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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


UCC, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 Tuesday 7th, 8th and 9th December 2021

14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2021)
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/98090863338?pwd=RE5BRVZrc0ZzZk9ON3NnUGxKMkZhUT09
Meeting ID: 980 9086 3338
(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 –12:30 Session 1: Heterogeneous and Intelligent Cloud Session Chair: Anshul Jindal
11:00 – 11:30 Lukas Harzenetter, Uwe Breitenbücher, Ghareeb Falazi, Frank Leymann and Adrian Wersching Automated Detection of Design Patterns in Declarative Deployment Models
11:30 – 12:00 Kevin Wallis, Blesson Varghese, Christoph Reich and Christian Schindelhauer QUDOS: Quorum-Based Cloud-Edge Distributed DNNs for Security Enhanced Industry 4.0
12:00 – 12:30 Kenji Nakashima and Kenichi Kourai MigSGX: A Migration Mechanism for Containers Including SGX Applications
12:30 – 14:00 Break
14:00 –15:30 Session 2: Serverless Applications and Workflows I Session Chair: Lukas Harzenetter
14:00 – 14:30 Anil Mathew, Vasilios Andrikopoulos and Frank Blaauw Exploring the cost and performance benefits of AWS Step Functions using a data processing pipeline
14:30 – 15:00 Victor Millnert, Magnus Templing and Patrik Åberg DMFE: did my function execute?
15:00 – 15:30 Jose Quenum and Jonas Josua Multi-Cloud Serverless Function Composition
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 –17:30 Session 3: Serverless Applications and Workflows II Session Chair: Panagiotis Gkikopoulos
16:00 – 16:30 Fedor Smirnov, Chris Engelhardt, Jakob Mittelberger, Behnaz Pourmohseni and Thomas Fahringer Apollo: Towards an Efficient Distributed Orchestration of Serverless Function Compositions in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
16:30 – 17:00 Anshul Jindal, Julian Frielinghaus, Mohak Chadha and Michael Gerndt Courier: Delivering Serverless Functions Within Heterogeneous FaaS Deployments
17:00 – 17:30 Eric Lyons, Songjie Wang, Komal Thareja, Chengyi Qu, George Papadimitriou, Ryan Tanaka, Hakan Saplakoglu, Prasad Calyam, Ewa Deelman, Anirban Mandal and Michael Zink FlyNet: A Platform to Support Scientific Workflows from the Edge to the Core for UAV Applications


14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2021)
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/98090863338?pwd=RE5BRVZrc0ZzZk9ON3NnUGxKMkZhUT09
Meeting ID: 980 9086 3338
Time Authors Paper
9:30 –11:00 Session 1: Cloud Networking Session Chair: Zoltan Zvara
9:30 – 10:00 Seyed Hossein Mortazavi, Hossein Shafieriad, Mahmoud Bahnasy, Ali Munir, Yuanhui Cheng, Anudeep Das and Yashar Ganjali Accord: Application-driven Networking in the Datacenter
10:00 – 10:30 Erfan Farhangi Maleki, Weibin Ma, Lena Mashayekhy and Humberto La Roche QoS-Aware 5G Component Selection for Content Delivery in Multi-access Edge Computing
10:00 – 10:30 Yuki Nakata, Katsuya Matsubara and Ryosuke Matsumoto Concentrated Isolation for Container Networks Toward Application-aware Sandbox Tailoring
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 –13:00 Session 2: Parallel and Stream Data Processing in Clouds Session Chair: Geir Horn
11:30 – 12:00 Luis Augusto Dias Knob, Carlos Henrique Kayser, Paulo Silas Severo de Souza and Tiago Ferreto Enforcing Deployment Latency SLA in Edge Infrastructures through Multi-objective Genetic Scheduler
12:00 – 12:30 Antonis Papaioannou and Kostas Magoutis Amoeba: Aligning Stream Processing Operators with Externally-Managed State
12:30 – 13:00 Yaying Shi, Anjia Wang, Yonghong Yan and Chunhua Liao RDS: A Cloud-Based Metaservice for Detecting Data Races in Parallel Programs
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)


14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2021)
Programme: Day 4,Thursday, 9th December 2021, Online Event
(NOTE: The programme is in the UK time zone)
Zoom Link to the Live Event: https://zoom.us/j/98090863338?pwd=RE5BRVZrc0ZzZk9ON3NnUGxKMkZhUT09
Meeting ID: 980 9086 3338
Time Authors Paper
09:30 –11:30 Session 1: Resource Management and Utility Computing Session Chair: Fedor Smirnov
09:30 – 10:00 Ashish Pandey, Prasad Calyam, Saptarshi Debroy, Songjie Wang and Mauro Lemus VECTrust: Trusted Resource Allocation in Volunteer Edge-Cloud Computing Workflows
10:00 – 10:30 Giacomo Lanciano, Filippo Galli, Tommaso Cucinotta, Davide Bacciu and Andrea Passarella Predictive Auto-scaling with OpenStack Monasca
10:30 – 11:30 William Felipe da Cunha Tavares, Marcio R. M. Assis and Edson Borin Leveraging vCPU-Utilization Rates to Select Cost-Efficient VMs for Parallel Workloads
18:00 –18:30 Closing
(Zoom Link: Closing)