Speaker: Goce Trajcevski
Title: Entangling Software and Hardware (co)Engineering for Mobile Data in Smart Environments
Abstract: The spectrum of the “everyday technologies” has experienced an unprecedented growth in the recent years, bringing about not only novel trends/paradigms but also unexpected intertwining of (seemingly) unrelated disruptive trends. With the advent of the Internet of Things we are having a reality of a Smart World, in which: – over 80 million cars are sold per year, each being capable of generating ~20GB of heterogeneous data (not counting the data due to various apps) hourly, from over 400 sensors; – over 30000 mobile apps developed and over 1.4 billion smart phones sold (2015)… The spectrum is much broader and spans multiple heterogeneous contexts – along with certain “normal expectation” in terms of robustness, scalability, security, quality of service, etc. The infamous 1968 NATO conference spurred the discipline of Software Engineering with paradigms and models for adaptable rapid software development. Meanwhile, the confluence of the demand/market for web-based applications and the emergence of hardware/software co-design philosophies enabled the incorporation of the real-time adaptability as part of the development process. In this light, the premise of the talk is that the realm of Mobile Data Engineering is facing a pressing need for novel principles that would guide the development of applications with a broader level of cross-layer and cross-context collaborative awareness. The talk will consist of three parts. After a brief introduction and motivation, partly serving the purpose of placing our current research in the “big picture”, the second part of the talk will discuss in greater detail a couple of recent results, illustrating the different facets of managing/engineering evolving data in mobile environments. The main motivation is to demonstrate the need for coupling the data, devices and protocols, in a manner that none will be “solely a service provider” of the other(s) – and that all the participating contexts (from the sensed environment, through engaged devices, to end-users quality experiences) need to be incorporated throughout the design/development phases. The last part of the talk will present the research vision/desiderata and the quest for paradigm that could seamlessly extract Smart (Mobile) Data (instead of “plain” Big Data) and enable its use not only to steer systems’ actuation behavior, but also the very process of generating and gathering of that data.
Bio: Goce Trajcevski received his PhD from the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is currently an Assistant Chairman with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Northwestern University. His main research interests are in the areas of routing and mobile data management in wireless sensor networks, reactive behavior in dynamic systems, and spatio-temoral data management broadly. He has published over 100 papers in refereed conferences and journals and received a Best Paper Award at the CoopIS conference (2000), Best Paper Award at the IEEE MDM conference (2010) and Best Short Paper Award at ACM MSWiM conference (2013). His research has been funded by BEA, Northrop Grumman Corp., several NSF grants and ONR. He is presently an Associate Editor of GeoInformatica and ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS) journals. He has served on program and organizing committees in numerous conferences and workshops, and was a PC Co-Chair of ADBIS 2014 and ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2016, and a General Co-Chair of ICDE 2014.