| 9:00-9:10 | Introductions |
| 9:15-10:00 | Keynote The bigger picture for PhD researchers:
Lessons learned from 21 PhDs and 40 defenses, Wouter Joosen (Minds-DistriNet, KULeuven) |
| 10-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session I: New Domains
- Drums: a Middleware-Aware Distributed Robot Monitoring System (Mani Monajjemi, Jens Wawerla and Richard Vaughan)
- Enhancing Internet of Things with Reconfigurable Hardware and Software (Fan Yang)
- Towards Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Sensor Data with Indigenous Knowledge for Drought Forecasting (Adeyinka Akanbi and Muthoni Masinde)
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| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 | Session II: Large Systems
- Towards a Scalable, Distributed Metadata Service for Causal Consistency under Partial Geo-replication
(Manuel Bravo, Luis Rodrigues and Peter Van Roy)
- Advanced monitoring and smart auto-scaling of NoSQL systems (Arnaud Schoonjans, Bert Lagaisse and Wouter Joosen)
- Optimal Resource Provisioning Approach based on Cost Modeling for Spark Applications in Public Clouds (Jianfei Ruan, Qinghua Zheng and Bo Dong)
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| 3:00-3:30 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30-5:00 | Session III: Potpourri
- Distributed Data Flow: a Programming model for the Crowdsourced Internet of Things (Nam Ky Giang, Michael Blackstock, Rodger Lea and Victor Leung)
- Intrusion Detection System for Embedded Systems (Farid Molazem and Karthik Pattabiraman)
- Graph-Based Publish/Subscribe Research with Dynamic Subscriptions (César Cañas and Eduardo Pacheco)
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| 5:00-5:45 | PhD Testimonials |
