Opening Remarks

Keynote - Quantum Middleware: The Key to Quantum Computing in the Cloud

Colin P. Williams - D-Wave Systems Inc, Burnaby, BC, Canada

Coffee break

Session 1: Storage, Data access, Consistency, Session Chair: Fred Douglis

• Locking Made Easy Jelena Antic (EPFL), Georgios Chatzopoulos (EPFL), Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL), Vasileios Trigonakis (EPFL)

• Unifying HDFS and GPFS: Enabling Analytics on Software-Defined Storage Ramya Raghavendra (IBM Research), Pranita Dewan (IBM Research), Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM Research)

• Programming Scalable Cloud Services with AEON BO SANG (Purdue University), Masoud Saeida Ardekani (Purdue University), Gustavo Petri (University Paris Diderot), Patrick Eugster (Purdue University), Srivatsan Ravi (Purdue University)

• AdaptCache: Adaptive Data Partitioning and Migration for Distributed Object Caches Omar Asad (McGill University), Bettina Kemme (McGill University)

Lunch

Session 2: Virtualization, Cloud, Session Chair: Yerom-David Bromberg

• ALMA - GC-assisted JVM Live Migration for Java Server Applications Rodrigo Bruno (INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico / University of Lisbon), Paulo Ferreira (INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico / University of Lisbon)

• Mitigating performance unpredictability in the IaaS using the Kyoto principle Alain Tchana (IRIT, Toulouse), Bao Bui (IRIT, Toulouse), Boris Teabe (IRIT, Toulouse), Vlad Nitu (IRIT, Toulouse), Daniel Hagimont (IRIT, Toulouse)

• Containers and Virtual Machines at Scale: A Comparative Study Prateek Sharma (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Lucas Chaufournier (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Y.C. Tay (National University of Singapore)

• A Supervised Learning Model for Identifying Inactive VMs in Private Cloud Data Centers (Industry Track) In Kee Kim (University of Virginia), Sai Zeng, (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Christopher Young (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Jinho Hwang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Marty Humphre (University of Virginia)

Coffee break

Session 3: Scalability, Session Chair: Peter Pietzuch

• Atum: Scalable Group Communication Using Volatile Groups Rachid Guerraoui (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Anne-Marie Kermarrec (Inria Rennes), Matej Pavlovic (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

• Towards Scalable Service Composition (Industry Track) Elyas Ben Hadj Yahia (CProDirect), Inti Gonzalez-Herrera (University of Bordeaux), Anthony Bayle (CProDirect), Yérom-David Bromberg (University of Rennes), Laurent Réveillère (University of Bordeaux)

1-minute madness

Posters and Demo

Reception

Keynote - Record Management in the Cloud: "Keep it Cheap Stupid"

David Lomet - Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, USA

Coffee break

Session 4: Testing, Distribution and Performance, Session Chair: Joseph Loyall

• Bifrost - Supporting Continuous Deployment with Automated Enactment of Multi-Phase Live Testing Strategies Gerald Schermann (University of Zurich), Dominik Schöni (University of Zurich), Philipp Leitner (University of Zurich), Harald C. Gall (University of Zurich)

• ORION: A Framework for GPU Occupancy Tuning Ari B. Hayes (Rutgers University), Lingda Li (Rutgers University), Daniel Chavarria (Pacific Northwest National Lab), Shuaiwen Leon Song (Pacific Northwest National Lab), Eddy Z. Zhang (Rutgers University)

• Geo-Distribution of Flexible Business Processes over Publish/Subscribe Paradigm Martin Jergler (Technical University of Munich (TUM)), Mohammad Sadoghi (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Hans-Arno Jacobsen (Technical University of Munich (TUM))

• MP-trie: Fast Spatial Queries on Moving Objects (Industry Track) Raghu Ganti (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Dakshi Agrawal (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Petros Zerfos (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Jorge Ortiz (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Lunch

Session 5: IoT, Mobile systems, Session Chair: Amy Murphy

• Big ideas paper: Policy-driven middleware for a legally-compliant Internet of Things Jatinder Singh (University of Cambridge), Thomas Pasquier (University of Cambridge), Jean Bacon (University of Cambridge), Julia Powles (University of Cambridge), Raluca Diaconu (University of Cambridge), David Eyers (University of Otago)

• Dos and Don'ts in Mobile Phone Sensing Middleware: Learning from a Large-Scale Experiment Valerie Issarny (Inria), Vivien Mallet (Inria), Kinh Nguyen (Inria), Pierre-Guillaume Raverdy (Ambientic), Fadwa Rebhi (Inria), Raphael Ventura (Inria)

Test of Time Award Talk

Coffee break

Session 6: Security and Privacy, Session Chair: Etienne Riviere

• Secure Content-Based Routing Using Intel Software Guard Extensions Rafael Pires (University of Neuchatel), Marcelo Pasin (University of Neuchatel), Pascal Felber (University of Neuchatel), Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden)

• BrowserFlow: Imprecise Data Flow Tracking to Prevent Accidental Data Disclosure Ioannis Papagiannis (Facebook), Pijika Watcharapichat (Imperial College London), Divya Muthukumaran (Imperial College London), Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London)

• SecureKeeper: Confidential ZooKeeper using Intel SGX Stefan Brenner (TU Braunschweig), Colin Wulf (TU Braunschweig), Matthias Lorenz (TU Braunschweig), Nico Weichbrodt (TU Braunschweig), David Goltzsche (TU Braunschweig), Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden), Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College London), Rüdiger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig)

Business Meeting

Banquet (Busses depart at 18:45)

Session 7: SDN, NFV, Session Chair: François Taiani

• SDNFV: Flexible and Dynamic Software Defined Control of an Application- and Flow-Aware Data Plane Wei Zhang (The George Washington University), Guyue Liu (The George Washington University), Ali Mohammadkhan (University of California, Riverside), Jinho Hwang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), K. K. Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside), Timothy Wood (The George Washington University)

• Netalytics: Cloud-Scale Application Performance Monitoring with SDN and NFV Guyue Liu (George Washington University), Michael Trotter (George Washington University), Yuxin Ren (George Washington University), Timothy Wood (George Washington University)

Coffee break

Session 8: Data streaming, big data anayltics, Session Chair: Alberto Montresor

• Online Scheduling for Shuffle Grouping in Distributed Stream Processing Systems Nicolo Rivetti (LINA / Université de Nantes, France - DIAG / Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Emmanuelle Anceaume (IRISA / CNRS, Rennes, France), Yann Busnel (Crest (Ensai) / Inria, Rennes, France), Leonardo Querzoni (DIAG / Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Bruno Sericola (Inria, Rennes, France)

• Dynamic Load Balancing for Ordered Data-Parallel Regions in Distributed Streaming Systems Scott Schneider (IBM Research), Joel Wolf (IBM Research), Kirsten Hildrum (IBM Research), Rohit Khandekar (IBM Research), Kun-Lung Wu (IBM Research)

• Locality-Aware Routing in Stateful Streaming Applications Matthieu Caneill (Université Grenoble Alpes), Ahmed El Rheddane (Université Grenoble Alpes), Vincent Leroy (Université Grenoble Alpes), Noel De Palma (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Closing Remarks

Lunch