Round Table
On
Pervasive Grids
Paris, France, 02 May 2007
Context
The aim of
the round-table is to investigate the opportunities and challenges of Pervasive
Grids (PG). The round-table will bring together researchers from the Grid and
Pervasive communities, who are active in the PG field, to discuss the
definition of what is a PG. Is there a consensus on its applications and their
requirements and challenges? Will a Pervasive Grid be eventually realized?
PG is
motivated by the advances in Grid technologies and the proliferation of
pervasive systems, and is leading to the emergence of a new generation of
applications that use pervasive and ambient information as an integral part to
manage, control, adapt and optimize. These include a range of application areas
including crisis management, homeland security, personal healthcare, predicting
and managing natural phenomenon, monitoring and managing engineering systems,
optimizing business processes etc.
WiKi : A WiKi has been
started to discuss about Pervasive Grids on: http://perse.insa-lyon.fr/pervasivegrids/
Presentations:
Introduction
by Jean-Marc Pierson
Presentations by: Lionel Brunie, Geoffrey Coulson, Minyi Guo, Manish Parashar, Gregor von Laszewski, Laurence T. Yang ----
Participants:
Lionel Brunie: Prof. Lionel
Brunie is the LIRIS Lab (Lyon, France) deputy director since January 2007. He before
headed (from 2002 until 2006) the doctoral school of computer science of Lyon
(EDIIS - Lyon). After he received his PhD in computer science at the Joseph
Fourier University, Grenoble, Lionel Brunie joined the Ecole Normale Superieure
(LIP lab) of Lyon as assistant professor. Then he took a university Professor
position in computer science at the National Institute of Applied Sciences
(INSA) of Lyon in October 1998 where he co-founded the LIRIS laboratory in
2002. Lionel Brunie leads a research team of 15 researchers. His main topics of
interest include: distributed information systems, grid and pervasive
computing, security, multimedia databases, medical informatics. Lionel Brunie
is the (co-)author of over 120 research papers; he has been member of over 40
scientific conference and workshop committees.
Geoff Coulson: Prof. Geoff Coulson is a Professor of Distributed
Computing with over 40 journal and 100 conference papers to his name. He
received his PhD from Lancaster University in 1992, and since then has led many
successful projects in the distributed systems/ middleware area, including both
EPSRC- and EU-funded projects. He has been particularly involved recently in
projects involving middleware for sensor networks and embedded systems. He
serves on numerous PCs in the middleware/ distributed systems area, has
organised several workshops and has chaired major international conferences
(e.g. the ACM/ IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference). His research
interests include distributed systems, grids, adaptive sensor networks, and
systems-oriented software engineering.
Minyi Guo: Prof. Minyi Guo received the B.S.
and M.E. degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China in 1982 and
1986, respectively. From 1986 to 1994, he had been an assistant professor of
the Department of Computer Science at Nanjing University. He received the Ph.D.
degree in information science from University of Tsukuba, Japan in 1998. From
1998 to 2000, Dr. Guo had been a research associate of NEC Soft, Ltd. Japan. He
is currently a full professor at the Department of Computer Software, The
University of Aizu, Japan. From 2001 to 2002, he was a visiting professor of
Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, USA. Dr. Guo's research
interests include parallel and distributed processing, parallelizing compilers,
data parallel languages, data mining and software engineering. He is a member
of the ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, the Information Processing Society of
Japan (IPSJ) and IEICE.
Manish Parashar: Manish Parashar is Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where he also is co-director of the
Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP) and director of the Applied
Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL). He received a BE degree in Electronics and
Telecommunications from Bombay University, India and MS and Ph.D. degrees in
Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He has received the Rutgers
Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (2004-2005), NSF CAREER
Award (1999) and the Enrico Fermi Scholarship from Argonne National Laboratory
(1996). His research interests include autonomic computing, parallel &
distributed computing (including peer-to-peer and Grid computing), scientific
computing, and software engineering.
Jean-Marc Pierson: Since September 2006, Jean-Marc Pierson serves as a
University Professor in Computer Science at the University Paul Sabatier,
Toulouse 3 (France). Jean-Marc Pierson received his PhD from the ENS-Lyon,
France in1996. He was an Associate Professor at the University Littoral
Côte-d'Opale (1997-2001) in Calais, then at INSA-Lyon (2001-2006). He is now a
member of the IRIT Laboratory. His main interests are related to large-scale
distributed systems, funded by several projects in Grids and Pervasive
environments, with applications in biomedical informatics. He serves on several
PCs in the Grid and Pervasive computing area. His researches focus on security,
cache and replica management, and monitoring.
Gregor von Laszewski: Gregor von Laszewski is a Scientist at
Argonne National Laboratory and a fellow of the Computation Institute at
University of Chicago. He received
a Masters Degree in 1990 from the University of Bonn, Germany, and a Ph.D. in
1996 from Syracuse University in computer science. He is involved in Grid
computing since the term was coined. Current research interests are in the
areas of parallel, distributed, and Grid computing. Specifically, he is working
on topics in the area of using commodity technologies within Grid services,
applications, and portals. He serves on multiple Grid related conferences. He
is the principal investigator of the Java Commodity Grid Kit which provides the
current basis for many Grid related projects including Globus Toolkits GT3 and
GT4.
Laurence T. Yang: Dr. Laurence T.
Yang's research includes high performance computing and networking, embedded
systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing and intelligence, autonomic and trusted
computing, computational science and engineering. He has published around 240
papers in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in these
areas. He has been involved in more than 100 conferences and workshops as the
program/general conference chair and more than 200 conference and workshops as
a program committee member. He served as the vice-chair of IEEE Technical
Committee of Supercomputing Applications (TCSA) until 2004, currently is in the
executive committee of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC),
and of IEEE Technical Committee of Self-Organization and Cybernetics for
Informatics, and of IFIP Working Group 10.2 on Embedded Systems. He is also the
co-chair of IEEE Task force on Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing. In addition,
he is the editors-in-chief of 10 international journals and few book series. He
is serving as an editor for 14 international journals. He has been acting as
the author or editor/co-editor of 30 books from Kluwer, Springer, Nova Science,
American Scientific Publishers and John Wiley & Sons. He has received 3
Best Paper Awards including the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced
Information Networking and Applications (AINA-06); Distinguished Achievement
Award, 2005; Distinguished Contribution Award, 2004; Outstanding Achievement
Award, 2002; Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003; University
Research/Publication/Teaching Award 00-02/02-04/04-06.