OTM 2011 Keynote | Amit ShethTraditionally, we had to artificially simplify the complexity and richness of the real world to constrained computer models and languages for more efficient computation. Today, devices, sensors, human-in-the-loop participation and social interactions enable something more than a “human instructs machine” paradigm. Web as a system for information sharing is being replaced by pervasive computing with mobile, social, sensor and devices dominated interactions. Correspondingly, computing is moving from targeted tasks focused on improving efficiency and productivity to a vastly richer context that support events and situational awareness, and enrich human experiences encompassing recognition of rich sets of relationships, events and situational awareness with spatio-temporal-thematic elements, and socio-cultural-behavioral facets. |
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OTM 2011 Keynote | Schahram DustdarSocial computing is perceived mainly as a vehicle for establishing and maintaining social (private) relationships as well as utilizing political and social interests. Unsurprisingly, social computing lacks substantial adoption in enterprises. Clearly, collaborative computing is firmly established (as a niche), but no tight integration exists of social and collaborative computing approaches to facilitate mainstream problem solving in and between enterprises or teams of people. In this talk I will present a fresh look at this problem and examine how to integrate people in the form of human-based computing and software services into one composite system, which can be modeled, programmed, and instantiated on a large scale. |
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OTM 2011 Keynote | Siani PearsonCloud computing offers a huge potential both for efficiency and new business opportunities (especially in service composition), and is almost certain to deeply transform our IT. However, the convenience and efficiency of this approach comes with a range of potential privacy and security risks. Indeed, a key barrier to the widespread uptake of cloud computing is the lack of trust in clouds by potential customers. This concern is shared by experts: the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)'s cloud computing risk assessment report states "loss of governance" as a top risk of cloud computing, and "data loss or leakages" is one of the top seven threats the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) lists in its Top Threats to Cloud Computing report. |
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OTM 2011 Keynote | Niky Riga"GENI - Global Environment for Network Innovations" The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) is a suite of research infrastructure components rapidly taking shape in prototype form across the US. It is sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, with the goal of becoming the world's first laboratory environment for exploring future Internets at scale, promoting innovations in network science, security, technologies, services, and applications. |
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