All ESSCA talks are now final! While we assemble the schedule, you may already register as participant. A call for participation is available.

Symposium Technical Program Overview

Notes: All sessions take place in the Auditorium room unless specifically mentioned. This schedule is preliminary. You can already download the schedule overview card or look into the detailed programme.

8.50 Tutorials welcome address 9.00 Tutorials (parallel sessions) Erez Freiberger, Epsagon: Monitoring/debugging AWS Lambda applications (tutorial) abstract and bio

Andreas Nauerz, IBM: Developing event-driven and serverless applications with IBM Cloud Functions & Apache OpenWhisk (tutorial, room D23) CANCELLED abstract and bio

Diego Martín, UPM: Building a serverless application using FaaS workflows (tutorial, room D27) abstract and bio

10.30 Coffee break 10.50 Grand Opening 11.00 First talk session: Performance Erwin van Eyk, Platform9: Going FaaSter: Cost-performance optimizations of serverless on Kubernetes abstract and bio PDF slides

Maciej Pawlik, AGH: Performance considerations on execution of large scale workflow applications on cloud functions abstract and bio PDF slides

12.00 Breakout sessions (moderated, rooms D23 & D27) 12.30 Lunchtime! 13.30 Second talk session: Bird's eye perspective

Mohammed Al-Ameen, USharjah and Josef Spillner: A systematic and open exploration of FaaS research abstract and bio PDF slides

Andreas Nauerz, IBM: Insights into real-world customer scenarios: What customers are really building using serverless platforms CANCELLED abstract and bio

Daniel Barcelona Pons, Álvaro Ruiz Ollobarren, URV, David Arroyo Pinto and Pedro García López: Serverless actors: a cloud challenge abstract and bio PDF slides

14.30 Breakout sessions (moderated, rooms D23 & D27) 15.00 Coffee break 15.20 Third talk session: Technology and mindset

Andreas Christoforou, CUT and Andreas Andreou: An effective resource management approach in a FaaS environment abstract and bio PDF slides

Soubhik Das, Intel: Serverless Computing - The biggest game changer having entrepreneurship within... CANCELLED abstract and bio

Serhii Dorodko, ZHAW and Josef Spillner: Selective Java Code Transformation into AWS Lambda functions abstract and bio PDF slides

16.20 Breakout sessions (moderated, rooms D23 & D27) 16.40 Coffee break 17.00 Lightning talks and demos

Soenke Ruempler: Knowledge management: How Serverless forces organizations to *un*learn CANCELLED abstract and bio

Yu-An Chen, ISI: Feedback-based resource allocation for Serverless Computing abstract and bio

Massimo Villari, UniME: Osmotic Computing abstract and bio

Oleksii Serhiienko, Apalia/ZHAW: Distributed Lambda functions to improve and extend the functionality of cloud management platforms (live demo) abstract and bio PDF slides

17.30 Fourth talk session: Ecosystems

Yessica Bogado, PTI, Walter Ramón Benítez Dávalos, Josef Spillner and Fabio López-Pires: Towards sustainable ecosystems for cloud functions abstract and bio PDF slides

17.50 Closing

Participant Registration

Registration is required to ESSCA 2018. Attendance is free for all properly registered attendees of IEEE/ACM UCC and BCAT 2018 as well as for students (proof required) within the available contingent. For all others, a flat fee of CHF 50 or 100 (at your choice) will cover our costs including lunch and drinks for the participants. This rule also applies to speakers.

Registration fees:

Category	Fee	Comment
Supporter	CHF 100
Regular	CHF 50	(until 10 December)
Student	CHF 0	(until 10 December)
UCC/BDCAT 2018 Attendee	CHF 0	(until 10 December)

On-line registration is now available! Register now! via XING Events.

Programme and Venue

ESSCA is planned to happen at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Toni-Areal tower adjacent to the Technopark. Detailed information about the agenda and how to reach the symposium will be made available in the coming months.

Symposium Proceedings

Proceedings of ESSCA will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication and rapid dissemination after the symposium. The proceedings will contain all camera-ready papers, as well as abstracts on industry talks, tutorials, discussion rounds and other relevant material.

The website sections pertaining to the calls for contribution are archived below.

Scientific Track Call

We welcome original, decent technical and scientific contributions of any form related to cloud functions, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), serverless computing and applications, as well as related technologies (microservices, cloud platforms, composition, ecosystems). All papers submitted to ESSCA will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers in single-blind mode.

Please consult the Call for Papers below.

Industry, Community and Education Track Calls

We welcome talk proposals, technical contributions, reports, informal discussions, tutorials and other inspiring and educational contributions. Please see below for submission information. Do not hesitate to submit emerging and unfinished work. We encourage you to consider updated versions of previous talks for these tracks.

Scientific Track Programme Committee

The committee for peer-reviewing submissions to the scientific track consists of the following members.

• Maria Fazio, University of Messina, Italy
• Martin Garriga, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Tyler Harter, University of Wisconsin, USA
• Višnja Križanović, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
• Theo Lynn, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russia
• Lucas Nussbaum, LORIA, France
• Claus Pahl, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
• Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (chair)
• Dan Williams, IBM Research, USA
• tbc.