InfQ 2017 – New Frontiers in Quantitative Methods in Informatics
December, 4 Venice – Italy
In conjunction with Valuetools 2017
The seventh Workshop of the Italian group on Quantitative Methods in Informatics (InfQ 2017) will be held in Venice, co-located with Valuetools 2017, after the past successful editions in Pisa (2010), Lipari (2011), Lucca (2012), Sorrento (2013), Torino (2014) and Taormina (2016).
InfQ is the leading Italian forum on quantitative modelling, evaluation, and verification, of computer, networks, telecommunication systems, and more general classes of man-made, social, or natural systems.
InfQ welcomes both contributions on methodology and application, and gives value to both the theoretical and practical perspectives. Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
- quantitative modelling formalisms, solution techniques, and tools for probabilistic or stochastic systems possibly combining non-determinism, queueing networks, analytical numerical or statistical solution, fluid and hybrid behavior, emergent behavior and collective systems, game theory, hierarchical or multi-formalism composition and model driven engineering, soft computing;
- applications of quantitative methods in a variety of contexts, notably including Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, smart cities, smart energy, e-healthcare and Ambient Assisted Living, social and urban computing, Bioinformatics, Software Defined Networks, quantum computing, cloud/edge/fog computing, capacity planning, load characterization, self adaptive systems.
Continuing its tradition, the InfQ Workshop welcomes not only mature results but also contributions reporting work in progress and research developed by PhD students, with the aim of making them available to a broad audience and promote the exchange and collaboration among experienced and young researchers from the different Italian Universities and Research Organizations.
Venue (Please notice that the location of the workshop is different from that of Valuetools)
The workshop will be held in Aula Baratto, at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (map).
Program
9:00-9:10 Welcome message from the Workshop chairs
9:10-10:10 Session: Networking and mobile applications (Session chair: Salvatore Di Stefano, Università di Messina)
9:10-9:30 Simonetta Balsamo, Dieter Fiems, Mohsin Jafri and Andrea Marin: Analysis of performance in Depth Based Routing for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
9:30-9:50 Giovanni Nardini, Giovanni Stea and Antonio Virdis: Geofenced broadcasts via centralized scheduling of device-to-device communications in LTE-Advanced
9:50-10:00 Lorenzo Donatiello and Gustavo Marfia: Modeling the Energy Consumption of Groups of Mobile Apps on Smartphones and IoT devices
10:00-10:30 Session: Applications (Session chair: Gustavo Marfia, Università di Bologna)
10:00-10:20 Mohammed A Alotaibi and Nigel Thomas: Performance Evaluation of a Secure and Scalable E-Voting Scheme Using PEPA
10:20-10:30 Enrico Barbierato, Marco Gribaudo, Mauro Iacono and Alexander Levis: Modeling Crowd Behavior in a Theater
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:10 Session: Big data processing and IoT (Session chair: Giuseppe Serazzi, Politecnico di Milano)
11:00-11:20 Rustem Dautov and Salvatore Distefano: Vs-driven Big Data Process Development
11:20-11:40 Riccardo Pinciroli, Marco Gribaudo, Manuel Roveri and Giuseppe Serazzi: Capacity planning of fog computing infrastructures for smart monitoring.
11:40-12:00 Safia Kalwar, Eugenio Gianniti, Joas Yannick Kinouani, Youssef Ridene and Danilo Ardagna: Performance Degradation and Cost Impact Evaluation of Privacy Preserving Mechanisms in Big Data Systems
12:00-12:20 Valeria Cardellini, Francesco Lo Presti, Matteo Nardelli and Gabriele Russo Russo: Auto-scaling in Data Stream Processing Applications: A Model Based Reinforcement Learning Approach
12:20-12:40 Macarena Espinilla Estévez, Javier Medina Quero, Tommaso Papini and Enrico Vicario: A survey on techniques for Activity Recognition and AR datasets creation for Ambient Assisted Living
12:40-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:40 Session: Theory, methods and tools for quantitative analysis (Session chair: Giuliana Franceschinis, Università del Piemonte Orientale)
14:00-14:20 Linda Anticoli, Carla Piazza, Leonardo Taglialegne and Paolo Zuliani: Entangλe: A Translation Framework from Quipper Programs to Quantum Markov Chains
14:20-14:40 Elvio Gilberto Amparore and Susanna Donatelli: Analysis of non-Markovian systems in GreatSPN
14:40-15:00 Stefano Caselli, Gianni Conte and Mauro Diligenti: Evaluation of Iterative Methods on Large Markov Chains Generated by GSPN Models
15:00-15:20 Davide Cerotti and Daniele Codetta-Raiteri: Meanfield analysis for Continuous Time Bayesian Networks
15:20-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Meeting InfQ (odg: statuto, valutazioni bibliometriche, laboratorio CINI)
19:30 Social dinner
Registration
All INFQ participants must register using the registration form. The registration is free and it includes the participation right to the workshop and two coffee breaks. The lunch and the dinner will be paid on site by the participants.
