Keynote Speakers
Keynotes are for all
conferences of BDCloud2014, SocialCom2014, SustainCom2014, and associated
workshops and symposia.
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Professor Jian Pei
Simon Fraser University
Canada |
Title: Challenges in
Migrating Big Data Analytics to Clouds
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Abstract:
(Big) Data analytics has
achieved well recognized successes using traditional
computational architecture, and, at the same time, is facing the
grand challenge of scalability. Cloud computing is enticing.
However, many well accepted data analytics tasks have not been
scaled out effectively yet. In this talk, I, as a data mining
veteran, will discuss several challenges in migrating big data
analytics to clouds, including search in exponential space of
#P-hard problems, interactive mining, and pay-as-you-go. The
challenges invite interdisciplinary research and development to
unlock the power of big data analytics using the key of
edge-cutting cloud computing. |
Short
Bio |
Jian
Pei is Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Big Data Science, and
Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. He is
widely regarded as one of the world¡¯s top researchers in the
area of data mining and his work has been embraced by industry
and government. Since 2000, his research has focused on
developing effective and efficient ways to analyze - and
capitalize on - the vast stores of data housed in applications
such as social networks, network security informatics,
healthcare informatics, business intelligence, and web searches.
A prolific and widely-cited author, Professor Pei has received
many prestigious awards including induction as a Fellow of IEEE. |
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Rajkumar Buyya
University of Melbourne
Australia |
Title: Market-Oriented
Cloud Computing and Big Data Applications |
Abstract:
Computing is being
transformed to a model consisting of services that are
commoditised and delivered in a manner similar to utilities such
as water, electricity, gas, and telephony. In such a model,
users access services based on their requirements without regard
to where the services are hosted. Several computing paradigms
have promised to deliver this utility computing vision. Cloud
computing has emerged as one of the buzzwords in the IT industry
and turned the vision of "computing utilities" into a reality.
Several IT vendors have started offering computation, storage,
and application hosting services, and provide coverage in
several continents, supporting Service-Level Agreements (SLA)
backed performance and uptime promises for their services.
Clouds deliver infrastructure, platform, and software
(application) as services, which are made available as
subscription-based services in a pay-as-you-go model to
consumers. The price that Cloud Service Providers charge can
vary with time and the quality of service (QoS) expectations of
consumers.
This seminar/keynote presentation will cover (a) 21st century
vision of
computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to
deliver the vision of computing utilities; (b) opportunities and
challenges for utility and market-oriented Cloud computing, (c)
innovative architecture for creating market-oriented and elastic
Clouds by harnessing virtualisation technologies; (d) Aneka, a
Cloud Application Platform, for rapid development of Cloud/Big
Data applications and their deployment on private/public Clouds
with resource
provisioning driven by SLAs; (e) experimental results on
deploying Cloud and Big Data applications in engineering,
gaming, and health care domains (integrating sensors networks,
mobile devices), ISRO satellite image processing on elastic
Clouds, and (f) directions for delivering our 21st century
vision along with pathways for future research.
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Short
Bio |
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is
Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Future
Fellow of the Australian Research Council, and Director of the
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at
the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as
the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the
University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing.
He has authored over 450 publications and four text books
including "Mastering Cloud Computing" published by McGraw Hill
and Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2013 for Indian and international
markets respectively. He also edited several books including
"Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms" (Wiley Press, USA,
Feb 2011). He is one of the highly cited authors in computer
science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=86,
g-index=176, 34300+ citations). Microsoft Academic Search Index
ranked Dr. Buyya as the world's top author in distributed and
parallel computing between 2007 and 2012. "A Scientometric
Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature" by German scientists
ranked Dr. Buyya as the World's Top-Cited (#1) Author and the
World's Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing.
Software technologies for Grid and Cloud computing developed
under Dr. Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and
are in use at several academic institutions and commercial
enterprises in 40 countries around the world. Dr. Buyya has led
the establishment and development of key community activities,
including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical
Committee on Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences.
