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Compsys 2018

Photo: Landgoed ISVW

Welcome to CompSys 2018, a Computer Science conference designed to showcase the success stories of Dutch Computer Systems research, while fostering and strengthening national and international collaboration.

At CompSys, we aim to provide a meeting space for research and industry ideas in the area of computing and computer science, for a community we estimate at a few hundred nationally and a few thousand internationally. In this second edition, the conference will continue last year's efforts on community building, providing a forum to discuss ongoing projects for both senior researchers and experienced engineers, and Ph.D. and M.Sc. students in the Netherlands.

The conference lasts three days and focuses on the major research and practice themes related to computing and computer science. We envision a diverse program, featuring keynotes on advanced topics, strong scientific contributions, and exciting new ideas. We strive for a diverse participation from all the interesting and interested parties in the Netherlands, and we welcome both senior members of the research community, and Ph.D. and M.Sc. students.

1 - Important Dates

Date Description
April 24, 2018The submission system opens.
May 28, 2018 - Extended!Deadline for submitting your contribution.
June 8, 2018Conference registration open.
June 11, 2018Author notification (delayed due to EasyChair issues).
June 18-20, 2018The conference takes place in Leusden.

2 - Organization

Program committee

Name University/Organization
Henri BalVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Henk CorporaalTU Eindhoven
Jan RellermeyerDelft University of Technology
Cees de LaatUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Paola GrossoUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Andy PimentelUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alessio ScloccoNLeSC
Marc MakkesVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pieter HijmaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Henk SipsDelft University of Technology
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Erik van der KouweUniversiteit Leiden
Remko VeltkampUtrecht University
Zekeriya ErkinDelft University of Technology
Aske PlaatUniversiteit Leiden
Kaveh RazaviVrije Universiteit
Zhiming ZhaoUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Steering committee
Name University/Organization
Cristiano GiuffridaVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Alexandru IosupVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jacopo UrbaniVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ana Lucia VarbanescuUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Marco ZunigaDelft University of Technology

3 - Submission details

CompSys-2018 invites you to submit two types of contributions: research papers and work-in-progress papers.

Research papers

Research papers could/should contain your best research results from the past year(s). We do ask you to only submit work that has not been presented at CompSys before.

Submissions of work already published elsewhere can be submitted in the original format (not exceeding 12 pages in double-column format or 15 pages in LNCS format) - no reformatting should be needed. We do advise you to include information about the original venue for the publication.

Work-in-progress papers

As CompSys is a forum that encourages discussions about new and exciting ideas, we specifically welcome this year short abstracts and work-in-progress papers.

Such submissions are especially suitable for MSc students working towards finalizing their theses.

Submissions of work-in-progress papers requires a short abstract of at most 2 pages. The abstract should include on the research question being addressed, the novelty and/or originality of the idea, approach, or results, and a summary of preliminary results.

No copyright

To foster the broadest possible engagement and exchange ideas, CompSys-2018 does not claim copyright, making it possible for you to present work that has already been published or is in the process of publishing elsewhere.

Both types of contributions can be submitted online via the EasyChair conference submission system.

For submission, the PDF format is mandatory.

All contributions will be reviewed by the Program Committee, which assigns an accepted contribution to either a short talk or a full presentation, depending on the advice of the reviewers.

All presentations will be made available in digital format, unless otherwise instructed by the authors.

Outstanding contributions

The best three contributors (authors of a paper, idea, and/or presentation) at CompSys 2018 will be presented with an “Outstanding contribution” award in the final session of the conference.

4 - Program

View/Download the full program.

Monday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
10:30 Coffee Arrival and welcome The organizers
11:00 FT A Trace-Based Performance Study of Autoscaling Workloads of Workflows in Datacenters Laurens Versluis, Mihai Neacsu and Alexandru Iosup
11:30 FT Yardstick: A Benchmark for Minecraft-like Services Jerom van der Sar, Jesse Donkervliet and Alexandru Iosup
12:00 FT POSUM: A Portfolio Scheduler for MapReduce Workloads Maria Voinea and Alexandru Iosup
12:30 Lunch
13:30 ST The Apertif Monitor for Bursts Encountered in Real-time (AMBER) auto-tuning optimization with genetic algorithms Klim Mikhailov and Alessio Sclocco
13:50 ST Track Reconstruction with Cellular Automaton: a Performance Engineering Case-study in HEP Julius Roeder, Roel Aaij, Ana Varbanescu and Gerhard Raven
14:10 ST SAT Simplification on GPU Architectures Muhammad Osama and Anton Wijs
14:30 ST Experience Report: Automating Experimental Setup and Data Management Merijn Verstraaten
14:50 ST Approximate-based FPGA Configuration Memory Vulnerability Factor Mahsa Mousavi, Hamid Reza Pourshaghaghi, Mohammad Tahghighi and Henk Corporaal
15:10 Coffee break
15:40 ST ECSched: Efficient Container Scheduling on Heterogeneous Clusters Yang Hu, Huan Zhou, Cees De Laat and Zhiming Zhao
16:00 ST A Blockchain-based Micro-Economy of Bandwidth Tokens Martijn de Vos and Johan Pouwelse
16:20 ST Real-time Money Routing by Trusting Strangers with your Funds Martijn de Vos and Johan Pouwelse
16:40 Panel: Career Choices
18:30 Dinner @ Hotel restaurant
20:30 Pub Quiz @ Hotel bar
Tuesday Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:00 FT Large Scale Stream Analytics using a Resource-constrained Edge Roshan Bharath Das, Gabriele Di Bernardo and Henri Bal
09:30 FT Delta Pointers: Buffer Overflow Checks Without the Checks Taddeus Kroes, Koen Koning, Erik van der Kouwe, Herbert Bos and Cristiano Giuffrida
10:00 FT GuardION: Practical Mitigation of DMA-Based Rowhammer Attacks on ARM Victor van der Veen, Martina Lindorfer, Yanick Fratantonio, Harikrishnan Padmanabha Pillai, Giovanni Vigna, Christopher Kruegel, Herbert Bos and Kaveh Razavi
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Keynote Programming networks Paola Grosso
12:00 ST CloudsStorm: An Application-driven Framework to Enhance the Programmability and Controllability of Cloud Virtual Infrastructures Huan Zhou, Yang Hu, Cees De Laat and Zhiming Zhao
12:20 Lunch
13:30 ST Towards using Program Dependency Graphs for plagiarism detection in Python Thomas Schaper and Ana Varbanescu
13:50 ST Maintainable Production: Mapping Quality Change to Developer Contributions Michael Olivari
14:10 ST Unit test generation using machine learning Laurence Saes, Joop Snijder and Ana Oprescu
14:30 ST A rule-based process management system for the customer service domain Gerben van der Huizen
14:50 ST Language-independent volume measurement Edwin Ouwehand
15:10 Social event
18:30 Dinner
Wed Paper/activity Presenter(s) Author(s)
09:00 Keynote Large-Scale Graph Processing for Network-Driven Insights in Finance and Economics Frank Takes
10:00 FT The Graphalytics Ecosystem: From Competitions to Performance Analysis Ahmed Musaafir, Tim Hegeman, Wing Lung Ngai, Alexandru Uta and Alexandru Iosup
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 FT A Beginner's Guide to Estimating and Improving Performance Portability Henk Dreuning, Ana Lucia Varbanescu and Roel Heirman
11:30 FT A Jungle Computing approach to common image source identification in large collections of images B. van Werkhoven, P. Hijma, C.J.H. Jacobs, J. Maassen, Z.J.M.H. Geradts and H.E. Bal
12:00 FT Towards HPC and Big Data Convergence: a Graph Processing Study on Intel Knights Landing Alexandru Uta, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Ahmed Musaafir, Chris Lemaire and Alexandru Iosup

