IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2020

Tentative Technical Program (organized via ZOOM in CET timezone)


Program at Glance

Timetable

Notes:

Keynote:45 min incl. discussion
Presentation in session: full papers up to 20 min. incl. Q&A; short papers 15 min. incl. Q&A.

Participants are asked to switch off microphones during sessions and switch on only when asking (session chairs have rights to switch off MC remotely).
Participants who do not want to be active in the virtual room and ask questions can use authorized access to real time stream on youtube channel.

The conference will be held online using the ZOOM online conferencing communicator. You can join to each of the rooms/sessions using the ID and password. Both will be provided via email. To access the session you need to install ZOOM client that can be downloaded for free and without any registration from the website https://zoom.us/download

Monday, September 14

10:00 - 11:00

Testing session (solving technical issues)

11:00 - 11:15

Opening Session, welcome speech

11:15 - 12:00

Keynote 1

12:00 - 12:15

Coffee Break

12:15 - 13:45

Session 1 : Distributed Simulations

Chair: Prof. Ivan Zelinka
Reduction of Inter-process Communication in Distributed Simulation of Road Traffic
Tomas Potuzak (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Performance Evaluation of HLA RTI Implementations
Moritz Gütlein, Wojciech Baron and Christopher Renner (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Anatoli Djanatliev (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
On Verification of Designed Energy Systems Using Distributed Co-Simulations
Anselm Erdmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Anna Marcellan (German Aerospace Center, Germany); Dominik Hering (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany); Michael Suriyah (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Carolin Ulbrich (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany); Martin Henke (German Aerospace Center, Germany); André Xhonneux and Dirk Müller (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany); Rutger Schlatmann (PVcomB / Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Germany); Veit Hagenmeyer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Laying the path to consumer-level immersive simulation environments
Lorenzo Donatiello (Università di Bologna, Italy); Lorenzo Gasparini (University of Bologna, Italy); Gustavo Marfia (Università di Bologna, Italy)

13:45 - 14:45

Lunch

14:45 - 16:15

Session 2 : Scheduling & Simulations

Chair: Dr. Tomas Potuzak
A New Julia-Based Parallel Time-Domain Simulation Algorithm for Analysis of Power System Dynamics
Michael Kyesswa and Philipp Schmurr (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Hueseyin Kemal Cakmak (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany); Uwe Kuehnapfel (KIT, Germany); Veit Hagenmeyer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
A New Mobility Samples Encoding Scheme Based on Pairing Functions and Data Analytics
Peppino Fazio (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic); Miralem Mehic (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina); Pavol Partila (VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic); Jaromir Tovarek and Miroslav Voznak (VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)
Agent-based Modeling and Simulation for Emergency Scenarios: A Holistic Approach
Andrea Piccione (Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy); Alessandro Pellegrini (Lockless S.r.l.)
A Cost-effective Scheduling Control for a Safety Critical Hybrid Power System
Jalil Boudjadar (Aarhus University, Denmark); Mohammad Hassan Khooban (Aalborg, Denmark)

16:15 - 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:00

Session 3 : Real-Time Simulations

Chair: Dr. Robson De Grande
MEDART-MAS: MEta-model of Data Assimilation on Real-Time Multi-Agent Simulation
Bassirou Ngom (Universite Cheikh Anta DIOP, Senegal & Sorbonne Universite & UMISCO, IRD, France); Moussa Diallo (UCAD, Senegal); Nicolas Marilleau (Sorbonne Universite & UMMISCO, IRD, France)
Real-time Feedback in Node-RED for IoT Development: An Empirical Study
Diogo Torres (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal); João Pedro Dias (FEUP & INESC TEC, Portugal); André Restivo (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto & LIACC, Portugal); Hugo Sereno Ferreira (Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal)
Real-Time Simulation of Robot Swarms with Restricted Communication Skills
Alexander Puzicha and Peter Buchholz (TU Dortmund, Germany)
CoSim: A Simulator for Co-Scheduling of Batch and On-Demand Jobs in HPC Datacenters
Avinash Maurya (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Bogdan Nicolae (Argonne National Laboratory, USA); Ishan Guliani and M. Mustafa Rafique (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Tuesday, September 15

10:00 - 10:30

Testing session (solving technical issues)

10:30 - 11:15

Keynote Session 2

11:15 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00

Session 4 : Cloud, Fog & Edge Computing

Chair: Prof. Gregory Zacharewicz
Digital Twins at the Edge to Track Mobility for MaaS Applications
Claudia Campolo (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy); Giacomo Genovese (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria & CNIT, Italy); Antonella Molinaro and Bruno Pizzimenti (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
E-Scooter Sharing: Leveraging Open Data for System Design
Applying Faster R-CNN in Extremely Low-Resolution Thermal Images for People Detection
Diego M. Jiménez-Bravo (Expert Systems and Applications Lab, Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca, Spain); Pierre Masala Mutombo (IDLab - University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Bart Braem (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium); Johann M. Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen & IMEC, Belgium)
Simulating Heterogeneous Models on Multi-Core Platforms using Julia's Computing Language Parallel Potential
Sergey Suslov and Michael Schiek (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany); Markus Robens and Christian Grewing (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany); Stefan van Waasen (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 5 : Vehicular & Edge Computing

