2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
(SERVICES 2026)

13-18 July 2026, Sydney, Australia

Part of the 2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
July 13-18
Sydney, Australia

IEEE INTERATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING
CLOUD 2026 - Conference Program

09:00 – 10:10

CLD-CON-S1

Orchestration & Cloud Continuum

Room: 116

Session Chair: Zhiying Tu (Harbin Institute of Technology) 

Opening Remarks

Hubertus Franke, IBM Research, IEEE Cloud General Chair

CLD_REG_131: A Hybrid Approach for Intent-Driven Recommendation of CEI Orchestration Frameworks

Chaimaa Zidane, Hayet Brabra, Imen Jerbi, Elimane Yassine Seidou, Ali Nour Eldin, Mohamed Sellami and Walid Gaaloul

CLD_REG_128: Intent-Aware Multi-Domain Cloud Continuum Coordination through Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning

Anna Lackinger, Andrea Morichetta and Schahram Dustdar

CLD_SHT_20: Aura: A Type-Safe, Multi-Paradigm Cloud Simulation Framework in Scala 3

Andrea Cappelletti

CLD_WIP_74: A Neurosymbolic Prolog Skill for LLM-Driven Service Placement

Jacopo Massa, Giuseppe Bisicchia, Patrizio Dazzi and Antonio Brogi

 

10:40 – 11:50 

CLD-CON-S2

Container Placement & Microservice Scheduling

Room: 116

Session Chair: Hubertus Franke ( IBM Research )

CON_REG_8: REACH: Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Microservice Rescheduling in the Cloud–Edge Continuum

Xu Bai, Adel N. Toosi, Rajkumar Buyya and Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam

CLD_REG_66: BridgeScheduler: Non-Intrusive Sensing and Collaborative Scheduling for Hybrid Edge-Cloud Environments

Song He, Yuehao Xu, Jiasheng Wang, Jian Yu and Zhijun Ding

CLD_SHT_7: Enhancing Task-based Workflows Deployment Across the Compute Continuum with Kubernetes Multiclusters

Alba Cañete-Garrucho, Bernat Xandri-Zaragoza, Kemalcan Bora, Elli Karstakli and Eduardo Quiñones

CLD_SHT_148: LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration for Constrained Multi-Objective Container Placement

Suvarthi Sarkar, Abhishek Hazra, Akshat Mittal and Aryabartta Sahu

 

11:50 – 13:00 

CLD-CON-S3

Serverless Workflow Scheduling

Room: 116

Session Chair: Nan Yang (Westren Sydeny University)

CLD_REG_107: An SLO-Driven Feedback Controller for Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling

Angelo Marchese and Orazio Tomarchio

CLD_REG_99: Data-Parallel and Heterogeneity-Aware Scheduling for Geo-Distributed Serverless Scientific Workflows

Shubhradeep Roy, Suvarthi Sarkar, Mukka Koushik, Tanish and Aryabartta Sahu

CLD_REG_76: Two-level Network Bandwidth Allocation for Multi-tenant AI Clouds in Kubernetes

Sunyanan Choochotkaew, Lionel Jouin and Tatsuhiro Chiba

 

14:00 – 15:10 

CLD-INV-S1

Room: 116

Session Chair: Hubertus Franke ( IBM Research )

Keynote: Rethinking the Cloud for Agentic AI

Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, United States

 

15:40 – 16:50 

CLD-CON-S4

Cloud Economics: Cost & Spot Markets

Room: 116

Session Chair: Aryabartta Sahu, IIT Guwahati, India

CLD_REG_162: SpotWhisk: Transferring the Spot Instances Cost-Efficiency to Serverless Data Analytics Pipelines

Enrique Molina-Giménez, Pedro García-López and Javier Fabra

CLD_REG_163: Ding-Dong Ditch: Peeking Into Spot Instance Availability

Kyumin Kim, Moohyun Song, Taeyoon Kim and Kyungyong Lee

CLD_REG_30: Understanding Cross-Cloud Interconnects: Hands-On Measurements and Cost Optimization

Eitan Eliav, Isaac Keslassy, David Breitgand, Dean Lorenz and Avi Weit

13:00 – 14:10

CLD-INV-S2

Room: 116

Session Chair: Hubertus Franke ( IBM Research )

