koen Langendoen Delft University of Technology
Rob van Nieuwpoort NLeSC
Aiko Pras Universiteit Twente
Sanjay Rawat Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Henk Sips Delft University of Technology
Ana Lucia Varbanescu Universiteit van Amsterdam
Harry Wijshoff Universiteit van Leiden
Marco Zuniga Delft University of Technology

Steering committee

Name University/Organization
Cristiano GiuffridaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jacopo UrbaniVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Marco ZunigaDelft University of Technology

Review committee

Name University/Organization
Freark van der BergUniversiteit Twente
Saeed DarabiUniversiteit Twente
Pieter HijmaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rutger HofmanVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Wytse OortwijnUniversiteit Twente
Alex UtaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kees VerstoepVrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2.7.4 - Submission details

CompSys-2017 invites you to submit vision papers, regular scientific work, experience and other industrial reports, and project overviews.

To foster the broadest possible engagement and exchange of ideas, CompSys-2017 does not claim copyright. Authors are invited to submit research and practice summaries, derived from work that has been sent to or has been presented recently at international conferences and workshops.

Papers can be submitted online via the EasyChair conference submission system.

For submission, the PDF format is mandatory. Papers must not exceed 6 pages, and should be typeset in 2 columns, with point size 9 or larger, and with vertical spacing 12 or larger. Consider using the typical IEEE Computer Society or the new ACM formats. The submission must include keywords for the topic(s) covered in the article. The introduction must include at least one paragraph on why the article is relevant to the CompSys-2017 community.

All contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee, which assigns an accepted contribution to either a poster session or a podium presentation, depending on the advice of the reviewers. All accepted papers will be published in the digital proceedings of the conference (without copyright claim!). This year, up to three best papers will receive an award each, and will be presented in the special Best Papers session!

2.7.5 - Program

We are delighted to release the final agenda/program for CompSys 2017. The program contains further details of each presentation including title and the main theme(s) of each speaker.

