Advanced Program

  • Monday, December 1
  • Tuesday, December 2
  • Wednesday, December 3
  • Thursday, December 4

Monday, December 1

08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 12:30
Room 109
Tutorial
Federated Learning in Orbital Edge Computing
08:45 - 10:30
Workshops
Room 108
08:45–08:50
Opening
08:50–09:15
LLM4FaaS: No-Code Application Development using LLMs and FaaS
Minghe Wang, Tobias Pfandzelter, Trever Schirmer, David Bermbach
09:15–09:40
Task Scheduling in Edge Computing Environments: a Hierarchical Cluster-based Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Latifah Alsalem, Karim Djemame
09:40–10:05
DRAF: A Drift-Resilient Averaging in Federated Learning across the Cloud Edge Continuum
Juan Aznar Poveda, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Marco Cotrotzo, Jona Florian Müller, Philipp Gschwandtner, Thomas Fahringer
10:05–10:30
Federated Learning with Iterative Synthetic Data Augmentation
Gustavo S. Guaragna, Joahannes B. D. Da Costa, Allan M. De Souza
10:30 - 11:00
Morning Break
11:00 - 12:30
Room 109
Tutorial
From Research to EdgePractical Federated AI Orchestration for Data Sovereignty and Real-Time Intelligence
11:00 - 12:30
Workshops
Main Hall
11:00–11:30
Power Aware Cluster Orchestration: Taxonomy, Initial Results, and Challenges
Ileet Malla, Thijs Metsch, Paul Townend
11:30–12:00
Towards a Novel Vertical Scaling Approach for Bursty Workloads in Kubernetes
Miguel De Lima, Luan Teylo, Lucia Drummond
12:00–12:30
KOTO: A Kubernetes-Based Platform for Secure and Scalable OT Orchestration in Industry 5.0
Nicole Giulianelli, Andrea Sabbioni, Sofia Montebugnoli, Armir Bujari, Antonio Corradi
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 18:00
Room 109
Tutorial
Serverless Orchestration on the Edge–Cloud ContinuumFrom Small Functions to Large Language Models
14:00 - 16:00
Workshops
Main Hall
14:00–14:25
Reactive and Proactive Migration for Edge AI Training on Energy-Harvesting, Intermittently Powered Devices
Fabian Hengstberger, Atakan Aral
14:25–14:50
FedGuard: Leader-Aware Fault-Tolerant Federated Learning in the Cloud–Edge Continuum
Juan Aznar Poveda, Stefan Pedratscher, Peter Burger, Abolfazl Younesi, Marlon Etheredge, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Peter Thoman, Thomas Fahringer
14:50–15:15
Simplifying Federated Learning Deployment: Design and Implementation of the FLeeT Framework
Pierluigi Dell'Acqua, Marco Garofalo, Francesco La Rosa, Massimo Villari
15:15–15:40
A Deep Learning Approach to Detecting Multiple Types of Sybil Nodes in VANETs
Dong Tang, Aniket Mahanti, Ranesh Naha, Vishwambhar Pathak, Mingwei Gong
15:40–16:00
A Hybrid Graph Convolutional Networks Framework for Context-Aware Multimodal Human Activity Recognition
Mingwei Sun, Aniket Mahanti, Ranesh Naha, Vishwambhar Pathak, Mingwei Gong
Room 206
14:00–14:25
Single-Round Zero-Knowledge Proof for the Square-Root Problem in Cloud Systems
Sultan Almuhammadi
14:25–14:50
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Encrypted Traffic Classification in Secure Cloud Services
Sultan Almuhammadi, Nahad Alnahari, Rana Ba-Amer
14:50–15:15
Cloud-Based Phishing Awareness Analyzer for Automated User Training and Assessment
Mohammad Alwanain, Abdullah Alnajim, Ibraheem Al-Hejri, Hassen Hamouda, Sheroz Khan, Abdul Wahid Khan
