CONFERENCE PROGRAM

2024 PART I Concurrent Processes Architectures and Embedded Systems Hybrid Virtual Conference

July 8-10, 2024

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Pacific Time Zone AM, Morning COPA 2024 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

July 8-10, 2024

Registration Open link (All Attendees including Authors)

https://buy.stripe.com/28oeX02VQbzv4RG144

Days: Monday, July 8, Tuesday July 9, Wednesday July 10

Monday, July 8th: DAY 1

07:00-8:30 KEYNOTE, Fundamentals of Blockchain, a model of Concurrency and Understanding Decentralised System

Prof. William Roscoe, University of Oxford (Ret.), Cocotec

Session 1: Chair, Prof. Dr. Lindsay O. Quarrie

8:30-9:30 Methods for Modeling, Detecting and Containment of Rogue AI

8:30 AM

8:50 AM

9:10 AM Open

Session 2: Chair, Dr. Jeremy Martin, Lloyds of London, University of Buckingham Senior Research Fellow

9:30-10:30 Applications of CSP and Concurrency to more tractable Modeling of Quantum Computing

9:30 AM

10:00 AM Open

Session 3 Chair: Dr. Lawrence J. Dickson

10:30-12:00 Session 3: FRINGE TALKS

10:30 AM-11:00 AM Approaches to Eliminating Hardware-Software Version Skew to Allow Continuity of Form and Function without Obsolescence

Dr. Lawrence J. Dickson, Space Sciences Corporation

11:00 AM Open

11:30 AM Open

END OF DAY 1

Tuesday, July 9th: DAY 2

Session 4 Chair: Dr. Carl-Johannes Johnsen

07:00-11:00 Session 3: Formal Verification Tools, Updates on Synchronous Message Exchange (SME),Translators and FPGAs and AI

07:00-8:00

08:00-9:00 Open

09:00-10:00 Open

10:00-11:00 FRINGE WORKSHOP DEMO MODE:

Dr. Lindsay O’Brien Quarrie, National University, Space Sciences Corporation

Dr. Lawrence J. Dickson, Space Sciences Corporation

Robert Montgomery Fryer

END OF DAY 2

Wednesday, July 10th: DAY 3

07:00-9:00 Session 4: Current Research Opportunities and Collaborations Advancing Concurrency in Reliable Computing

9:00-10:00 Session 5: Program Committee Plan Meeting for COPA 2024 Part II/COPA 2025

CHAIR: Lindsay Quarrie, Lawrence Dickson

END OF DAY 3

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COPA 2023 PAST CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Days: Monday, September 25, Tuesday September 26, Wednesday September 27

Monday, September 25th: DAY 1

Session 1: Chair, Dr. Jeremy Martin

07:00-8:30 KEYNOTE, Concurrency and Models of Abstraction: Past, Present and Future

Dr. Jeremy Martin, Senior Research Fellow, University of Buckingham Lloyd’s of London

8:30-9:30 Accelerating Scientific and Engineering Applications through Cloud-based GPU Computing

Dipesh Rawat, Department of Information Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

Kopal Chakravarty, Department of Computer Science
LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India

Neelaksh Singh, Department of Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Jharkhand, India

Vijaya Laxmi Pachva, Department of Computer Science
Kakatiya University, Warangal, India

Rakshit Anand Bhootham, Department of Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India

Session 2 Chair: Dr. Lawrence J. Dickson

09:30-11:30 Session 2: FRINGE TALKS

Race-Condition-Robust Hardware-Software Equivalence in *n*x

Dr. Lawrence J. Dickson, Space Sciences Corporation

END OF DAY 1

Tuesday, September 26th: DAY 2

Session 3 Chair: Dr. Carl-Johannes Johnsen

07:00-11:00 Session 5: Formal Verification Tools, Updates on Synchronous Message Exchange (SME),Translators and FPGAs

07:00-8:00 Slurm Scheduling From Rules-Based Systems

Mark Blomqvist and David Marchant, Department of Computer Science,

University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

08:00-9:00 IS IT FEASIBLE TO IDENTIFY OUTPUTS OF AN ARBITRARY PROCESS AT RUN TIME WITHOUT EXCESSIVELY SLOWING DOWN WORKFLOWS?

