Keynote

Raouf Boutaba

Raouf Boutaba is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and a David R. Cheriton faculty fellow. Before that he was the Director of the Telecommunications and Distributed Systems Division of the Computer Science Research Institute of Montreal. He held Visiting Professor Positions at the University of Toronto (Canada), the University of Pierre et Marie Curie, the University of Versailles, ENST- Paris, Paris 13 and Paris 5 (France), and POSTECH (Korea). He is currently a distinguished speaker of the IEEE Communications Society and served in the past as a distinguished speaker of the IEEE Computer Society. He is the Chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure, the Technical Committee on Autonomic Communications, and the Director of the Conference Publications Board. He is a Past Chair of the IFIP Working Group on Networks and Distributed Systems, Past Director of the Related Societies board, and Past Director of the standards board of the IEEE Communications Society. He is the founder and Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, on the advisory editorial board of the Journal of Network and Systems Management, and on the editorial board of other journals including the KIKS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks, the Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks and others. He acted as the general or program chair for several IEEE and IFIP conferences. His research interests include network, resource and service management in wired and wireless networks. He has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and received several journal and conference Best Paper Awards such as the 2008 Fred W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award as well as other recognitions such as the Premier's Research Excellence Award, two NORTEL research excellence Awards, a fellowship of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, and the IEEE Communications Society Hal Sobol Award.

Title: On trust and implementability of autonomic networks: a management perspective

In time, as autonomic systems and networks mature and gradually replace current network and computing infrastructure, a natural question arises: Can we trust fully autonomous networks? The economic and social ramifications are staggering if our networks are to run amok. In this talk, I will examine the fundamental principles of autonomic networks, and discuss the importance of trust and implementability in autonomic networks. They are first-class properties that must be engendered at all stages of system development: from theory to architecturing to operation. I will show that sound management practices is essential in this highly distributed and dynamic environment, but requires the introduction of new paradigms and concepts. To this end, I discuss a few important challenges: knowledge, self-stabilization and safeguard. I will also showcase a new and exciting autonomic networking architecture/testbed supporting the experimentation of autonomic networking concepts and designs.

Stamatis Karnouskos

Stamatis Karnouskos is with SAP where he investigates the usage of networked embedded devices in enterprise systems. The last 12 years Stamatis has been involved in several international R&D projects related to Internet-based services and architectures. He is actively involved in several activities dealing with future Internet and services, Internet of Things empowered applications, and SOA based automation and energy systems. Stamatis is active in several groups within the European Commission, and participates in as a PMC in several International Conferences. He has recently brought out an edited book on Autonomic Communication.

Title:The Autonomic Internet of Things in Future Real-World Enterprise Services

Modern enterprises need to be agile and dynamically support decision making processes at several levels. To achieve that, critical information need to be available at the right point in a timely manner, and in the right form. The future Real World Internet will be heavily based on the Internet of Things and possibly on event-based infrastructures where millions of devices openly cooperate among them and with Enterprise services. Intelligence will probably be distributed at several layers between enterprise systems and the devices. Traditional management would be insufficient and autonomic concepts seem promising. The emergence of self-* featured behavior such as self-management, self-healing etc in conjunction with cooperation capabilities might be the way towards self-sustained large-scale real-world infrastructures.