Monday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
11:00 Welcome Arrival The organizers
11:20 FT Granula: Toward Fine-grained Performance Analysis of Large-scale Graph Processing Platforms Wing Lung Ngai, Tim Hegeman, Stijn Heldens and Alexandru Iosup
11:40 FT Level-optimized BFS: a Model-based Approach to Speed-up BFS Graph Traversa Merijn Verstraaten, Cees De Laat and Ana Lucia Varbanescu L
12:00 FT Automatically Deriving Efficient Implementations of Parallel PageRank Bart van Strien, Harry Wijshoff and Kristian Rietveld
12:20 FT Expanding graph datasets using sampling Ahmed Musaafir and Ana Lucia Varbanescu
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Keynote Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX Andy Tanenbaum
14:40 ST Brainwave: Low power EEG Signal Processing Platform Mohammad Tahghighi, Henk Corporaal and Jos Huisken
14:50 ST From Application Access Traces to Custom Parallel Memories Giulio Stramondo, Catalin Bogdan Ciobanu and Ana Lucia Varbanescu
15:00 ST Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architectures in the Past 25 Years: Overview andClassification Mark Wijtvliet, Luc Waeijen and Henk Corporaal
15:10 ST Measuring the impact of code quality analysis tools in Education Julian Jansen, Ana-Maria Oprescu and Magiel Bruntink
15:20 ST Providing A Compiler Technology-Based Alternative For Big Data Application Infrastructures Kristian Rietveld and Harry Wijshoff
15:30 Break
16:00 FT RevAnC: A Framework for Reverse Engineering Hardware Page Table Caches Stephan van Schaik, Kaveh Razavi, Ben Gras, Herbert Bos and Cristiano Giuffrida
16:20 FT A Feasibility Study for a PRF-based Parallel Memory on Maxeler's Dataflow Engine C.B. Ciobanu, Giulio Stramondo, Ana Lucia Varbanescu and Cees De Laat
16:40 FT ANANKE: a Q-Learning-Based Portfolio Scheduler for Complex Industrial Workflows Shenjun Ma, Alexey S. Ilyushkin, Alexander Stegehuis and Alexandru Iosup
17:00 End of day
17:15 Senior staff meeting
18:30 Dinner
Tuesday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:00 Keynote Academic career perspectives: a changing scene Henk Sips
10:00 ST TrustChain: A Sybil-resistant Scalable Blockchain Pim Otte, Martijn de Vos, Johan Pouwelse
10:10 ST A Testbed for locally Monitoring SCADA Networks in Smart Grids Justyna Chromik, Anne Remke and Boudewijn Haverkort
10:20 ST Predicting Test Suite Effectiveness Using Static Analysis Paco van Beckhoven, Ana-Maria Oprescu and Magiel Bruntink
10:30 Break
11:00 FT Cowbird: A Flexible Cloud-based Framework for Combining Smartphone Sensors and IoT Roshan Bharath Das, Nicolae Vladimir Bozdog and Henri Bal
11:20 FT P2-SWAN: Real-time Privacy Preserving Computation for IoT Ecosystems Marc X. Makkes, Alexandru Uta, Roshan Bharath Das, Vladimir Bozdog and Henri Bal
11:40 FT SenseLE: Exploiting Spatial Locality in Decentralized Sensing Environments Nicolae Vladimir Bozdog, Marc X. Makkes, Alexandru Uta, Roshan Bharath Das, Aart Van Halteren and Henri Bal
12:00 FT LDBC Graphalytics: A Benchmark for Large-Scale Graph Analysis on Parallel and Distributed Platforms Alexandru Iosup, Tim Hegeman, Wing Lung Ngai, Stijn Heldens, Arnau Prat-Perez, Thomas Manhardt, Hassan Chafi, Mihai Capota, Narayanan Sundaram, Michael Anderson, Ilie Gabriel Tanase, Yinglong Xia, Lifeng Nai and Peter Boncz
12:20 FT POSUM: A Portfolio Scheduler for MapReduce Workloads Maria Voinea and Alexandru Iosup
12:40 Lunch
14:00 Keynote Big Data Challenges in Extreme Scale Science Manish Parashar
14:40 ST An Analysis of Workflow Formalisms for Complex Workflows with Non-Functional Requirements Laurens Versluis, Erwin van Eyk and Alexandru Iosup
14:50 ST Fast exploration of code transformations in CNNs to reduce external memory accesses Luc Waeijen, Savvas Sioutas, Barry de Bruin, Henk Corporaal and Maurice Peemen
15:00 ST Resource Management and Scheduling in Cloud Datacenters that Host BusinessCritical Workloads Vincent van Beek, Giorgos Oikonomou, Jesse Donkervliet, Stefan Hugtenburg, Siqi Shen and Alexandru Iosup
15:10 ST Off-the-shelf Embedded Devices as Platforms for Security Research Lucian Cojocar, Kaveh Razavi and Herbert Bos
15:20 Oxidize: Open Framework for Idiomatic Rule Preservation Adrian Zborowski and Clemens Grelck
15:30 Social event
18:30 Dinner
Wed Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:00 Keynote Boudewijn Haverkort
10:00 FT Alessio Sclocco, Henri Bal and Rob Van Nieuwpoort
10:20 ST The OpenDC Vision: Towards Collaborative Datacenter Simulation and Exploration for Everybody Alexandru Iosup, Georgios Andreadis, Vincent van Beek, Matthijs Bijman, Erwin van Eyk, Mihai Neacsu, Leon Overweel, Sacheendra Talluri, Laurens Versluis and Maaike Visser
10:30 Break
11:00 FT Double-NAT Based Mobility Management for Future LTE Networks 4 Morteza Karimzadeh, Luca Valtulina, Aiko Pras, Hans van den Berg, Ricardo de O. Schmidt, Marco Liebsch and Tarik Taleb
11:20 FT Opencraft: Towards Massivizing Modifiable Virtual Environments Jesse Donkervliet, Jerom van der Sar and Alexandru Iosup
11:40 GPUexplore 2.0: Unleashing GPU Explicit-State Model Checking Anton Wijs, Thomas Neele and Dragan Bosnacki
12:00 High-Performance Graph Processing on Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Platforms Stijn Heldens, Ana Lucia Varbanescu and Alexandru Iosup
12:20 Lunch
13:20 Closing, best presentation awards, announcement for next year.

2.7.6 - Registration

Registration has been closed by the organizers of this event.

2.7.7 - Location

The conference will be held at the Landgoed Huize Bergen, Vught, The Netherlands. This monumental Villa from 1916 is hidden in a beautiful park with ancient trees and close to the historic center of 's-Hertogenbosch. This hotel offers modern, but with classic details rooms. Please note that your overnight stay in this hotel, is included in the registration fee.

2.7.8 - Contact

International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands