Fourth Annual UK System Research Challenges Workshop, March 27–29, 2019

Location & Transport

The workshop will be held at the Redworth Hall, Northumberland. We are providing coach transport between the venue and Newcastle city centre (Urban Sciences Building, 1 Science Square, Science Central, NE4 5TG) as follows:

March 27, 17:00: A coach will depart the Urban Sciences Building to Redworth Hall.
March 29, 13:15: A coach will depart Redworth Hall to the Urban Sciences Building. Expected arrival is 15:00.

Note that this is not a shuttle service but a single coach in each direction. For those travelling on from Newcastle after the workshop by train, we would suggest booking a train after 15:30 to allow for delays.

Registration

Thanks to generous contributions from our sponsors, accommodation will be included in the registration fee (£60 for students, £125 otherwise).

Please use this link to register

Programme

Wednesday, March 27 March

16:45 Please report to the ground floor reception of the Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle 17:00 Coach leaves the Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle 18:00 Check-in at Redworth Hall 18:30-19:30 Drinks reception 19:30 Dinner

Thursday, March 28 March

09:00-09:20 Welcome & Intro

09:20-11:00 Graph / Stream Processing

Chair: Adam Barker

“Scalable Isolation Guarantees for Distributed Graph Databases”, Jack Waudby (Newcastle University), Paul Ezhilchelvan (Newcastle University) [abstract]
“An In-memory Graph System for Scalable and Consistent Data Integration”, Bilal Arshad (University of Derby) [abstract]
“Raphtory: Streaming Analysis Of Distributed Temporal Graphs”, Ben Steer (Queen Mary University London), Felix Cuadrado (Queen Mary University London), Richard clegg (Queen Mary University London) [abstract]
“Model driven scaling for distributed stream processing systems and micro-services”, Thomas Cooper (Newcastle University), Paul Ezhilchelvan (Newcastle University) [abstract]
“Stream-processing with purely-functional programming”, Jonathan Dowland (Newcastle University & Red Hat) [abstract]

11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:30 Cloud / Edge

Chair: Paul Watson

“Building Cloud Native Event Driven applications with Knative and CloudEvents”, Hugo Hiden (Red Hat), Simon Woodman (Red Hat) [abstract]
“All Weather Programming: Programming for the Edge, Fog and Cloud”, Nnamdi Ekwe-Ekwe (University of St Andrews) [abstract]
“Profitable cloud broker with two phases optimisation”, Chalee Boonprasop (University of St Andrews) [abstract]

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:20 Programming Models

Chair: Simon Dobson

“The Sea of Stuff: a step towards the grand unified theory of data”, Simone Ivan Conte (Adobe), Alan Dearle (University of St Andrews), Graham Kirby (University of St Andrews) [abstract]
“A Language for Multi-Perspective Design and Runtime Monitoring”, Blair Archibald (University of Glasgow) [abstract]
“Accelerating Python on Heterogeneous Architectures using Staged Parallelisation”, Dejice Jacob (University of Glasgow), Jeremy Singer (University of Glasgow), Phil Trinder (University of Glasgow) [abstract]
“Fine-grained Stateful Computations”, Georgy Lukyanov (Newcastle University), Andrey Mokhov (Newcastle University) [abstract]

15:20-15:50 Coffee

15:50-17:30 IoT / Sensor Systems

Chair: Derek McAuley

“The science of systems with sensors”, Simon Dobson (University of St Andrews) [abstract]
“Participatory Design Fiction as Inspiration for End-to-End Wearable IoT Device Design”, Helen Oliver (The Alan Turing Institute/University of Cambridge) [abstract]
“Simulating and measuring latency in Interactive Remote Rendering systems”, Richard Cloete (Newcastle University), Nick Holliman (Newcastle University) [abstract]
“Crowdsourcery: Defence Against Dark Artefacts in Smart Homes”, Vadim Safronov (University of Cambridge) [abstract]
“Systems Engineering Research Challenges Related to Embedded Real-Time Systems”, Iain Bate (University of York), Benjamin Lesage (University of York), David Griffin (University of York) [abstract]

19:00-21:00 Dinner

21:00-22:00 Lightning talks run by Al Dearle

Short (5 minute) talks on any relevant topic.

Friday, March 29 March

09:00-10:20 Networked Systems / Distributed Algorithms

Chair: Richard Mortier

“Measuring QUIC Reachability”, Mihail Yanev (University of Glasgow), Colin Perkins (University of Glasgow) [abstract]
“Hermes: Fault-tolerant Replication with Strong Consistency and High Performance”, Antonios Katsarakis (University of Edinburgh), Vasilis Gavrielatos (University of Edinburgh), Siavash Katebzadeh (University of Edinburgh), Arpit Joshi (University of Edinburgh), Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh), Vijay Nagarajan (University of Edinburgh), Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft Research) [abstract]
“Coordinating Stable Crash Tolerance for Stream Processing Systems”, Georgios Stamatiadis (Newcastle University), Paul Ezhilchelvan (Newcastle University) [abstract]
“Radical automation of infrastructure and software for data science”, Diego Arenas (University of St Andrews) [abstract]

10:20-10:50 Coffee

10:50-12:10 Programming / Privacy

Chair: Matthew Forshaw

“Databox: Privacy aware personal data processing”, Anthony Brown (University of Nottingham), Derek McAuley (University of Nottingham), Richard Mortier (University of Cambridge) [abstract]
“Observations of a shared memory Java program on NUMA”, Alan Dearle (University of St Andrews), Graham Kirby (University of St Andrews), Richard Connor (Stirling University) [abstract]
“Challenges in System Security Evaluation”, Brett Gutstein (University of Cambridge).
“Fast, Unmodified, Full-system Mobile CPU/GPU Simulation”, Tom Spink (University of Edinburgh) [abstract]

12:10-12:20 Wrap-up

12:20-13:15 Lunch

13:15 Coach departs for the Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle

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