PROGRAM
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DAY 1 - 27 September 2017 (Wed) | |
07:30 - 08:30 | Registration |
08:30 - 09:00 | Welcome |
09:00 - 10:00 | Keynote I |
10:00 - 10:30 | Break |
10:30 - 11:30 | Keynote II |
11:30 - 12:30 | Poster Session |
12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch |
13:45 - 15:45 | Session I |
15:45 - 16:15 | Break |
16:15 - 18:15 | Session II |
18:30 - 20:30 | Welcome Reception and Poster Display Session |
DAY 2 - 28 September 2017 (Thur) | |
08:00 - 09:00 | Registration |
09:00 - 10:00 | Keynote III |
10:00 - 10:45 | Best Paper Presentation |
10:45 - 11:15 | Break |
11:15 - 12:45 | Session III |
12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 - 16:00 | Session IV |
16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
16:30 - 18:00 | PhD Forum |
18:00 - 21:30 | Banquet |
DAY 3 - 29 September 2017 (Fri) | |
08:00 - 09:00 | Registration |
09:00 - 10:30 | Panel |
10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
10:45 - 12:45 | Session V |
12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch |
13:45 - 15:45 | Session VI |
15:45 - 16:00 | Closing session |

Technical Program
Wednesday, 27 September 2017 |
07:30-08:30 Registration |
M1607 |
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08:30-09:00 Opening Ceremony |
M1603 |
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09:00-10:00 Keynote I Session Chair: Michael Lyu |
M1603 |
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Big Data: Its Science, Industry, and Business Prof. Wei Zhao, University of Macau |
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10:00-10:30 Coffee Break |
10:30-11:30 Keynote II Session Chair: Andrea Ceccarelli |
M1603 |
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RAS design for Emerging Technology Dr Xuewen (Sean) Gong, Huawei Technologies |
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11:30-12:30 Poster Presentation Session Session Chair: Song Guo |
M1603 |
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A Greedy-Based Method for Modified Condition/Decision Coverage Testing Criterion Bo-His Li, Chin-Yu Huang |
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A Resilient Auction Framework for Deadline-Aware Jobs in Cloud Spot Market Abadhan S. Sabyasachi, H M Dipu Kabir, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Subrota K. Mondal |
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Automated Resource Sharing for Virtualized GPU with Self-Configuration Jianguo Yao, Qiumin Lu,and Zhengwei Qi |
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Performance Modeling of PBFT Consensus Process for Permissioned Blockchain Network (Hyperledger Fabric) Harish Sukhwani, José M. Martìnez, Xiaolin Chang, Kishor S. Trivedi, and Andy Rindos |
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Detecting TCP-based DDoS Attacks in Baidu Cloud-Computing Data Centers Jiahui Jiao, Benjun Ye, Yue Zhao, Rebecca J. Stones, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu, Shaoyan Wang, Guangjun Xie |
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PITR: An Efficient Single-failure Recovery Scheme for PIT-Coded Cloud Storage Systems Peng Li, Jiaxiang Dong, Xueda Liu, Gang Wang, Zhongwei Li, Xiaoguang Liu |
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12:30-13:45 Lunch |
Kong Chiu Lau, 1/F, Harbour Crystal Centre, 100 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui |
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13:45-15:45 Session I: Cloud Environments Session Chair: Lydia Chen |
M1603 |
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Fine-Grained Consistency Upgrades for Online Services (Paper 13) Filipe Freitas, João Leitão, Nuno Preguiça and Rodrigo Rodrigues |
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A Practical Framework for Privacy-Preserving NoSQL Databases (Paper 53) Ricardo Macedo, João Paulo, Rogério Pontes, Bernardo Portela, Tiago Oliveira, Miguel Matos and Rui Oliveira |
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Parameterized and Runtime-tunable Snapshot Isolation in Distributed Transactional Key-value Stores (Paper 97) Hengfeng Wei, Yu Huang and Jian Lu |
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Robust Multi-Resource Allocation with Demand Uncertainties in Cloud Scheduler (Paper 111) Jianguo Yao, Qiumim Lu, Hans-Arno Jacobsen and Haibing Guan |
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15:45-16:15 Coffee Break |
16:15-18:15 Session II: Networks Session Chair: Paweł T. Wojciechowski |
M1603 |
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Stateless Reliable Geocasting (Paper 30) Jordan Adamek, Mikhail Nesterenko, James Scott Robinson and Sebastien Tixeuil |
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Controlling Cascading Failures in Interdependent Networks under Incomplete Knowledge (Paper 45) Diman Zad Tootaghaj, Novella Bartolini, Hana Khamfroush and Thomas La Porta |
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On Availability for Blockchain-Based Systems (Paper 49) Ingo Weber, Vincent Gramoli, Alex Ponomarev, Mark Staples, Ralph Holz, An Binh Tran and Paul Rimba |
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A Horizontally Scalable and Reliable Architecture for Location-based Publish-Subscribe (Paper 75) Bertil Chapuis, Benoît Garbinato and Lucas Mourot |
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18:30-20:30 Welcome Reception and Poster Display Session |
Staff Club Restaurant, 5/F, S Core, PolyU |
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Thursday, 28 September 2017 |
08:00-09:00 Registration |
M1607 |
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09:00-10:00 Keynote Session III Session Chair: Jiannong Cao |
M1603 |
