Speaker: Ada Diaconescu,Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France

When: 9:00AM ~ 10:00AM, June 6, 2018

Where: CSU Engineering Building Room B4

Abstract:The increasing development and reliance upon complex adaptive technical systems -- such as smart grids, smart cities and the Internet of Things -- raise serious technical challenges, with important socio-economic ramifications. My research takes an interdisciplinary approach, and, from a software engineering perspective, analyses existing complex adaptive systems in nature -- including inert physical systems, individual organisms and advanced societies -- and aims to identify the reoccurring structures and processes behind their success.
The goal is to formalise these core structures and processes via reusable engineering artefacts, including generic principles, architectures, models, design patterns, frameworks, methodologies, platforms, and tools. These engineering artefacts are distilled progressively from experience with concrete projects in different application domains (e.g. smart grids, smart houses, vehicular networks, data-mediation networks, socio-cyber-physical systems, and electronic institutions). Results obtained so far have been generalised into a generic hierarchical architecture of goal-oriented self-integrating systems-of-systems. Providing such engineering artefacts will provide the basis for facilitating the development and maintenance of viable and efficient artificial complex autonomic systems, which are becoming essential for our modern societies.

Bio:Ada Diaconescu is an Assistant Professor (tenured) in the Software Services and Systems (S3) team of the Computer Science and Networks (INFRES) department of Telecom ParisTech, since 2009. She is also a member of the LTCI research laboratory (Information Processing and Communication Laboratory). Her research interests include autonomic and organic computing, software engineering for self-adaptive and self-organising systems, component and service-oriented architectures, interdisciplinary solutions for managing software complexity, and the impact of technology in socio-technical systems.
Ada Diaconescu received a PhD in computer science and electronic engineering from Dublin City University (2006). She has been an active researcher at University of Grenoble, Orange Labs, and INRIA Rhône Alpes. She started her research in autonomic computing in 2001 and later also joined the organic computing community. She has co-authored a Springer book on Autonomic Computing (2013), was PC co-Chair of IEEE SASO (2014), General Co-Chair of IEEE ICAC (2015), General Chair of IEEE SASO (2017), and co-organiser of two Dagstuhl seminars (2015 and 2018).