5 - Panel

This year's CompSys will feature a panel on Career Choices. The format is simple: a few senior researchers will answer your questions related to your future steps in your career. The panelists are:

  • Dr. Corina Stratan, TopDesk
  • Dr. Jan Rellermeyer, TUDelft
  • Dr. Clemens Grelck, UvA
  • Dr. Anton Wijs, TU/e
  • Prof.dr. Rob van Nieuwpoort, NLeSC & UvA
  • Prof.dr. Henri Bal, VU

The panel will start with a brief introduction from each panelist (3-5 minutes), and 1 piece of advice for the audience. We estimate this will take about 25 minutes. Next, we will open the floor for questions from the audience.

We accept questions online and live.

Every question from the audience (up to 3 per person) will be awarded a small prize!

Please join us in a useful and interactive discussion about (y)our careers.

6 - Keynote

We have the pleasure of welcoming two keynote speakers at CompSys'18.

Tuesday, 19-06-2018 at 11:00am
Programming networks
By Dr. Paola Grosso
Systems and Networking Lab, UvA
Abstract Current advances in designing and engineering computer networks offer a path toward autonomous and flexible networking decisions. An key element toward this behavior is network programmability. Future networks will be able to react to external events, such as security incidents, and efficiently change their topology and behavior. In this talk I will present our latest research results in this area, and identify the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Short bio Dr. Paola Grosso is associate professor in the Systems and Networking Lab at the University of Amsterdam. She is the coordinator and lead researcher of all the group activities in the field of multi-scale networks and systems. Her research interests lie in the creation of sustainable e-Infrastructures, relying on the provisioning and design of programmable networks. She currently participates in several national projects, such as SARNET, DL4LD, SecConNet and in EU H2020-funded projects such as FED4FIRE+, GN4 and ENVRIPLUS.

Wednesday, 20-06-2018 at 09:00am
Large-Scale Graph Processing for Network-Driven Insights in Finance and Economics
By Dr. Frank Takes
LIACS, Leiden University
Abstract The interdisciplinary field of network science aims to extract meaningful knowledge from network data. In this talk we explore different aspects of this field, related to the efficient computation of network measures, large-scale network visualization and flow simulation. Each of these aspects in one way or the other involves a number of HPC-related methodologies. In addition, when applied to a large-scale dataset of millions of connected corporations across the globe, we demonstrate how we can use these algorithms to obtain new insights in the underlying data. For example, they allow us to better understand the community structure of our global economy, its underlying social structure, but also topics in finance and economics, such as tax evasion.
Short bio Frank Takes is an assistant professor at the computer science department of Leiden University, working on algorithms for extracting actionable knowledge from real-world network data; a field known as computational network science. He is involved in several projects with the Dutch government, the NWO eScience center and Statistics Netherlands (CBS), and is a visiting fellow at the CORPNET research group of the University of Amsterdam, where he works in an interdisciplinary research team on understanding large-scale networks of corporations.

7 - Registration

Registration has been closed by the organizers of this event.

8 - Location

The conference will be held at the Landgoed ISVW Leusden, The Netherlands.

This location is located in a peaceful, wooded setting near estate Den Treek. For an impression of the hotel and its surroundings please click here.

Please note that your overnight stays in this hotel, are included in the registration fee.

ISVW offers their visitors a shuttle service (€12,50) from Amersfoort train station. This shuttle service must be reserved at a minimum of 3 hours upfront via email or by phone 033-2588849. You'll get a recite from the driver if you are able to reimburse these costs at your University. For more information how to get there and away; please refer to the hotels website.

9 - Contact

International Conference on Computing Systems
Paula Diks (ASCI OFFICE)
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
Netherlands