Keynote Speakers

Professor Dan Ionescu

School of Information Technology and Engineering

University of Ottawa , Canada

Short Bio:

Dr. Dan Ionescu is a full Professor with the University of Ottawa (the Capital City University in Canada ) since 1985. He is the Director of the Network Computing and Control Technologies research laboratory since 1999. He was the director of Computer Engineer from 1996 to 2000. Dr. Dan Ionescu is a senior member of various IEEE, IFIP, and IFAC groups. His research at the University of Ottawa spans over a few domains such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, Distributed Computing, Network Computing and Control, Internetworking technologies, Web collaboration and etc. His contributions to Expert Systems, Image Processing, Temporal Logic, Discrete Event, Real-Time Systems, Network Measurement and Control materialized in a series of more than 250 papers, and an edited book. A series of industrial and governmental research grants were obtained including CITO, Nortel, Newbridge (Alcatel-lucent), AT&T, CPlane, OCE, NSERC, and many others. His lab now is equipped with several million-dollar-level high-end routing and switching devices, and large server farms.

Dr. Dongli Zhang
Senior Engineer, Cisco System Inc. , Canada

Short Bio:

Dr. Dongli Zhang is a senior engineer with Cisco System Inc. He has been involved in the research and development of the Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) — Industry performance leading a dvanced core routing platform, and is currently working on the Aggregation Services Routers (ASR) — a versatile midrange integrated services router. Previously, he was the Vice President of Artisnet, a leading company in business information management. Before that, h e had worked with Huawei as a senior engineer. He obtained his B.S. degree in computer science and M.S. degree in computer engineering from Nankai University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Ottawa. He was a two-year postdoctoral researcher sponsored by NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada). He is still active in the academic area and doing some research collaboration with University of Ottawa. He is a popular editor/reviewer for network related international conferences and journals. His research interests span a variety of topics in area of data communication and networks, including QoS, traffic engineering, broadband aggregation, distributed network management, web collaboration, cloud computing and etc, which materialized in a series of papers.

Talk Title: On-the-Cloud and Autonomic Computing: How to Control Complex Network Based Services

Abstract:

Clouding Computing has recently emerged as a commercial reality which is changing the way people work and live. The goal of Cloud Computing is to share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain. A Cloud Computing platform has to provide self-recovering (healing) from many inevitable hardware or software failures, self-optimization of the consumed computing and networking resources. Autonomic Computing, on its turn provides the self-management features through which complex IT infrastructures such as an on-the-cloud platform can be efficiently deployed and managed.

Prof.Wenchang Shi
School of Information, Renmin University of China

Short Bio:

Wenchang Shi is currently a professor in School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, P.R.China. He is in charge of the Information Security Division, and directing the Systems and Information Security Research Laboratory. He is also a professor in the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.China. He received a B.S. degree from Peking University, Beijing, P.R.China, an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.China, all are in Computer Science. He is a senior member of China Computer Federation (CCF) and a member of IEEE Computer Society. He is a committee member of the CCF Information Security Committee, System Software Committee, Open System Committee, etc.. Before joining RUC, he was a research professor in the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.China. His current research interests include Information Security, Trusted Computing, Operating Systems, and Virtual Machine Technologies. He has over 20 years' research experiences in Operating Systems, especially the UNIX-like Operating Systems. His early involvement with the UNIX-like Operating Systems was in 1988, when he took part in a research project, porting UNIX System V from the AT&T 3B2 computers to other hardware platforms. He was the chief architect of the Redflag Secure Operating System, which passed the National Information Security Evaluation of China, and which is the ancestor of one of the principal products of Redflag Software Co. Ltd, Beijing, P.R.China. He has undertaken a lot of research programs funded by the Nation and other organizations, published about one hundred academic papers, and won a series of science and technology awards. He often actively serves as Program Committee member or keynote speaker in international conferences. He also serves as guest editor of international and Chinese journals.

Talk Title: On Design of a Trusted Software Base with Support of TPCM

Abstract:

Building Trusted Computing Systems has been continuous endeavors at least since G.H. Nibaldi proposed the concept of a TCB (Trusted Computing Base) in the late 1970s. The founding of the TCG made a big step forward in catching such a goal. However, very limited applications can be found running on trusted computing platforms to date. One of the most important reasons is that there is not enough relevant software for users to use. Although the TCG has TSS to help building trusted software, the TSS essentially only states how to use the functions of a TPM but not what kind of software to build with a TPM. With considerations to the Chinese counterpart of a TPM, i.e. a TPCM, this talk argues that a TSB (Trusted Software Base) is in urgent need to build trusted applications. It presents the concept of a TSB and discusses the approaches to designing a TSB.

