Day 1 :
Keynote Forum
Ali Alouani
Tennessee Technological University, USA
Keynote: Hybrid Navigation System for Minimally Invasive Surgery -Phase I: Offline Sensors Calibration
Time : 09:30-10:15
Biography:
Ali T. Alouani works as a Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Tennessee Technological University. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in the year 1986.Dr. Alouani developed and taught many undergraduate and graduate courses in the Systems and Signals areas. To date, he has published 120 technical journal and conference papers. He holds 4 patents. He has been active in many areas of Electrical & Computer Engineering. His theoretical research includes Stochastic Systems, Sensor Data Fusion, Artificial Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems, Robust Control, Power Systems Stability & Control, Independent Component Analysis.
Abstract:
Keynote Forum
Falah Ali
University of Sussex, UK
Keynote: 5G The Next Frontier in Wireless Communications
Time : 10:15:11:00
Biography:
Falah Ali is currently a Reader in Digital Communications at the University of Sussex. He leads the Communications Research Group in the Department of Engineering and Design. He received his PhD from the University of Warwick, and his MSc and BSc from Cardiff University, in the UK. He also held a postdoctoral position at Lancaster University focused on advanced multiple access techniques for wireless communications. He published over 100 papers in reputable journals and conferences and has served as a chair and member of technical programme committees in several conferences. His research interests are in 5G wireless communications systems. He is a Fellow of IET, a Senior member of IEEE, and a Chartered Engineer.
Abstract:
5G is much more than just evolution of the mobile technology. It will empower new functionalities for people, society and enterprise. 5G is expected to provide fibre like data rate with massive system capacity, and ultra-reliable and extreme real-time communications. These are vital in the advancements of many new applications including the Internet-of-Things, driverless cars, virtual reality, tactile internet and more. In this talk, I will provide an overview of 5G vision and performance targets followed by some key enabling technologies and examples of the research work at the University of Sussex.
Keynote Forum
Eduard Babulak
Fellow Member, Royal Society,UK
Keynote: Future Robotics and Automation for the Third Millennium
Time : 11:20-12:05
Biography:
Professor Eduard Babulak, is accomplished international scholar, researcher, consultant, educator, professional engineer and polyglot, with more than thirty years of experience. He served as successfully published and his research was cited by scholars all over the world. He serves as Chair of the IEEE Vancouver Ethics, Professional and Conference Committee.
He was Invited Speaker at the University of Cambridge, MIT, Yokohama National University and University of Electro Communications in Tokyo, Japan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sungkyunkwan University in Korea, Penn State in USA, Czech Technical University in Prague, University at West Indies, Graz University of Technology, Austria, and other prestigious academic institutions worldwide.
Abstract:
IN support of Automation and Robotics, the telecommunications networks providers and SCDs developers, are working together to create much faster transmission channels with provision of higher quality of service for any multimedia content for anyone, anywhere at any time. The Human Machine Interface with high definition audio and video, facilitates seamless control of Smart Robotics & Computational Devices (SRCD), which are becoming a common technology in family homes, business, academic, and business, and industry worldwide.
Today, SRCD are communicating via Robotic Internet and may be accessible to public and private customers, while storing important and to some extend confidential information in their memory. In case that SRCD may be lost, stolen or hacked into, the information stored in the memory could be abused, compromised or used for malicious purposes. In near coming future we may see the SRDC be used to aid, or to protect family residential areas, private homes, schools, hospitals, manufacturing plants, as well as, Cyber Physical Critical Infrastructures (CPCI) such as, atomic power and chemical plants, and large cities.
The further research, innovation and development of Future Ultra-SRCD side by side with Future Ultrafast Robotic Internet, will require even more research, innovation and development in the field of Cyber Assurance and Security. Proper Safety and Security mechanisms and policies will become critical to protect the SRCD and COIP from any form of intrusion or cyber threads from anyone, from anywhere at any time.
The author discusses the current and future trends of research, innovation and developments in SRCD, CPCI and Cyber Assurance, in conjunction with the Future Ultra-Fast Internet and Ultra-SRCD. The author promotes creation of multidisciplinary multinational research teams and development of Next Generation SRCD and Fully Automated Environment while utilizing Ultra-Smart Robotic & Computational Devices, in conjunction with the critical Cyber Safety and Assurance challenges for today and for tomorrow.