15:15–15:40
Evaluation of RPL Preinstalled Secure Mode Under Attacks
Hussah Albinali
15:40–16:05
Repudiation For Good: Privacy-Preserving Prompt Deniability Through Embedding-Based Approximation
Eiman Mohammed, Shawqi Al-Maliki, Mohamed Abdallah, Ala Al-Fuqaha
Room 108
14:00–14:05
Opening
14:05–14:25
Agentic Edge Intelligence: A Research Agenda
Lauri Loven, Reza Farahani, Ilir Murturi, Stephan Sigg, Schahram Dustdar
14:25–14:55
Predictive Resource Management in the Computing Continuum: Transfer Learning from Virtual Machines to Containers using Transformers
Danny De Novi, Lorenzo Carnevale, Daniel Balouek, Manish Parashar, Massimo Villari
14:55–15:25
Agentic Federated LLMs at the Edge for Promptable Guardrail Inspection with YOLO-E
Dell'Acqua Pierluigi, La Rosa Francesco, Massimo Villari
15:25–15:55
Application level observability for adaptive Edge to Cloud continuum systems
Sidi Mohammed Kaddour, Baptiste Jonglez, Daniel Balouek
15:55–16:00
Closing
Room 207
14:00–14:40
Keynote Talk
Dhavalkumar Thakker
14:40–15:05
Formal Design‑Time Privacy & Consent Assurance for LLM‑Based Applications for Children
Nafiseh Kahani, Masoud Barati, Diana Addae, Chen Zhou, Diana Rogachova, Raymond Xiao
15:05–15:30
A Hybrid Monitoring Framework for Anomaly Detection in Smart Home IoT Devices
Shubh Anand, Likhitha Kandregula, Tomasz Szydlo, Rajiv Ranjan, Devki Nandan Jha
15:30–16:00
Skewness-Guided Pruning of Multimodal Swin Transformers for Federated Skin Lesion Classification on Edge Devices
Kuniko Paxton, Koorosh Aslansefat, Dhavalkumar Thakker, Yiannis Papadopoulos
16:00 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 18:00
Workshops
Main Hall
16:30–17:00
Participation is Power: Effective Approach to Dynamic Federated Learning
Rafael De Oliveira Jarczewski, Eduardo Cerqueira, Luiz F. Bittencourt, Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Leandro A. Villas, Allan M. De Souza
17:00–17:30
Investigating the Impact of Isolation on Synchronized Benchmarks
Nils Japke, Furat Hamdan, Diana Baumann, David Bermbach
Room 206
16:30–16:55
Zero Trust Architecture for Ransomware Defense in Virtualized Environment
Atharva Dhumal, Mustafa Ghaleb, Samah Abdelsalam, Arghir-Nicolae Moldovan, Mosab Hamdan
16:55–17:20
A Multi-Layer Phishing Defense Framework for Trusted Cloud Environments
Alias Davis, Samah Abdelsalam, Mustafa Ghaleb, Mohammed S. M. Gismalla, E. I. Eltahir, Mosab Hamdan
17:20–17:45
Towards Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computing
Heba Aljabrine, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Room 207
16:30–17:00
Does Energy-efficiency Mean Carbon-awareness? A Critical Evaluation of Sustainable Serverless Edge Scheduling
Shaoshu Zhu, Neil Hurley, Hadi Tabatabaee Malazi
17:00–17:30
Honeypot Embedded in Low-Cost IoT Hardware for Collecting and Analyzing Real-World Cyber Threats
Edivaldo Pastori Valentini, Thiago Araujo Franco, Euclydes Nasorri Gottsfritz, Julio Cezar Estrella, Lourenço A. Pereira Júnior, Rodolfo Ipolito Meneguette
17:30–18:00
HybridVFL: Disentangled Feature Learning for Edge-Enabled Vertical Federated Multimodal Classification
Mostafa Anoosha, Zeinab Dehghani, Kuniko Paxton, Koorosh Aslansefat, Dhavalkumar Thakker
18:30 - 20:30
Cocktail Reception (Open to all participants)

