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Dr. Adam is serving as the Vice-Provost for Research at Rutgers University-Newark. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computers and Information Systems at Rutgers University; the Founding Director of the Rutgers CIMIC Research Center; and the Director of the information Technology for Emergency Management Research Laboratory. He is a Co-founder and past Director of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute. He was on loan as a Fellow to the US Department of Homeland Security - Science & Technology Directorate where he served as a Senior Program Manager, a Branch Chief and managed the Complex Event Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis program, served as the technical lead for the Unified Incident Command & Decision Support System program, and initiated the Cyberphysical Systems Security initiative and the Social Media Alert and Response to Threats to Citizens (SMART-C) initiative. He served as a Research Fellow at the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Science, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He was a member of the Science Council of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, NASA Ames. He is a founding member of the consortium for System of Systems Security (SOSSEC) and member of the Board of Directors of the SOSSEC, Inc. Dr. Adam has co-authored/co-edited ten books and over 200 publications covering such topics as information management, information security and privacy, data mining, Web services, workflow, and modeling & simulation. Papers appeared in refereed journals and conference proceedings including, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Computing Surveys, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, and International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. He is the co-founder and the Executive-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Digital Libraries and serves on the editorial board of a number of journals including Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Journal of Electronic Commerce. He was selected as a distinguished speaker (on Digital Libraries/Electronic Commerce) in the IEEE Computer Society's Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP). He is a recipient of the IEEE 2012 Research Achievement and Leadership Award in Intelligence and Security Informatics; the co-founder and past chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries; and is a member of the Executive Board. He was invited to serve (as a member of the Program Committee, Program Committee Chair, General Chair, and Vice-General Chair) on several international conferences including IEEE ICDE, ACM SIGMOD/PODS, IEEE ADL, and ACM CIKM.
Speech Title: Big Data and Social Media: Application to Community Resilience and Emergency Management
Abstract: Data is growing at an exponential rate and recently, the term “Big Data” has been commonly used in the research community, industry, and government. Big data is typically characterized by not only volume but also variety (of various information sources), and velocity (of complex analytical processing). Big data cuts across a wide spectrum of domains such as Web, social networks, cloud, mobile, sensor networks, and multimedia/streaming with several application verticals such as business, government (e.g., emergency management), healthcare, transportation, biosciences, energy utilities, and scientific computing. In this talk we present an overview of big data and discuss example applications in the area of community resilience and emergency management and some related research Challenges.
Yi-Bing Lin received his Bachelor’s degree from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 1983, and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, USA, in 1990. From 1990 to 1995 he was a Research Scientist with Bellcore (Telcordia). He then joined the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan, where he remains. In 2010, Lin became a lifetime Chair Professor of NCTU, and in 2011, the Vice President of NCTU. Since 2014, Lin has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
Lin is also an Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, and a member of board of directors, Chunghwa Telecom. He serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology. He is General or Program Chair for prestigious conferences including ACM MobiCom 2002. He is Guest Editor for several journals including IEEE Transactions on Computers. Lin is the author of the books Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture (Wiley, 2001), Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks (John Wiley,2005), and Charging for Mobile All-IP Telecommunications (Wiley, 2008). Lin received numerous research awards including 2005 NSC Distinguished Researcher, 2006 Academic Award of Ministry of Education and 2008 Award for Outstanding contributions in Science and Technology, Executive Yuen, 2011 National Chair Award, and TWAS Prize in Engineering Sciences, 2011 (The World Academy of Sciences). He is in the advisory boards or the review boards of various government organizations including Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Transportation and Communications. Lin is AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and IET Fellow.
Speech Title: Big Data and Potential Traffic Information Applications
Abstract: The comprehensive analysis on historical and real-time big data delivers huge business value, explores business intelligence, and assists in developing marketing strategies. This talk uses traffic information cloud as an example to show how big data is used to improve the accuracy and coverage of traffic information. Taiwan government is investing Traffic Info. cloud services to bring new business opportunities. It is proved that the Traffic Info. Cloud can effectively provide traffic information in terms of accuracy and large information coverage area. However, to execute the plan of Traffic Info. cloud service, our government is facing the challenges of big data: to extract traffic information from high-velocity data, and to store and analyze high-volume historical data. We show how these issues can be addressed through cloud computing platform and describe the Lin-Chang-Huangfu (LCH) Scheme that takes the advantage of the standard statistics available in mobile switching centers for vehicle speed analysis. We also show how cloud computing techniques are utilized for animation visual effect and passenger movement prediction.
