Keynotes

Title: Social Intelligence: Designing Systems that Tap Human Knowledge
Speaker: Thomas Erickson, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Abstract: Our world is becoming smarter. Sensors, wireless networks, digital analytics, and control systems are transforming our homes, our workplaces and our cities. However, as important as these technologies are, I believe that the biggest transformation will come though our ability to draw on human knowledge and experience. More and more people are becoming part of the global internet via computers, smart phones and other devices, and they will not simply be passive users of resources but will also contribute social intelligence: human participation in the gathering, synthesis and dissemination of knowledge. One of the most important challenges of the next decade is how to design systems that enable this sort of socially intelligent collective activity. In this talk I will discuss examples of such systems, and describe some of the new challenges systems designers will need to address such as supporting, identity, visibility, accountability, motivation and co-production.

Theme Talk

Title: Web-of-Things Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems
Speaker: Tharam Dillon (Co-author: H.Zhuge, C.Wu and J.Singh)
Abstract: Recent development of Web-of-Things (WoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) raises new requirement of connecting abstract computational artifacts with the physical world. This requires both new theories and engineering practices that model cyber and physical resources in a unified framework, a challenge that few current approaches are able to tackle. The solution must break the boundary between the cyber world and the physical world by providing a unified infrastructure that permits integrated models addressing issues from both worlds simultaneously. This talk proposes a framework to integrate WoT and CPS. A case study is presented to demonstrate the advantage of the framework.