Edge Intelligence as a Service.

Abstract. With the advent of Edge Computing and the coming of age of Artificial Intelligence, there is a strong demand to integrate Edge Computing and AI, which gives birth to Edge Intelligence. In this talk, we will discuss insights into this new interdisciplinary field from a broader vision and perspective. We discuss the core concepts and the research roadmap, which should provide the necessary background for potential future research programs in Edge Intelligence.

Bio. Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science heading the Research Division of Distributed Systems at the TU Wien, Austria. He has an H-index of 78 with some 36,000 citations. He holds several honorary positions: University of California (USC) Los Angeles; Monash University in Melbourne, Shanghai University, Macquarie University in Sydney, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. From Dec 2016 until Jan 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Sevilla, Spain and from January until June 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, USA. He is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (ACM TIoT) as well as Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on the Web, and ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, as well as on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Computer. Dustdar is recipient of multiple awards: IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Leadership Award (2018), IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2019), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009), ACM Distinguished Speaker (2021), IBM Faculty Award (2012). He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe, where he is chairman of the Informatics Section, as well as an IEEE Fellow (2016) and an Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow (2021).

The Architecture and Methodology of Big Service and IoS.

Abstract. With support of new IT technologies e.g. A(artificial intelligence), B(block chain), C(cloud computing), D(big data), E(edge computing), F(fog computing), G(5G/6G), I(Internet of Things), M(mobile computing) and so on, the Internet of Services (IoS) develop very fast. A large number of software service resources are emerging on the IoS platforms. They are further inter-connected to form the complicated service ecosystems across domains and sectors, so call Big Service. It appears as a new ecosystem of massive complicated networked services that bridge heterogeneous networks, multiple business domains and cyber-physical worlds. The Big Service can be regarded as a new form of the Internet of Services. In order to understand and to design the complicated Big Service well, a three-dimensional architecture of Big Service and IoS is presented, which includes hierarchical multi-layer dimension, life-cycle dimension and multi-views dimension. It is an open reference model architecture, which can be compatible with various Big Service modeling methods in different views. These models interact and collaborate each other, so as to guide the design and development of Big Service, and also to support continuous model optimization in the whole life cycle of Big Service. The new methodology of Big Service and IoS will be proposed. This speech will demonstrate this architecture, point out the new progress and trends of R&D, applications and education on Big Service and IoS.

Bio. Prof. Dr. Xu Xiaofei has been a professor on computer science of Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) since 1993. He is currently the vice president of Harbin Institute of Technology, and the president of HIT, Weihai campus. He received his Ph.D. Degree in HIT in 1988. His research interests include service computing and service engineering, Bigd Service and IoS, enterprise computing and enterprise interoperability, software engineering, data mining, smart service applications, and etc. He has published more than 300 academic journal/conference papers, and seven academic books. He has supervised more than 30 Ph.D. and 90 Masters on computer science and software engineering. Prof. Xu is the fellow and board-member of China Computer Federation (CCF), vice director of the Steering Committee of Higher Education on Software Engineering of China, and chairman of the executive committee of the Union of MOOC associations in China. He is also the leader of the expert group of University-Industry Co-education Program by China Ministry of Education. He is involved in the editorial boards of ten academic journals. He was the chairman of the Technical Committee on Service Computing of CCF during 2016-2019. In 2019, he received the Award of IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Leadership on Services. He has been chairman or co-chair of conferences, program committees in more than twenty international conferences, including IEEE SCC，ICWS, ICSOC, ICSS, IESA, JCIS, NICST, CEISEE, etc. He has given many keynote speeches in the international conferences, such as IEEE World Congress on Services 2018, ICSOC 2020, ICSS, NICST, CEISEE, etc.