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Keynotes (in
alphabetical order)
Paolo
Bresciani is a Project "Officer in the Software
& Service Architectures and Infrastructures"
Unit of the Directorate General "Information
Society" of the European Commission. He is dealing
with the monitoring of projects in the field of Software
and Services Engineering, in the context of the Sixth and
the Seventh Research Framework Programme of the European
Community. Previously, he also served
the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Scientific
National Expert at the office for the Bilateral Cultural
and Scientific Cooperation in Rome. He
has a past experience as researcher of more than 15
years. Paolo Bresciani's research interests lie in
several areas of ICT, including, among the rest,
Knowledge Representation, Conceptual Modelling,
Requirements Engineering and Software Engineering. He has
been a member of several program committees of
international conferences and workshops, reviewers of
international journals, and one of the organisers of the
Agent Oriented Information Systems (AOIS) and of the
Agent Oriented Methodologies (AOM) international workshop
series. He co-authored about 50 published scientific
papers and co-edited four books in the field of Agent
Oriented Information Systems.
Abstract:
Software and
Services in the Future Internet
the 7th Framework
Programme perspective
This talk will briefly
present the role of the ICT theme in the Seventh Research
Framework Programme of the European Community, in
particular, focusing on the area of Software and Services
Engineering. The evolution of the
research on Software, Services and Architectures from FP6
to FP7 and towards the next Work Programme 2009-2010 on
ICT will be explained, in the perspective of the
forthcoming research challenges and opportunities.
Research on Future Internet will be central in
the next WP 2009-2010. Such research will have to face
and solve several problems currently constraining the
actual realization of an Information and Knowledge based
Society. In this process, research on Software and
Services Engineering will play a central role. Current
research activities and future perspectives related to
such an area will be introduced.
Paolo Bresciani
Mike Hinchey is Co-Director of
Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Center and
Professor of Software Engineering at University of
Limerick, Ireland. Until recently he was Director
of the NASA Software Engineering Research Center.
Hinchey received a BSc from University of Limerick, MSc
from University of Oxford and a PhD from University of
Cambridge. He previously held positions
as full professor at universities in Ireland, UK, Sweden,
Australia and USA. The author/editor of more than
12 books and over 100 technical articles, he is Chair of
the IEEE Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing
and Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on
Autonomous and Autonomic Systems. He is also the
IEEE's representative to IFIP TC1 (Foundations of
Computer Science) which he currently chairs.
Abstract:
You Can't Get
There from Here!
Problems and
Potential Solutions in Developing New Classes of
Complex Computing Systems
The explosion of
capabilities and new products within the sphere of
communications and information technology (ICT) has
fostered widespread overly-optimistic opinions regarding
the industry, based on common but unjustified
assumptions of quality and correctness of software. NASA
faces this dilemma as it envisages advanced mission
concepts that involve large swarms of small spacecraft
that will engage cooperatively to achieve science goals.
Such missions involve levels of complexity that beg for
new methods for system development far beyond
today's methods, which are inadequate for ensuring
correct behavior of large numbers of interacting
intelligent mission elements. New system development
techniques recently devised through NASA-led research
will offer innovative approaches to achieving
correctness in complex system development, including
autonomous swarm missions that exhibit emergent
behavior, as well as general software products created
by the software industry.
Prof.
Mike Hinchey
Lero-the Irish Software
Engineering Research Centre
Zdravko
Karakehayov is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Computer Systems at the Technical University of Sofia,
Bulgaria. Formerly he was with the Technical University
of Denmark, Lyngby, five years, and the University of
Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, three years. Dr.
Karakehayov received the Ph.D. degree in computer science
from Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He is a
senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and a
Distinguished Visitors Program speaker. Dr. Karakehayov
currently chairs the Computer Chapter, IEEE Bulgarian
section. He co-authored five books in the field of
embedded systems, two book chapters and holds eight
patents. His research field includes low-power design for
embedded systems, low-power and secure routing for
wireless sensor networks. Dr. Karakehayov served as a
reviewer for the Journal Transactions on Embedded
Computing Systems and several international conferences.
Abstract:
Wireless
Ad-hoc Networks: Where Security, Real-Time and Lifetime
Meet
Wireless ad-hoc
networks are increasingly subject of malicious attacks.
Since a large number of nodes cooperatively perform
complex tasks, communication emerges as a vulnerable
point. A node may consume the packets and block the
forwarding. Compromised nodes may, also, attack the
batteries via useless routing of packets. Since
distributed systems, such as sensor-actuator networks,
demand real-time traffic, the multihop communication
scheme must meet timing requirements.
This presentation deals with tradeoffs between the
security capability of wireless ad-hoc networks, the
real-time behaviour and the lifetime performance. The
REWARD algorithm for secure routing is used as a main
example. Nodes listen to neighbours transmissions to
detect black hole attacks. As a result, symmetrical
forwarding of packets is required. REWARD detects black
hole attacks and organizes a distributed data base for
suspicious nodes and areas. The method has different
levels of security which can be set according to the
local conditions. In order to determine the
effectiveness of REWARD we used ANTS, a simulation
environment that models the traffic of wireless ad-hoc
networks.
Zdravko Karakehayov
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