These contributions and international research leadership of Dr.
Buyya are recognized through the award of "2009 IEEE TCSC Medal
for Excellence in Scalable Computing". Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud
technology developed under his leadership has received "2010
Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award" and
"2011 Telstra Innovation Challenge, People's Choice Award". He
is currently serving as the foundation Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and Co-EiC of Journal of
Software: Practice and Experience. For further information on
Dr. Buyya, please visit his cyberhome: www.buyya.com |
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Frank Wang
University of Kent
UK |
Title: How will
computers evolve over the next 10 years? A Perspective on Cloud
Computing/Green Computing/Future Computing. |
Abstract:
Computer science has impact on many
parts of our lives. Computer scientists craft the
technologies that enable the digital devices we use every
day and computing will be at the heart of future revolutions
in business, science, and society. Our research targets the
next generation computing paradigms and their applications.
We have been working on Cloud Computing and Big Data for
many years. A developed Cloud Computing platform conforms to
the Internet standard and can universally accelerate BigData/Web/Media
applications by a factor up to ten. This work won an ACM/IEEE
Super Computing finalist award. We will also report our
research on Green Computing, Brain Computing and Future
Computing.
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Short
Bio |
Frank Z. Wang is the
Professor in Future Computing and Head of School of Computing,
University of Kent, UK. The School of Computing was formally
opened by Her Majesty the Queen. Professor Wang's research
interests include cloud computing, big data, green computing,
brain computing and future computing. He has been invited to
deliver keynote speeches and invited talks to report his
research worldwide, for example at Princeton University,
Carnegie Mellon University, CERN, Hong Kong University of Sci. &
Tech., Tsinghua University (Taiwan), Jawaharlal Nehru
University, Aristotle University, and University of
Johannesburg. In 2004, he was appointed as Chair & Professor,
Director of Centre for Grid Computing at CCHPCF (Cambridge-Cranfield
High Performance Computing Facility). CCHPCF is a collaborative
research facility in the Universities of Cambridge and Cranfield
(with an investment size of £40 million). Prof Wang and his team
have won an ACM/IEEE Super Computing finalist award. Prof Wang
is Chairman (UK & Republic of Ireland Chapter) of the IEEE
Computer Society and Fellow of British Computer Society. He has
served the Irish Government High End Computing Panel for Science
Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the UK Government EPSRC e-Science
Panel. |
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Professor
Albert Zomaya
Director, Centre
for Distributed and High Performance Computing
University of Sydney
Australia |
Title: Efficiency of Resource
Abundant Clouds |
Abstract:
The cloud is well known for its elasticity
by leveraging abundant resources. Cloud data centres easily host
thousands or even millions of multicore servers. Further, these
servers are increasingly virtualized for the sake of data centre
efficiency. However, the reality is that these resources are
often relentlessly exploited particularly to improve
applications performance. Although the elasticity facilitates
achieving cost efficiency (or the performance to cost ratio),
the ultimate efficiency in resource usage (or more broadly data
centres) lies in scheduling and resource allocation strategies
that explicitly take into account actual resource consumption.