- Quest for Artifi cial Intelligence: Dreams and Dreamers | Knowledge Based Systems | Natural Language Processing | Big Data Analysis | Modern Artifi cial Intelligence | Landmarks in The Development of Robotics | Evolutionary Robotics | Components of Robot | How Robots Changing Our Life | Robots: Reaching Space | A Brief History of Internet | Importance of Modelling and Simulation in The Internet of Things(IoT)
Location: Rome
Chair
Falah Ali
University of Sussex, UK
Session Introduction
Alexander Ipfelkofer
Blizzard Entertainment, France
Title: The Way AI & Robotics has changed the Gaming World
Biography:
Alexander is a game industry veteran with a background in Linguistics and Philology as well as Programming and Quality Assurance. He is currently a Test Manager at Blizzard Entertainment. In the early 90s Alexander did a three-year apprenticeship and became a state certified programmer in Germany, then went on to study German Linguistics and English and American Philology at the FAU in Erlangen-Nuremberg, before entering the gaming industry and Quality Assurance in particular.In his capacity as a Test Manager, his work includes evaluating, exploring test automation opportunities in regards to creative Localization QA.
Abstract:
AI and Robotics have influenced the way games are designed and played over the past decades, from the early days of scripted behaviour to procedurally created content up to player modelling via neural networks and evolutionary algorithms. We take a brief look at AI and Robotics in games, player models and modern game turing tests with deep reinforced learning, which changed and keep changing the way we interact with, design and test games. Today’s cognitive services such as speech recognition, natural language understanding and computer vision among others have already led to amazing success with difficult games such as Go and StarCraft, although winning still poses a challenge regarding the latter, for now...
Casper Smeets
Rockstart Startups, Netherlands
Title: Rockstart- How AI is innovating in healthcare and how to make it work
Biography:
Casper Smeets is the Ecosystem Director at Rockstart for the Digital Health Accelerator. Casper has 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur and intrapreneur. He uses this experience to help health startups and healthcare pioneers to scale their health innovations faster, together. In his role at Rockstart he has experienced how difficult it can be to accelerate innovations in healthcare, but also how to successfully implement innovations. Today, he shares his principles of accelerating digital health startups. Additionally, he has co-initiated the Dutch Digital Health Challenge and the Inspire Summit to further strengthen the Dutch digital health ecosystem.
Abstract:
Rockstart, one of Europe’s first multi-vertical startup accelerators, was founded in Amsterdam in 2011 with a goal to provide startups with access to the market, capital, knowledge, and community. Since then Rockstart has become the specialist in building entire ecosystems around specific domains—such as Digital Health, Smart Energy, and Artificial Intelligence. Rockstart is actively building up entrepreneurial infrastructures around the world with its acceleration verticals, as well as early-stage startup programs, Rockstart Impact and Rockstart Launchtrack. Since the inception, Rockstart has invested in more than 100 startups and supported them in their journey to raise more than €62 million and hire more than 630 people. Rockstart is an international team of 40+ professionals dedicated to support and empower startups to become scalable and change their world for the better.
Applications are open for the second edition of the only AI accelerator in Europe to support the next wave of entrepreneurs to innovate. Our program helps startups build their AI solutions and scale along some of the top leading partners in their industries such as Vodofone Ziggo, NVIDIA, Radbound UMC, JADS University and more.
Xiowen Chu
Hong Kong Bapist University, P.R.C
Title: Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Distributed Deep Learning Frameworks on GPUs
Biography:
Dr. Xiaowen Chu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University. He is also the director of High Performance Cluster Computing Centre of HKBU. Dr. Chu received his Bachelor degree in computer science from Tsinghua University, P. R. China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003, respectively. His current research interests include distributed and parallel computing, cloud computing, and also computer networks and wireless networks. He has published more than 150 research papers in a variety of international journals and conferences. He is serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Access.
