Technical program

The program at a glance for the conference can be consulted here. Below is the tentative program of the conference sessions.

Tuesday Nov 11, 10:30-12:30

Session 1.A (Room A, Turing) — Queueing Systems and Scheduling Policies I

• A. Ferragut, D. Goldsztajn, F. Paganini - The last, the least, and the urgent: fluid modeling and performance equivalence for scheduling policies in partial service queues with abandonment
• Y. Luo, M. Zubeldia - Heavy-traffic Optimality of Skip-the-Longest-Queues in Heterogeneous Service Systems
• N. Charlet, B. Van Houdt - γ-CounterBoost: Optimizing Response Time Tails using Job Type Information Only
• Z. Chen, A. Anggraito, D. Olliaro, A. Marin, M. Marsan, B. Berg, I. Grosof - Improving Nonpreemptive Multiserver Job Scheduling with Quickswap

Session 1.B (Room B, Euler) — AI/ML Systems and Performance Evaluation

• T. Sun, T. He, B. Ji, P. Parag - Optimizing Resource Allocation for Geographically-Distributed Inference by Large Language Models
• S. Yang, E. Yu, p. lu, D. Dong - LLMEmu: A Lightweight Performance Emulator for High-Fidelity Distributed LLM Training
• Y. Kou, J. He, X. Yuan, D. Luo, Y. Zhang - ScaleGS: Scalable Distributed Framework for Large-Scale 3D Gaussian Splatting with Edge Communication
• Z. Gu, H. Zhao, Y. Xue, S. Wang - TiFSN: A Wavelet-EC-TCN Model for Quadrotor UAV Trajectory Prediction Based on Time-Frequency-Spatial Feature Fusion

Tuesday Nov 11, 15:00-16:30

Session 2.A (Room A, Turing) — Queueing Systems and Scheduling Policies II (short papers)

• E. Hyytiä, R. Xie, R. Righter - Size-Aware Dispatching to Fluid Queues
• A. Rigonat, C. Fricker, H. Mohamed - Large-scale analysis of load-balancing policies for free-floating car-sharing models
• N. Soprano-Loto, U. Ayesta, I. Verloop - On the geometry of the stability regions of randomly modulated queuing systems
• P. Joshi, M. Boon, E. Winands - On the comparison of intelligent polling and optimal strategies
• I. Dimitriou - Markov-modulated dependencies for a multiplicative Lindley-type recursion

Session 2.B (Room B, Euler) — Learning, Game Theory, and Distributed Systems (short papers) 

• G. Kosmella, R. Stabile, J. Sanders - In situ fine-tuning of in silico trained Optical Neural Networks
• V. Puricelli, U. Ayesta, M. Jonckheere, S. Foss - When Q-Learning fails: unstable behavior for infinite state spaces
• Dikshant, G. Verma - Alert or Noise? Reducing False Positives with Active Behavioral Analysis for Cloud Security
• M. Overmars, R. Boucherie, J. Goseling - Convergence of off-policy TD(0) with linear function approximation for reversible Markov chains
• A. Bandyopadhyay, S. Juneja - Game of arrivals at a two-queue network with heterogeneous customer routes

Wednesday Nov 12, 10:30-12:30

Session 3.A (Room A, Turing) — Optimal Control, Pricing, and Learning

• W. Pan, Z. Liu - Switching Constrained OCO with Predictions and Feedback Delays
• A. Anand, P. Agrawal, T. Bodas - Bayesian Optimization For Dynamic Pricing and Learning
• M. Perbal, B. Prabhu, M. Verloop - Designing asymptotically optimal policies for continuous-time weakly coupled MDPs
• T. Walunj, V. Kavitha, J. Nair, P. Agarwal - Strategic Pricing and Ranking in Recommendation Systems with Seller Competition

Session 3.B (Room B, Euler) — Analysis of Networking Protocols and Systems

• T. Lange, J. Naor, G. Yadgar - Near-Optimal PCM Wear-Leveling Under Adversarial Attacks
• J. Meng, T. Yang, J. Xu - CommonSense: Efficient Set Intersection (SetX) Protocol Based on Compressed Sensing
• P. Agarwal, D. Manjunath - Content and Access Networks Synergies: Tradeoffs in Public and Private Investments by Content Providers
• S. Scherrer, A. Perrig, S. Schmid - A Control-Theoretic Perspective on BBR/CUBIC Congestion-Control Competition

Wednesday Nov 12, 15:00-16:30

Session 4 (Room A, Turing) — Approximation and Numerical Methods (3 papers)

• V. Kalantzis, M. Squillante, S. Ubaru - On Efficient Solutions of General Structured Markov Processes in Quantum Computational Environments
• W. Geelen, M. Vlasiou, Y. Yeger - Approximations for the ASIP tandem queue system
• V. Kalantzis, M. Squillante, C. Wu - On Mixed-Precision Iterative Methods and Analysis for Nearly Completely Decomposable Markov Processes