Monash Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering DSSE Seminar Series: http://www.dsse.monash.edu.au
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This seminar is also sponsored by the ARC Research Network "Enterprise Information Infrastructure" and its taskforce on Context-Aware Computing (EII-CAC)
What: The Role of AI in Shaping Smart Services and Smart Systems
Who: Prof. Sahin Albayrak, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
When: 11am, Thursday, 5 April, 2007
Where: CauSIT Seminar room, H7.84, Caulfield
ABSTRACT:
Services and Systems must include a set of features to remain competent and future conformant: intelligent behaviour, personalisation, adaptivity, scalability, manageability, ease of use and user friendliness, security, and self-healing capabilities. As a consequence, new architectural models are needed, which provide the users with access to a cognitive behaviour aspect of the system, and which may draw inspiration from the brain sciences. On the other hand, we have to use knowledge representation and semantic modeling, e.g., ontologies for representing our environment or basic properties of services and systems. This would naturally involve Agent Technology, AI, and Software
Technology. So, approaches from many different disciplines have to work in integration. Integrated frameworks handling such different aspects are called "Serviceware Frameworks". They contain a scalable Service Architecture, which facilitates merging different selected features into a service, as well as a scalable so-called Service Engine with a Serviceware Infrastructure. For creating Smart Services and Smart Systems, we use engineering approaches that include innovative service description languages and tools. In this presentation, a framework with the properties and features just described will be presented. A sample application developed with this framework will also be presented: the "Smart Energy Assistant".
BIOGRAPHY:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sahin Albayrak is the chair of the professorship on Agent Technologies in Business Applications and Telecommunication (AOT). He is the founder and head of the DAI-Labor, currently employing about 100 researchers and support staff. He is member of "The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers" (IEEE), "Association for Computing Machinery” (ACM), "Gesellschaft für Informatik" (German Computer Science Society, GI), and "American Association for Artificial Intelligence" (AAAI). Prof. Albayrak is one of the founding members of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) and currently member of the steering board. He was the initiator of many reputable research projects, e.g.: E@MC2, Sun-Trec, in which he has been supervising research networks at national and international levels. He is also a member of various industrial and political advisory committees, e.g.: Impulskreis "Vernetzte Welten". Further information about the speaker: http://www.dai-labor.de