Abstract:
Deep learning frameworks have been widely deployed on GPU servers for deep learning applications in both academia and industry. In training deep neural networks (DNNs), there are many standard processes or algorithms, such as convolution and stochastic gradient descent (SGD), but the running performance of different frameworks might be different even running the same deep model on the same GPU hardware. In this paper, we evaluate the running performance of four state-of-the-art distributed deep learning frameworks (i.e., Caffe-MPI, CNTK, MXNet and TensorFlow) over single-GPU, multi-GPU and multi-node environments. We first build performance models of standard processes in training DNNs with SGD, and then we benchmark the running performance of these frameworks with three popular convolutional neural networks (i.e., AlexNet, GoogleNet and ResNet-50), after that we analyze what factors that results in the performance gap among these four frameworks. Through both analytical and experimental analysis, we identify bottlenecks and overheads which could be further optimized. The main contribution is that the proposed performance models and the analysis provide further optimization directions in both algorithmic design and system configuration.
Biography:
Susan Johnston, known as a Media Futurist, is President of Select Services Films, Inc. a certified DBE multiple award winning production company. Susan founded the critically acclaimed New Media Film Festival in 2009. The festival honors stories worth telling by bridging story and technology with innovative mediums and ever changing delivery platforms.
Susan is a pioneer in media with many 1st production and industry innovations including: 1st live stream HD talk show, 1st to screen AI created content, 1st to offer Emmys Consulting and Broadcasting, 1st to show VR as a collaborative experience , etc.
Prior to relocating to Los Angeles in 2000, Susan, a New England native, worked with the Providence & Rhode Island Film Commissions over five years to build the infrastructure still in use today. She developed Context Media Studios International production capabilities as well as garnered funds before Senate Committee hearings and helped facilitate the 25% tax incentive for investors of films in Rhode Island.
Abstract:
AI & IoT, New Media, It’s not only changing the way we use media, but also the quality of people’s lives. It’s already being used in a number of different industries, from education to business and even real estate. We will discuss this evolution and how LBE’s, 360, AR, VR, MR, AI, Mobile, Social, Streaming, Gaming, Real Time CG, HCap, Room Scale, Holograms, HCap, room scale, holograms are changing the paradigm. In addition we will screen cutting edge – innovative content utilizing in some of these sectors.
We will discuss innovative mediums being utilized today and how constant emerging technology is changing how we experience content. As stories are part of media, we will explore storytelling thematically by technology utilized through innovative content by screening “cutting edge” (Huffington Post) world premieres programmed in June at New Media Film Festival so you can experience the merging of content and technology.
Kyutae Ahn
Trust farm Mobile Inc., South Korea
Title: Distributed and Decentralized Artifi cial Intelligence and IoE
Biography:
KyuTae Ahn, is one of the early supporter of several block chain project from 2015, Huge communication with blockchainer and block chain communities. He was made cryptography chip (SoC) in 20years ago, when he was a students of master course. It will be the base science of securities and further block chain researches. Especially, He is interested on applying block chain technologies to IoT, which is very light sensor devices, and to Fair Creative Contents Industry with backend platforms.
He researching and developing big themes block chain smart contract application machine on IoT and XR(eXtensible Reality) Streaming platforms, which is Super Ultra High-resolution Video contents will be tiled , cognitive and weighted streaming and it will scalable and more effective bandwidth usage than current streaming systems. Its' streaming base on adaptive streaming, which MPEG-DASH and HLS.
He is also a patent owner, developer, miner, and block chain enthusiast. Before Founding His Company , trust farm, He has 18 years of expertise as a global broadcaster of integrated development; product manager of UHD streaming service at LG electronics; and co-operation with BBC, Ziggo, Netflix, YouTube, and CJ.
Abstract:
The Innovation of high technology does not make most of human being’s utopia life. However, like as nature, if Internet of Everything (IoE) has independent and unique intelligences, and connected peer to peer, behaviour securely then this kind of technologies can trigger a revolutionary and paradigm change that can contribute to most of human beings utopia life.
Now, we are facing a very critical season, how to directing the AI and IoE technology.
