The SaS Seminars are a permanent series of open seminars of the Division of Software and Systems (SaS) at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA), Linköping University. The objective of the seminars is to present outstanding research and ideas/problems relevant for SaS present and future activities. In particular, seminars cover the SaS research areas software engineering, programming environments, system software, embedded SW/HW systems, computer systems engineering, realtime systems, parallel and distributed computing, and theoretical computer science. - Two kinds of seminars are planned:

• talks by invited speakers not affiliated with SaS,

• internal seminars presenting lab research to whole SaS.

The speakers are expected to give a broad perspective of the presented research, adressing the audience with a general computer science background but possibly with no specific knowledge in the domain of the presented research. The normal length of a presentation is 60 minutes, including discussion.

The SaS seminars are coordinated by Ahmed Rezine.

Recent / Upcoming SaS Seminars (2018)

Dynamically Adaptive Cross-layer Fault-tolerant System Design

Prof. Dr. Akash Kumar, Technische Universitat Dresden, German.

Thursday, December 20, 10:15, room John von Neumann.

Abstract:
In this talk, I will motivate the need for cross-layer fault-tolerance and show how such approaches can help us find the right balance between overheads and application performance. I will then motivate the need for dynamic adaptation in such cross-layer reliable system and show the major results obtained in this area.

Bio of speaker:
Akash Kumar is a Professor at Technische Universitat Dresden (TUD), Germany, where he is directing the chair for Processor Design. From 2009 to 2015, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS. He received the joint Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in embedded systems from University of Technology (TUe), Eindhoven and National University of Singapore (NUS), in 2009. He has published over 130 articles in conference and journals in the area of design-automation. He has served/is serving on the technical program committees of top conferences as a member/chair in the area, e.g. DAC, DATE, ASPDAC, CASES, FPL, FPT. His current research interests include design, analysis, and resource management of low-power and fault-tolerant embedded multiprocessor systems.

Enabling Advanced Wireless Communication Network

Dr. Dr. Aloizio P. Silva University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2018 kl 13:15-14:00 room John von Neumann.

Abstract:
In future networks intelligence will be integrated into infrastructure. Cars will drive themselves, cities will be safer for citizens, houses will be self-cleaning, agriculture will work sustainably, electrical grids will respond automatically to fluxes in energy demands and Interplanetary Internet (IPN) will interconnect planets. The reality is that we will live in a smarter, more connected world.

The evergrowing exploration and demand for wireless data has pushed researchers to search for new technologies in order to significantly expand network capacity and capability. Industry and academia experts universally agree that, even with current and planned infrastructure rollouts, service demand will continue to outpace capacity and shifting the debate from ?where? to ?when? this will occur. Service providers plan to furiously upgrade their networks to enable advanced technologies and beyond, adopting new innovations including network softwarization, along the 3GPP and IETF roadmap. However, it is clear that the current technology trajectory still produces a capacity slope more flat than the demand line.

Embracing this challenge, researchers around the world have begun their journey to investigate new network technologies that will be part of the advanced wireless communication networks. Researchers are not only addressing capacity in their innovations, they also aim to improve coverage and reliability at the cell edges, improve energy efficiency for providing service, and decrease latency - all of which will improve the overall responsiveness of the network. To this end, researchers are focusing on potential technologies (Artificial Intelligence and Network Softwarization) to build advanced testing networks to make 5G and beyond a reality. It is an ambitious undertaking, and getting there will require infrastructure and user equipment that can operate cross-domain within a much broader bandwidth at incomparably higher speeds. It is going to be wonderful, and it is going to change the way the network behaves. This debate is divided into two strands. Firstly, it highlights the industry and researchers collaboration as a single platform to discuss this challenge of tomorrow. It also presents one of the most prominent 5G-test networks deployed at Bristol City Center in the UK and briefly describes two European H2020 projects 5GinFIRE and FLAME platforms. Second, it goes through the Interplanetary Network domain and discusses an intelligent approach for mitigating congestion in dynamic and intermittent networks.

