Day 1: October 20, 2026
9:00-9:10 MASCOTS Workshop opening

9:10-10:25 Workshop papers on Performance Modelling, Chair Emiliano Casalicchio

• Oteo Mamo, Olga Kogiou, Hyunjin Yi and Weikuan Yu
  “Comparative Characterization of KV Cache Management Strategies for LLM Inference”
• Weici Pan, Zhenhua Liu, Rodrigo Fonseca and Chengyi Nie
  “Aladdin: Joint Placement and Scaling for SLO-Aware LLM Serving”
• Cristofe Coelho Lopes da Rocha, Paulo Filipe Cândido Barbosa and Renato Mariz de Moraes
  “Decision-Guided Clustering in the Probability Space for Energy Efficiency in LoRaWAN Networks”
• Emiliano Casalicchio, Danilo Magliarisi and Vincenzo Salvatore
  “Heuristic Decentralized Orchestration of Energy- and Time-constrained Heterogeneous Satellite Computing Services”
• Fatai Oluwashola Tajudeen, Tadeusz Czachorski, Godlove S. Kuaban and Piotr Czekalski
  “A Data-driven Queueing-Theoretic Performance Modelling Framework for Plugged-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) Fast-Charging Stations”

10:25-10:55 Coffee Break

10:55-11:15 Main Conference opening

11:15-12:15 Keynote I – Introduction, Erol Gelenbe

• Lajos Hanzo – University of Southampton, UK
  “On the Symbiosis of Classical and Quantum Communications”

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:20 Session 1 – Quantum Systems, Chair Lajos Hanzo

• Erol Gelenbe
  “Complex Quantum G-Networks with Product Form”
• Myeongjin Kwak and Yongtae Kim
  “quPIM: Enabling and Characterizing Quantum Circuit Simulation on Commercial Processing-in-Memory Systems”

14:20-15:35 Session 2 – Performance Modeling, Chair Maria Carla Calzarossa

• Leonardo Scommegna, Tommaso Botarelli and Enrico Vicario
  “Time-to-Consistency in Saga Transactions: An Analytical Model and Empirical Validation”
• Amr Zaki, Farhoud Jafari Kaleibar, Komal Sarda, Honggeun Ji and Marin Litoiu
  “DeepReasonRCA: Real-Time Root Cause Analysis via Projection-Based Reconstruction Reasoning”
• Qingyang Zhang, Fumio Machida and Laura Carnevali
  “Input Resolution Matters: Real-Time Object Detection Latency”

15:35-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:40 Session 3 – Performance of AI systems, Chair Luisa Massari

• Demetris Paschalides, Moysis Symeonides, George Pallis and Marios Dikaiakos
  “MCP-GRANITE Benchmark: GRANularity Interface TEsting for MCP-Based LLM Agents”
• Hamta Sedghani, Abednego Wamuhindo Kambale, Federica Filippini, Francesca Palermo, Diana Trojaniello and Danilo Ardagna
  “Multi-Agent Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Runtime Optimization of AI Pipelines in Smart Eyewear”
• Wonmi Choi, Minuk Park, Zhixiong Niu, Yongqiang Xiong, Chuck Yoo and Gyeongsik Yang
  “Not All AI Agents Are Equal: Characterizing Resource and Performance Dynamics”
• Thomas Prantl, Til Barthel, Vanessa Borst and Samuel Kounev
  “Measuring Compression Honestly: A Dense-FP16 Baseline for Quantization and Sparsity on CNNs and Vision Transformers”

17:40 Welcome Cocktail at Villa Cambiaso

Day 2: October 21, 2026

9:00-10:15 Session 4 – Storage Systems Performance, Chair Krzysztof Grochla

• Wahid Uz Zaman, Saleh Alsaleh, Cyan Subhra Mishra and Mahmut Taylan Kandemir
  “HaSP: Harnessing Storage-side Parallelism for matrix multiplication”
• Dohwan Lee, Dongkyun Chung, Jonggyu Park and Jonghyeok Park
  “Understanding Large Payload Overhead in SQLite: Analysis and Design Implications”
• Zhiying Liang, Wahid Uz Zaman, Aleksey Charapko and Mahmut Taylan Kandemir
  “CSDPaxos: Computational Storage Device-Accelerated Paxos Systems with SmartSSD”

Coffee Break 10:15-10:45

10:45-12:00 Session 5 – Performance at the Edge, Chair Tadeusz Czachorski

• Yeonho Yoo, Hyunho Lee, Hyunmok Choi, Chuck Yoo and Gyeongsik Yang
  “Accurate Simulation of Distributed Training Jobs with Network Contention Modeling”
• Hamta Sedghani, Zahra Seyedi, Mauro Passacantando and Danilo Ardagna
  “Decentralized Edge Caching under Budget and Storage Constraints: A Game-Theoretic Approach”
• Tao Yang and Haifeng Sun
  “Three-Dimensional Trajectory and Task-Offloading Optimization in Blockchain-Assisted Multi-UAV Edge Computing”