Keynote: The Rise of Edge-Native Clinical AI: Generative Models, Distributed Systems, and the Future of Medicine

Albert Y. Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia

 

14:10 – 15:20

CLD-CON-S5

Distributed Stream Processing & Data Management

Room: 116

Session Chair: Zhiying Tu (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CLD_REG_37: Federated Querying of Heterogeneous Spatiotemporal Data over Polyglot Stores

Everett Lewark, Nathan Orwick, Paige Hansen, Ayush Adhikari, Sangmi Lee Pallickara and Shrideep Pallickara

CLD_REG_61: Effectiveness of Coded Redundancy for Reducing Task Average Latency in Distributed Stream Processing Systems

Yuxuan Lin, Bin Tang, Shengjing Wang, Lei Chen, Xutong Jiang and Rajkumar Buyya

CLD_REG_135: Topology-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Resource Allocation in Cloud-Native Stream Processing

Sunday Awine and Jinwei Liu

 

15:50 – 17:00

CLD-CON-S6

Cloud Data Management & Performance Prediction

Room: 107

Session Chair: Reza Farahani ( TU Vienna)

CLD_REG_72: Predicting Lakehouse Performance in Clouds: An Empirical Exploration of Query Runtime Variance

James Nurdin, Wei Liu, Richard McCreadie and Lauritz Thamsen

CLD_REG_14: Semantic-Aware Graph Schema Discovery for Heterogeneous Cloud Metadata

Yann Ramusat, Jeremy Mechouche, Nada El Mansouri and Zakaria Maamar

CLD_SHT_36 (Short): Small-Sample Tail Latency Prediction for Cloud Time-Series Database Services via Censoring-Aware Extreme Value Theory

Fuming Fu

CLD_SHT_46: Regime-Aware Resource Demand Forecasting for Cloud Scheduling: When History Beats ML and When ML Matters

Kalab Kiros and Jinwei Liu

 

15:50 – 17:00

CLD-CON-S7

Energy & Resource Efficiency

Room: 116

Session Chair: Mahdi Taheri (Brandenburg University)

CON_REG_9: Augur: Pre-Execution Energy Prediction for Workflow Tasks in Heterogeneous Clusters

Kathleen West, Vasilis Bountris, Philipp Thamm, Ulf Leser, Yehia Elkhatib and Lauritz Thamsen

CLD_REG_50: Nf-PEAK: Process-Based Energy Attribution for Nextflow Workflows on Kubernetes Clusters

Philipp Thamm, Somayeh Mohammadi, Kathleen West, Knut Reinert, Lauritz Thamsen and Ulf Leser

CLD_REG_63: MLOPSHER: A Lightweight MLOps Usher with a Minimal Operational Contract for DVC–MLflow–FastAPI on Kubernetes

Junsu Park and Hyoungwoo Park

13:00 – 14:10

CLD-INV-S3

Room: 116

Session Chair: Hubertus Franke ( IBM Research )

Keynote: The Future of AI Platforms: Resilient Self-Sustaining Clouds delivering Application Specific SLOs

Ravishankar K. Iyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

 

14:10 – 15:20

CLD-CON-S8

Cloud Systems & Performance

Room: 116

Session Chair: Adel N. Toosi, The University of Melbourne, Australia

CLD_REG_84: Estimating Execution Progress of Black-Box Tasks with Resource-Consumption Models

Sami Kharma, Tobias Wies, Florian Schintke and Björn Scheuermann

CLD_REG_160: DITTO: Online Memory Rightsizing and Value-Aware Eviction for Reducing Cold Starts in Serverless Platforms

Dongjae Lee, Kyuli Park, Yeonwoo Jeong, Hongsu Byun and Sungyong Park

CLD_REG_158: CODA: Breaking CPU Bottlenecks for Scalable Ceph with DPU-Based OSD Decoupling

Kyuli Park, Sungmin Yoon, Awais Khan, Sungyong Park and Youngjae Kim

 

15:50 – 17:00

CLD-CON-S9

Efficient LLM Inference

Room: 116

Session Chair: Adel N. Toosi, The University of Melbourne, Australia

CLD_REG_113: BYSTANDER: State-Aware Execution-Time Prediction for Heterogeneous LLM Inference Scheduling

Minjae Jung, Hyungjun Kim, Hokun Park, Hwamin Lee and Heonchang Yu

CLD_REG_12: Can Byte-Level and Bit-Level Optimizations Enhance The Parameter Lossless Compression of Large Language Models?