Bio of speaker:
Dr. Aloizio P. Silva is a Research Fellow and 5G Portfolio Manager at the Smart Internet Lab. for the University of Bristol in the UK. Mr. Silva currently works with Research and Development for the UoB advanced wireless communication networks (5G) platforms with a focus on government, industrial, and academic research applications. Mr. Silva has more than 10 years of experience in industry and academia focusing on software engineering, wireless communication networks and project management. He has a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer and Electronic Engineer Institute Technological of Aeronautical (ITA); MBA in Project Management at Fundacao Getulio Vargas and Babson Executive College being PMP Certified; Masters in Computer Science and Post-doctorate at Department of Computer Science of Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He also worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL-NASA/Caltech) for the Interplanetary Network Laboratory and also at University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) at Jack Baskin School of Engineering. Areas of interest includes: advanced wireless communication (5G and beyond), Software Defined Network (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Radio (SDR), Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), space data systems, Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTN) and Interplanetary Networks (IPN).

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Internet of Battle Things

Dr. Edison Pignaton de Freitas Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Informatics Institute, Brazil.

Thursday, September 27th, 2018, kl 13:15 room John von Neumann.

Abstract:
In this talk unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are discussed as a robotic platform in an experimental setting. The target applications range over guidance of individual UAV platforms, navigation and mission control using payload data, and the control of multi-UAV systems. In addition, efforts in providing computer vision embedded intelligence so that the UAVs can autonomously perform tasks are discussed. The talk will also include an overview of an emerging topic, i.e. Internet of Battle Things, in which solutions based on Software Defined Networks, Delay Tolerant Networks and Information Centric Networks are combined.

Bio of speaker:
Prof. Dr. Edison Pignaton de Freitas received his Bac. degree in Computer Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil (2003), and his MSc degree in Computer Science from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil (2007). He received his PhD from Halmstad University, Sweden, (2011) in the area of sensor networks. During 2001-2002 he studied in France, at Institute National des Sciences Appliquées, Toulouse, with a scholarship from the Brazilian National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq). Currently his holds a position as Associate Professor at Informatics Institute at UFRGS since 2014. He worked as Computer Engineer and Researcher at the Brazilian Army from 2004 to 2013, working in several areas, such as tactical edge networks and aerospace defence projects. During his stay in France, he performed an internship at AIRBUS Central Entity working in the A380 project. His main research interests are in computer networks, distributed real-time and embedded systems, wireless sensor networks and (multi-)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles systems.

Browser Extensions: Development practices, unwanted behaviors and how to anticipate them

Dr. Aruna Prem Bianzino researcher at Telefonica Digital Espana (Eleven Paths).

Monday, September 17th, 2018, kl 10:15 room Alan Turing.

Abstract:
Browser Extensions: Development practices, unwanted behaviors and how to anticipate them Browsers represent the main tool to access web content. Browser extensions increase the functionalities of browsers, offering any kind of non-standard solutions and applications to the end user, resulting in a really popular practice, accessing many resources, and bringing with them security risks. We analyze the ecosystem of the browser extensions, and develop a solution to automatically highlight eventual unwanted behavior, which is eluding the current pre-market analysis. This solution allows also to increase the transparency and user awareness and control over the used extensions and their resource usage and access policy.

Bio of speaker:
Dr.Aruna Prem Bianzino is a researcher in the innovation department of the security area of Telefonica, he participates in the ideation and proof of concept of new ideas, as well as in the management of the corresponding intellectual property rights. He developed an expertise in innovation and innovation funding, with a background in computer networks and a Ph.D. in energy saving.

Towards next-generation collaborative network defense

Dr. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Technical university of Darmstadt, Germany.

Tuesday, June 19th, 2018, kl 13:15 room Alan Turing.

Abstract:
Cyber-attacks have nowadays become more frightening than ever before. The growing dependency of our society on networked systems aggravates these threats; from interconnected corporate networks and industrial control systems to smart households, the attack surface for the adversaries is increasing. I argue that network security requires, besides traditional methods, more out of the box and (pro)active research. In this talk, I will discuss the three main pillars of my current and future research, namely: i) offensive security, ii) attacker deception, and iii) collaborative intrusion detection. In particular, the first part of the talk will focus on offensive security (e.g., taking the perspective of an adversary to anticipate new attacks) and attacker deception (e.g., honeypots) and will examine the motivation, the challenges and possible next steps for this line of research. The second part of the talk will be emphasizing on collaborative intrusion detection and will combine a discussion of research challenges along with lessons learned from a number of projects that I have been involved to date.

