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UCC Workshops Programme

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (7th , 8th, 9th) 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)
Workshops Programme: Day 2, Tuesday, 7th December 2021, Online Event
(NOTE: The programme is in the UK time zone)
Zoom Link to the Live Event: https://zoom.us/j/97980800986?pwd=YnpzNHRjSXNCMXl4SHlzeG9TOWJyQT09
Meeting ID: 979 8080 0986
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)
11:00 – 12:30 CloudAM Online Session I Session Chair: Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
11:00 –11:30 Masoud Barati, William Buchanan, Owen Lo and Omer Rana A Privacy Preserving Distributed Platform for CoVID-19 Vaccine Passports
11:30 –12:00 Premathas Somasekaram and Radu Calinescu Towards a Bayesian Prognostic Framework for High Availability Clusters
12:00 –12:30 Dhanya Mathews, Mudit Verma, Pooja Agarwal and J. Lakshmi. Towards Failure Correlation for Improved Cloud Application Service Resilience
12:30 – 14:00 Break
14:00 – 15:30 CloudAM Online Session II Session Chair: Nitin Auluck (IIT Ropar, India)
14:00 –14:30 Xiaoyi Sun, Kaishi Li, Yaodanjun Ren, Jiale Lin, Zhenyu Ren, Shuzhi Feng, Yin Jian and Zhengwei Qi Client Layer becomes Bottleneck: Workload Analysis of an ultra-large scale Cloud Systems
14:30 –15:00 Chun-Yuan Huang, Der-Yu Tsai and Che-Rung Lee Memory Hot-zone and its application to Accelerate the Convergence of KSM for VM Consolidation
15:00 –15:30 Marta Rozanska and Geir Horn Marginal Metric Utility for Autonomic Cloud Application Management
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:30 CloudAM Online Session III Session Chair: Luiz Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil)
16:00 –16:30 Adam Cattermole, Jonathan Dowland and Paul Watson Run-time Adaptation of Stream Processing spanning the Cloud and the Edge
16:30 –17:00 Li Ju, Prashant Singh and Salman Toor Proactive Autoscaling for Edge Computing Systems with Kubernetes
17:00 –17:30 Anshul Jindal, Mohak Chadha, Shajulin Benedict and Michael Gerndt Estimating the Capacities of Function-as-a-Service Functions


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)
Workshops Programme: Day 3, Wednesday, 8th December 2021, Online Event
(NOTE: The programme is in the UK time zone)
Zoom Link to the Live Event: https://zoom.us/j/97980800986?pwd=YnpzNHRjSXNCMXl4SHlzeG9TOWJyQT09
Meeting ID: 979 8080 0986
Time Authors Paper
09:00 – 10:30 DML-ICC Online Session I Session Chair: Luiz Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil)
09:00 –09:30 Yuan-Cheng Lai, Didik Sudyana, Ying-Dar Lin, Miel Verkerken, Laurens D'hooge, Tim Wauters, Bruno Volckaert and Filip De Turck Machine Learning based Intrusion Detection as a Service: Task Assignment and Capacity Allocation in a Multi-tier Architecture
09:30 –10:00 Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Pedro Silva, Kevin Fauvel, Alexandru Costan, Gabriel Antoniu and Manish Parashar MDSC: Modelling Distributed Stream Processing across the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
10:00 –10:30 Malte Bellmann, Tobias Pfandzelter and David Bermbach Predictive Replica Placement for Mobile Users in Distributed Fog Data Stores with Client-Side Markov Models
10:30 – 12:00 DML-ICC Online Session II Session Chair: Luiz Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil)
10:30 –10:52 Josef Spillner Self-balancing Architectures based on Liquid Functions across Computing Continuums
10:52 –11:15 Erqian Tang and Todor Stefanov Low-memory and High-performance CNN Inference on Distributed Systems at the Edge
11:15 –11:37 Pradipta Ghosh, Quynh Nguyen, Pranav K Sakulkar, Jason A. Tran, Aleksandra Knezevic, Jiatong Wang, Zhifeng Lin, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Murali Annavaram and Salman Avestimehr Jupiter: A Networked Computing Architecture
11:37 –12:00 Sheng Yang, Samir Khuller, Sunav Choudhary, Subrata Mitra and Kanak Mahadik Scheduling ML Training on Unreliable Spot Instances
12:00 – 13:30 CIFS Online Session I Session Chair: Panagiotis Gkikopoulos (ZHAW, Switzerland)
12:00 –12:30 Christian Catelli, CEO & Co-Founder, Proxity and Dennis Nasarov CTO & Founder, Proxity Invited Talk: Proxity RTLS platform for data driven decisions & a more citizen centric experience
12:30 –13:00 Semih Ince, David Espes, Guy Gogniat, Renaud Santoro and Julien Lallet OAuth 2.0-based authentication solution for FPGA-enabled cloud computing
13:00 –13:30 Sheriffo Ceesay, Yuhui Lin and Adam Barker Adaptive Brokerage Framework for the Cloud with Functional Testing
14:30 – 15:00 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)


