About Professor Laurence T. Yang

Dr. Laurence T. Yang¡¯s research includes high performance computing and networking, embedded systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing and intelligence.
He has published around 300 papers (including around 80 international journal papers such as IEEE and ACM Transactions) in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in these areas. He has been involved in more than 100 conferences and workshops as a program/general/steering conference chair and more than 300 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 the chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC), the chair of IEEE Task force on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence. He is also in the executive committee of IEEE Technical Committee of Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics, and of IFIP Working Group 10.2 on Embedded Systems, and of IEEE Technical Committee of Granular Computing.
In addition, he is the editors-in-chief of 8 international journals and few book series. He is serving as an editor for around 20 international journals. He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of 25 books from Kluwer, Springer, Nova Science, American Scientific Publishers and John Wiley & Sons. He has won 5 Best Paper Awards (including the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-06)); 2 IEEE Best Paper Award, 2007 and 2008; 2 IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, 2007 and 2008; one Best Paper Nomination, 2007; Distinguished Achievement Award, 2005; Distinguished Contribution Award, 2004; Outstanding Achievement Award, 2002; Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003; University Research/Publication/Teaching Award 99-02/02-05/05-07.

Ubiquitous/Pervasive Intelligence: Visions and Challenges

Ubiquitous/Pervasive computers, networks and information are paving a road towards a smart world (SW) in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout the physical environment to provide trustworthy and relevant services to people. This ubiquitous/pervasive intelligence(UI/PI) will change the computing landscape because it will enable new breeds of applications and systems to be developed; the realm of computing possibilities will be significantly extended. By embedding digital intelligence in everyday objects, our workplaces, our homes and even ourselves, many tasks and processes could be simplified, made more efficient, safer and more enjoyable. Ubiquitous or pervasive computing, composes these many "smart things/u-things" to create the environments that underpin the smart world.

In this presentation, the potential trends towards smart world (SW) and ubiquitous/pervasive intelligence (UI/PI) from smart u-things to smart spaces and then to smart hyperspaces will be addressed, as well as, the challenges in smart u-things¡¯ research in terms of technical and real world complexity.

About Dr. Mohammad S. Obaidat

Mohammad S. Obaidat is an internationally well known academic, researcher, and scientist. He received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Obaidat is currently a full Professor of Computer Science at Monmouth University, NJ, USA. Among his previous positions are Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth University and a faculty member at the City University of New York. He has received extensive research funding. He has authored or co-authored six books and over four hundred and twenty (420) refereed scholarly journal and conference articles. Dr. Obaidat has served as a consultant for several corporations and organizations worldwide and is editor of many scholarly journals including being the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Communication Systems published by John Wiley. He is also an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications. In 2002, he was the scientific advisor for the World Bank/UN Workshop on Fostering Digital Inclusion. Recently, Dr. Obaidat was awarded the distinguished Nokia Research Fellowship and the Distinguished Fulbright Award.
Dr. Obaidat has made pioneering and lasting contributions to the multi-facet fields of computer science and engineering. He has guest edited numerous special issues of scholarly journals such as IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Systems Journal, Elsevier Performance Evaluation, SIMULATION: Transactions of SCS, Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Journal of C & EE, and Wiley, Security and Communication Network Journal, and Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, among others. Obaidat has served as the steering committee chair, advisory Committee Chair, honorary chair, and program chair of many international conferences. He is the founder of the International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, SPECTS and has served as the General Chair of SPECTS since its inception. Obaidat has received a recognition certificate from IEEE. Between 1994-1997, Obaidat has served as distinguished speaker/visitor of IEEE Computer Society. Since 1995 he has been serving as an ACM distinguished Lecturer. He is also and SCS Distinguished Lecturer. Prof. Obaidat is the founder of the SCS Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) and its present director.

