Research Seminar - August 13, 2004

ENGINEERING SELF-ORGANIZING APPLICATIONS FOR THE e-SOCIETY

Time: 2pm Friday August 13

Computer Science & Software Engineering

Seminar Room 1.24

Speaker:
Prof Mihaela Ulieru of Calgary University

 

Abstract:

Positioned at the confluence between human/machine and hardware/software integration and backed by a solid proof of concept realized through several scenarios encompassing e-Securities, e-Health, and e-Logistics for global manufacturing and emergency response management, this work exploits latest advances in information and networking technologies to set a sys-tematic framework for the design of the information infrastructures (coined as AIIs - Adaptive Information Infrastructures) destined to fuel tomorrow's e-Society. Designed following the natural laws of evolution, which merge self-organization and natural selection, these socially embedded information in-frastructures can adapt to fulfill various needs according to their environment demands.
Computational intelligence techniques endow the AIIs with learning and discovery capabilities, emulating social and biological behavior. AIIs are destined to become an integral part of our life by supporting, rather than dis-turbing, a framework that facilitates strategic partnerships while providing greater user-friendliness, more efficient services support, user-empowerment, and support for human interactions.

Keywords. distributed artificial intelligence, information
infrastructures, emer-gency response management, e-Health,
Cybersecurities, emergence, self-organization, evolution