Program
Current version of the conference programme (updated: 29/08/2019).
Monday 16 September
20:30 Pre-Conference Drinks Downtown (covered by participants)
Tuesday 17 September
10:00 - 11:00 Coffee and Registration
11:00 - 11:30 Introductory Remarks
Welcome to Leeds
Karim Djemame
Introduction to GECON Conference Series
José Ángel Bañares, Jörn Altmann and Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Best Paper Announcement and Best Student Paper Announcement
Karim Djemame
11:30 - 12:30 Keynote 1
Benchmarks and Models for Blockchain: The Incentives Layer
Aad van Moorsel, University of Newcastle, UK
12:30 – 13:00 Lightning Session
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Session 1: Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts (FP1)
Exploiting Blockchain Technology for Attribute Management in Access Control Systems
Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Alessio Lunardelli, Paolo Mori and Laura Ricci
GENEVIZ: a Visual Tool for the Construction and Blockchain-based Validation of SFC Packages
Muriel Franco, Martin Bucher, Eder Scheid, Lisandro Granville and Burkhard Stiller
A smart contract based recommender system
Paolo Mori, Andrea Lisi, Andrea De Salve and Laura Ricci
15:30 – 16:00 Poster Session and Coffee Break
Full Papers and Work-in-Progress posters, including:
Genetic Algorithms for Capacity Estimation in Pluralistic Spectrum Licensing Simulations
Stephan Wirsing and Albert Rafetseder
Towards a Roadmap for Cloud TV Services in the Internet of Things Era
Georgia Dede, Dimitrios Grigoropoulos, Georgios Loupatatsis, Thomas Kamalakis and Christos Michalakelis
MeshDapp – Blockchain-enabled Sustainable Business Models for Networks
Emmanouil Dimogerontakis, Leandro Navarro, Mennan Selimi, Sergio Mosquera, and Felix Freitag
Modeling, Characterising and Scheduling Applications in Kubernetes
V́ıctor Medel, Unai Arronategui, José Angel Bañares, Rafael Tolosana, and Omer Rana
16:00 – 17:20 Session 2: Cost-based computing allocation (WiP1)
Cost-optimized parallel computations using volatile cloud resources
Jens Haussmann, Wolfgang Blochinger and Wolfgang Kuechlin
Bill Estimation in Simplified Memory Progressive Second Price Auctions
Danielle Movsowitz Davidow, Nir Lavi and Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Voting for Superior Services: How to Exploit Cloud Hierarchies
Jean-Charles Grégoire and Angèle Foley
Energy-aware Dynamic Pricing Model for Cloud Environments
Peini Liu, Gusseppe Bravo and Jordi Guitart
17:20 – 18:00 Wild and Crazy Ideas Session
18:00 Close
19:00 Informal Dinner (covered by participants)
Wednesday 18 September
9:00 Coffee
9:30 – 10:30 Keynote 2
Economic Observations of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
Dieter Kranzlmuelller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
10:30 – 11:00 Poster Session and Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 3: Resource, Service and Communication Federations (FP2)
Architecture and Business Logic Specification for Dynamic Cloud Federations ** BEST PAPER AWARD **
Ram Govinda Aryal, Jamie Marshall and Jörn Altmann
Towards an Architecture Proposal for Federation of Distributed DES simulators
Unai Arronategui, José Ángel Bañares and Jose Manuel Colom
Neutral and Non-Neutral Countries in a Global Internet: What Does it Imply?
Patrick Maillé and Bruno Tuffin
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Session 4: Economic Assessment, Business and Pricing Models (FP3)
Sensing as a Service Revisited: A Property Rights Enforcement and Pricing Model for IIoT Data Marketplaces
Jan-Terje Sørlie and Jörn Altmann
Dominant Business Model Patterns of Regional IaaS Providers – An Exploratory Multiple-Case Study ** BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD **
Sebastian Floerecke and Franz Lehner
SEConomy: A Framework for the Economic Assessment of Cybersecurity
Bruno Rodrigues, Muriel Franco, Geetha Parangi and Burkhard Stiller
15:00 – 15:30 Poster Session and Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30 Session 5: Blockchain and Networks Function Virtualisation (WiP2)
Introducing Licensing throughout SLAs in NFV Environment
Evgenia Kapassa, Marios Touloupou, Dimosthenis Kyriazis, José Bonnet, Carlos Parada, Thomas Soenen and Ana Pol
Blockchain-Enabled Participatory Incentives for Crowdsourced Mesh Networks
Elena San Miguel Pérez, Roxane Timmerman, Sergio Mosquera, Emmanouil Dimogerontakis, Felix Freitag and Leandro Navarro
BUNKER: a Blockchain-based trUsted VNF pacKagE Repository
Eder John Scheid, Manuel Keller, Muriel Franco and Burkhard Stiller
16:30 – 17:30 Session 6: Economic Models for Cyber Physical Systems, Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Systems (WiP3)
Agent based Appliance Scheduling for Energy Management in Industry 4.0
Ioan Petri, Aida Yama and Yacine Rezgui
Leveraging Quality of Service and Cost in Cyber-Physical Systems Design
Christos Kotronis, Mara Nikolaidou, Anargyros Tsadimas, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, George Dimitrakopoulos, Abbes Amira and Faycal Bensaali
Conceptual Modeling for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Systematic Literature Review
Otília de Sousa Santos, Patrício de Alencar Silva, Faiza Allah Bukhsh and Paulo Gabriel Gadelha Queiroz
17:30 Brainstorming / Collaboration Session
18:00– 23:00 Social Event – Guided Tour and Social Dinner
Thursday 19 September
9:00 Coffee
9:25 Best Poster Announcement
Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
9:30 – 10:30 Keynote 3
Title: Data Center Growth, Challenges, and Inefficiencies in a Connected World
Paul Townend, Edgetic, UK
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 7: Resource Management (FP4)
Efficient Multi-Resource, Multi-Unit VCG Auction
Liran Funaro, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda and Assaf Schuster
Cloud-based Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling Optimisation via Asynchronous Islands
Shuai Zhao, Haitao Mei, Piotr Dziurzanski, Michal Przewozniczek and Leandro Indrusiak
Stability Analysis of a Statistical Model for Cloud Resource Management ** BEST POSTER AWARD **
Mitalee Sarker and Stefan Wesner
12:30 - 13:00 Closing Remarks and GECON 2020 Presentation
13:00 Lunch