- Ethics of Artifi cial Intelligence | Intelligent Automation | The Coming Future of AI | Robots: Reaching Space | Robots: Saving Our Life | Robots in Industry | Robots: Unsolved Questions | What the Future Holds? | Internet: Making People and Cities Smart | IoT and Globalization | Cyber Security: Threat & Road Ahead | Where We Are Heading
Location: Rome
Chair
Ali Alouani
Tennessee Technological University, USA
Session Introduction
Joy Chen
Da-Yeh University, Taiwan
Title: Apply the MRC/SC Schemes and Belief Propagation Algorithm to TM in the Deployment of IoT System
Time : 12:05-12:40
Biography:
Joy I. Z. Chen was born in Taiwan. He received his B.S. degree in electronic engineering from National Taiwan Technical University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1985ï¼› M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Da-Yeh University, Chang Hua, Taiwan, in 1995; and the Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from National Defense University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, in 2001. He is currently a distinguished professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Da-Yeh University, Chang-Hua Taiwan R.O.C. Prior to joining the Da-Yeh University faculty, he worked at the Control Data Company (Taiwan) as a technical manger from September 1985 to September 1996. His research interests include wireless communications, communication theory, communication statistics, and technical spread spectrum.
Abstract:
To govern the interaction and the development of applications over the IoT (internet of things) environment without considering the security is still a concerned issue nowadays. The study on huge of security issues relevant to the application layer of IoT is becoming urgently. On the other hand, it is important for addressing the development of security algorithm to protect the IoT system from malicious attack. In this article, a fusion diversity scheme adopts both MRC (maximum ratio combining) and SC (selection combining) schemes with BF (belief propagation) algorithm are proposed. In MRC stage, specified parameters first extracted and before combined with the control information they weighted by one estimation value. The fused information results from MRC forward to the SC to generate the final trust value for making the decision. However, there is a final stage of BF adopted as the role provides with a guaranteed QoS over IoT architecture. The simulation results from experiments deployed with physical assessment show that the security has more reliability after the fusion of MRC/SC schemes and BP (belief propagation) algorithm for the TM procedure. In fact, there are many existing traditional solutions developed to count different attacks for the computer network or for each layer of the internet. For example, the encryption of information used for confidentiality and there are many other most popular cipher algorithms, such as RSA (Rivest Shamir Adleman), ECC (error correlation code), AES (advanced encryption standard), 3DES (triple data encryption algorithm). Based on the aforementioned points that motivates the paper propose an algorithm to fuse the scheme of TM with a famous linear diversity method, MRC (maximum ratio combining), for IoT security. The proposed fusion diversity scheme is more reliable in terms of security validated by the simulation. Alternatively, the reducing QoS degree for the requester is the penalty.
Sourav Rout
Telenet, Belgium
Title: Data Governance in IoT : Organization Preparednes
Time : 12:40-01:15
Biography:
Sourav Rout is a senior management professional, having worked for most part of his decade-old career in telecommunications, with additional exposure to cyber security and data science industries. Currently with the Telenet Group in Brussels, he contributes to the Internet of Things initiative, long-term technology strategy and enhancing operational excellence. His experience spans strategy, analytics, partnerships and business process management.
Sourav obtained the MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and MS in Telecoms from Telecom ParisTech, France. Happily married, he finds strength in the company of his wife and they enjoy taking long walks and listening to music.
Abstract:
The Internet of Things is causing a proliferation of heterogenous data acquisition points (such as devices and sensors). As companies struggle to understand and make use of the data so acquired for sustained growth and monetization, governance of this data holds key. Not all the data is good or usable; and not every data will be used.
It is important for companies to understand why they need the data they want to acquire, how will they treat this data and who will use them. This presentation touches upon the organizational preparedness with regards to data processing and utilization, and outlines the challenges companies face in framing a data governance model. It then goes on to propose a template framework that can be utilized.
Finally, with the help of key uses cases (in telecoms) built around AI and Machine Learning, the author emphasizes on the need of having a well structured data governance policy that help build up such use cases that facilitate maintaining competitive advantage and customer delight.
Hansal Shah
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India
Title: Classifi cation of VoIP packets and Network Anomaly Detection using Fuzzy Logic
Time : 02:15-02:50
Biography:
Hansal is a Computer Science and Engineering student who has completed his 2nd year from Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University. Multidisciplinary research topics interest him. He is a cisco certified network associate (CCNA) and a cisco certified network professional (CCNP) in routing and switching. He is a fellowship holder of the premier research scholarship of India—the KVPY Fellowship. He has presented more than 3 papers in reputed conferences at national level and has been helpful to multiple fellow students for their research interests. He is also a co-founder of an IT based start-up that is under incubation under central government funding scheme.
