Conference Programme

UCC2021 Programme

UCC/BDCAT 2021 Programme – Day 1, Monday 6th of December 2021

14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2021) 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT2021)
Programme: Day 1, Monday, 6th December 2021, Physical Event College Court Conference Centre, Knighton Road, Leicester LE2 3UF, Leicester UK Getting Here: Direction to Conference Venue (NOTE: The programme is in the UK time zone)
Zoom Link to the Live Event: https://zoom.us/j/96448943810?pwd=ekpUSXBtREdDVUtGbWFidFlKc1FEUT09 Meeting ID: 964 4894 3810
Time	Authors	Paper	Event
09:30 – 10:00	Session 1: UCC and BDCAT Opening Ceremony
10:00 –11:00	Opening Keynote: Implementing Digital Twins for service and operations - how far have we come? Dr. Gilbert Owusu, Data & AI Director for Corporate Units and Networks, British Telecom
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00	Session 2: Cloud and Systems
11:30 – 12:00	Zoltan Zvara, Peter G.N. Szabo, Barnabas Lorant Balazs and Andras A. Benczur	System-aware dynamic partitioning for batch and streaming workloads	UCC
12:00 – 12:30	Chen Chen, Lars Nagel, Lin Cui and Posco Tso	Distributed Federated Service Chaining for Heterogeneous Network Environments	UCC
12:30 – 13:00	Kaho Wan and Joel Coffman	Game-Theoretic Modeling of DDoS Attacks in Cloud Computing	UCC
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:00	Session 3 Keynote: Sense (and) the City: From grassroots IoT sensors and city-fostered Open Data to Urban Observatories Prof Theo Tryfonas, University of Bristol, UK
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:30	Session 4: Big Data and Applications
15:30 – 16:00	Aimer Bhat, Madhumonti Roy and Heeki Park	Evaluating Serverless Architecture for Big Data Enterprise Applications	BDCAT
16:00 – 16:30	Ilyas Ashkir, Ben Roullier, Frank McQuade and Ashiq Anjum	Object recognition for Virtual Reality based Digital Twins	BDCAT
16:30 – 17:00	Anthony Miller, John Panneerselvam and Lu Liu	An Empirical Analysis of LADA Diabetes Case, Control and Variable Importance	MLHI
17:00 – 17:20	Vijay Kumar, George Oikonomou and Theo Tryfonas	An Urban Sensing Architecture as Essential Infrastructure for Future Cities	Doctoral Symposium
17:20 – 17:40	Azam Khan and Ashiq Anjum	Blockchain-based Distributed Platform for Accountable Medical Data Sharing	Doctoral Symposium
17:40 – 18:00	Wei Wang	A Short Survey on Deep Learning for Skeleton-based Action Recognition	B2D2LM

BDCAT, Day 2 and Day 3, Monday 7th and 8th December 2021

8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT2021)
Programme: Day 2, Tuesday, 7th December 2021, Online Event (NOTE: The programme is in the UK time zone)
Zoom Link to BDCAT Live Event: https://zoom.us/j/96448943810?pwd=ekpUSXBtREdDVUtGbWFidFlKc1FEUT09 Meeting ID: 964 4894 3810 (NOTE: For joining the Keynotes, please use the links provided in the Keynote section)
Time	Authors	Paper
09:30 – 10:30	Session 1 Keynote: Keynote-Catching up on the Internet Computer Dr Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, DFINITY, Zurich, Switzerland (Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98090863338?pwd=RE5BRVZrc0ZzZk9ON3NnUGxKMkZhUT09 Meeting ID: 980 9086 3338)
10:30 – 11:00	Break
11:00 –13:00	Session 1: The power of crowd and graphs	Session Chair:Robert Birke
11:00 – 11:30	Richard Sinnott and Zijian Wang	Linking User Accounts across Social Media Platforms
11:30 – 12:00	Zuo Huang, Richard Sinnott and Qiuhong Ke	Crowd Counting Using Deep Learning in Edge Devices
12:00 – 12:30	Changhao Bai and Peng Wu	PRRL: Path Rotation based Knowledge Graph Representation Learning method
12:30 – 13:00	Yuanhang Xu and Peng Wu	Multiscale Clustering Based Diffusion Representation Learning Method
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 –15:30	Session 2: Handling the anomalies	Session Chair: Ashiq Anjum
14:00 – 14:30	Amirmasoud Ghiassi, Robert Birke and Lydia Y.Chen	TrustNet: Learning from Trusted Data Against (A)symmetric Label Noise
14:30 – 15:00	Barjinder Kaur, Sajjad Dadkhah, Pulei Xiong, Shahrear Iqbal, Suprio Ray and Ali A. Ghorbani	Verification Based Scheme to Restrict IoT Attacks
15:00 – 15:30	Break
15:30 –17:00	Session 3: Analysis for systems	Session Chair:Xinghui Zhao
15:30 – 16:00	Guoyi Zhao, Tian Zhou and Lixin Gao	A Proactive Data-Parallel Framework for Machine Learning
16:00 – 16:30	Menuka Warushavithana, Caleb Carlson, Saptashwa Mitra, Daniel Rammer, Mazdak Arabi, Jay Breidt, Sangmi Lee Pallickara and Shrideep Pallickara	Distributed Orchestration of Regression Models Over Administrative Boundaries
16:30 – 17:00	Sheriffo Ceesay, Yuhui Lin and Adam Barker	Benchmarking and Performance Modelling of Dataflow with Cycles

8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT2021)
Programme: Day 3, Wednesday, 8th December 2021, Online Event (NOTE: The programme is in the UK time zone)
Zoom Link to BDCAT Live Event: https://zoom.us/j/96448943810?pwd=ekpUSXBtREdDVUtGbWFidFlKc1FEUT09 Meeting ID: 964 4894 3810 (NOTE: For joining the Keynotes and Panel, please use the links provided in the Keynote and Panel section)
Time	Authors	Paper
11:00 –13:00	Session 1: Big Data Applications	Session Chair:Lydia Chen
11:00 – 11:30	Zihan Yang, Richard Sinnott, Qiuhong Ke and James Bailey	Individual Feral Cat Identification through Deep Learning
11:30 – 12:00	Wenhan Gao, Peng Wu and Li Pan	Attribute Network Embedding Method based on Joint Clustering of Representation and Network
12:00 – 12:30	Kshitij Sinha and Muskan Lalit	Comparative Analysis of Pre-Trained Deep Neural Networks for Vision-Based Security Systems on a Novel Dataset
12:30 – 13:00	Maxim Priymak and Richard Sinnott	Real-Time Traffic Classification through Deep Learning
13:00 – 14:00	Break
14:00 – 15:00	Keynote: Terraview OS - Empowering modern vineyard management through Data Piyush Harsh, CTO, Terraview, Zurich, Switzerland (Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98090863338?pwd=RE5BRVZrc0ZzZk9ON3NnUGxKMkZhUT09 Meeting ID: 980 9086 3338)
15:00 – 15:30	Briefing on UCC/BDCAT 2022
15:30 – 16:30	Break
16:30 –18:00	UCC/BDCAT Panel: Computing in the Era of Climate Change Prof Alan Sill and Prof Omer Rana (Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98090863338?pwd=RE5BRVZrc0ZzZk9ON3NnUGxKMkZhUT09 Meeting ID: 980 9086 3338)