Advanced Program

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

Monday, December 1

08:30 - 09:00
Room 109
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 - 13:00
Room 109
Contributed Papers Session
Session Chair: Reza Farahani
  • Vectorization Of Narrow Matrix Multiplication for Ascend AI Inference Acceleration
    Anton Shurygin and Alexander Frolov
  • An Empirical Study on Estimating Energy Consumption From Software Traces
    Thi Mai Phuong Nguyen, Adel Noureddine and Congduc Pham
  • Gaia: Hybrid Hardware Acceleration for Serverless AI in the 3D Compute Continuum
    Maximilian Reisecker, Cynthia Marcelino, Thomas Werner Pusztai and Stefan Nastic
  • Balancing Compression and Prediction: A Hybrid Autoencoder–LSTM Framework for Cloud Workloads
    Lidia Kidane, Paul Townend, Thijs Metsch and Erik Elmroth
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00
Room 109
Contributed Papers Session
Session Chair: Luiz Bittencourt
  • BullyHCL: Unsupervised Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning Framework for Session-based Cyberbullying Detection
    Munkhbuyan Buyankhishig, Thanda Shwe, Israel Mendonça and Masayoshi Aritsugi
  • How to Evaluate NoSQL Database Paradigms for Knowledge Graph Processing
    Rosario Napoli, Antonio Celesti, Massimo Villari and Maria Fazio
  • Dual-Space Augmentation and Sampling for Training Language Models on Limited and Imbalanced Surgical Reports
    Ashok Choudhary, Frank Lee, Cornelius Thiels and Hojjat Salehinejad
  • Reflect, Reason, Rephrase (R³-Detox): An In-Context Learning Approach to Text Detoxification
    Guillermo Villate Castillo, Javier Del Ser and Borja Sanz
16:00 - 16:30
Break
16:30 - 18:00
Room 109
Contributed Papers Session
Session Chair: Kandaraj Piamrat'
  • From High to Low: A Numerical Experiment to Analyse Contour Detection at Resolution Loss in Images of Damaged Glass Plates
    Sabrina Pietzsch, Sebastian Wollny and Paul Grimm
  • Optimizing Video Analytics Inference Pipelines: A Case Study
    Saeid Ghafouri, Yuming Ding, Katerine Diaz Chito, Jesús Martínez del Rincón, Niamh O'Connell and Hans Vandierendonck
  • Scaling AI for Embryo Transition Detection: Benchmarking Spatio-Temporal Deep Models
    Aissa Benfettoume Souda, Mohammed El Amine Bechar, Souaad Hamza-Cherif, Jean-Marie Guyader, Marwa Elbouz, Frédéric Morel, Aurore Perrin and Nesma Settouti

Wednesday, December 3

08:30 - 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
Room 109
Contributed Papers Session
Session Chair: Sidi Mohammed Kaddour
  • System Requirements for Decentralised Collaborative Machine Learning in Industry 4.0
    Sylwia Olbrych, Hans Aoyang Zhou, Anas Abdelrazeq and Robert H. Schmitt
  • Comparative Analysis of Motif-Based Anomaly Detection for Humidity Monitoring in Digital Twin Systems
    Ionica-Larisa Puiu, Daniela Zaharie and Teodor-Florin Fortiș
  • Dual-Modality UAV Detection and Classification under Low-Visibility: A Synth-Real RGB–IR Dataset and Benchmark for Aerial Surveillance
    Hatoun Alshoail, Sarah Alruwais, Juri Alqorashi and Najah Alsubaie
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
Room 109
Best Paper Session
Session Chair: Lorenzo Carnevale
  • Development and Comparative Evaluation of Three Artificial Intelligence Models (NLP, LLM, JEPA) for Predicting Triage in Emergency Departments: A 7-Month Retrospective Proof-of-Concept
    Edouard Lansiaux, Ramy Azzouz, Emmanuel Chazard, Amélie Vromant, Eric Wiel
  • Evolutionary Train-Test Split for Hierarchical Monte Carlo Ensemble
    Ziauddin Ursani, Dmytro Antypov, Katie Atkinson, Matthew Dyer, Matthew J. Rosseinsky, Sven Schewe, Ahsan Ahmad Ursani, Andrij Vasylenko
  • Edge-Driven Water Quality Monitoring and Prediction: A Spatio-Temporal GNN-based IoT Approach for Environmental Sensing
    Lia Anggraini, Elisha Elikem Kofi Senoo, Israel Rodrigues Soares, Thanda Shwe, Israel Mendonça dos Santos, Masayoshi Aritsugi
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

08:30 - 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
Room 109
Paper Session
  • Building a Dataset for Character Product Detection from SNS
    Maho Funada, Reiya Sato and Yoshitaka Sakurai
  • Unsupervised Representation Learning from Robotic Channel State Information for Human Activity and Gait Recognition
    Ashok Choudhary, Cornelius Thiels and Hojjat Salehinejad
  • Optimal Warehouse Distribution Center Placement using Evolutionary Algorithms
    Corrado Mio, Abdulla Alfalasi and Siddhartha Shakya
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