[Nets-seminars] Talk Friday 15th GS/302 4pm
Richard G. Clegg
richard at richardclegg.org
Mon May 11 10:31:02 BST 2009
We have another talk coming up this Friday, Dr Emil Lupu will be visiting
from Imperial College to talk about "Engineering Ubiquitous Systems - What
does it take to make it easier?"
Schedule here http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/nsrl/seminars/nsrl-talks
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Ubiquitous systems have been foretold more than two decades ago, and to
some extent they already intrude our lives. But engineering ubiquitous
systems for new applications is fraught with challenges as the resulting
systems must be autonomous, adaptive, dependable and inconspicuous. So what
can we do to make it easier? What principles, tools, techniques and
abstractions would be of most help?
This talk overviews our recent and ongoing work on building policy-based
autonomous ubiquitous systems. It describes the concept of a Self-Managed
Cell (SMC) as a basic architectural pattern for components that group
devices e.g. in a body area network, a team of collaborating robots, an
office, or a large international network. To scale to larger environments
we explore means of realising interactions between SMCs and composing them
into larger autonomous cells. We then discuss techniques required for
refining high-level goals into policies, analysing a SMC's behaviour under
a given set of policies, to identify inconsistencies and check that
desirable properties are satisfied. Finally, to be inconspicuous,
ubiquitous systems must learn the rules governing their behaviour from user
actions. The talk will discuss techniques that can be used to this end.
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Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/
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