The optimization of resource efficiency in clouds is of great
practical importance considering its numerous benefits in the
economic and environmental sustainability. In this talk, we will
discuss resource efficiency in cloud data centres with an
example of large-scale distributed processing applications
including scientific workflows and MapReduce jobs. |
Short
Bio |
Albert Y. ZOMAYA
is currently the Chair Professor of High Performance
Computing & Networking and Australian Research Council
Professorial Fellow in the School of Information
Technologies, The University of Sydney. He is also the
Director of the Centre for Distributed and High Performance
Computing which was established in late 2009. Professor
Zomaya is the author/co-author of seven books, more than 400
papers, and the editor of nine books and 11 conference
proceedings. He is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE
Transactions on Computers and serves as an associate editor
for 19 leading journals. Professor Zomaya is the recipient of
the Meritorious Service Award (in 2000) and the Golden
Core Recognition (in 2006), both from the IEEE Computer
Society. Also, he received the IEEE TCPP Outstanding
Service Award and the IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in
Scalable Computing, both in 2011. Professor Zomaya is an ACM
Distinguished Speaker, a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of AAAS,
IEEE, IET (U.K.), and a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM. |
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Professor
Vijay Varadharajan
Microsoft Chair Professor in Innovation in Computing
Macquarie University
Australia |
Title:
Security and Privacy Issues
in the Changing Cyber Landscape With Cloud, Big Data and
Internet of Technologies |
Abstract:
In this talk I will begin
with a brief look at current trends in the technology scenery
and some of the key security challenges that are impacting on
business and society. In particular, on the one hand there have
been tremendous developments in cyber technologies such as
cloud, Big Data and Internet of Technologies. On the other hand,
security threats in the cyber space have become more technically
sophisticated, better organized and with the readily
availability of easy to use tools enabling even ordinary users
to conduct severe attacks. At the same time, the economic and
social consequences of failing to detect and prevent these
attacks are having major impact on businesses, individuals and
the wider community.
In this talk, we will address
some of the key security and privacy challenges in the cyber
space, in particular with cloud data storage and provision of
cloud services. We will also highlight some fundamental
challenges involved with security and privacy issues in Big Data
applications. The talk will then conclude by emphasizing the
need for security professionals and researchers to rethink cyber
security strategy to respond to threats with such emerging
technologies. |
Short
Bio |
Vijay Varadharajan is the
Microsoft Chair Professor in Innovation in Computing in
Australia at Macquarie University. He is also the Director of
Advanced Cyber Security Research Centre (ACSRC) at Macquarie
University. Previously, Vijay headed Security Research worldwide
for Hewlett-Packard Labs based at European Headquarters at HP
Labs Bristol, UK and US. He led and managed several research
projects in UK, US, Germany, France and Italy and under his
leadership several security research technologies were
transferred into commercially successful HP products generating
billions of dollars. He also headed the Technical Security
Strategy Initiative at HP under the Senior Vice President of
HP.
Vijay has had several
visiting positions at different institutions over the years
including at Microsoft Research Cambridge UK and Redmond,
Visiting Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at
National University of Singapore, Invited Professor at French
National Research Labs (INRIA), Visiting Professor at eScience
Institute, Edinburgh University, Invited Professor at the Indian
Inst. of Technology and currently a Visiting Professor at the
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Vijay was an inaugural Board
Member of International Advisors of TCPA, USA. From 2002, he is
on the Trustworthy Computing Advisory Board at Microsoft, USA.
From 2011, he is on the International Security Advisory Board
SAP (Germany) and Research and Technology Advisory Board SAP
(USA). Vijay is also a member of the Australian Government¡¯s
Peak Security Advisory Group for the Minister of Broadband,
Communications and Digital Economy, Australia, and a member of
the expert ICT Advisory Panel at NSW State Government,
Australia. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Science
National Committee on Information and Communication Systems and
was a member of the Australian Government Research Council
College of Experts in Engineering, Mathematics and Informatics.
He has also been the Technical Board Director of Computer
Science at Australian Computer Society.
Vijay has been on the
Editorial Board of several journals including the IEEE
Transactions in Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE
Transactions in Information Forensics and Security, IEEE
Transactions in Cloud Computing, the ACM Transactions on
Information Systems Security, Springer International Journal of
Information Security and IEEE Security and Privacy. Vijay has
published over 350 papers in International Journals and
Conferences, has co-authored and edited 9 books and holds 3
patents. Vijay is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a
Fellow of the IEE/IET, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics,
UK, a Fellow of the Engineers Australia and a Fellow of the
Australian Computer Society. He also holds a Senior Fellowship
from the Australian Academy of Science. |
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Professor
Yanchun Zhang
Victoria University
Australia
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Title:
Medical Big
Data: Medical/Health Data Mining and Innovative Applications |
Abstract:
In last few decades, with the advent of
database systems and networking technologies, a huge volume of
health data and valuable medical knowledge have been
electronically available, accessible and processible, especially
over the virtual cyberspace - the Web, even from a remote corner
in the world. Nowadays the wide deployment of Hospital
Information Management Systems (HIMS) and Web based clinical or
medical systems, for example, the Medical Director, a generic GP
clinical system, have made it possible to record, disseminate
and implement the health information and clinical practices
easily and globally. And health care and medical service is
becoming more data-intensive and evidence-based since electronic
health records are used to track individuals' and communities'
health information (particularly changes). These substantially
motivate and advance the emergence and the progress of
data-centric health data and knowledge management research and
practice, for example, Health Informatics.
