General Chairs

Khalid Al-Begain (University of South Wales)
Dieter Fiems (Ghent University)

TPC Chairs

Sabine Wittevrongel (Ghent University)
Tuan Phung-Duc (University of Tsukuba)

Technical Program Committee

Sergey Andreev (Tampere University of Technology)
Jonatha Anselmi (INRIA)
Konstantin Avrachenkov (INRIA)
Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden)
Simonetta Balsamo (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia)
Koen De Turck (CentraleSupélec)
Ioannis Dimitriou (University of Patras)
Antonis Economou (University of Athens)
Dieter Fiems (Ghent University)
Jean-Michel Fourneau (Universite de Versailles St Quentin)
Marco Gribaudo (Politecnico di Milano)
Yezekael Hayel (LIA / University of Avignon)
András Horváth (University of Turin)
Gábor Horváth (Budapest Technical University)
Stella Kapodistria (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Helen Karatza (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
William Knottenbelt (Imperial College London)
Lasse Leskelä (Aalto University)
Daniele Manini (Università di Torino)
Andrea Marin (University of Venice)
Yoni Nazarathy (University of Queensland)
Jose Nino-Mora (Carlos III University of Madrid)
Antonio Pacheco (IST Lisboa)
Juan F. Pérez (University of Melbourne)
Tuan Phung-Duc (University of Tsukuba)
Balakrishna J. Prabhu (LAAS-CNRS)
Marie-Ange Remiche (University of Namur)
Anne Remke (WWU MÜNSTER)
Jacques Resing (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Marco Scarpa (University of Messina)
Bruno Sericola (INRIA-Rennes)
Devin Sezer (Middle East Technical University)
János Sztrik (Debrecen University)
Miklós Telek (Budapest Technical University)
Nigel Thomas (Newcastle University)
Dietmar Tutsch (University of Wuppertal)
Jean-Marc Vincent (INRIA)
Sabine Wittevrongel (Ghent University)
Verena Wolf (Saarland University)
Katinka Wolter (Freie Universitaet zu Berlin)
Alexander Zeifman (Vologda State University)

Steering Committee

Khalid Al-Begain (chair)
Dieter Fiems (secretary)
Simonetta Balsamo
Herwig Bruneel
Alexander Dudin
Jean-Michel Fourneau
Peter Harrison
Miklós Telek
Jean-Marc Vincent

Conference participants are encouraged to submit extended versions of their presented papers to a special issue of the journal Advances in Operations Research.

The deadline for submission to the special issue is 14 October 2016.

Keynote Speaker 1 (joint with NGMAST 2016): Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK)

Title: Edge Clouds: Architectures and Deployment Models

Abstract: An architecture for undertaking data processing across multiple layers of a distributed computing infrastructure is introduced, composed of edge devices (making use of Internet-of-Things (IoT) based protocols), intermediate gateway nodes and large scale data centres. In this way, data processing that is intended to be carried out in the data centre can be pushed to the edges of the network - enabling more efficient use of data centre and in-network resources. Such an approach also suggests the need to re-think of cloud computing deployment architectures, requiring a "traditional" data centre-based cloud system to stretch to the network edge. We suggest the need for specialist data analysis and management algorithms that are resource-aware, and are able to split computation across these different layers. A coordination mechanism is proposed that is able to combine different types of data processing capability, such as in-transit and in-situ. An application scenario is used to illustrate the concepts, subsequently evaluated through a multi-site deployment.

Speaker's bio: Omer F. Rana is Professor of Performance Engineering at Cardiff University, with research interests in high performance distributed computing, data analysis/mining and multi-agent systems. He currently leads the Complex Systems Research Group. He was formerly the deputy director of the Welsh eScience Centre and had the opportunity to interact with a number of computational scientists across Cardiff University and the UK. He currently serves on the steering committee of Cardiff University's multi-disciplinary "Data Innovation" and "Energy Systems" Research Institutes. Rana has contributed to specification and standardisation activities via the Open Grid Forum and worked as a software developer with London-based Marshall Bio-Technology Limited prior to joining Cardiff University, where he developed specialist software to support biotech instrumentation. He also contributed to public understanding of science, via the Wellcome Trust funded "Science Line", in collaboration with BBC and Channel 4. Rana holds a PhD in "Neural Computing and Parallel Architectures from Imperial College (London Univ.), an MSc in Microelectronics (Univ. of Southampton) and a BEng in Information Systems Eng. from Imperial College (London Univ.).