Tuesday, December 2

08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:30
Opening Ceremony (Main Hall)
09:30 - 10:30
Main Hall
Keynote — Data Confidentiality in the World of Agentic AI Systems
Hubertus Franke (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
10:30 - 11:00
Morning Break
11:00 - 12:30
Workshops
Room 206
11:00–11:30
FL-as-API: A Service-Oriented Architecture for Heterogeneous Federated Learning
Rómulo Bustincio, Pedro Yuri Marquez Solis, Allan M. de Souza, Luiz F. Bittencourt
11:30–12:00
Countering Device Fingerprinting with Cloud Autoscaling
Daniel Chisner, Anu Basil, Montana Braxton, Joel Coffman
12:00–12:30
Serverless Computing: An Empirical Evaluation of Application Performance and Power Consumption in Knative
Karim Djemame
11:00 - 12:30
Main Hall
Energy and Sustainability for AI (parallel session)
Session Chair: Omer Rana
  • GreenWise: Intelligent Application Migration for Containerized Machine Learning Services in the Computing Continuum
    Peini Liu, José Santos, Filip De Turck, Jordi Guitart
  • Targeted and Fully Automated Updates Over LoRaWAN for Energy-Efficient Edge AI
    Clément Courageux-Sudan, Paul Townend, Atakan Aral
  • FedSynthesis: A Flower-based Framework for Carbon-Reduced Federated Learning
    Gökcan Cantali, Gürkan Gür, Burkhard Stiller
Room 108
Dynamic Scaling (parallel session)
Session Chair: Hélène coullon
  • A Hybrid Forecasting and Reinforcement Learning Approach for Latency-Constrained Scaling of Generative AI Systems
    Yue Peng, Richard Sinnott
  • An Autonomic Computing Approach for Scaling Cloud-Based Smart City Platforms
    André Solino, Thais Batista, Everton Cavalcante
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00
Main Hall
Security and Trust
Session Chair: Richard Sinnott
  • Secure Monitoring of Confidential VMs with Isolated Agents
    Tomoharu Nono, Kenichi Kourai
  • DTW-ABAC: A Dynamic Trust Weighted Attribute-Based Access Control Hybrid Security Model for Cloud Applications
    Saurabh Siddhanath Kulkarni, Waqar Haque, Andreas Hirt
  • Secure-by-Design Hardware Architecture for Real-Time IoT with Cycle-Bounded Trust and Redundancy-Aware Sensor Fusion
    Maitham Al-Rubaye, Atakan Aral
  • Exploring and Optimizing Moving Target Defense Strategies Using Reinforcement Learning
    Kods Trabelsi, Paul-Tiberiu Iordache, Nadir Tahir, Mihail Asavoae
16:00 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 18:00
Main Hall
AI on Edge, Fog and Continuum (parallel session)
Session Chair: Mehmet Cihan Sakman
  • InferEdge: Characterizing Edge Inference Performance
    Gabriel Orion Kai Antar, Blesson Varghese
  • Splitwise: Collaborative Edge–Cloud Inference for LLMs via Lyapunov-Assisted DRL
    Abolfazl Younesi, Abbas Shabrang Maryan, Elyas Oustad, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Mohsen Ansari, Thomas Fahringer
  • Adaptive DNN Partitioning for Edge-Cloud Systems with Meta-Reinforcement Learning
    Yuankun Zhang, Zhaoxuan Zhang, Hengye Zhao
Room 108
Supervision, Prediction, Fault Detection (parallel session)
Session Chair: Douglas D. J. de Macedo
  • When Timeouts Fail: Revisiting Fault Detection under Resource Stress in Edge Computing
    Maryam Pourreza, Priya Narasimhan
  • Time Series Models Revisited for Replica Transfer Optimization in Cloud Storage Systems
    Esma Yildirim, Mohab Hussein
  • Modeling Anomaly Detection in Cloud Services: Analysis of the Properties that Impact Latency and Resource Consumption
    Gabriel Job Antunes Grabher, Fumio Machida, Thomas Ropars

