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SIWN 2008 Program
Technical
Program
** Congratulations! Mr
Holger Kasinger has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award of the
2008 SIWN Congress, for his paper entitled "Digital Semiochemical
Coordination" (Authors: Holger Kasinger, Jörg Denzinger and Bernhard
Bauer). **
Keynote Talks
Towards an Ubiquitous Pragmatic Web, Dr. Adrian Paschke
Implementing intelligent
sensor networks for monitoring outdoor spaces, Prof Ian W Marshall
Self-organization and organizational
models for holonic multi-agent systems, Prof Sebastian Rodriguez
Abstractions and Models for Developing
Distributed and Grid Computing Applications, Prof José C. Cunha
Panel Discussion
Theme:
What are the real
complexity challenges that distributed systems are facing?
Keynote #1
Title: Towards an
Ubiquitous Pragmatic Web
Session Chair: Hans Czap
Invited Speaker:
Dr. Adrian Paschke
Director RuleML Inc.,
Fredericton, New Bruinswick, Canada
and
Biotec Center, Tatzberg
47-51, Bioinformatics
Artificial Intelligence
Institute, Faculty of Computer Science
Technical University
Dresden, Germany
Abstract:
The modern IT
infrastructure is rapidly evolving to provide an ambient, ubiquitous,
pervasive computing environment where electronic facilities, services,
computing power, and information will be everywhere and will be
interconnected by a diverse array of networks, from ad-hoc local
networks to the global Internet of Services & Things. This will lead to
a fundamental change in the way in which information and communication
technology applications are developed and used. Instead of building
monolithic local IT systems, applications will be assembled to complex
enterprise service networks and collaborative agent systems in a
flexible way, distributed over the various heterogeneous local and
global networks, and will be executed in large highly interconnect and
arbitrary complex processes. This has already led to a great variety of
new paradigms, e.g. ambient, ubiquitous, pervasive computing and IT
technology trends such as complex event processing (CEP),
service-oriented computing (SOC) and on-demand computing (autonomic,
utility, grid computing). And, we have seen very promising advances in
these fields in recent years in many application domains. Ultimately,
this new technologies might lead to a ubiquitous Pragmatic Web where
information consumers are provided with intelligent computational agents
to transform existing information on the Web into relevant information
of practical consequences. This talk describes several emerging
technology trends and derives future challenges for a future Ubiquitous
Pragmatic Web 4.0 of highly interconnected services, things and
intelligent agents.
Speaker’s Bio
Dr. Adrian Paschke is
director of RuleML Inc. and research officer at the Biotec Innovation
Center of Excellence at the Technical University Dresden. He received
his PhD in Information Systems at the Technical University Munich (TUM)
with a thesis on Rule Based Service Level Agreements. His academic
carrier has let him to the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, the
Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen/Nuernberg, the Technical
University Munich, the National Research Council in Canada, and recently
to the Biotec Centre in Dresden. Adrian was involved in multiple
industrial software development und business engineering projects. He
has led several knowledge engineering projects in the areas of
distributed heterogeneous information systems, distributed Semantic Web
applications, agent technologies, supply chain management and
monitoring, IT service management, service-oriented computing, as well
as rule-based systems and complex event processing. He is
steering-committee chair of the RuleML Initiative, Co-Chair of the
Reaction RuleML technical group, founding member of the Event Processing
Technology Society (EPTS), voting member of OMG, research member of W3C
RIF TG and W3C HLCS IG, project leader of several open-source projects
such as RBSLA, Rule Responder, Prova, and involved in several
international and EU projects such as the EU Network of Excellence
Rewerse, or the EU STREP Sealife.
Keynote #2
Title: Implementing
intelligent sensor networks for monitoring outdoor spaces
Session Chair: Hong Tang
Invited Speaker:
Prof Ian W Marshall
Director, Centre for
Environmental Informatics
Lancaster Environment
Centre
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YQ, United Kingdom
01524 510273
i.w.marshall@lancaster.ac.uk
Abstract: There has
recently been widespread interest in sensor networks and their
applications. This has resulted in a considerable body of work
simulating network protocols, and a smaller body of work adressing
embedded intelligence, network management and real-world deployment.
The group at Lancaster has focused on real world experimentation to test
approaches to real world self-management behaviours in sensor networks
for environmental monitoring. The talk will describe the needs of
environmental monitoring for embedded intelligence in smart sensors, and
the pros and cons of a range of possible approaches. The needs, risks
and benefits will be illustrated using the experience gained from a
series of sensor network technology trials in marine, urban and upland
contexts undertaken by the group. A brief summary of current activity
will be presented together with a view of future possibilities.
