[Colloq] CANCELED: William Regli, Drexel University - Thursday, Feb. 11

[Rachel Kalweit]

DUE TO TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES, THE TALK BY WILLIAM REGLI WILL BE CANCELED TODAY. I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN/IF IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED.

KIND REGARDS,

Rachel M. Kalweit
College of Computer and Information Science
202 West Village H
Northeastern University
phone: 617-373-2462
fax: 617-373-5121
rachelb at ccs.neu.edu




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The College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium Presents:

Speaker: William Regli, Drexel University
Date: February 11, 2010
Time: 1:30pm
Location: 366 West Village H

Title: Lessons Learned in Creating a Secure Wireless Agent Testbed
 
Abstract:

During the period 2001-2006, we created SWAT, a Secure Wireless Agent Testbed. The goal of SWAT was to create an integrated environment to study information assurance for mobile agent systems on ad hoc wireless networks.  This testbed consisted of dozens of mobile hosts, both PDAs and laptops, and hundreds of both static and mobile software agents. In deploying the testbed, novel mechanisms had to be developed to enable intelligent systems to operate effectively in environments in communications is neither reliable nor free.  In the course of SWAT, we developed novel solutions for "network aware" computation to solve a number of problems arising from the untethered wireless domain.  These include integrating autonomous agent technologies with public-key and symmetric key encryption to support secure communication among groups of hosts and agents; network adaptive messaging and agent behaviors; as cross-layer test and measurement approaches to evaluate the performance and effe
 ctiveness of distributed intelligent agent systems.  Our current work includes benchmarking and verification of agent-based systems, agent-based command and control, and agent-based approaches to distributed coordination and resource management.

Bio:  
William Regli is a Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University with joint appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering.  He is also Executive Director of Drexel University's Applied Communications and Information Networking Program; Senior Scientific Adviser to the Department of Justice's Communications Technologies Center of Excellence; and co-founder of Drakontas, a technology company specializing in the development and validation of communications systems for first responders.  Dr. Regli has interdisciplinary research interests and his contributions span several computer science and engineering fields (artificial intelligence, solid modeling and graphics, CAD/CAM integration, mechanical design, and wireless networks).  His research has been sponsored by a wide variety of organizations (including US Army, DISA, NSF, ONR, NRL, AFOSR, ARO, DARPA, NIST, NIJ/DoJ, DoE, NNSA, SAIC, Boeing, Lockheed, AT&T, GE), supporting over 100 graduate an
 d undergraduate students and producing four patent filings and over 150 technical publications.  Regli's research awards include major grants under each of NSF's interdisciplinary research initiatives of the past decade: KDI, ITR and Cyber-Infrastructure programs.  Nine of his undergraduates have been acknowledged by CRA.  Regli is the recipient of many awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, an NRC Postdoc, NIST Special Service Award, the Drexel College of Engineering Research Award; and co-recipient of the Army's 2006 International Collaboration and IDGA's Best NCW Program Award.  He is a life member of AAAI and Sigma Xi and a Senior Member of both IEEE and ACM.  Contact him at regli at drexel.edu.


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