Between 1996 and 1999, Dr. Obaidat served as an IEEE/ACM program evaluator of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board/Commission, CSAB/CSAC. Between 1995 and 2002, he has served as a member of the board of directors of the Society for Computer Simulation International. Between 2002 and 2004, He has served as Vice President of Conferences of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International SCS. Between 2004-2006, he has served as Vice President of Membership of SCS. Between 2006-2009, he served as the Senior Vice President of SCS. He is currently the President of SCS. He has been invited to lecture and give keynote speeches worldwide. One of his recent co-authored papers has received the best paper award in the IEEE AICCSA 2009 international conference. In 2009, Dr. Obaidat received the McLeod Founder's Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession. His research interests are: wireless communications and networks, modeling and simulation, performance evaluation of computer systems, and telecommunications systems, security of computer and network systems, high performance computing/computers, applied neural networks and pattern recognition, security of e-based systems, and speech processing. During the 2004/2005 academic, he was on sabbatical leave as the Fulbright distinguished Professor and Advisor to the President of Philadelphia University (Dr. Adnan Badran who became in April 2005 the Prime Minster of Jordan). Prof. Obaidat is a Fellow of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International SCS, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Recent Trends and Challenges in the Security of e-Systems and Computer Networks

e-Based systems and computer networks are ubiquitous in the modern world, with applications spanning e-commerce, WLANS, healthcare and governmental organizations, banking, among others. The secure transfer of information has therefore become a critical area of research, development, and investment. e-Security solutions aim to provide five important services: authentication of users and actors, integrity, confidentiality of communication, availability of business services, and non-repudiation of transactions. Most e-security solutions that are provided by the literature use two main cryptographic techniques: public key cryptosystems and digital signatures.

Organizations face three types of economic impact as possible results of malicious attacks targeting them: the immediate, short term, and midterm economic impacts. The immediate economic impact is the cost of repairing, modifying, or replacing systems (when needed) and the immediate losses due to disruption of business operations, transactions, and cash flows. Short term economic impact is the cost on an organization, which includes the loss of contractual relationships or existing customers because of the inability to deliver products or services as well as the negative impact on the reputation of the organization. Long term economic impact is induced by the decline in an organization's market appraisal.

ICT and Internet use have contributed significantly to the success of many companies and organizations. Nevertheless, the current growth of digital attacks has caused decision makers in enterprises and government to doubt the confidence in information and communication technology. In fact, security incidents that occurred recently have emphasized three important facts: (a) computer network attacks can induce a huge damage on business and government activity, (b) many of the attacked organizations have active security infrastructures at the moment the security incident occurred and (c) the security infrastructure cost vary highly from one organization to the other based on the security policy adopted and the nature of the activity performed by the enterprise. Structured methodologies that identify, analyze, monitor, and mitigate computer and network security risks have been developed to help enterprises integrate security in their strategic plans.

The core areas of security of e-systems and computer networks such as authentication of users, system integrity, confidentiality of communication, availability of business service, risk management and analysis and non-repudiation of transactions ?are covered in this talk. Other topics that will be dealt with include public key infrastructure (PKI) systems, biometric-based security systems, intrusion detection technologies, virtual private networks (VPNs), malware, and wireless LANs security.

This keynote presents the recent trends, challenges and applications of security of e-based systems and computer networks. Samples of some of our recent results in this fascinating area will be presented as well..

About Hai Jin, Ph.D

Dr. Hai Jin is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. He is now the Dean of School of Computer Science and Technology at HUST. He received his Ph.D. in computer engineering from HUST in 1994. In 1996, he was awarded German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship for visiting the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. He worked for the University of Hong Kong between 1998 and 2000 and participated in the HKU Cluster project. He worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California between 1999 and 2000. He is the chief scientist of the largest grid computing project, ChinaGrid, in China.

Dr. Jin is a senior member of IEEE and member of ACM. He is the member of Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). He is the associated editor of Parallel Computing, International Journal of Computer and Applications, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing, Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Frontiers of Computer Science in China. He is IASTED technical committee member on Parallel & Distributed Computing and Systems. He is the steering committee chair of International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC), Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC). He is the steering committee member of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC), International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC), International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC), International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), and served as program chair of GCC'04, SCC'05, HSI'05, NPC'05, UISW'05, UIC'06, FCST'06, and ICA3PP'07, program vice-chair of the CCGrid'01, PDCAT'03, NPC'04, EUC'05, e-Science'05, AINA'06, and CCGrid'06. He served as conference chairs of ATC'06, UASS'07, HICA'07, and NPC'07. He also served as program committee for more than 180 international conferences/workshops. He has co-authored 14 books and published over 280 research papers. His research interests include computer architecture, cluster computing and grid computing, virtualization technology, peer-to-peer computing, network storage, network security. Contact him at hjin@hust.edu.cn.