Chair: Prof. Carlos Calafate
Collision Avoidance Proposal in a MEC based VANET environment
Nicolas Nevigato (University of Calabria, Italy); Mauro Tropea (Università della Calabria, Italy); Floriano De Rango (University of Calabria, Italy)
An Energy Management System at the Edge based on Reinforcement Learning
Franco Cicirelli (CNR - National Research Council, Italy); Antonio Gentile, Emilio Greco and Antonio Guerrieri (ICAR-CNR, Italy); Giandomenico Spezzano (ICAR CNR, Italy); Andrea Vinci (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
SEMRP: an Energy-efficient Multicast Routing Protocol for UAV Swarms
Youssra Cheriguene, Soumia Djellikh and Fatima Zohra Bousbaa (University of Laghouat, Algeria); Nasreddine Lagraa (Amar Thelidji University, Laghouat & LIM Laboratory, Algeria); Abderrahmane Lakas (UAE University, United Arab Emirates); Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache (University of Ghardaia, Algeria); Abdou El Karim Tahari (University of Laghouat, Algeria)
Toward secure, efficient, and seamless reconfiguration of UAV swarm formations
Jamie Wubben and Pablo Aznar (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Francisco Fabra and Carlos T. Calafate (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Juan-Carlos Cano (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Pietro Manzoni (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

15:30 - 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 - 17:15

Session 6 : Secure & Efficient Computing

Chair: Prof. Libero Nigro
MDP-based Vehicular Network Connectivity Model for VCC Management
Abubakar Saad and Robson E. De Grande (Brock University, Canada)
A Novel Deep Reinforcement Learning based service migration model for Mobile Edge Computing
Sung woon Park, Azzedine Boukerche and Shichao Guan (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Session-level Adversary Intent-Driven Cyberattack Simulator
Martin Drasar (Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic); Shanchieh Jay Yang and Stephen Moskal (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Pavol Zaťko (Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Energy and Distance evaluation for Jamming Attacks in wireless networks
Emilie Bout (Inria, France); Valeria Loscrí (Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France); Antoine Gallais (Polytechnic University Hauts-de-France, France)

Wednesday, September 16

10:00 - 10:30

Testing session (solving technical issues)

10:30 - 11:15

Keynote Session 3

11:15 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00

Session 7 : Simulations & Modelling

Chair: Dr. Mauro Tropea
Heuristic Contention-Free Scheduling Algorithm for Multi-core Processor using LET Model
Shingo Igarashi (Saitama University, Japan); Tasuku Ishigooka and Tatsuya Horiguchi (Hitachi Ltd, Japan); Ryotaro Koike and Takuya Azumi (Saitama University, Japan)
Model Checking Actor-based Cyber-Physical Systems
Libero Nigro (University of Calabria, DIMES, Italy); Franco Cicirelli (CNR - National Research Council, Italy)
NUMA-Aware Non-Blocking Calendar Queue
Maryan Rab (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Romolo Marotta and Mauro Ianni (Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy); Alessandro Pellegrini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Francesco Quaglia (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
Pitfalls and Remedies in Modeling and Simulation of Cyber Physical Systems
Alberto Falcone and Alfredo Garro (University of Calabria, Italy)

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 8 : UAVs & Simulations

Chair: Prof. Floriano De Rango
Simulation and Digital Twin Support for Managed Drone Applications
Nasos Grigoropoulos (University of Thessaly, Greece); Spyros Lalis (University of Thesally, Greece)
An Iterative Stochastic Approach to Constrained Drones' Communications
Giovanni Iacovelli, Pietro Boccadoro and Luigi Alfredo Grieco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Bio-Inspired Drones Recruiting Strategy for Precision Agriculture Domain
Mauro Tropea (Università della Calabria, Italy); Abdon Serianni (University of Calabria, Italy)
A Real-time Simulation Framework for Complex and Large-scale Optical Transport Networks based on the SDN Paradigm
Awais Aziz Shah (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Marco Mussini (SM-Optics, Italy); Francesco Nicassio (Experis SRL, Italy); Giorgio Parladori (SM Optics, Italy); Francesco Triggiani (Experis SRL, Italy); Giovanni Grieco, Giuseppe Iaffaldano and Giuseppe Piro (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)

15:30 - 15:40

Coffee Break

15:40 - 16:00

Closing Session, Best Papers Award announcement