Workshop

Date: 3 December 2025

• Location: ΗΛ7, ECE department
• Workshop theme: Middleware for Parallel and Distributed Systems

Group ID/members

Workshop Schedule

List of articles

The articles selected introduce middleware-based research approaches.

1. Data Quality as a Service Framework for AI-Enabled Industrial Internet of Things, 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things, 2024, Download PDF
2. Towards Adaptive Asynchronous Federated Learning for Human Activity Recognition, 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things, 2024, Download PDF
3. GoldFish: Serverless Actors with Short-Term Memory State for the Edge-Cloud Continuum, 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things, 2024, Download PDF
4. WoT2Pod: AnArchitecture enabling an Edge-to-Cloud Continuum, 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things, 2023, Download PDF
5. AttentionFunc: Balancing FaaS Compute across Edge-Cloud Continuum with Reinforcement Learning, 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things, 2023, Download PDF
6. Laqista: Serverless Cloud-Fog-Dew Computing Platform for Deep Learning Applications, International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), 2025, Download PDF
7. Energy-Efficient Function Invocation Scheduling for Edge FaaS Platforms, International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), 2025, Download PDF
8. Cosmos: A Cost Model for Serverless Workflows in the 3D Compute Continuum, International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), 2025, Download PDF
9. iKafka: Intelligent Storage Management for Adaptive Event Streaming in Kafka, IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE), 2025, Download PDF
10. Energy Efficient Client Selection in Federated Learning for Orbital Edge Computing, IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE), 2025, Download PDF

Selection of articles

• Each group must select 5 articles and rank them in order of preference
• Example:
  1. DQaaS
  2. GoldFish
  3. WoT2Pod
  4. Cosmos
  5. iKafka
• Email me ([email protected]) your selection of articles by October 24 or as soon as possible.

Presentation guidelines

• Slide presentation
• Duration of each presentation: 45 minutes
  • 35 minutes presentation
  • 10 minutes questions
• Slides have to be delivered on Moodle in PDF the day before the presentation
• Among other elements, it is compulsory to present the following:
  • Motivation
  • Article contributions
  • Background information (e.g., Federated Learning, SDN, etc)
  • System overview and/or architecture
  • Evaluation
  • Related work
  • Future work
  • Conclusion

Presentation submission

Submit your slides on eclass by December 2.

Evaluation of the presentation

• You have to demonstrate your understanding of the article, the ability to analyze, to prepare and present slides and answer to questions
• Presentation rating:
  • Quality of the slides content (5)
    • Content, spelling, structure
  • Quality of the oral presentation (6)
  • Level of understanding of the article and its background (9)
  • Answers to Questions (6)
  • Study of related (cited) articles (4)