Keynote Speaker 2: Florin Ciucu (University of Warwick, UK)

Title: Faster by Replication - Beyond the Poisson Model

Abstract: Task replication has recently been advocated as a practical solution to reduce latencies in parallel systems. In addition to several convincing empirical studies, some others provide analytical results, yet under some strong assumptions such as Poisson arrivals, exponential service times, or independent service times of the replicas themselves, which may lend themselves to some contrasting and perhaps contriving behavior. In this talk we present a unified and general theoretical framework to compute tight bounds on the distribution of response times in general replication systems which account in particular for non-Poisson arrivals. These results immediately lend themselves to the optimal number of replicas minimizing response time quantiles, depending on the parameters of the system (e.g., the degree of correlation amongst replicas).

Speaker's bio: Florin Ciucu is an Assistant Professor in the CS Department at the University of Warwick. Previously he was a Senior Research Scientist at T-Labs / TU Berlin. He received an Informatics Diploma from the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. He is interested in developing stochastic models and techniques to better understand and engineer communication networks, computer systems, and the smart grid. On the practical side, he is interested in resource allocation and randomized algorithms for large systems.

Keynote Speaker 3: Anne Bouillard (École normale supérieure (ENS), Paris, France)

Title: Coupling from the past in closed queueing networks

Abstract: Coupling from the past algorithms is a technique developed by Propp and Wilson in 1996 to sample random variables exactly according to the stationary distribution of a finite ergodic Markov chain. In its basic presentation, the complexity of this algorithm is at least linear in the number of states of the chain, and cannot be used in practice, due to the cardinality of the state space. However, coupling from the past becomes algorithmically efficient when the chain has a monotonic representation, or when "bounding chains" can be defined. The stationary distribution of closed queueing networks does not have a simple form in general, hence it might be useful to have efficient simulation tools. Contrary to open queueing networks, closed queuing networks are not monotonic systems, and even the state space does not exhibit a natural order. We present a compact representation of the sets of states that makes the coupling from the past algorithm efficient.

Speaker's bio: Anne Bouillard has been an assistant professor since 2006, first at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Brittany location) and is now at École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France) since 2010, in the departments of Computer Science. She received a Master in Computer science from ENS and a PhD in Computer Science from ENS Lyon. Her current research interests include performance evaluation, network monitoring using tropical algebras and sampling of Markov chains. She participated to several national research projects and collaborated with industrial partners including Thalès and Alcatel-Lucent.

You can download the detailed conference program in pdf format here.

The registration will take place starting from 8:45 at the conference venue (there will be signs inside the building).

Day 1: August 24

9:15 – 9:30 Opening Session
9:30 – 10:30 Keynote Talk by Omer F. Rana, joint with NGMAST 2016
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:15 Session 1: Networks (Session chair: Marco Gribaudo)

• A DTMC model for performance evaluation of irregular interconnection networks with Asymmetric Spatial Traffic Distributions
  Daniel Lüdtke and Dietmar Tutsch
• Modelling unfairness in IEEE 802.11g networks with variable frame length
  Choman Othman Abdullah and Nigel Thomas
• Subsampling for chain-referral methods
  Konstantin Avrachenkov, Giovanni Neglia and Alina Tuholukova

12:40 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Session 2: Queueing Analysis 1 (Session chair: António Pacheco)

• System occupancy of a two-class batch-service queue with class-dependent variable server capacity
  Jens Baetens, Bart Steyaert, Dieter Claeys and Herwig Bruneel
• Sojourn time analysis for processor sharing loss system with unreliable server
  Konstantin Samouylov, Valery Naumov, Eduard Sopin, Irina Gudkova and Sergey Shorgin
• A law of large numbers for M/M/c/Delayoff-Setup queues with nonstationary arrivals
  Jamol Pender and Tuan Phung-Duc