Wednesday, December 3

09:00 - 09:30
Registration
09:30 - 10:30
Main Hall
Keynote — Rubies in the Dust
Julie McCaan (Imperical College London, UK)
10:30 - 11:00
Morning Break
11:00 - 12:30
Main Hall
Dynamic Resource Management (parallel session)
Session Chair: Luiz Bittencourt
  • A Self-Adaptive Framework for Predictive CPU Resource Allocation During Container Startup in Kubernetes
    Anosan Jayahanthan, Isuru Gunarathne, Charindu Thisara, Sunimal Rathnayake, Malith Jayasinghe
  • Mitigating Shared Storage Congestion Using Control Theory
    Thomas Collignon, Kouds Halitim, Raphaël Bleuse, Sophie Cerf, Bogdan Robu, Éric Rutten, Lionel Seinturier, Alexandre Van Kempen
  • Knowledge Graphs-Driven Intelligence for Distributed Decision Systems
    Rosario Napoli, Gabriele Morabito, Antonio Celesti, Massimo Villari, Maria Fazio
Room 108
Performance (parallel session)
Session Chair: Karim Djemame
  • Sky Computing for Serverless: Infrastructure Assessment to Support Performance Enhancement
    Robert Cordingly, Xinghan Chen, Ling-Hong Hung, Wes Lloyd
  • Performance Evaluation of Multi-CNIs in Fog Computing Across Ethernet and Wireless Networks
    Gilvani Alves, Hana Karina Salles Rubinsztejn, Marco Aurélio Stefanes
  • HPAQT: Adaptive and Interpretable High-level SLO-aware Autoscaling with Reinforcement Learning
    Robin Mayerhofer, Andrea Morichetta, Alireza Furutanpey, Schahram Dustdar
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00
Main Hall
Keynote — Societal Computing and Innovation in the AI Era
Ilkay Altintas (University of California San Diego, USA)
15:00 - 16:30
Main Hall
Best Paper Session
  • Protocol-to-Model Translation Framework: Enabling Mathematically Tractable TCP Models for Autonomic Controller Design
    Ahmed Ben Ali, Yann Labit, Benoit Nougnanke, Jean-François Baffier
  • Graphpilot: A Temporal Graph Actor-Critic Autoscaler Reducing Degradation of Resource Oscillation in Microservice
    Po-Han Ho, Hong-Yen Chen, Tsung-Nan Lin
  • FakeInf: Selective Deep Neural Network Inference for Latency and Energy-Aware Model Serving Pipelines
    Demetris Trihinas, Moysis Symeonides, Nicolae Cleju, George Pallis, Marios Dikaiakos
16:30 - 17:00
Break
17:00 - 18:00
Poster Session
19:30 - 21:30
Conference Dinner (Open to all participants)
Restaurant "Le 1" , 1 rue Olympe de Gouges – 44200 Nantes — See the location (5 minutes from Conference location)

Thursday, December 4

09:00 - 09:30
Registration
09:30 - 10:30
Main Hall
Keynote — Carbon Footprint Allocation Models in Distributed Systems
Anne-Cécile Orgerie (IRISA Rennes, CNRS, France)
10:30 - 11:00
Morning Break
11:00 - 12:30
Main Hall
Energy and Sustainability in the Cloud/Edge
  • Local Computing vs. Cloud Computing: An Empirical Study of Energy Consumption
    Lylian Siffre, Thomas Ledoux, Renaud Pawlak, John Guery
  • Life-cycle carbon assessment of intermittent Fog services fully powered by renewable energy sources
    Matteo Chancerel, Anne-Cécile Orgerie
  • Energy-Aware Latency Optimization for Scheduling Serverless Workload in Edge Computing Environment
    Shrijan Subedi, Satish Kumar, Nawar Jawad, Ah Lian Kor
11:00 - 12:40
Workshops
Room 206
11:00–11:25
Verifiability and Privacy in Federated Learning through Context-Hiding Multi-Key Homomorphic Authenticators
Simone Bottoni, Giulio Zizzo, Stefano Braghin, Alberto Trombetta
11:25–11:50
Towards a Framework for Personal and Domestic Cybersecurity
Angel Suarez-Barcena, Antonio Santos-Olmo, Eduardo Fernandez-Medina
11:50–12:15
Optimizing Code Embeddings and ML Classifiers for Python Source code Vulnerability Detection
Talaya Farasat
12:15–12:40
Design and Development of a Predictive Security Threat Management System Leveraging CWEs, CVEs, and CAPEcs
Joaquín Sierra-Granados, José Luis Ruiz-Catalán, David G. Rosado, Manuel A. Serrano
12:30 - 12:45
Closing Remarks
12:45 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:50
Workshops
Room 206
14:00–14:25
Toward Agentic IAM: A Probabilistic Authorization Framework for Least Privilege AI Workflows
Jaouaher Zouari
14:25–14:50
Early detection of backdoor attacks in federated learning via ecosystemic symmetry breaking
Carlos Mario Braga Ortuño, Manuel A. Serrano, Eduardo Fernandez-Medina