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Keynote Speakers
Wolfgang Gentzsch
DEISA and OGF
Over the last 50 years, computational sciences and engineering have advanced the development of new and ever faster and better computers, algorithms, and software tools, and vice versa. But the better the technologies we build the more demanding our scientific and engineering applications. That's why optimization is everywhere, et the level of technologies and computer architectures, at the middleware level, at the algorithm and the engineering application level, and even at the level of computing paradigms, where we came from mainframes, to vector and parallel computers, to grids and, recently, to clouds. We successfully optimized our algorithms and mapped them to the underlying architecture, e.g. with overlapping communication with computation, better load balancing through domain decomposition into parallel processes, or using library routines optimized for the specific architecture and processors.
Still many scientific and engineering applications are extremely performance-hungry, or they simply waste a lot of computing cycles and memory. The two alternatives to cope with these challenges are: always using the largest and fastest (and most expensive) supercomputers for jobs running thousands or even millions of core hours, or applying self-adaptive methods such that the applications adjust (and thus optimize) themselves for the underlying architecture, dynamically, autonomically, during run-time.
In our presentation, we will concentrate on the use of HPC systems, grids and clouds for running scientific and engineering simulations, using the European DEISA project as an example, analyze different HPC loads and their suitability for supercomputers, grids and for clouds, and take a closer look at adaptive algorithms and their benefits for modern computer architectures.
Francesca Toni
Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Presentation title: Argumentative Agents
In the talk, I will focus on the use of argumentation to support intelligent agents in multi-agent systems, in general and in the EC-funded FP6 IST project ARGUGRID (www.argugrid.eu) and the Agreement Technology COST action IC 0801 (http://www.agreement-technologies.eu/) projects. In particular, I will discuss how argumentation can help agents to make decision, either in isolation (by evaluating pros and cons of conflicting decisions) or in an open and dynamic environment (by assessing the validity of information they become aware of). I will also illustrate how argumentation can support negotiation and conflict resolution during dialogues. Finally, I will show how arguments can improve the assessment of the trustworthiness of agents in contract-regulated interactions.
under the patronage of
the Polish Minister of
Science and Higher Education
prof Michał Kleiber
the President of
the Polish Academy of Sciences
In cooperation with
Poland Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society
(Gdansk Branch and Silesia Branch)
Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPI PAN)