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)
Workshops Programme: Day 4, Thursday, 9th December 2021, Online Event
(NOTE: The programme is in the UK time zone)
Zoom Link to BlockCPS (I and II), MLHI and Doctoral Symposium: https://zoom.us/j/97980800986?pwd=YnpzNHRjSXNCMXl4SHlzeG9TOWJyQT09
Meeting ID: 979 8080 0986
Zoom Link to B2D2LM (I and II): https://zoom.us/j/96448943810?pwd=ekpUSXBtREdDVUtGbWFidFlKc1FEUT09
Meeting ID: 964 4894 3810
Time Authors Paper
09:00 – 10:30 B2D2LM Online Session I Session Chair: Yu-Dong Zhang (University of Leicester, UK)
09:00 –09:30 Jian Wang Alcoholism detection via GLCM and Particle Swarm Optimization
09:30 –10:00 Siyuan Lu, Xin Zhang, Yu-Dong Zhang A New Pulmonary Disease Diagnosis System Based on EfficientNet and Transfer Learning
10:00 –10:30 Yan Yan, Dimas Lima Alcoholism via wavelet energy entropy and support vector machine
10:30 – 11:00 Break
09:00 – 10:30 BlockCPS Online Session I Session Chair: Raman Singh (University of West of Scotland, UK)
09:00 –09:30 Yasheng Zhang, Chengcheng Li, Chao Wang Peiying Zhang Blockchain-based Cyber-Physical Systems Security Autonomous Routing Scheme
09:30 –10:00 Davit Marikyan, Davit Marikyan, Rajiv Ranjan, Omer Rana General Data Protection Regulation: An Individual's Perspective
10:00 –10:30 Qijie Qian, Yu'ao Wang, Hao She, Yong'an Guo, Hongbo Sun Multi-Path Selection Access Algorithm and Design of Intelligent Perception Network Model for Blockchain-Enabled CPSs
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 B2D2LM Session II Session Chair: Shui-Hua Wang (University of Leicester, UK)
11:00 –11:30 Qinghua Zhou, Hengde Zhu, Xin Zhang, Yu-Dong Zhang Knowledge distillation for secondary pulmonary tuberculosis classification ensemble
11:30 –12:00 Jiaji Wang, Shu-Wen Chen, Jia-Qi Shao, Xiao-Wei Gu, Hui-Sheng Zhu Medical 3D Reconstruction Based on Deep Learning for Healthcare
11:00 – 12:30 BlockCPS Online Session II Session Chair: Devki Nandan Jha (University of Oxford, UK)
11:00 –11:30 Vladislav Kashansky, Radu Prodan, Aso Validi, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, Gleb Radchenko Monitoring System Architecture for the Multi-Scale Blockchain-based Logistic Network
11:30 –12:00 Gang Wang, Mark Nixon SoK: Tokenization on Blockchain
12:00 –12:30 Andres Heredia, Gabriel Barros-Gavilanes Dealing With Multi-Step Verification Processes For Certification Issuance In Universities
12:30 – 13:00 Break
13:00 – 14:30 MLHI Online Session I Session Chair: Bo Yuan (University of Derby, UK)
13:00 –13:30 Syed Usama Khalid Bukhari, Asmara Syed, Syed Safwan Khalid, and Syed Sajid Hussain Shah The Histological Diagnosis of Breast Cancer by Employing scale invariant ResNet 18 With Spatial Supervised Technique
13:30 –14:00 Maryam Jadoon and Adeel Anjum Differentiation of Bacterial and Viral Pneumonia in Children Under Five using Deep Learning
14:00 –14:30 Shujaat Hussain and Safiullah Shahid Predicting continuous blood glucose level using deep learning
14:30 – 15:00 Doctoral Symposium Online Session I Session Chair: John Panneerselvam (University of Leicester, UK)
14:30 –15:00 Christian Plewnia An Integrated Approach for Cloud Computing Service Selection and Cost Estimation