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      THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE A SEMINAR ENTITLED:


                ``Next Generation Emerging Technologies''

                                   by

                         Professor Nik Bessis

                                  from 

                   School of Computing and Mathematics
                           University of Derby
                              Derby, ENGLAND

                        FRIDAY, 14th OCTOBER 2011
                       University of Ulster, Magee
                                 2.00 PM
                               Room: MS-020 


                                 Abstract

During the last years, each  resource provider has developed their own
e-infrastructure  platforms  in  a computationally  isolated  fashion,
which  are not necessarily  inter-operable and  inter-cooperative with
each  other  for  effective  data portability,  service  and  resource
sharing, discovery, scheduling and integration. The inter-operable and
inter-cooperative initiatives were always of a particular interest and
although significant progress has been made there is still evidence of
current trends keep pushing  towards this direction. Specifically, the
rapid developments in networking and resource integration domains have
resulted in the emergence and in some instances to the maturisation of
various  distributed   and  collaborative  computational  technologies
including Web  2.0, SOA, P2P, Grids  and Clouds. 

A number of  relevant e-infrastructure implementations demonstrate the
applicability of these technologies  in a manner that enables improved
intelligence  in decision-making  through their  agile  and synergetic
capacity, which  in turn,  seems a promising  way forward  for solving
complex computational problems  and real-world grand challenges. These
technologies  are  becoming  even  more  popular as  they  provide  an
improved utility,  consumption, delivery  and efficient model  for the
future Internet, the Internet  of Things. For example, Cloud computing
has  been  emerged as  one  of  the  most important  technologies  for
delivering on-demand  advanced services  via the Internet.   Like SOA,
P2P and Grids, Clouds are also seen as a pre-cursor of the Internet of
Things.  A  variety of  Cloud  vendors  including  Amazon, Google  and
Salesforce  develop  their services  by  spreading  them at  different
geographically locations, and by making them available for utilisation
from  a worldwide set  of Internet  users. As  the number  of resource
consumers   is   increasing,  it   has   become   apparent  that   the
capacity-oriented  Clouds  require  coming  together and  agreeing  on
common acting behaviours for improving their quality of service (QoS),
thus providing an optimisation of aggregated workloads.

The  underlined   inter-operable  and  inter-cooperative  requirements
(inter-Cloud initiative)  highlight the current need  for supporting a
coordinated distribution  of the workload between  different Clouds in
particular (and  e-infrastructures in general) and for  the benefit of
their Internet  users. The inter-Cloud initiative  goes beyond current
Cloud capabilities by providing a flexible e-infrastructure towards an
integrated   solution   supporting   the  requirement   for   improved
inter-organisational functionality, which  in turn will foster further
organisational opportunities.  The computational  vision as a whole is
to continue  developing inter-functionality between e-infrastructures,
that is to say, forming a pool of inter-operable and inter-cooperative
sub-e-infrastructures  that  enables   the  dynamic  collaboration  of
networked inter-connected organisations.

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Biography:

Nik Bessis is currently a  Head of Distributed and Intelligent Systems
(DISYS)  research group,  a full  Professor  and a  Chair of  Computer
Science in  the School of  Computing and Mathematics at  University of
Derby, UK. He is also an academic member in the Department of Computer
Science and Technology at University of Bedfordshire (UK). He obtained
a B.A.  (1991)  from the TEI of Athens, Greece  and completed his M.A.
(1995)  and  Ph.D.   (2002)  at  De  Montfort  University  (Leicester,
UK). His research interest is  the analysis, research, and delivery of
user-led  developments   with  regard  to   trust,  data  integration,
annotation,  and  data  push   methods  and  services  in  distributed
environments. These  have a particular focus  on the study  and use of
next generation technologies including  grids, clouds, crowds, IoT and
social  networks for  the  benefit of  various virtual  organizational
settings.  He is  involved in and leading a  number of funded research
and commercial  projects in these  areas.  Prof. Bessis  has published
over 100  papers, won 3 best paper  awards and is the  editor of three
books  and  the  Editor-in-Chief   of  the  International  Journal  of
Distributed  Systems  and Technologies  (IJDST).   In addition,  Prof.
Bessis is a regular reviewer and has served several times as a keynote
speaker, conferences/workshops/track  chair, associate editor, session
chair and scientific program committee member.

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All Welcome!

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