Multiscale Networked Systems

The Multiscale Networked System (MNS) group researches the emerging architectures that can support the operations of multiscale systems across the Future Internet.

News

Prof. Paola Grosso is the new director of the Informatics Institute. She passes the baton of the MNS group leader to dr. Zhao.

From March 01st prof. Grosso (Paola) is the new director of the Informatics Institute. She passes the baton of the MNS group leader to dr. Zhao.

Na Li gave a talk: Ocean Data Quality Assessment through Outlier Detection-enhanced Active Learning

Title: Ocean Data Quality Assessment through Outlier Detection-enhanced Active Learning BLUECLOUD 2026 partner CNR, 29th Jan 2024 This work has been partially funded by the European Union’s Horizon research and innovation program by the CLARIFY (860627), BLUECLOUD 2026 (101094227), ENVRI-FAIR (824068) and ARTICONF (825134), by the LifeWatch ERIC, and by the NWO LTER-LIFE project.

Na Li had an accepted paper in WWW2023 conference

Abstract: A computational notebook search system called CNSVRE has been proposed to address shortcomings in existing solutions for Virtual Research Environments (VREs). Existing approaches lack focus on the specific information needs of scientific researchers and struggle with relevance evaluation due to the mixed nature of text and code in computational notebooks.

Na Li had an accepted paper in 19th e-Science conference

Abstract: The discovery and reuse of scientific codes are essential in research, with computational notebooks proving effective for sharing such codes. However, locating relevant computational notebooks poses challenges due to their multi-modal nature and lack of evaluation datasets for fair assessments.

Publications

Software

Software tools, infrastructures, and demonstrations are, just as scientific publications, considered to be important research output of the MNS group. Over the years, the researchers and PhD-students of the MNS group developed several research tools and infrastructures.

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DRIP

The Dynamic Real-time Infrastructure Planner (DRIP) is a microservice suite for planning and provisioning networked virtual machines, for deploying application components and for managing runtime infrastructures based on time-critical constraints.

INDL-NML

The intuition our group had years ago was that we could leverage Semantic Web technologies to identify the exchangeable knowledge required to federate networks. We proved that we can manage the complexity and heterogeneity of the Internet with semantically rich models.

LOBCDER

Large OBject Cloud Data storagE fedeRation (LOBCDER) is a data management system that federates storage resources. It is a part of the Data and Compute Cloud Platform4 of the VPH-Share project.

Pumpkin

Pumpkin is a framework for distributed Data Transformation Network developed in the COMMIT Project. It implements a protocol for distributed data processing. A data packet is a self-contained processing unit, which incorporates data, state, code and routing information.

SARNET Demo SC16

This video shows a screencapture of the SARNET demonstration at SC16. The demo shows a virtual network that leverages Software Defined Networks and Network

WeevilScout

WeevilScout. Given the ubiquity of Web browsers and the performance gains being achieved by JavaScript virtual machines, a question arises: Could Internet browsers become yet another middleware for distributed computing?

OpenLab

Introduction

The OpenLab facility is managed by the MNS group and available to all researchers within the SNE cluster and the associated educational programs, e.g. Software Engineering (SE) and Security and Network Engineering (SNE) masters.

It is designed to support research and experimentation in software defined networking, embedded systems, distributed systems, Future Internet architectures and protocols, and secure data sharing platforms, and evaluate the applicability of Machine Learning in those research domains.

Learn more about the OpenLab here.

People

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Group Chair

Scientific Staff

Emeritus and Postdocs

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Anestis Dalgkitsis

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Poojith Umesh Rao

PhD Students

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Angelos Dimoglis

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Cyril Hsu

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Floris-Jan Willemsen

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Henk Dreuning

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Jamila Kassem

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Mani Mamindlapally

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Misha Mesarcik

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Na Li

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Saba Amiri

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Sara Shakeri

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Shaozhen Shi

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Stefanie Boss

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Tom Wassing

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Yuandou Wang

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Ziyan Zhang

Guests

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Yi Cheng

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Zijie Liu

Scientific programmers

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Gabriel Pelouze

System Engineers

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