Speaker’s Bio:
Ian is Professor and
Director of Environmental Informatics in the Environment Centre at
Lancaster University where his research focuses on new technologies for
environmental monitoring, geo-hazard management and industrial asset
condition monitoring. Currently he is leading the EPSRC WINES project
PROSEN <http://www.prosen.org.uk/> (applying intelligent sensor
networks to wind farm management), and is a PI in the DIAS <http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/dias>
(systems engineering for environmental sensor networks), NEPTUNE
<http://www.neptune.ac.uk/> (sustainable management of water
distribution systems) and TRAMSNOD <http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/D053544/1>
(sensor network traffic) projects. He is also a funded participant in
the ARC network ISSNIP <http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/ISSNIP/> .
He was Technical Director
of the DTI funded Envisense <http://www.envisense.org/> research centre
(pervasive technology for natural environments) and, within Envisense,
leader of the SECOAS <http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/cei/secoas/secoas.htm>
project, which deployed an intelligent sensor network at the Scroby
Sands wind farm site off the Norfolk coast. Between 2001 and 2003 he was
a Royal Society Industry Fellow at University College London where he
led research on self-organising sensor networks using nature inspired
decentralised control algorithms, now being further developed in the
current projects.
Previously he worked for
BT where he led the Eurescom funded project CASPIAN and the FP5 project
ANDROID. He was also a PI for the FP4 project COIAS and the ESPRIT
project HIPPARCH. Between 1994 and 2002 he led the BT funded Alpine and
MMN projects involving 6 major UK universities and UTS in Sydney. All of
these projects focused on automated adaptation and management issues. He
is the author of over one hundred papers and 17 patents in these areas.
He served as a member of council at the Institute of Physics and is a
fellow of several institutes. He currently serves on several institute
committees and advisory panels, on EPSRC, DTI and European research
panels, and on numerous programme committees.
Keynote #3
Title: Self-organization
and organizational models for holonic multi-agent systems
Session Chair: Minjie
Zhang
Invited Speaker:
Prof Sebastian Rodriguez
System and Transport
Laboratory
University of Technology
of Belfort-Montbéliard
90010 Belfort cedex,
France
email:
sebastian.rodriguez@utbm.fr
and
Advanced Technologies
Research Center of Tucumán
Universidad Tecnológica
Nacional
Facultad Regional Tucumán
Rivadavia 1050 - San
Miguel de Tucumán
4000 - Tucumán -
Argentina
email: sebastianrodriguez@frt.utn.edu.ar
Abstract: Complex systems
are often characterized by networks of numerous interactive entities.
They are called complex because of the complexity of their exhibited
behaviors. These behaviors are the result of the non-linear aggregation
of the local behaviors of theirs components. Multi-Agents Systems have
become a natural tool for modeling, simulating and programming complex
systems. Indeed, Multi-Agents Systems are composed of autonomous,
reactive, proactive and interacting entities called agents engaged in
the realization of a joint goal. Both types of systems are notably
studied by their organization dynamics and by the emergence of
organizational structures. However, in Complex Systems we usually find a
great number of entities in interaction, acting at different levels of
abstraction
Software agents and
multi-agents systems (MAS) are recognized as both abstractions and
effective technologies for modeling and building complex distributed
applications. The current practice of MAS design tends to be limited to
individual agents and small face to face groups of agents that operate
in closed systems. However, MAS aim large scale systems operating in
open environments. Moreover, agents are expected to organize and
cooperate in order to fulfill system's goals. It seems improbable that a
rigid unscalable organization could handle real world problems that
often exhibit most of complex systems characteristics.
Analysis and modeling
techniques able to represent several levels of abstraction and
computation models that are capable to self-organize and adapt to
environmental adversities are needed to overcome this issue. Among the
possible solutions, Holonic Multi-Agent Systems (HMAS) seem to be a
promising paradigm. HMAS are based upon self-similar entities, called
holons, which define an organizational structure called holarchy. HMAS
have shown to be a convenient way to engineer complex and open systems
in any application domains.
In this talk, after a
brief introduction to the history of HMAS, we will compare HMAS with
existing MAS practice. We will then present an organizational modeling
framework for HMAS and discuss some self-organizing mechanisms using
this framework. Finally, some interesting areas for future research will
be presented.
