IEEE Services 2022 Plenary Panel
The Servitizing of IoT
Plenary Panel: The Servitizing of IoT
Date/Time: Thursday July 14
14:20 - 15:40 CET (Barcelona)
Internet of Things (IoT) has become a household term. Everyday objects (a.k.a. things) come now equipped with various sensors and are Internet-enabled. These IoT devices are usually enhanced with ubiquitous intelligence. IoT technologies are the key enablers of many cutting-edge applications such as smart cities, smart campuses, smart grids, and smart transportation. It has been recognized that the concept of IoT is congruent with the service paradigm. In this respect, each “thing” is represented by a set of functional and non-functional (a.k.a. quality of service) properties. In this regard, the service paradigm may provide the perfect framework for innovating in IoT and provide a greater opportunities for wider deployment. This would provide the same as, and perhaps greater opportunities than those afforded to cloud computing. The assembled panel consists of leading experts in service computing and IoT to discuss the opportunities and challenges servitizing IoT.
Panel Chair:
Athman Bouguettaya received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in the US in 1992. Before joining the University of Sydney as Professor and Head of the School of Computer Sciencein 2016, he was Professor and Head of the School of Computer Science and IT at RMIT University in Melbourne. Prior to this he was Science Leader in Service Computing at the CSIRO ICT Centre (now DATA61) in Canberra, and a tenured faculty member and program director in the Computer Science department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in the US.
Panelists:
Schahram Dustdar (in-person participation) is Full Professor of Computer Science heading the
Research Division of Distributed Systems at the TU Wien, Austria. He
holds several honorary positions: University of California (USC) Los
Angeles; Monash University in Melbourne, Shanghai University, Macquarie
University in Sydney, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. From
Dec 2016 until Jan 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of
Sevilla, Spain and from January until June 2017 he was a Visiting
Professor at UC Berkeley, USA.
From 1999 – 2007 he worked as the co-founder and chief scientist of
Caramba Labs Software AG in Vienna (acquired by Engineering NetWorld
AG), a venture capital co-funded software company focused on software
for collaborative processes in teams. Caramba Labs was nominated for
several (international and national) awards: World Technology Award in
the category of Software (2001); Top-Startup companies in Austria
(CapGemini Ernst & Young) (2002); MERCUR Innovation award of the
Austrian Chamber of Commerce (2002). He is co-founder of edorer.com
(USA) and sinoaus.net (based in Nanjing, China), where he is the
chief-scientist.
He is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Internet of
Things (ACM TIoT) as well as Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). He
is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE
Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions
on the Web, and ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, as well as on
the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Computer.
Dustdar is recipient of multiple awards: IEEE TCSVC Outstanding
Leadership Award (2018), IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable
Computing (2019), TCI Distinguished Service Award 2021 by the IEEE
Technical Committee on the Internet (TCI) (2021), ACM Distinguished
Scientist (2009), ACM Distinguished Speaker (2021), IBM Faculty Award
(2012). He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of
Europe, where he is chairman of the Informatics Section, as well as an
IEEE Fellow (2016) and an Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence
Association (AAIA) Fellow and President (2021).