Bio of speaker:
Dr. Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis is a senior researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt. His research interests include collaborative intrusion detection, honeypots and botnet monitoring. Emmanouil received a PhD, for his thesis "On Collaborative Intrusion Detection", from the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) in 2016 and a diploma (Dipl.-Inform.) and MSc (IT Security) from the University of the Aegean (Greece) in 2008 and 2011 respectively.

Customization methodologies for embedded systems

Dr. Lazaros Papadopoulos National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

Thursday, May 24th, 2018, kl 13:15 room Alan Turing.

Abstract:
The efficient deployment of applications in embedded devices is challenging, due to the limited resources that the embedded systems provide and the high requirements of embedded applications. Customizing applications based on underlying platform specifications often provides significant gains in terms of performance and energy efficiency. In this presentation, various customization methodologies for dynamic applications and Convolutional Neural Networks will be described, which are applicable in various levels of abstraction.

Bio of speaker:
Dr. Lazaros Papadopoulos is a Research associate in Microprocessors and Digital Systems Lab of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens. His research interests include runtime optimisation methodologies for low energy consumption in embedded systems and special-purpose embedded processors. He co-authored 17 publications in international journals and conferences and participated in several EC projects (MNEEME, 2PARMA, AEGLE).

Fog Computing with Reference Attribute Grammars

Prof. Dr. Uwe Aßmann Technical University of Dresden, Germany.

Friday, April 20th, 2018, kl 14:15 room Alan Turing.

Abstract:
Fog Computing is a new reference architecture for sensor networks at the edge of the cloud. Its basic idea is to process data locally, in complex sensor nodes, gateways and routers, before moving them into the cloud. Thereby, it protects privacy by default and delivers speed (low latency, high bandwidth). Its business perspectives for European companies are tremendous, because starting from the sensor markets, they can penetrate the future cloud computing markets. Fog Computing has a very interesting application area, Robotic Co-Working. The talk reports about a case study in fog computing: the Chair of Software Engineering has combined several co-working robots, such as the KUKA LBR iiwa or the UR-10, with a sensor-equipped jacket and glove. A fog collects and aggregates all sensor data via a gateway, a laptop, and a robot server. Starting from this example, we show how to program a fog, with a world statechart and an adaptive software platform based on contexts and roles. Fog computing will enable life with wearables and machines in smarter rooms. Fogs mean smartness. Fogs can be programmed with event-based RAGs if events are admitted as input to an attributed tree. We give some examples of the models that are required for modeling fogs.

Bio of speaker:
Uwe Assmann is professor for software engineering at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He is also a former member of PELAB. More information can be found at http://www1.inf.tu-dresden.de/~ua1/

Real-Time Fault Localisation using Machine Learning and Microservices Principles

Armin Catovic Technology Specialist, Systems & Technology, Ericsson AB.

Monday, January 22nd, 2018, 13:15 room Alan Turing.

Abstract:
Linnaeus is a lightweight microservice that implements simple yet powerful machine learning principles for fault detection and localisation on a continuous log stream. It can be used in both standalone telecom nodes as well as virtualised network functions (VNFs). This seminar covers both the machine learning aspects as well as software design principles. In terms of software design, Linnaeus exposes the current microservices trend seen in the telecom industry, as a natural next step in network function virtualisation and general software architecture.

Bio of speaker:
Armin has been at Ericsson last 10 years. Originally from Melbourne (Australia) he completed a double degree in Computer Science and Telecom Engineering. Armin started his career as a contract Delphi programmer and consultant, before finally entering Ericsson. He worked in Ericsson's global services unit on large-scale 3G/WCDMA radio integration projects in Australia, Singapore, Indonesia and Bangladesh, before moving to Linköping R&D on the then-new 4G/LTE radio system. He worked as a system tester, developer and systems engineer in Linköping, before moving to Stockholm where he is currently working as a senior developer in the context of machine learning and AI.

Previous SaS Seminars

• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001

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