ProjectsPublicationsPresentationsConferences&WorkshopsMisc. 

2007

1. Keynote Lecture, "Bio-cybernetics Control for Whole Body Interaction", at the Whole Body Interaction: The Future of Human Body (WBI'07) Workshop,  AHRC ICT Methods Network, Liverpool, 22-23 November, [ppt]. 

   Synopsis:

   In the context of the Whole Body Interaction (WBI), this talk will focus on the technical challenges, requirements and conceptual frameworks for bio-cybernetics control. The talk will start with a brief overview of emerging requirements for WBI, which will be followed by a review of the state-of-the-art relevant to bio-cybernetics control for WBI including: ambient intelligence, body area sensor and actuator networks, cognitive systems and middleware. This will be followed by a presentation of the underpinning technologies, and a detailed description of a conceptual framework for bio-cybernetics control. Real-life examples will be used to illustrate the contents of this presentation. The talk will conclude with a discussion on remaining research challenges relevant to WBI.

2. Project discussion -- ICT Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures, Brussels, February 2007. [ppt].

3. Keynote -- WEBIST'07, Keynote Lecture, "Autonomic Computing Meets Complex Information Systems: Theory and Practice", the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST'07), Barcelona, Spain, March 2007. [ppt].

Synopsis:

Over the years, ICT has enriched and pervaded every part of our lives yielding numerous socio-technical benefits. Along with such benefits came increased requirements for improved systems’ functionality, interoperability, dependability, accessibility and ease of use to name but a few. This engendered a myriad of technical challenges providing fertile research grounds to explore new computational models such as those inspired by biological concepts. Which aim to imbue future information systems with self-managing capabilities to adapt autonomously to their users’ requirements and environments. For instance, to recover from an encountered/anticipated system failure, protect itself from security vulnerability/attacks, tune its performance to guaranty its service level agreement, or simply reconfigure to accommodate new services.
Since its inception back in 2002, significant progress has been made towards imbuing modern information systems with autonomic capabilities of self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing and self-repairing. However, the foundations and engineering principles of complex autonomic information systems is far from being completely understood, and are under rapid evolution. Hence, in the spirit of the WEBIST conference, this lecture will provide the audience with an upto date review of the emerging research results in the field of autonomic and service-oriented information systems, and their engineering concerns including relevance to supporting the development of current and future web-based information systems.
The lecture will start with a brief overview of the general design and complexity challenges of modern information systems, which will be followed by a review of the state-of-the-art of autonomic systems designs including; reference models, service-oriented architecture, standards, distributed software engineering and artificial intelligence tools and techniques for autonomic systems design and management. Real-life examples will be used to illustrate the contents of this presentation.

2. Panel, " ", the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST'07), Barcelona, Spain, March 2007. [ppt].

3. Invited Talk: 07 -- Oxford Brookes University. [ppt].