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Keynote II, Introduction Franco Davoli

• Michela Spagnuolo – IMATI-CNR, Italy
  “Construction of 3D Urban Models from Geospatial Data with Semantic Annotation”

14:30-15:45 Session 6 – Performance Evaluation for Large Language Models I, Chair Ethem Alpaydin

• Seong Jang, Kihyun Kim, Jinwoo Kim, Min Heo, Dong Li and Youngjae Kim
  “PAVE: Partial KV Cache Eviction for Fine-Grained KV Reclamation in LLM Serving”
• Nicoletta Tsiopani, Moysis Symeonides, George Pallis and Marios Dikaiakos
  “InFactPlanner: Planning Sustainable Geo-Distributed LLM Data Centers”
• Noureddine Bouhali, John Osorio and Etienne Renault
  “Exploring Memory Partitioning of LLMs for Faster Inference on CPUs”

Coffee Break: 15:45-16:15

16:15-17:30 Session 7 – Performance Evaluation for Large Language Models II, Chair Enrico Vicario

• Wonmi Choi, Sunjae Park, Dohyeok Kwon, Zhixiong Niu, Yeonho Yoo, Chuck Yoo and Gyeongsik Yang
  “Xronos: Heterogeneity-Aware Tensor Parallelism for Collaborative LLM Fine-Tuning on Edge CPUs”
• Yun Hyeong Seo, Euigi Kim, Jin Yong Ha and Hyeonsang Eom
  “Enabling Zero-Knowledge Proving of Large Language Models on a Consumer GPU”
• Niklas Enskat and Philipp Wiesner
  “Evaluating MFU as a Portable Proxy for GPU Power in Energy-Aware LLM Simulation”

19:00 Social dinner – Ristorante Tre Merli

Day 3: October 22, 2026

9:15- 11:00 Session 8 – Network Performance, Chair Erol Gelenbe

• Sri Pramodh Rachuri, Mihir Kestur, Stefan Schmid and Anshul Gandhi
  “OMNI: OCS Middleware for Network Improvement”
• Aiden Valentine, Mihai Mazilu, James Knowles, Ian Wakeman and George Parisis
  “Emulation vs Simulation: A case study from developing Congestional Control Algorithms in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks”
• Wenjie Wan, Mengjie Lv and Weibei Fan
  “Adaptive Direction-Aware Fault-Tolerant Routing in Data Center Networks”
• Leon Janzen, Maria Koch and Matthias Hollick
  “Island-Ready Communication Networks: Connectivity Monitoring and State Synchronization for 5G Crisis Connectivity at the Edge”

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 Keynote III

• Ethem Alpaydin – Independent Researcher, Istanbul
  “Structuring Randomness in Neural Network Training”

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:45 Workshop Papers on Performance Measurement and Analysis, Chair Huibo Bi

• Juyeong Park and Sunggon Kim
  “Requested Wall Time Across Public HPC Workload Traces: Drift and Limits of Reuse”
• Agnieszka Zbrzezny
  “Split-Step Channel Models for Timed Security Protocols: Verification Precision and Cost at Scale”
• Adityo Anggraito, Marco Ciotola and Diletta Olliaro
  “A Flexible and High-Performance Simulator for Multiserver Job Queuing Model”
• Ankur Sharma, Shayak Ghosal and Anshul Gandhi
  “Investigating the impact of inter-arrival time and service time on the performance of H2/H2/k”
• Tomer Lange, Roei Kisous, Joseph Naor and Gala Yadgar
  “MetaGC: Improving SSD Garbage Collection with Randomization”

14:45-15:15 Break

15:15-16:00 Workshop Papers on Modelling the Effect of Information, Chair Marios Dikaiakos

• Frederic Giroire, Sayf Eddine Halmi, Nicolas Nisse and Małgorzata Sulkowska
  “On Truncated Attachment Mechanism in Social Networks”
• Huibo Bi, Yonglin Zhang, Qian Hong and Erol Gelenbe
  “G-Network Based Optimisation of Coupled Pedestrian and Information Flows in High-Occupancy Public Spaces”
• Jeremiah O. Abimbola, Godlove S. Kuaban, Onyeka J. Nwobodo and Piotr Czekalski
  “Evaluating the Transfer of RAG Poisoning Defenses to Multi-Hop Question Answering”

16:00 Closing