Prof. Dr. Jürg Gutknecht,
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)
President of Swiss Informatics Society, Switzerland
Jürg Gutknecht's professional career in Computing started in 1968 in industry with a position in the real-time system programming group at Swissair. From 1970 and while being employed by IBM as a working student, Jürg Gutknecht studied Mathematics at the ETH Zurich, from which he graduated in 1977 with a PhD in Mathematics. Gutknecht joined Niklaus Wirth's Lilith/ Modula personal computing research team in 1981 and, in 1985, after a sabbatical stay at the Xerox-PARC Research Laboratory in California, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the ETH. Then, together with Wirth, he developed Modula-2 system software and created the Oberon programming language and system, followed by several evolutions with a focus on component-based software design and concurrency. Jürg Gutknecht's research interests are in the area of programming languages, compilers and runtime platforms, with an emphasis on lean systems. He is currently involved in projects aiming at holistic systems design, including application-aware chip design based on programmable hardware technology. Prof. Gutknecht is the head of the Native Systems research group at the Computer Science department of ETH Zürich. He was Studies Delegate from 1991 until 1994 and head of department from 2006 until 2010.
Speech Title: The Holy Grail of modern systems design?
Abstract: Lockfree programming has achieved the reputation of a cure-all solving
the problems of deadlock, constrained parallelism, synchronization
overhead and many more from which conventional concurrent systems
typically suffer. Using lockfree constructs therefore looks like an
ideal implementation methodology for system kernels. We have explored
the opportunities of this approach at our Native Systems Lab in a
recent case study, and this talk reports about the possibly surprising
results.
Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain,
PhD, ME, BE(Hons), Fellow Engineers Australia
Lakhmi.jain@unisa.edu.au
Lakhmi C. Jain, serves as Adjunct Professor in the Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment at the University of South Australia, Australia and University of Canberra, Australia.
Dr Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5000 researchers drawn from universities and companies world-wide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generate synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES.
www.kesinternational.org
His interests focus on the artificial intelligence paradigms and their applications in complex systems, security, e-education, e-healthcare, unmanned air vehicles and intelligent agents.
Speech Title: Intelligent Techniques in Security.
Abstract: This talk will summarize the research projects on security undertaken by me and my research team in recent years. The progress made in developing the intelligent flight data monitoring system for improving the safety of aviation operations will be presented.
Professor Dieter Kratsch has obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Friedrich-Schiller Universität (Germany) in 1989. He obtained his first degree, a diploma in mathematics, in 1985 from the Friedrich-Schiller Universität. His habilitation in computer science was awarded in 1996 from the Friedrich-Schiller Universität. The main subject of all three theses were efficient algorithms for NP-hard problems on special graph classes and structural properties of graph classes. Dr. Kratsch served at the Friedrich-Schiller Universität from 1989 to 1999. Since 1999 he is Professor of Computer Science at the Université de Lorraine - Metz, France. Prior to joining Université de Lorraine he also was with INRIA Rennes, France (1993-1994) and with the Universität Paderborn, Germany (1997).
Professor Kratsch's specialties include, but are not limited to, construction and analysis of algorithms for NP-hard graph problems, algorithmic and structural properties of graph classes, graph theory and most prominently today exact exponential algorithms. Together with Fedor Fomin (Bergen, Norway) he wrote the first book on “Exact Exponential Algorithms” (Springer, 2010). For many years he has strong and fruitful research relations to the algorithms group of the University of Bergen (Norway).
Speech Title: Exact Exponential Algorithms
Abstract: Today most computer scientists believe that NP-hard problems cannot be solved exactly by polynomial time algorithms. While from the polynomial-time perspective all NP-complete problems are equivalent, their exponential-time properties vary widely. Why do some NP-hard problems seem to be easier than others? What are the algorithmic techniques for solving hard problems significantly faster than by the use of exhaustive search, e.g. by trying all possible solutions? Algorithms addressing these questions are known as exact exponential algorithms.