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee
15:45 – 17:00 Session 3: Markovian Processes (Session chair: José Niño-Mora)

• Efficient implementations of the EM-algorithm for transient Markovian arrival processes
  Mindaugas Bražėnas, Gábor Horváth and Miklós Telek
• Fluid analysis of spatio-temporal properties of agents in a population model
  Luca Bortolussi and Max Tschaikowski
• Fingerprinting and reconstruction of functionals of discrete time Markov chains
  Attila Egri, Illés Horváth, Ferenc Kovács and Roland Molontay

Day 2: August 25

9:30 – 10:30 Keynote Talk by Florin Ciucu (Session chair: Sabine Wittevrongel)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:15 Session 4: Energy (Session chair: Nigel Thomas)

• A smart neighbourhood simulation tool for shared energy storage and exchange
  Michael Biech, Timo Bigdon, Christian Dielitz, Georg Fromme and Anne Remke
• Optimal data collection in hybrid energy-harvesting sensor networks
  Kishor Patil, Koen De Turck and Dieter Fiems
• Energy-aware data centers with s-staggered setup and abandonment
  Tuan Phung-Duc and Ken'Ichi Kawanishi

12:40 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:15 Session 5: Applications (Session chair: Ioannis Dimitriou)

• Planning inland container shipping: a stochastic assignment problem
  Kees Kooiman, Frank Phillipson and Alex Sangers
• Fluid approximation of pool depletion systems
  Enrico Barbierato, Marco Gribaudo and Daniele Manini
• Whittle's index policy for multi-target tracking with jamming and nondetections
  José Niño-Mora

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee
15:45 – 17:00 Session 6: Performance Evaluation (Session chair: Max Tschaikowski)

• Applying reversibility theory for the performance evaluation of reversible computations
  Simonetta Balsamo, Filippo Cavallin, Andrea Marin and Sabina Rossi
• Performance modelling of optimistic fair exchange
  Yishi Zhao and Nigel Thomas
• Stochastic bounds and histograms for active queues management and networks analysis
  Farah Aït-Salaht, Hind Castel-Taleb, Jean-Michel Fourneau and Nihal Pekergin

Day 3: August 26

9:30 – 10:30 Keynote Talk by Anne Bouillard (Session chair: Tuan Phung-Duc)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:15 Session 7: Queueing Analysis 2 (Session chair: Nihal Pekergin)

• A retrial queue to model a two-relay cooperative wireless system with simultaneous packet reception
  Ioannis Dimitriou
• Analysis of a two-class priority queue with correlated arrivals from another node
  Abdulfetah Khalid, Sofian De Clercq, Bart Steyaert and Joris Walraevens
• On the blocking probability and loss rates in nonpreemptive oscillating queueing systems
  Fátima Ferreira, António Pacheco and Helena Ribeiro

12:15 – 12:40 Best Paper Award and Closing Session
12:40 – 14:00 Goodbye Lunch

The conference will be held in the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, UK.

The gala dinner will take place in Cardiff Castle.

For details about the location, hotels and local arrangements click here.

Additional information is also available on the website of the NGMAST 2016 conference, co-located with ASMTA 2016.

In case of specific questions with respect to the venue or other practical matters, please contact the local organiser Khalid Al-Begain, University of South Wales (E-mail: k.begain@southwales.ac.uk).

ASMTA 2016 registrations are handled by Castell Communications at http://www.castellcomms.co.uk/asmta.php.

The conference fees are listed below. Student authors need to send scanned proof of being enrolled as a student to asmta@castellcomms.co.uk

Note that at least one author of an accepted paper must register and pay before June 17, 2016.

In case you need an invitation letter, please contact the local organiser Khalid Al-Begain, University of South Wales (E-mail: k.begain@southwales.ac.uk).

Fees

New author or participant	EUR 425.00
Returning author or participant (returning in two years)	EUR 395.00
Student author	EUR 325.00
Additional paper fee (after first fully paid)	EUR 200.00
Additional page charge per page	EUR 25.00
Additional person for dinner	EUR 50.00

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