Angela’s PhD weekly meeting updates

Week 01 – 10 October 2025

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high, waiting for editor to send further info)
  2. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad (deadline: ASAP, priority: high, in progress)
  3. Implementation of time replication in Collektive—necessary for self-stabilizing Gossip validation (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, shared Clock done with tests)
  4. Period abroad iter and proposal (deadline: undefined, priority: high, call for application not published yet AFAIK)

Medium-term goals

  1. Collektive journal: venue and contribute to define yet (priority: medium-high)
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip, initial possible venues: SEAMS, others to define (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, current status: draft paper done for PhD course—missing evaluation due to previous point [1.3])

Long-term goals

  1. Implementation of aggregate processes in Collektive (related to [1.2])
  2. Implementation of signals and interrupts in Collektive (related to [1.2])
  3. Implementation of users and permissions in Collektive

Period abroad infos/iter

  • If I already know the period, I have to send the request form to Bartolini and then to AFORM.
  • The Marco Polo program is a separate thing — first, I need authorization from the others.
  • In Bartolini’s document, I have to summarize in about 4 lines what I will do during the period abroad, then she approves it.
  • At that point, I have to fill out the form available on the university intranet for PhD student mobility abroad and also the one that entitles me to the 50% scholarship increase; once this is authorized, everything is set.
  • When the Marco Polo call opens (usually in December), I need to write a project proposal and complete the procedure on the website to apply for the call.
  • When I come back, I have to write a final project report to attach to the Marco Polo call documents, and then fill in the return form to be sent to AFORM.

Week 2 – 15 October 2025

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high, waiting for editor to send further info)
    → Still no update from them, I checked the site every day too.
  2. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad (deadline: ASAP, priority: high, in progress)
    → still in progress, not bad, we have to plan the period with Ale this or next week.
  3. Implementation of time replication in Collektive—necessary for self-stabilizing Gossip validation (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, shared Clock done with tests)
    → paused due to work on point [2]

Medium-term goals

  1. Collektive journal: venue and contribute to define yet (priority: medium-high)
    → Possible venues: Journal of open research science, or JSS
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip, initial possible venues: SEAMS, others to define (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, current status: draft paper done for PhD course—missing evaluation due to previous point [1.3])
  3. Possible work with GCiatto for ACSOS-2026 about “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” (priority: medium, I did not read the original paper yet)
  4. About ACSOS-2026: possibility to showcase the NdR demo, or doing a tutorial about Collektive (if journal is out)

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨

Week 3 – 22 October 2025

Tasks and short-term goals

  1. Publish Field VMC journal (deadline: undefined, priority: high, waiting for editor to send further info)
    → Still no update from them, I checked the site every day too and emailed them.
  2. Study CLF-CBF-QP for period abroad (deadline: ASAP, priority: high, in progress)
    → at this point we should have the update from Ale thanks to the meeting we have just finished.
  3. Implementation of time replication in Collektive—necessary for self-stabilizing Gossip validation (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, completed)
    → PR opened, checks are green, waiting for review. ⁉️ Should I start working on the evaluation?

Medium-term goals

  1. Collektive journal: (priority: medium-high) venue JSS, first flow draft has been written.
  2. Paper on Self-Stabilizing Gossip, initial possible venues: SEAMS(2027..), others to define (SEWORLD?) (deadline: undefined, priority: medium, current status: draft paper done for PhD course—missing evaluation due to previous point [1.3]) → Waiting for Collektive journal to be finished to finalize this one.
  3. ACSOS-2026: defined “distributed particle filter in AC/Collektive” with GCiatto and Davide. Spoke with Nico about the possibility to showcase the NdR demo, or doing a tutorial about Collektive (if journal is out).
  4. Work for ACSOS-2026 as publicity co-chair.

Long-term goals

✨ Collective Operating Systems ✨

Next: 31 October 2025