Keynotes - Xiaofei Xu

Data-Centric Smart Big Service: New Challenges and New Development

To be presented morning of July 5, 2018

Information technology has developed into a new phase with the emergence of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things, mobile computing and open source, etc. In the Internet + Services environment, more and more software service resources have been developed and they are further interconnected to form a service ecosystem functionally enriched by big data. This is called “Data-centric Big Service”, a new ecosystem of massive complicated networked services which bridge heterogeneous networks, multiple business domains and the cyber and physical worlds. A lot of new challenges emerge and lead to drastic changes on traditional services computing research and practice, resulting in Big Service theory and technologies. The recent explosive progress of artificial intelligence facilitate smart services, too. In this talk, the background, concepts, features, architecture, new paradigm, research problems and topics, and new development trends of Big Service are presented. The applications and influences of Big Service on business, technology, society and people’s daily life are also discussed.

Brief Biography

Xu Xiaofei has been a professor of computer science at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) since 1993. He is currently the vice president of Harbin Institute of Technology, and the president of HIT, Weihai campus. He received his Ph.D. Degree in HIT in 1988. His research interests include service computing and service engineering, enterprise computing and enterprise interoperability, software engineering, databases and data mining. He is the author/co-author of more than 300 journal/conference papers, and seven books. He has supervised more than 30 Ph.D. in computer science.

Xu is a fellow and board-member of China Computer Federation (CCF), chair of the Technical Committee on Service Computing of CCF, vice director of the Steering Committee of Higher Education on Software Engineering of China, and vice chair of China association of MOOC on computer education. He is also the leader of the expert group of University-Industry Co-education Program of China Ministry of Education. He is involved in the editorial boards of ten journals. He has been chair or co-chair of conferences, program committees in more than twenty international conferences, including IEEE SCC, ICSS, IESA, CEISEE.