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Why? Who? What?
Jon OberlanderDirector of SICSA
Why?Why?
Systems of tomorrow
– Distributed, pervasive, varied …
How can we “right-scale” in the exabyte age?
– Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering
Systems of tomorrow
– Distributed, pervasive, varied …
How can we “right-scale” in the exabyte age?
– Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering
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Starting pointStarting point
StrathclydeStrathclyde EdinburghEdinburgh
GlasgowGlasgow
StirlingStirlingSt AndrewsSt Andrews
AbertayAbertay
DundeeDundee
Robert GordonRobert GordonAberdeenAberdeen
Heriot WattHeriot Watt
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9% of UK population
16% of UK4* output
20% of UKRC grants
9% of UK population
16% of UK4* output
20% of UKRC grants
sicsa* SICSA: world-leading & internationally recognised output
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Plans for growth: £29M investment
Governing BoardGoverning Board
AdvisoryCommittees
AdvisoryCommittees
ResearchCommittee
ResearchCommittee Graduate
Academy
GraduateAcademy
SecuringSecuring
•Practical networking
•Performance analysis
•Network security formalisms
•Web languages
InterfacingInterfacing ModellingModelling
•Computational group theory
•System and performance modelling
•Model checking
•Applications
EngineeringEngineering
•Socio-technical systems
•Agents and autonomics
•Complex interactions
•Speech and language
•HCI•Information retrieval
•Machine learning
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sicsa* Graduate Academy
Prize Studentships– 20 international studentships p.a.
International Summer Schools– 2009:
• Pervasive adaptation• Homecare systems• Programming languages: Concurrency, distribution, multicore
National Graduate Symposium– 2009 - June
Visiting Fellowships– 12 p.a.
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Securing the NGI: Research challenges
Future architecture:– Naming, addressing
& routing– Security and resilience– Converged services– Ubiquitous access– Network defence -
resilience Issues:
– Understanding network evolution
– Heterogeneity– Current ossification due
to CNI dependencies– Research issues “masked”
by commercial drivers
sicsa* Securing: Strength in Scotland
Applications
Security services &
protocols Protocols
and systemsNetwork management
Network measurement, monitoring & analysis
New paradigms and system architecture
Networked Games.Abertay, Glasgow.
Measurement & monitoring.Glasgow, St Andrews.
Security. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews
New architecture. Glasgow, St Andrews
Mobile & wireless. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Strathclyde
Protocol analysis and testing. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews
WWW Info Sys. RGU, St Andrews, Stirling
Distributed applications.Strathclyde, St Andrews,Stirling
sicsa* Multimodal Interfacing: Research challenges
Modality: narrow to broad– Speech, gesture, touch, face, body– Interpreting & generating multimodal communication
scenes Frequency: discrete to continuous
– Interaction loops, ambient networks, evidential reasoning
Flexibility: impersonal to personal– Dialogue, context, affect, history– User modelling, inference, privacy
Intelligence: explicit to implicit– Intention recognition, assistiveness, very large
scale NLP
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Information retrievalHCI
Natural language processing
applications: Ubiquitous computing, dialogue systems, healthcare, knowledge engineering, machine translation, autonomous robotics
Visualisation
- Glasgow, Strathclyde, RGU
- Glasgow, Dundee, Heriot-Watt
- Glasgow, Abertay, Heriot-Watt, RGU
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde
- Aberdeen, Dundee, Abertay, RGU, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde
Interfacing: Strength in Scotland
Speech
Cognitive systems
- Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews
- Edinburgh, Stirling
Machine learning - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling
sicsa* Modelling and Abstraction: Research challenges
Predictive abstract models for analysis of complex,interacting systems
Languages, abstractions and mappings– discrete/continuous state/time, deterministic/stochastic,
individual/population Effective algorithms
– scalable tools Scalable analysis
– large scale, reductions and abstractions Query languages
– for analysis New application domains
sicsa* Modelling and Abstraction: Strength in Scotland
types and logics
process algebras
automated reasoning
applications:
neuroinformatics, mathematical biology, networked systems
machine learning
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling
- Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling
- Abertay, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling
sicsa* Complex Systems Engineering: Research challenges
Scope– Modelling– Evolution– Socio-technical
Issues– Socio-technical systems
engineering– Novel computing
paradigms– Trusted software– Reducing time to value
sicsa* Complex Systems Engineering: Strength in Scotland
Complexity in OrganisationsSocio-technical systems
Software engineering
Novel computation
Predictable software systems
Mathematical foundations
Accident analysis. Glasgow
LSCITS. St AndrewsResponsibility and trust. St Andrews, EdinburghAgents. Aberdeen, EdinburghAdaptive Computation. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Abertay, Stirling, Dundee, Robert GordonsModel-driven development. EdinburghFunctional systems. St Andrews, Heriot Watt
Empirical SE. Strathclyde
Modelling and Abstraction
Social informatics. Edinburgh, Napier
sicsa* A bigger picture
ChemistryEast/WestChem
ChemistryEast/WestChem
EngineeringSRPE …
EngineeringSRPE …
NeuroscienceSINAPSE
NeuroscienceSINAPSE
Life SciencesSULSA
Life SciencesSULSA
GeosciencesSAGES
GeosciencesSAGES
SICSASICSA
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ConclusionConclusion
SICSA is about people
Research excellence is the driver– >16% uplift
Knowledge transfer is a central priority– informatics-ventures.com (£3.7M ERDF)
– ProspeKT (£8.3M Scottish Enterprise + UoE)
SICSA is about people
Research excellence is the driver– >16% uplift
Knowledge transfer is a central priority– informatics-ventures.com (£3.7M ERDF)
– ProspeKT (£8.3M Scottish Enterprise + UoE)