Title : Technical Challenges in Market-Driven Automated Service Provisioning
| Presenter | Anna Chmielowiec |
| Abstract | Nowadays, when a customer is looking for a service bundle such as a spam-free e-mail box (which consists of more elementary services like mail storage and a spam filter) he is left with little options. Either he chooses a readily precomposed service bundle offered by a single commercial provider or he builds the bundle himself out of the services offered by various providers. The first solution may be suboptimal for the customer and not fulfill his needs completely. The latter may be out of reach of an average Internet user. We can envision a third way, namely the automated creation of bundles out of basic commercial services provided by various parties. To realize this solution a middleware between customers and service providers is needed to facilitate discovery, negotiation, provisioning and monitoring of service bundles. During my talk I would like to focus on the requirements imposed on such a middleware that stem from the business nature of commercial services and I will describe shortly the technical problems originating from these requirements. |
Title : Human Ambience: application area or research?
| Presenter | Michel Klein |
| Abstract | We are about to change the name of the AI bachelor program to "Human Ambient Intelligence". The idea is to attract other students than the pure technical-oriented AI students. But, there could be many questions. For example, what is "Human Ambience" exactly, how does it relate to the research that we all do, what are the main research questions, what is a valid research methodology when you apply knowledge from other domains in intelligent applications, etc. In this talk, I would like to share my understanding of those questions and hope to get your feedback. I think it is important to all of us, as we should be able to relate our research to how we advertise our study. |