[Pl-seminar] Reminder: Seminar Tomorrow: Charles Consel, Internet of Things: From Small- to Large-Scale Orchestration

[William J. Bowman]

Reminder: Seminar tomorrow!

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William J. Bowman

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:44:50AM -0400, William J. Bowman wrote:
> NUPRL Seminar presents
> 
> Charles Consel
> Bordeaux Institute of Technology
> 
> 11:00am--12:30pm
> Monday May 2nd, 2016
> Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)
> 
> 
> Internet of Things: From Small- to Large-Scale Orchestration
> 
> Abstract:
> The domain of Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly expanding beyond
> research and becoming a major industrial market with such stakeholders
> as major manufacturers of chips and connected objects, and
> fast-growing operators of low-power wide-area networks. Importantly,
> this emerging domain is driven by applications that leverage the
> infrastructure to provide users with innovative, high-value
> services. Because of this application-centric approach, software
> development plays a key role to realize the full potential of IoT.
> 
> In this talk, we argue that there is a continuum between orchestrating
> connected objects in the small and in the large, fostering a unified
> approach to application development. We examine the requirements for
> orchestrating connected objects and address them with domain-specific
> design concepts. We then show how to map these design concepts into
> dedicated programming patterns and runtime mechanisms.
> 
> Our work revolves around domain-specific notations integrated into a
> tool-based design methodology, dedicated to develop IoT
> applications. We have applied our work across a spectrum of
> infrastructure sizes; we present examples, ranging from an automated
> pilot in avionics, to an assisted living platform for the home of
> seniors, to a parking management system in a smart city.
> 
> 
> Bio:
> Charles Consel is a professor of Computer Science at Bordeaux
> Institute of Technology. He served on the faculty of Yale University,
> Oregon Graduate Institute and the University of Rennes.
> 
> His research contributions cover programming languages, software
> engineering, operating systems, pervasive computing, and assistive
> computing.
> 
> He leads the Phoenix group at Inria that conducts multi-disciplinary
> research to design, develop, deploy and assess assistive computing
> support. This research combines (1) Cognitive Science to study user
> needs and make a rigorous assessment of assistive services; (2)
> Sensing and actuating expertise to support the user, based on accurate
> and rich interactions with the environment; (3) Computer Science to
> support and guide the development process of the assistive services.
> 
> 
> -- 
> William J. Bowman
> Northeastern University
> College of Computer and Information Science



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