From Grid Computing to Cloud Computing: Experiences on Virtualization Technology

In recent years, we see a great change from grid computing to cloud computing. Cloud computing is among the most popular words in computing today. As technology foundation, virtualization technology (VT) becomes a re-emerging technology for recently years. It is a decoupling technique that separating system software from hardware platform, while making applications to run pervasively. Many academic institutes and research lab from industries has devoted great research efforts in various aspects.

In 2007, Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology initialize a basic research project (973 project) with 6 universities and 2 research institutes on virtualization technology for computing system in many topics, such as architecture design philosophy of virtualization technology, VT design for single computing system, VT design for multiple computing systems, user environment for VT, security, reliability and trust issue related to VT, and performance evaluation and benchmarking for computing system with VT. In this talk, we will give insight for this project. Our experiences on VT research are discussed in detail, including power management, virtual machine live migration, memory/IO virtualization, and desktop virtualization.

About Professor Leonard Barolli

Dr. Leonard Barolli received BE and PhD degrees from Tirana University and Yamagata University in 1989 and 1997, respectively. From April 1997 to March 1999, he was a JSPS Post Doctor Fellow Researcher at Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Yamagata University. From April 1999 to March 2002, he worked as a Research Associate at the Department of Public Policy and Social Studies, Yamagata University. From April 2002 to March 2003, he was an Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, Saitama Institute of Technology (SIT). From April 2003 to March 2005, he was an Associate Professor and presently is a Full Professor, at Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT).

Dr. Barolli has published about 300 papers in referred Journals, Books and International Conference proceedings. He was an Editor of the IPSJ Journal and has served as a Guest Editor for many International Journals. Dr. Barolli has been a PC Member of many International Conferences and was the PC Chair of IEEE AINA-2004 and IEEE ICPADS-2005. He was General Co-Chair of IEEE AINA-2006, AINA-2008, AINA-2010, CISIS-2010, Workshops Chair of iiWAS-2006/MoMM-2006 and iiWAS-2007/MoMM-2007, Workshop Co-Chair of ARES-2007, ARES-2008, IEEE AINA-2007 and ICPP-2009. Presently, he is General Co-Chair of BWCCA-2010 and 3PGCIC-2010 International Conferences.
Dr. Barolli is the Steering Committee Chair of CISIS and BWCCA International Conferences and and Steering Committee Co-Chair of AINA, NBiS and 3PGCIC. He is serving as Steering Committee Member in many International Conferences. He is organizers of many International Workshops. Dr. Barolli has won many Awards for his scientific work and has received many research funds. He got the ¡°Doctor Honoris Causa¡± Award from Polytechnic University of Tirana in 2009. His research interests include network traffic control, fuzzy control, genetic algorithms, agent-based systems, ad-hoc networks and sensor networks. He is a member of SOFT, IPSJ, and IEEE.

A Testbed for MANETs: Implementation and Learned Lessons

The Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) is a collection of wireless mobile terminals that are able to dynamically form a temporary network without any aid from fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. The nodes of MANET intercommunicate through single-hop and multi-hop paths in a peer-to-peer fashion. The nodes are mobile, so the creation of routing paths is affected by the addition and deletion of nodes. The topology of the network may change rapidly and unexpectedly. The MANETs are useful in many applications environments such as collaborative computing and communications.

In general, the research for MANETs is focused on specific problems of the networking stack, by trying to emphasize the causes of performance degradation. Most of the work has been done in simulation, as general purpose simulators can furnish a quick and inexpensive understanding of protocols and algorithms. However, experiments in the real-world are fundamentals in order to verify the simulation results and, if necessary, to revise the models implemented in the simulators.
In this talk, I will present the implementation, experiences and lessons learned of our tesbed for Ad-hoc networks and Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). We implemented many routing protocols such as OLSR, BATMAN, DSR and AODV for real experimental evaluation. We investigate the effect of mobility and topology changing in the throughput of a MANET. We study the impact of best-effort traffic for Mesh Topology and Linear Topology. We consider many experimental models and assess the performance of our testbed in terms of throughput, round trip time and packet loss. I will present many experimental results and findings which can be very important for real applications of MANETs.