Project RAINDROP from UCLouvain and UNamur

RAINDROP aims to address in a unique way the challenge of building, deploying, and operating applications on upcoming cloud infrastructures formed of a continuum of core (data centers) and edge resources. Read more.

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CCGrid 2025

Yinan presented the paper at CCGrid 2025

Yinan presented the paper “LASSY: a Latency-Aware SLOs-Sufficing Scheduling System for the Cloud/Edge Continuum” at CCGrid 2025 on May 21st 2025 in Tromso, Norway.

ICPC 2025

Maxime presented his works at ICPC 2025 in Ottawa (Canada)

On April 2nd, 2025, Maxime presented his works at ICPC 2025 in the ERA track.


The paper presented is Data Access-centered Understanding of Microservices Architectures.

ICSA 2025

Maxime presented his works at ICSA 2025 in Odense (Danemark)

On April 2nd, 2025, Maxime presented his works at ICSA 2025 in the NEMI track.

The paper presented is Data Access-centered Understanding of Microservices Architectures.

SofinaBoël 2024

Maxime is back in Belgium after spending 6 months in Switzerland.

Thanks to the SofinaBoël Fund for Education and Talent 2024 scholarship that Maxime had the honor of receiving in March 2024, he was able to enjoy an extraordinary scientific and human experience. For six months, he had the opportunity to join the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), within the Software Institute, and more specifically the REVEAL research group, headed by Prof. Michele Lanza.

During his stay, he worked on a visualization solution based on interactive treemaps, capable of displaying how microservices and their databases are structured. This makes it easier to anticipate the impact of change. This work resulted in a publication in the ERA Track of the ICPC 2025 conference, held in Ottawa last April.

CCGrid 2025

A paper accepted at CCGrid 2025's research track

The paper “LASSY: a Latency-Aware SLOs-Sufficing Scheduling System for the Cloud/Edge Continuum” has been accepted to CCGrid 2025 in the research track.

In this paper, we propose LASSY, SLO-sufficing scheduling model for the deployment of latency-sensitive monolithic applications on cloud/edge continuum. By introducing queueing theory and transferring the scheduling problem to optimization problem, LASSY accurately predicts the Round-trip time of users’ requests and generates placement plans with users-to-sites mapping for latency-sensitive monolithic applications deployment among the geographically distributed sites with minimum customizable cost.

Yinan will present the paper in the conference during May 18th-22nd 2025 in Tromso (Norway).