Abstract:
To solve these problems we have tried to mount a fuzzy logic based inference system to classify the queuing-incoming packets (voice, video and text). Network management is becoming increasingly essential with the acute rise in the number of applications that use computer networks and the advent of ubiquitous internet access. Thus availability, integrity and competency of computer networks becomes a priority today and a crucial resource to be managed. To assess the effectiveness of these networks, the traffic parameters need to be analysed.
This paper attempts to apply a fuzzy logic scheme --based on descriptors like energy, centrality, concentration etc. to recognise whether an instance represents an anomaly or not. Indeed the paper proposes an intelligent system with the capability to monitor the network's traffic (specifically VoIP) flow. The proposed anomaly detection system exposes network problems autonomously issuing alarms when a possible problem is present.
Susan Johnston
President, Select Services Films, UK
Title: A Video Presentation on AR, AI & Apps
Time : 02:50-03:25
Biography:
Susan Johnston, known as a Media Futurist, is President of Select Services Films, Inc. a certified DBE multiple award-winning production company. Susan founded the critically acclaimed New Media Film Festival in 2009. The festival honors stories worth telling by bridging story and technology with innovative mediums and ever changing delivery platforms.
Susan is a pioneer in media with many 1st production and industry innovations including: 1st live stream HD talk show, 1st to screen AI created content, 1st to offer Emmys Consulting and Broadcasting, 1st to show VR as a collaborative experience , etc.
Prior to relocating to Los Angeles in 2000, Susan, a New England native, worked with the Providence & Rhode Island Film Commissions over five years to build the infrastructure still in use today. She developed Context Media Studios International production capabilities as well as garnered funds before Senate Committee hearings and helped facilitate the 25% tax incentive for investors of films in Rhode Island.
Abstract:
Artificial intelligence is the use of computer systems to develop systems that can perform human tasks, and mimic humans for example through Visual perception, speech recognition, language translation and decision-making processes. Artificial intelligence is key to the development of media businesses, where an example of Google assistant is now a familiar feature in most business. In the digital media, Artificial intelligence tools can be used to differentiate different publishers in a crowded market by sending the correct message to the right clients at the set time. Media companies currently use Facebook and Google to transmit news information; this has enabled the businesses to fight fairly on the same platform. The digital media then provides to the user's relevant news that they desire at that time, like when you want to buy a new phone the systems can select a list and give you better options to choose from as from low prices to those discounted (Iliopoulos, 2017).
Currently, Artificial Intelligence is being used on programmatic media where they are using a demand-side platform (DSP) such as Google DoubleClick Bid Manager. Some of the keys feature brought to the business by Artificial Intelligence includes simplified procurement and buying process, real-time reporting, automated budget, and real-time bidding models that all contribute towards improving business performance. What it has is also implemented in doing business analytics and business engineering, where the media like social media will act as a workbench to collect user information of preferences and choices; it will also analyze the business competitiveness in the markets and lastly compare the business with other important companies of similar types. From the data collected the business can easily strategize or re-strategize on their business goals and work towards making more profits (Porter, 2018).
Artificial Intelligence tools used currently in the media include the: -
1. Google AdWords that optimizes the search engines such that using machine learning technology adverts will be displayed that might interest the users, based on their keywords, search item or device and your location.
2. Google Analytics and Pave AI are used for business analytics where they can analyze user data and give a plan to perform a strategic action. Pave AI uses graphs and charts to recommend actions and recommendations.
3. Facebook AI research helps communities to understand the importance of system automation and use of AI influenced advertisements.
Future impacts of AI to the media includes increases in job performances, reduced time of performing transactions and association of robots and humans working together to achieve organizations objectives. Other contributions of AI are the reduction in menial and tedious jobs and physically strenuous tasks. But all are not positive; some of the disadvantages include loss of employment by a replacement for more useful machines.
In conclusion, AI is key to the next phase of media where the business will compete in the similar platform with no bias, as long as they stick to the required rules and guidelines. Companies need to use the media to market themselves and their brands out there for others to see and make their conclusions on the products.