ICEBE 2017 Keynotes & Plenary Talk
Keynote I - Linking Technology to Services: Process to Identify Innovation and Cloud Services

Dr. Jen-Yao Chung
Quanta Cloud Technology, Taiwan

Abstract
What is Innovation? It’s not always about inventing something entirely new. Innovation occurs at the intersection of invention and insight. It’s about the application of invention - the fusion of new developments and new approaches to solve problems. We are approaching fundamental limits of technology that will drive new paradigms for software and systems. Software complexity is driving a rethinking of software development. Creating innovative solutions and services is not about doing something new for every client’s problem, it is about creatively solving business problems with reusable assets or building blocks. It is about using a systematic process to solve clients business and infrastructure problems for speed and quality. Services account for more than 50% of the labor forces in most of the developed countries and 75% in the major industrialized nations. Specifically, IT-enabled service plays a key role of boosting the economics by integrating IT with different domain knowledge to create innovative values from existing business services. Cloud Computing is a model of shared network-delivered services, both public and private, in which the user sees only the service, and need not worry about the implementation or infrastructure. Changing business environments require quick changes, new business models and new solutions. In this talk, lessons learned and future innovation drivers will be presented. We will present how to transition services from an ad-hoc practice to a more innovative and systematic discipline. We will present building applications based on cloud and everything as a service approach. We will conclude with our views on future trend, directions and research topics on business services in the cloud.

Biography
Dr. Jen-Yao Chung received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since August 2014, he has been with the Quanta Cloud Technology as an Associate VP where he is responsible for creating hyper converged cloud solutions. Before that, he was the Senior Research and Development Director Cloud System Software Institute, Institute for Information Industry where he is responsible for identifying and creating emerging cloud based solutions. Before that, he was the senior manager for Industry Technology and Solutions, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, responsible for identifying and creating emerging solutions with focus on Smart Cities, Green Computing and Business. Dr. Chung is co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications (published by Springer, EI & ESCI indexed). He also served as editorial board member for over 10 international journals. Dr.Chung is the co-founder and co-chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Electronic Commerce (TCEC). Dr. Chung co-founded IEEE International Conference on e-Commerce Technology (CEC) in 1998 and IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE) in 2004. He has served as general chair and program chair for over 30 international conferences. He has authored or coauthored over 180 technical papers in published journals or conference proceedings. He was awarded an IEEE Outstanding Paper award in 1995, two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards, an IBM Outstanding Contribution award, and five IBM Research Division awards. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Distinguished Engineer of ACM,and Member of IBM Academy of Technology.



Keynote II - Next Generation financial and business Big Data for e-business

Prof. Victor Chang
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Abstract
This keynote will address the next-generation big data for e-business to allow businesses to stay competitive. Apart from giving the overview, the real-life examples will be demonstrated to justify research contributions a follows. First, the financial analysis as a service will allow investors to track and understand risk and prices in real-time, and the predictive simulations can forecast the expected prices and risks 10-30 minutes ahead of the actual investment. Second, the business performance as a service can allow the businesses to identify their work performance, efficiency and profits in the past and current form, and predict the expected work performance for the following months or years. Third, the geo-economics analytics allow the government and decision-makers to understand the economic situations of each administrative regions, so that they can make better planning for their citizens and resources. These three examples have provided benefits and positive impacts, and they are the representative of a next-generation financial and business Big Data for e-business.

Biography
Prof. Victor Chang is an Associate Professor (Reader) and Director of PhD at IBSS, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China, after working as a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, UK, for 3.5 years. Within 4 years, he completed Ph.D. (CS, Southampton) and PGCert (Higher Education, Fellow, Greenwich) while working for several projects at the same time. Before becoming an academic, he has achieved 97% on average in 27 IT certifications. He won a European Award on Cloud Migration in 2011, IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2015, best papers in 2012 and 2015, the 2016 European award: Best Project in Research, Outstanding Young Scientist award in 2017 and numerous awards since 2012. He is widely regarded as a leading expert on Big Data/Cloud/IoT/security. He is a visiting scholar/PhD examiner at several universities, an Editor-in-Chief of IJOCI & OJBD journals, Editor of FGCS, Associate Editor of TII, founding chair of two international workshops and founding Conference Chair of IoTBDS http://www.iotbd.org and COMPLEXIS http://www.complexis.org since Year 2016. He was involved in different projects worth more than £12.5 million in Europe and Asia. He has published 3 books as sole authors and the editor of 2 books on Cloud Computing and related technologies. He has given and will give 12 keynotes at international conferences.



Keynote III - 25 years of e-Business, where we are at, and where we are going

Prof. Elizabeth Chang
University of New South Wales, Australia

Abstract

In this keynote, I will present an overview of 25 years of evolution of e-Business, its challenges and achievements. I illustrate this from multiple prospective, including: the evolution of software architectures and platforms, the emergence of software engineering methodologies and approaches, the cutting edge software design techniques, the changes in software tool and languages, the evolution of software process models and the shift in software engineering paradigms. Further, I illustrate the e-Business evolution through the revolution of information infrastructure including super-computers, mobile communication, smart devices, social media, big data clouds and internet of everything and their social economic impacts on e-Business engineering and applications.

Next I present the mega trends in e-Business engineering over the next 5-10 years; that includes the key challenges that are facing the e-Business world, research and development, namely:

  1. Transition from e-Business Engineering to e-Business Intelligence
  2. Switch from big data visualization to complex cognitive decision making
  3. Drop backend database interoperability and strive front-end Data Integration
  4. Move away from traditional all-in-one data warehouse to data lake, the future
  5. Withdraw from high cost fat backend ERP and move forward with lean front-end mobile micro services
  6. Redirect analytics on what we have today to predict would be the best for tomorrow

Biography
Professor Elizabeth Chang is Professor and Canberra Fellow at the UNSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). She has 30 years of work experience in both Academia and Industry. She has been a full Professor in IT, Software Engineering and Logistics Informatics for 14 years. She had been in senior positions in commercial corporations for 10 years, typically working on commercial grade large software development. Her key research strength is in large complex software development methodologies, requirement engineering, structure and unstructured database design and implementation, trust, security, risk and privacy. In the 2012 edition of MIS Quarterly vol. 36 issue. 4 Special Issues on Business Research, Professor Chang was listed fifth in the world for researchers in Business Intelligence. She has delivered 52 Keynote/Plenary speeches largely at major IEEE Conferences, awarded 27 Competitive Research Grants including 12 Australian Research Council (ARC) grants worth over $15 million, supervised/co-supervised 42 PhD theses to completion, has published 6 authored books, over 150 international journal papers and 400+ refereed conference papers with an H-Index of 44 (Google Scholar) and over 10,000 citations. She is an IEEE Fellow and has been Chair/Co-Chair for IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics since 2010. She has been Chair of theb IFIP International Working Group 2.1/12.4 since 2012. She has been General chair and Technical Chair for over 20 International and IEEE Conferences.



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