Dr. Zhenli Lu

Post-doctoral Researcher, IEETA, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, P. R. China

Short Bio:

Zhenli Lu is currently a Post- d octoral R esearcher in IEETA , University of Aveiro, Portugal. And he is also an A ssociate P rofessor in School of Mechanical Engineering , Shenyang Ligong University , P. R. China. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing , P. R. China, a Doctor of Engineering (Master-Docter combined program) degree from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang , P. R. China, both are in Mechatronic Engineering. He is a “Thousand people plan” fellow of “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia” (FCT) in Portugal. Before joining University of Aveiro, he was a Post- d octoral R esearcher funded by the FP7(Seventh Framework Programme) project (Cooperative Human Robot Interaction Systems (FP7-215805)) in the Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute Integrative Neuroscience & Robotics, INSERM U846, Lyon, France. His current research interests include robot intelligent control, bio-inspired control methods for robots, mixed reality and management information system. He has nearly 10 years' research experience in management information system and bio-inspired robot control. Relying on the project of the National Science Foundation of China “Study on the CPG based control methods for snake-like robots” and project of the National High Technology Research and Development Program － “863” Program, “Study on a Snake Robot Adapted to the Environment”, he and his supervisors published more than ten papers, most of them are indexed by EI, ISTP , ISI and one is indexed by SCI. He was awarded the T. J. Tarn best robotics paper and Finalist for C. M. HO Best Paper award at 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, and the best paper award of the Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering in 2007. He serve d as Program Committee member in 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics. He also serve d as a reviewer for IEEE IROS 2006, IEEE ROBIO 2005/2006/2007 /2010 , Zidonghua Xuebao/Acta Automatica Sinica , the Journal of Bionic Engineering and the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

Talk Title: CI-CPG Based Locomotion Control Methods for the Snake-like Robot

Abstract:

With slim and legless body, particular hemispherical condyles, snakes perform many kinds of rhythmic movements adapted to the environments under the control of their neuron systems.

Some biologists have testified that the rhythmic locomotion of a creature is a self-excitation behavior of the low-level ganglia, which is controlled by Central Pattern Generators (CPGs). CPG is a neural network that can produce a rhythmic pattern without any sensory feedback or central control.

We break through the traditional viewpoint that the CPG is modeled by the mutual inhibition (MI), and applies the cyclic inhibition (CI) in a creative way to study the modeling and implementing of the CPG to snake-like robots.

This report includes the following aspects: the characteristic analysis of single neuron model, the modeling theory of the CI-CPG for the joint control, the stability analysis of the control system of snake-like robots constructed by different kind of CI-CPGs, the generating method for typical gaits of snake-like robots, the strategies of parameter setting for serpentine locomotion controlled by the CI-CPG neuron network, and the validation of the above methods through the dynamic simulations and experiments.

Prof. Chi-Hung Chi

School of Software

Tsinghua University

Short Biography of Prof. Chi

Chi-Hung Chi is currently a professor in the School of Software, Tsinghua University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. After working in Philips Laboratories and in IBM Poughkeepsie, Prof. Chi returned to academia (firstly to Chinese University of Hong Kong, and then National University of Singapore and now, with Tsinghua University). His main research areas include content networking and engineering, systems and network security, software engineering, service engineering, and cloud computing. He has published about 200 papers in international conferences and journals and holds 6 U.S patents. He is the program/general chairman of WCW 2004, AWCC 2004, IEEE SOSE 2006, ICSOC 2009, SCC 2009, SIE 2010. He is also on advisory board of European Research Institute on Service Science, an associated member of European S-CUBE project and the European International Master Program on Service Engineering, editorial board of IGI's International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering and Springer Heidelberg's LNCS (Lecture Note on Computer Science) Subline on Service Science. He is a popular panelist and speaker, and on PC committees of many international conferences. Technologies that he developed are also successfully transferred into industry.

ABSTRACT

In the past few years, there are four emerging “hot topics” in the IT industry, namely service computing, cloud computing, Internet of things, and social computing. While they are important and interesting by themselves and worth research and development, we would like to take a macroscopic view on their impacts to the software industry in China. Will technologies from these topics create a new industry in China? If yes, what kind of new industry is likely to be created? In this talk, we will first trace back to 1961, when John McCarthy spoke about computing as public utility concept at the MIT Centennial. We will then argue that internet and web, service computing, cloud computing and SaaS (software as a service) are just some evolution stages of human's dream to fulfill their ultimate needs. Next, we will present a unified macroscopic view connecting these four areas together and describe some of the major research challenges we are facing. Finally, given the observation on the software industry of China in the past 10 years, we will analyze the potentials of software service industry as a new industry in China.