Miaowei Liu, Hongcai He, Chengda Wu, Hui Xu, Zetao Zheng and Jie Shao

CLD_SHT_54: Reducing Memory Requirements of LLM Inference Through Online rANS Decompression

Väinö-Waltteri Granat, Jakub Žádník, Markku Mäkitalo, Joonas Multanen and Pekka Jääskeläinen

CLD_SHT_150: Energy Efficiency and Fairness of Local Large Language Models in Data Stream Processing

Hessel Tjeerdsma, Roya Nasiri, Joshua Owotogbe, Indika Kumara, Damian Andrew Tamburri and Willem-Jan van den Heuvel

13:00 – 14:10

CLD-CON-S10

Storage & Memory Systems

Room: 107

Session Chair: Joon Yong Hwang (Cornelis Networks)

CLD_REG_95: NetCAS: Dynamic Cache and Backend Device Management in Networked Environments

Joon Yong Hwang, Chanseo Park and Younghoon Kim

CLD_REG_40: FATE: Fairness-Aware Memory Allocation for Multi-Tenant Tiered Memory Environments

Minwoo Jo, Binwon Song, Hayong Jeong and Heeseung Jo

CLD_SHT_35: Tail Erase Count: A Wear Metric for Lifetime-Aware Management in Heterogeneous SSD Clusters

Ilhoon Shin

CLD_SHT_149: Input-Agnostic Runtime Metric Based Memory Optimization for Serverless Functions

Seunghun Kim and Youngjoo Shin

 

13:00 – 14:10

CLD-CON-S11

Networking & Distributed Infrastructure

Room: 116

Session Chair: Shaleeza Sohail (University of Newcastle)

CLD_REG_56: PRISM: Workload-Aware Autonomous Network Fault Recovery for Hyperscale AI Training Fabrics

Rohan Bhosle

CLD_REG_41: ContaTOE: FPGA SmartNIC-Based TCP Offloading for Scalable Multi-Container Networking

Tatsuya Kawano, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gongyu Deng, Takaaki Fukai and Takahiro Hirofuchi

CLD_SHT_166: Secure and Efficient Monitoring of Confidential VMs Using Programmable Read-ahead with eBPF

Kanta Uesugi and Kenichi Kourai

CLD_SHT_153: C-PCP: Correlation-Aware Proportional Critical Path Scheduling for Input-Sensitive Serverless Workflows

G Vasantha Reddy, Chandrashekhar Dharmarajan, Suvarthi Sarkar and Aryabartta Sahu

10:40 – 11:50 

CLD-CON-S12

Serving, Offloading & Routing for Cloud-Edge AI Systems

Room: 107

Session Chair: Reza Farahani ( TU Vienna)

CLD_REG_82: Design Methodology and Performance Trade-offs Management for Compound AI Systems

Milos Gravara, Andrija Stanisic and Stefan Nastic

CLD_SHT_144: Resource-Aware Multi-Model Serving for GPU Cloud Infrastructure

Bhanu Prakash Vangala and Tanu Malik

CLD_SHT_4: Task-Aware Offloading for Heterogeneous DC-HAP Systems

Jichen Lu, Balsam Alkouz, Osama Amin and Basem Shihada

CLD_SHT_47: A Cooperative MADRL Approach for Joint Computing Offloading and Route Optimization in Cloud-Edge Networks

Yi Yue, Shuai Zhang, Zhengxin Han, Ying Liu, Chang Cao and Xiongyan Tang

CLD_SHT_57: Fairness-Aware Dynamic Pricing and Service Routing for Cloud-Edge Systems via Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Learning

Yun Xia, Gang Zhou, Zhipeng Gao, Lichuan Pan, Ming Zhang, Jian Yang and Yang Yang

 

10:40 – 11:50

CLD-CON-S13

AI & LLM Inference Serving

Room: 116

Session Chair: Sunyanan Choochotkaew (IBM Research)

CLD_REG_38: InferScale: Kubernetes-Native Predictive Autoscaling for SLO-Aware AI Inference