Speaker's Bio:
Sebastian Rodriguez is a
Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science, National
Technology University (NTU), Argentina. He is also the founder and
director of the Advanced Technology Research Center of Tucumán,
Argentina, and an associate researcher of the Systems and Transportation
Laboratory at the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM),
France. He received a Computer Engineer degree for the National
University of Tucumán, Argentina, a M.S. degree in computer science from
the University of Franche-Comté and a Ph.D. degree in computer science
of the UTBM. He is a consultant and visiting scientist for several
high-tech companies. His research interests include distributed systems,
multi-agent systems, holonic MAS, complex systems and meta-models and
methodologies for MAS.
Keynote #4
Title: Abstractions and
Models for Developing Distributed and Grid Computing Applications
Session Chair: Ingo Timm
Invited Speaker:
Prof José C. Cunha
CITI Centre / Dept.
Informatics
Fac. Science and
Technology
Univ. Nova de Lisboa
Portugal
http://asc.di.fct.unl.pt/~jcc
Abstract: Parallel and
distributed computing systems and applications exhibit increasing levels
of interaction among components, new forms of dynamic behavior, due to
changes in interaction and behavior, mobility, and increasing scale in
system and application components. In the first part of the talk, we
present a global overview of programming abstractions and models for the
organisation and cooperation paradigms that are required to handle
distribution and parallelism, scale, dynamism, and mobility.
Illustrations of the above are presented in the remaining of the talk.
In the second part, we focus on abstractions based on design patterns
and pattern operators for dynamic composition of Grid applications, and
for separating structural and behavioural properties. And how these can
be integrated into workflow-based environments. In the third part, we
discuss group programming abstractions, and how group models can ease
the handling of interaction and coordination in small, medium, or large
scale organisations. And how they can be viewed as units of system or
application composition to help building and managing complex and
dynamic organisations.
Speaker’s Bio:
José C. Cunha Full
Professor of Computer Science, and Chair of Computational Systems and
Architectures, Department of Informatics, Fac. Science and Technology,
Univ. Nova de Lisboa. Director of the CITI Centre for Informatics and IT
(2001-2007), and Coordinator of the Parallel and Distributed Processing
Group. Graduated in Electrical Engineering from IST-Techn. Univ. of
Lisbon, and in Informatics Engineering from Univ. Nova de Lisboa. Ph.D.
in Computer Science, and Habilitation in Computer Science, Univ. Nova de
Lisboa.
Teaching and Research
interests: Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Parallel and
Distributed Computing: Models, Tools and Environments, Problem-Solving
Environments, Cluster and Grid Computing Systems. He has a regular
activity of publications in international journals, books and
conferences. He has recently co-edited the book Grid Computing: Software
Environments and Tools, Springer-Verlag (2006).
He has been regularly
involved as advisor, coordinator, and participant in national and
international projects in Parallel and Distributed Processing. He is in
the editorial board of several international journals, and is member of
the steering committee of the Euro-Par conference series. He has a
regular activity as organiser, chair and program committee member in
international conferences and workshops on parallel and distributed
computing. He was chair of Euro-Par 2005: the 11th International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, and co-chair of ACM
ITiCSE 2005 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science
Education.
More information: http://asc.di.fct.unl.pt/~jcc
Panel Discussion
Theme: What are the real
complexity challenges that distributed systems are facing?
Session Moderator: Prof
Minjie Zhang, University of Wollongong, Australia
Panelists: (TBC)
Prof Giuliano Armano,
University of Cagliari, Italy
Prof Hans Czap,
Universität Trier, Germany
Prof Ian Marshall,
Lancaster University, UK
Prof Sebastian Rodriguez,
University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France; Universidad
Tecnológica Nacional, Argentina
Prof Ingo Timm,
Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Topics for discussion
(but not limited to):
(1) Pre-eminent
complexity characteristics of future distributed systems
- Distributing /
decentralisation of autonomous systems (e.g., agents) à origins for
system-of-systems architecture, emergence, micro-macro influence,
structural uncertainty
- Emergence, swarming,
self-organisation, dynamics, openness
(2) Examples of future
complex distributed systems
- Large-scale distributed
pervasive embedded systems
- Environmental systems
with closed loops from sensor networks to monitoring and decision
support
- Large-scale future
generation (4G) / autonomic communication/Internet systems
- Biological cellular
networks
(3) Potential solutions
- To engineer emergence,
swarming, self-organisation
- Multi-scale multi-agent
based modelling and simulation
- Service-oriented
software architectures
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