Omer F. Rana (virtual participation) is Professor of Performance Engineering at Cardiff University, with research interests in high performance distributed computing, data analysis/mining and multi-agent systems. He is the College Dean of International for Physical Sciences & Engineering at Cardiff University. Rana has contributed to specification and standardisation activities via the Open Grid Forum and worked as a software developer with London-based Marshall Bio-Technology Limited prior to joining Cardiff University, where he developed specialist software to support biotech instrumentation. He has held visiting professor positions at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) and Princess Noura University (Saudi Arabia). He also contributed to public understanding of science, via the Wellcome Trust funded "Science Line", in collaboration with BBC and Channel 4. Rana holds a PhD in "Neural Computing and Parallel Architectures" from Imperial College (London Univ.), an MSc in Microelectronics (Univ. of Southampton) and a BEng in Information Systems Eng. from Imperial College (London Univ.). More details available at: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/118157-rana-omer (remote participation)
Michael Sheng (in-person participation) is a full Professor and Head of School of Computing at Macquarie University. Before moving to Macquarie University, he spent 10 years at School of Computer Science, the University of Adelaide. From 1999 to 2001, he also worked at University of New South Wales as a visiting research fellow. Prior to that, he spent 6 years as a senior software engineer in industries. Michael Sheng’s research interests include the Internet of Things (IoT), service computing, big data analytics, and Web technologies. He is ranked by Microsoft Academic as one of the Most Impactful Authors in Services Computing (ranked Top 5 All Time) and in Web of Things (ranked Top 20 All Time). Michael Sheng is the recipient of AMiner Most Influential Scholar in IoT (2018), ARC (Australian Research Council) Future Fellowship (2014), Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution (2012), and Microsoft Research Fellowship (2003). He is the Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Community on Services Computing (IEEE TCSVC), the Associate Director of Macquarie University Smart Green Cities Research Center, and a member of the ACS (Australian Computer Society) Technical Advisory Board on IoT.
Brahim Medjahed (virtual participation) is Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Initiatives at the Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Michigan – Dearborn’s College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS). Dr. Medjahed received his PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, USA in 2004. He was awarded the prestigious 2019 Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year by the Michigan Association of State Universities (MASU). He also received several other reputable awards including three (3) best research paper awards, the University of Michigan – Dearborn Distinguished Teaching award, CECS Excellence in Teaching award, and the Outstanding Graduate Research award at Virginia Tech. Dr. Medjahed is Program Committee Co-Chair of the 2022 International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing. His research focuses on advancing the state of the art in developing and maintaining service-oriented software. In particular, he is interested in exploring solutions for service integration in emerging environments such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, big data, social computing, and crowdsourcing. Dr. Medjahed has more than 120 publications in premier journals and highly competitive conferences as well as two (2) books published by Springer. His research is funded through multiple grants from federal agencies (e.g., National Science Foundation) and industry (e.g., Ford Motor Company).
Boualem Benatallah (in-person) is a full professor of computing at Dublin City University (DCU, Ireland) since Jan 2022. Professor Benatallah has had over 21 years as a research leader and academic (senior lecturer, associate professor, professor and then scientia professor), at UNSW Sydney (Australia). His main research interests are developing fundamental concepts and techniques in Web service composition, services engineering, crowd sourcing services, data curation, cognitive services, and business processes management. He has published more than 300 refereed papers including more than 90 journal papers. Most of his papers appeared in very selective and reputable conferences and journals. Boualem has been general and PC chair of a number of international conferences. He has been guest editor of several special issues for reputable international journals. He is a member of the steering committee of BPM and ICSOC conferences. He is member of the editorial board of numerous international journals including ACM Transactions on Web and IEEE transactions on services computing. He held visiting professor positions at several prestigious research institutes and universities. He was a member of the team (comprising multiple university, government, and industry partners) that constructed the successful bid for the Smart Services CRC (cooperative Research Centre). He was research leader of the data curation foundry research stream at the Data to Decisions CRC. He is fellow of the IEEE. He is member of Executive Committee of IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems. He is member of ACM.
Fabio Casati (in-person) is a Principal Machine Learning Architect and Engineer at Servicenow.
Fabio focuses on designing, architecting and deploying AI-powered workflows for enterprise customers. On the research side, he is working on AI applied to workflows and on quality in AI. Previously he was Professor at the University of Trento. In that role, he started research lines on crowdsourcing and hybrid human-machine computations, focusing on applications that have direct positive impact on society through tangible artefacts adopted by the community. Prior to that, he was technical lead for the research program on business process intelligence in Hewlett-Packard USA, where he contributed to several HP commercial products in the area of web services and business process management. He co-authored a best-selling book on Web services and is author of over 250 peer-reviewed papers.