Wen Huang

CLD_REG_73: Dynamic Pipeline Inference Optimization for LLMs: Load-Aware Partitioning, Updating, and Migration

Yingxin Wang, Binbin Feng and Zhijun Ding

CLD_REG_45: WVA: A Global Optimization Control Plane for llmd

Abhishek Malvankar, Lionel Villard, Mohammed Abdi, Tommaso Sgreccia, Evgeny Shindin, Braulio Dumba, Vishakha Ramani, Asser Tantawi and Tamar Eilam

 

13:00 – 14:10

CLD-CON-S14

AIOps & Emerging Cloud

Room: 107

Session Chair: Ba Hung Nguyen (Hitachi RDG)

CLD_REG_116: AnchorDL: Dual-Locality-based Scheduling for Serverless Inference Workflows

Min Chang Kim, Hyungjun Kim, Hokun Park, Minjae Kang, Hwamin Lee and Heonchang Yu

CLD_SHT_112: Ada-MGAD: Adaptive Multi-Modal Graph Anomaly Detection

Linlin Zhang, Xiaoran Zhao and Chuan Luo

CLD_SHT_108: QCOEM: Quantum Cloud Orchestration with Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization

Tam N. Pham, Hoa T. Nguyen and Quan Le-Trung

CLD_WIP_145: Operational Intelligence for Incident Management through OSS MCP-Based Agentic Orchestration

Ba Hung Nguyen and Hitoshi Yabusaki

CLD_WIP_97: SplitPGV: Separating Neighbors from Element for Efficient HNSW Indexing

Beomjoon Shin and Jonghyeok Park

 

13:00 – 14:10

CLD-CON-S15

Cloud Security & Zero Trust

Room: 116

Session Chair: Thai T. Vu (University of Wollongong)

CLD_REG_8: Detecting False Assurance in Cloud Control Inheritance Using a Federated Compliance Integrity Graph

Arun Chowdary Sanna

CLD_REG_53: Kernel-Anchored Zero-Trust: A Sidecar-less Service Mesh for Low-Latency Financial Edge Applications

Shrikant Sonparote and Sudhanshu Maurya

CLD_REG_39: Penny: Reducing Storage Costs for Ethereum Synchronization with Hybrid Storage Devices

Yunhyeong Seo, Inhwi Hwang, Hyeonsang Eom and Jin Yong Ha

 

14:10 – 15:20 

CLD-CON-S16

Adaptive & Energy-Efficient Cloud Systems

Room: 107

Session Chair: Sunyanan Choochotkaew (IBM Research)

*CLD_REG_86: GreenGNN: Energy-Aware Windowed Communication Optimization for Distributed GNN Training

Arefin Niam, Tevfik Kosar and M. S. Q. Zulkar Nine

CLD_REG_42: HYADES: Adaptive Consumer Tuning in Redis Streams via Hybrid Expert Selection

Kemalcan Bora, Elli Kartsakli and Eduardo Quiñones

CLD_SHT_59: Flare: Leveraging Serverless Elasticity to Absorb Microservice Load Spikes

Dilina Dehigama, Shyam Jesalpura, David Schall, Marios Kogias, Antonis Katsarakis, Rakesh Kumar and Boris Grot

 

14:10 – 15:20

CLD-CON-S17

Data Protection & Storage Security

Room: 116

Session Chair: Zhiying Tu (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CLD_REG_105: Probabilistic Marking based Secure Cross-user Deduplication in Cloud Storage

Lele Rao, Jiaxin Li and Xin Tang

CLD_INV_1: A Cloud and IoT-Based Secure Data Sharing Model for Smart Homes and Cyber-Physical Systems

Bhavani Thuraisingham, Maribel Fernandez, Jenjira Jaimunk and Weerasak Chiangsoi

CLD_SHT_91: Grouping based Double Obfuscation Strategy for Secure Cross-user Deduplication in Cloud Storage

Ruoxi Zhao, Ranshang Sun, Chuqiao Song and Xin Tang

CLD_SHT_109: Closing the Agent Blind Spot: Zero Trust Behavioral Verification for Human and Non-Human Identities in Cloud Storage

Venkata Saikumar Thalupuru and Vishal Gupta