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Building High Availability IT Services from a Banking IT Perspective Dr Fred Suk, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd |
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10:00-10:45 Best Paper Presentation Session Chair: Jiannong Cao |
M1603 |
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Automated Fine Tuning of Probabilistic Self-Stabilizing Algorithms (Paper 19) Saba Aflaki, Matthias Volk, Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Joost-Pieter Katoen and Arne Storjohann |
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10:45-11:15 Coffee Break |
11:15-12:45 Session III: Algorithms and Protocols Session Chair: Sara Bouchenak |
M1603 |
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On The Robustness of Neural Networks (Paper 1) El Mahdi El Mhamdi, Rachid Guerraoui and Sébastien Rouault |
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Reconfiguring Parallel State Machine Replication (Paper 25) Eduardo Alchieri, Fernando Dotti, Odorico Mendizabal and Fernando Pedone |
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A Statistical Framework on Software Aging Modeling with Continuous-Time Hidden Markov Model (Paper 80) Hiroyuki Okamura, Junjun Zheng and Tadashi Dohi |
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12:45-14:00 Lunch |
Kong Chiu Lau, 1/F, Harbour Crystal Centre, 100 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui |
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14:00-16:00 Session IV: Storage Systems I Session Chair: Fernando Pedone |
M1603 |
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Hybrid-RC: Flexible Erasure Codes with Optimized Recovery Performance and Low Storage Overhead (Paper 7) Liuqing Ye, Dan Feng, Yuchong Hu and Qing Liu |
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Correlation-Aware Stripe Organization for Efficient Writes in Erasure-Coded Storage Systems (Paper 8) Zhirong Shen, Patrick P. C. Lee, Jiwu Shu and Wenzhong Guo |
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A Simulation Analysis of Reliability in Erasure-Coded Data Centers (Paper 40) Mi Zhang, Shujie Han and Patrick P. C. Lee |
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Optimal Storage under Unsynchronized Mobile Byzantine Faults (Paper 54) Silvia Bonomi, Antonella Del Pozzo, Maria Potop-Butucaru and Sebastien Tixeuil |
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16:00-16:30 Coffee Break |
16:30-18:00 PhD Forum Session Chair: Sandeep Kulkarni and Haruo Yokota |
M1603 |
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Runtime Measurement Architecture for Bytecode Integrity in JVM-based Cloud Haihe Ba, Huaizhe Zhou, Jiangchun Ren, Zhiying Wang |
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The Use of Side-channel Attacks on Modern Virtualization Technologies Andres R. Hernandez Coronado |
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An End-to-end Log Management Framework for Distributed Systems Pinjia He |
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Fault-tolerant pattern formation by multiple robots: a learning approach Jia Wang, Jiannong Cao, Shan Jiang |
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18:00-21:30 Banquet |
Hung Kee Seafood Restaurant, Shop 6 & 9-10, G/F, Siu Yat Building, Sai Kung Hoi Pong Square, Sai Kung (Please gather at M1607 for group transportation at 18:00) |
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Friday, 29 September 2017 |
08:00-09:00 Registration |
M1607 |
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09:00-10:30 Panel |
M1603 |
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10:30-10:45 Coffee Break |
10:45-12:45 Session V: Storage Systems II Session Chair: Sébastien Tixeuil |
M1603 |
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PULP: Achieving Privacy and Utility Trade-off in User Mobility Data (Paper 26) Sophie Cerf, Vincent Primault, Antoine Boutet, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Robert Birke, Lydia Y. Chen, Sara Bouchenak, Nicolas Marchand and Bogdan Robu |
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Incremental elasticity for NoSQL data stores (Paper 36) Antonis Papaioannou and Kostas Magoutis |
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CausalSpartan: Causal Consistency for Distributed Data Stores using Hybrid Logical Clocks (Paper 69) Mohammad Roohitavaf, Murat Demirbas and Sandeep Kulkarni |
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DottedDB: Anti-Entropy without Merkle Trees, Deletes without Tombstones (Paper 95) Ricardo Gonçalves, Paulo Sérgio Almeida, Carlos Baquero and Victor Fonte |
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12:45-13:45 Lunch |
Chinese Garden (Staff Restaurant), 4/F, S Core, PolyU |
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13:45-15:45 Session VI: Security and Privacy Session Chair: Tadashi Dohi |
M1603 |
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Optimal Cyber-Defense Strategies for Advanced Persistent Threats: A Game Theoretical Analysis (Paper 31) Jeffrey Acquaviva, Mark Mahon, Bruce Einfalt and Tom Laporta |
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AutoFlowLeaker: Circumventing Web Censorship through Automation Services (Paper 60) Shengtuo Hu, Xiaobo Ma, Muhui Jiang, Xiapu Luo and Man Ho Au |
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An Unsupervised Multi-Detector Approach for Identifying Malicious Lateral Movement (Paper 77) Atul Bohara, Mohammad A. Noureddine, Ahmed Fawaz and William H. Sanders |
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Optimal Network Reconfiguration for Software Defined Networks using Shuffle-based Online MTD (Paper 103) Jin B. Hong, Seunghyun Yoon, Hyuk Lim and Dong Seong Kim |
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15:45-16:00 Closing Session |
M1603 |
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