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Program for the 2nd Portugal|UT Austin summer school in systems and networking and EMJD-DC spring event
Costa da Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1-3, 2016
 
June 1, Wednesday (EMJD-DC event only)
09:00-10:30 Student presentations - Distributed data management
- Manuel Bravo, Scalable Causal Consistency under Partial Geo-Replication
- João Neto, GeoFS: A POSIX-compatible CRDT File System
- Zhongmiao Li, Towards practical speculative execution for large-scale replicated systems
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Student presentations - Mobile, wireless and trusted Computing
- Sileshi Yalew, Trusted Mobile Computing
- Emmanouil Dimogerontakis, Internet Sharing in Wireless Community Networks
- Igor Zavalyshyn, DataValve: Data Privacy Controller for Smart Home
12:30-14:00 Lunch + Poster session
- Manuel Bravo, Scalable Causal Consistency under Partial Geo-Replication
- João Neto, GeoFS: A POSIX-compatible CRDT File System
- Emmanouil Dimogerontakis, Internet Sharing in Wireless Community Networks
- Igor Zavalyshyn, DataValve: keeping your data safe
- Jingna Zeng, The Future(s) of Transactional Memory
- Roshan Sedar, Network Interference-free Resource Allocation for Cloud Services
- Nuno Apolónia, Socially aware Resource/Service bartered marketplace for wireless network clouds
- Muhammad Bilal, Towards Automatic Configuration Optimization of Big Data Processing Systems
14:00-15:30 Student presentations - Big data and parallel systems
- Ahsan Javed Awan, Architecture Support for Big Data Analytics
- Jingna Zeng, The Future(s) of Transactional Memory
- Muhammad Bilal , Towards Automatic Configuration Optimization of Big Data Processing Systems
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Student presentations - Managing resources
- Richard Martinez, Automated Planning for Self-Adaptive Systems
- Roshan Sedar, Network Interference-free Resource Allocation for Cloud Services
- Nuno Apolónia, Socially aware Resource/Service bartered marketplace for wireless network clouds
17:30- Networking time: on your own
June 2, Thursday
09:00-10:30 Welcome/ Lecture 1
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich. "Accelerating Data Science"
10:30-11:30 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Lecture 2
Marco Canini, Université catholique de Louvain. "Advancing The Three "D"s of SDN: Develop, Debug and Deploy"
12:00-13:30 Lunch/ Poster session
- Tiago Vale, João Leitão, Nuno Preguiça, Ricardo Dias, Rodrigo Rodrigues and João Lourenço, LSD: Transactions high on ACID
- Mennan Selimi, Network-aware Service Placement in Distributed Community Network Clouds
- Shady Issa, Algorithms for enhancing the efficiency and dependability of Hardware Transactional Memory Systems
- Valter Balegas, Sérgio Duarte, Carla Ferreira, Rodrigo Rodrigues and Nuno Preguiça Making weak consistency great again
- Ahsan Javed Awan, Architecture Support for Big Data Analytics
- Sileshi Yalew, Trusted Mobile Computing
13:30-15:00 - Student talks - Complex networks
- Mennan Selimi, Network-aware Service Placement in Distributed Community Network Clouds
- Ruma Paul, An Empirical Study of the Global Behavior of Structured Overlay Networks as Complex Systems
- Petar Mrazovic, Mobility Management for Growing Efficient and Balanced Smart City Ecosystem
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:30 Lecture 3
Simon Peter, UT Austin. "Fast Datacenter Server I/O"
16:30-19:00 Social Event
20:00- Dinner
Jun 3rd, Friday
9:30-10:30 Lecture 4
Joao Sobrinho, IST (Univ. Lisbon). "Algebra: A Tool for a Unifying View of Routing Protocol Behavior"
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Student talks - Data center optimization
- Jawad Manzoor, Independent and Scalable Monitoring of Complex Network-Based Services
- Waleed Reda, Cross-Layer Optimization of Cloud Applications in Data Centers
- Pradeeban Kathiravelu, SDN-Based Enhancements to QoS and Data Quality in Multi-Tenanted Data Center Clouds
12:30-14:00 Lunch/ Poster session
- Ruma Paul, An Empirical Study of the Global Behavior of Structured Overlay Networks as Complex Systems
- Petar Mrazovic, Mobility Management for Growing Efficient and Balanced Smart City Ecosystem
- Jawad Manzoor, Independent and Scalable Monitoring of Complex Network-Based Services
- Waleed Reda, Cross-Layer Optimization of Cloud Applications in Data Centers
- Pradeeban Kathiravelu, SDN-Based Enhancements to QoS and Data Quality in Multi-Tenanted Data Center Clouds
- Zhongmiao Li, Towards practical speculative execution for large-scale replicated systems
- Richard Martinez, Automated Planning for Self-Adaptive Systems
14:00-15:30 - Student Talks - Data management and consistency
- Shady Issa, Algorithms for enhancing the efficiency and dependability of Hardware Transactional Memory Systems
- Valter Balegas, Making weak consistency great again
- Manohar Vanga, VM Scheduling Isn't Process Scheduling!
- Igor Smolyar, Securing self-virtualizing ethernet devices
15:30-16:30 - Lecture 5
Michael Walfish, NYU. "Verifying the correctness of remote executions: from theoretical possibility to near practicality"
16:30 Wrap up