For the lunch, there will be a special menu with fixed price (20-25euros) at the local restaurant. Attendees can also register to join the social dinner for a price around 40-50 euros.
Submission process and types of contributions
Contributions must be submitted in electronic format (PDF) through Easychair (find here necessary information). Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted elsewhere, written in English, and formatted according to the Springer LaTex style.
Two different types of contributions are welcome:
- full conference papers, not exceeding 14 pages, reporting mature results of scientific or industrial research;
- short papers, not exceeding 6 pages, reporting experience or preliminary results from ongoing research or projects.
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three referees, from a Program Committee combining together leading Italian and International scholars, on the basis of originality, scientific and practical contribution to the state-of-the-art, technical soundness, and quality of presentation.
All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and published by Springer Verlag in conference proceedings in the CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) series, included in Springer e-book packages and covered by all major indexing services, including Scopus.
https://www.springer.com/series/7899
Proceedings will be published after the Workshop, and electronic versions of accepted papers will be distributed in electronic format together with Valuetools 2017 proceedings.
The workshop program will also include a PhD Defense Corner were doctoral students who have already achieved a good level of maturity in their research program can present and discuss an early version of their dissertation. Proposals of presentation, not exceeding 4 pages and including title, abstract, contact information, and affiliation, must be submitted directly to the PC Chairs.
Contributions should be submitted in electronic format (PDF) through Easychair.
Easychair submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=infq17
Important dates
Paper submission: 14 October 2017 [Extended]
Notification of acceptance: 18 November 2017
Camera ready submission: 24 November 2017
Workshop: 4 December 2017
Organization
Steering Committee
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino
Simonetta Balsamo, University of Venice
Bruno Ciciani, Università di Roma La Sapienza
Michele Colajanni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Marco Conti, Italian National Research Council
Susanna Donatelli, University of Turin
Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bologna
Giuliana Franceschinis, University of Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”
Vincenzo Grassi, Universita’ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Paola Inverardi, Universita’ dell’Aquila
Paolo Prinetto, Politecnico di Torino
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina
Giuseppe Serazzi, Politecnico di MilanoSalvatore Tucci, Universita’ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Giorgio Ventre, Università di Napoli Federico II
Enrico Vicario, University of Florence
General Chairs
Simonetta Balsamo, University of Venice
Enrico Vicario, University of Florence
Publicity Chairs
Giovanni Merlino, University of Messina
Matteo Sottana, Università “Ca Foscari” Venezia
Local Chairs
Andrea Marin, Università “Ca Foscari” Venezia
Sabina Rossi, Università “Ca Foscari” Venezia
Program Committee
Michele Amoretti, University of Parma
Mauro Andreolini, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano
Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien
Marco Beccuti, University of Turin
Enrico Bini, University of Turin
Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence
Alessio Botta, Universita’ di Napoli “Federico II”
Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste
Dario Bruneo, University of Messina
Massimo Canonico, University of Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”
Valeria Cardellini , Universita’ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Laura Carnevali, University of Florence
Emiliano Casalicchio, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Daniele Codetta Raiteri, University of Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”
Salvatore Di Stefano, University of Messina
Jean-Michel Fourneau, University de Versailles
Rossano Gaeta, University of Turin
Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano
Marco Guazzone, University of Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”
Jane Hillston, Univeristy of Edinburgh
Andras Horvath, Univeristy of Torino
Mauro Iacono, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
Stefano Iannucci, Mississippi State University
Alain Jean-Marie, INRIA
William Knottenbelt, Imperial College of London
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London
Leana Golubchik, USC Viterbi
Riccardo Lancellotti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Francesco Longo, University of Messina
Francesco Lo Presti, Universita’ di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Michele Loreti, University of Florence
Fumio Machida, NEC Corp.
Andrea Marin, University of Venice
David Parker, University of Birmingham
Marco Paoleri, Univeristy of Southern California
Simon Pietro Romano, Universita’ di Napoli Federico II
Marco Scarpa, University of Messina
Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa
Nigel Thomas, University of Newcastle
Kishor Trivedi, Duke University
Massimo Villari, University of Messina
Jianwen Xiang, NEC Corp. Tokyo
Francesco Zanichelli, University of Parma
Armin Zimmermann, Technische Universitat Ilmenau