1st Philip Shun B. Jensen, Department of Computer Science
University of Copenhagen, Virum, Denmark

2nd Iben Lilholm, 3rd David Marchant, Department of Computer Science
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

09:00-10:00 Evaluation of FPGA Acceleration of Neural Networks?

1st Emil Stevnsborg, 2nd Sture Oksholm, 3rd Carl-Johannes Johnsen

Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Session 4 Chair: Dr. Lindsay O’Brien Quarrie

10:00-11:00 FRINGE WORKSHOP DEMO MODE: Race-Condition-Robust Hardware-Software Equivalence in *n*x

Dr. Lindsay O’Brien Quarrie, National University, Space Sciences Corporation

Dr. Lawrence J. Dickson, Space Sciences Corporation

END OF DAY 2

Wednesday, September 27th: DAY 3

07:00-9:00 Session 5: Current Research Opportunities and Collaborations Advancing Concurrency in Reliable Computing

9:00-10:00 Session 6: Program Committee Plan Meeting for COPA 2024

CHAIR: Lindsay O Quarrie, Lawrence J Dickson

END OF DAY 3

IEEE COPA 2021 PAST CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

Days: Sunday, April 25th Monday, April 26th Tuesday, April 27th Wednesday, April 28th

Sunday, April 25th

07:00-09:00 Session 1: FRINGE TALKS

CHAIR: Kenneth Skovhede,

07:00Øyvind Teig and Lawrence John DicksonFRINGE: Torus heat equations to get dizzy from. Hooping with xC (abstract)PRESENTER: Øyvind Teig
08:00Robert FryerLindsay Quarrie and Lawrence DicksonPizza Model – FPGA SME Transputer platform and the Path Forward (abstract)PRESENTER: Robert Fryer

09:00-12:00 Session 2: Power, Image Recognition and Language Processing Applications

CHAIR: Lindsay Quarrie

09:00Anchal YadavHarmonic Elimination based on selective optimization for Capacitor Voltages Balancing in Multilevel Inverters with Considering Load power factor (abstract)
10:00Oladapo IbitoyeReal-Time Localization of Vehicle License Plate using Improved Faster Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network (abstract)
11:00Vrushali LanjewarTransfer learning using Pre-trained AlexNet for Marathi Handwritten Compound Character Image Classification (abstract)

Monday, April 26th

07:00-10:00 Session 3: KEYNOTE, Microservices and VPN Applications

CHAIR:Lawrence Dickson

07:00Lawrence DicksonKEYNOTE: Reliable Computing, Scientific and Technological Seedbank (abstract)
08:00Jeremy MartinDesigning and Verifying Microservices Using CSP (abstract)
09:00Abhishek GuptaDeep Reinforcement Learning and Fuzzy K-means based VPN-nonVPN Traffic Classification and Characterization (abstract)

Tuesday, April 27th

07:00-10:00 Session 4: Object Recognition, Medical and Wireless Applications

CHAIR: Jeremy Martin

07:00Oladapo IbitoyeA Brief Review of Convolutional Neural Network Techniques for Masked Face Recognition (abstract
08:00Anurag TripathiAditya Arora and Anupama BhanClassification of cervical cancer using Deep Learning Algorithms (abstract)PRESENTER: Anurag Tripathi
09:00Archana RautSunanda Khandait and Snehlata Dongre
A Machine Learning based Mission Critical Data Transmission Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks (abstract)PRESENTER: Archana Raut

Wednesday, April 28th

07:00-11:00 Session 5: Formal Verification Tools, Synchronous Message Exchange (SME),Translators

CHAIR: Brian Vinter

07:00Burkhart Wolff HOL-CSP Version 2.0 for formal verification in Isabelle 
08:00Alberte TheglerCarl-Johannes JohnsenKenneth Skovhede and Brian VinterAccelerating Molecular Dynamics with the Lennard-Jones potential for FPGAs (abstract)PRESENTER: Alberte Thegler
09:00Matilde BroløsCarl-Johannes Johnsen and Kenneth SkovhedeOccam to Go translator (abstract)PRESENTER: Matilde Broløs
10:00Lawrence DicksonOCCAM-equivalent syntax with pure singleton descent structure (abstract)