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| Designing Smart
and Pervasive Environments: Challenges and Solutions |
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Speaker: Sajal K. Das,
University Distinguished Scholar Professor,
Director, CReWMaN
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
The University of Texas at Arlington,
Arlington, TX 76019-0015, USA
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| Course
Description: |
This tutorial is about smart environments that link computers to everyday
settings and commonplace tasks. The desire to create smart environments
has existed for decades, and recent advances in such areas as mobile and
pervasive computing, wireless and sensor networks, machine learning, middleware
and agent based technologies now allow this dream to become reality. A
definition of "smart" or intelligent is the ability to acquire
and
apply knowledge, while the "environment" refers to our surroundings.
We therefore define a smart environment as one that is able to acquire
and apply knowledge about an environment and its inhabitants in order
to improve their experience in that environment.
The type of experience that individuals wish from their environment varies
with the individual and the type of environment. They may wish the environment
to ensure the safety of its inhabitants, they may want to reduce the cost
or overhead of maintaining the
environment, or they may want to automate tasks that are typically performed
in the environment. The expectations of such environments have evolved
with the history of the field.
The objective of this inter-disciplinary tutorial is to present state-of-the-art
topics in the design, development, modeling and applications of smart
environments. The topics include cutting-edge enabling technologies in
smart devices, wireless and sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing,
middleware and software agents. We will develop architectures, algorithms,
and protocols for agent based smart home design, learning and prediction
of contexts (location and activities), data mining and episode discovery,
intelligent decision making and automation, and context-aware resource
management. Successful smart environment projects realized in a variety
of settings along with applications (e.g. smart health care) will also
be described. This tutorial is intended for students, educators, researchers,
engineers, and professionals interested in the fields of computer science
and engineering. The tutorial material will be based on the book "
Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols and Applications," coauthored
by D. J. Cook and S. K. Das (John Wiley, 2005).
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| About
the Speaker: |
Dr. Sajal K. Das received B. Tech. degree in 1983 from Calcutta University,
M. E. degree in 1984 from Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, and
Ph.D. degree in 1988 from the University of Central Florida at Orlando,
all in Computer Science. He is currently a University Distinguished Scholar
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Founding Director
of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN)
at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He is also a Visiting Professor
at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Honorary Professor of Fudan
University in Shanghai, China; and Visiting Scientist at Institute of
Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore. His research interests include design
and modeling of smart environments, mobile and pervasive computing, resource
and mobility management in wireless networks, wireless multimedia, ad
hoc and sensor networks, mobile internet architectures and protocols,
security, distributed and grid computing, applied graph theory and game
theory. Dr. Das has published over 400 technical papers in leading journals
and conferences, and over 25 invited book chapters in these areas. He
holds 5 US patents in wireless mobile networks, and co-authored the book
"Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols and Applications"
(John Wiley, 2005). He received numerous awards, including 5 Best Paper
Awards in such prestigious conferences as ACM MobiCom'99, IEEE PerCom'06,
ACM MSWiM'00, ICOIN'02, and IEEE PADS'97. He is also a recipient of the
UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars Award (2006), University Award for
Distinguished Record of Research (2005), College of Engineering Research
Excellence Award (2003), and Outstanding Computer Science Faculty Award
(2001, 2003). He has visited numerous universities, government, and industry
research labs worldwide for collaborative research and invited seminar
talks. He is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at international
conferences and symposia. Dr. Das is the Editor-in-Chief of Pervasive
and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal (Elsevier), and serves as an Associate
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, and
Journal on Emergent Parallel and Distributed Systems. He served as General
or Program Chair and TPC member of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences.
He is Vice Chair of IEEE Computer Society's TCPP and TCCC Executive Committees
and on the Advisory Boards of several cutting-edge companies.
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