The history of exact exponential algorithms for NP-hard problems dates back at least to the 1960s. Two classical examples are Bellman, Held and Karp's dynamic programming algorithm for the Traveling Salesman problem and Ryser's inclusion-exclusion formula for the permanent of a matrix. The design and analysis of exact algorithms for NP-hard problems leads to a better understanding of such problems and initiates interesting new combinatorial and algorithmic challenges. The last decade has witnessed a rapid development of the area, with many new algorithmic techniques discovered. This has transformed exact exponential algorithms into an active research field. This talk provides an introduction to exact exponential algorithms and explains various of its fundamental algorithmic techniques, in particular dynamic programming (over subsets), inclusion-exclusion, branching algorithms and measure & conquer.
Professor Sandy Siu-Cheung Li is the head of Department of Education Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. He obtained his Bachelor Degree and Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Hong Kong. He then obtained his PhD degree in Theoretical Physics from the Australian National University in 1996. Before joining Hong Kong Baptist University, He served as the Deputy Director for Information Technology in Education (CITE) at the University of Hong Kong from 1998 to 2001. Since then, he has been engaging in a wide range of research pertinent to Technology in Education, which includes educational leadership and ICT implementation in schools, information literacy, computer modelling and science education, pathological internet use, social media and collaborative learning, mobile learning, etc. He has been serving on the Steering Committee on Strategic Development of Information Technology in Education for the HKSAR government.
Speech Title: Social Media and Learning: Challenges to Educational Research
Abstract: The advancement in social media has brought about new opportunities as well as challenges to education. As such, there is a plethora of studies on the use of Web 2.0 tools to support learning and teaching. Recently, much attention has been given to social annotation environment and its use to facilitate collaborative work. Nevertheless, most of the studies on online annotation geared towards the architectural design with only a few addressing student learning, and little is known about the process of learning and how those cognitive and metacognitive processes progress and interact with one another. In this presentation, I will make use of the results of my recent study to illustrate the use of an online social annotation environment to support inquiry learning and the interplay of the cognitive and metacognitive processes manifested. Further, I will discuss the challenges and implications to future educational research.
Mark Pegrum is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at The University of Western Australia, where he specialises in mobile learning and, more broadly, e-learning. His teaching has been recognised through Faculty and University Excellence in Teaching Awards, as well as a national Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) Excellence in Teaching Award. His current research focuses on mobile technologies and digital literacies. His recent books include: Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and the Internet (co-edited with Joe Lockard; Peter Lang, 2007); From Blogs to Bombs: The Future of Digital Technologies in Education (UWA Publishing, 2009); Digital Literacies (co-authored with Gavin Dudeney & Nicky Hockly; Pearson/Routledge, 2013); and Mobile Learning: Languages, Literacies and Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, a member of the Editorial Boards of Language Learning & Technology and System, and a member of the Review Panel of the International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning. He currently teaches in Perth, Hong Kong and Singapore, and has given presentations and run seminars on e-learning and m-learning in Australia and New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East, and the UK and Europe. Further details can be found on his wiki at http://e-language.wikispaces.com/mark-bio
Speech Title: Mobile Literacy: Navigating New Learning Opportunities and Obligations
Abstract: Mobile literacy is essential to learning effectively, working efficiently and participating fully in a world increasingly mediated by smart mobile devices. It is a macroliteracy, composed of a range of more particularized literacies: it gives long-established literacies, such as information literacy and multimodal literacy, new inflections, and it gives more newly established literacies, such as network literacy and code literacy, added importance. Depending on the types of mobile learning employed in educational contexts, different constellations of these literacies may be fostered. It is time for educators at all levels to consider how best to support the development of students’ mobile literacy, including their critical mobile literacy. Mobile learning which foregrounds mobile literacy opens up the opportunity for educators to engage students in active, collaborative, situated learning, and simultaneously fulfils our obligation to develop students’ 21st century skills, including their digital literacies. In this way we can prepare them for and support them in their roles as lifelong learners, employees, and citizens in a mobile society.