In this talk, we will introduce several case studies and
research projects to address the challenges encountered in
health service. We will then introduce a framework of data
integration, knowledge management and user behaviour modelling
for complementing and improving existing health care and service
systems.
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Short
Bio |
Yanchun Zhang
is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Applied
Informatics at VictoriaUniversity. Dr Zhang obtained a PhD
degree in Computer Science from The University of Queensland in
1991. Prof. Zhang' research interests include databases,
cooperative transactions management, web information systems,
web mining, web services and e-health. He has published over
200 research papers in international journals and conference
proceedings including top journals such as ACM Transactions on
Computer and Human Interaction (TOCHI), IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), and a dozen of books and
journal special issues in the related areas. Dr. Zhang is a
founding editor and editor-in-chief of World Wide Web and Health
Information Science and Systems. He is Chairman of
International Web information Systems Engineering Society
(WISE). He was a member ofAustralian Research Council's
College of Experts (2008-2010), and is one of the National
"Thousand Talents Program" Experts in China with Fudan
University. |
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Professor
Muhammad Ali Babar
The University of Adelaide
Australia
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Title: Understanding and
Addressing Architectural Challenges of Cloud-Based Systems |
Abstract:
Like in any other large-scale
software intensive system, software architecture is critical in
developing and evolving cloud-enabled systems. The role of
software architecture in cloud-based system is neither trivial
nor well understood. It is important to understand the key
architectural challenges in designing and evolving cloud-based
systems. To this end, we have been systematically studying
several cases of academic efforts and industrial practices aimed
at designing and evolving cloud-based systems in private and
public sectors. Our goal is provide evidence-based insights to
our and others¡¯ efforts aimed at devising novel and innovative
approaches and tools for architecting cloud-based systems. The
talk will peek through the details of some of the cases to
highlight the architectural challenges and some of the solutions
to address them. This talk will also share the information
gleaned from the studied cases and pinpoint some of the key
architecture related areas that need immediate attention of
practitioners and researchers. |
Short Bio |
Muhammad Ali
Babar is a Professor of Software Engineering in the School of
Computer Science, the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is
the founder and coordinator of CREST ¨C Centre for Research on
Engineering Software Technologies (http://crest-centre.net).
He also holds an academic position with IT University of
Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to this, he was Reader in Soft- ware
Engineering at Lancaster University UK. Previously, he worked as
a researcher and project leaders in different research centers
in Ireland and Australia. His research projects have attracted
funding from various agencies in Denmark, UK, Ireland, and
Australia. He is a member of the steering committees of several
international software engineering and architecture conferences
such as WICSA, ECSA, and ICGSE. He regularly runs tutorials and
gives talks on topics related to cloud computing, software
architecture and empirical approaches at various international
conferences. More information on Prof. M. Ali Babar can be found
at
http://malibabar.wordpress.com.
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Professor
Yang Xiang
Deakin University
Australia
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Title:
Application of Data Analytics: Security and Privacy in Social
Networks |
Abstract:
Today's online social networks have pervaded all aspects of our
daily lives. With their unparalleled popularity, online social
networks have evolved from the platforms for social
communication and news dissemination, to indispensable tools for
professional networking, social recommendations, marketing, and
online content distribution. Their evolution has influenced
every technological, societal, and cultural aspect of human
beings. They are receiving more and more attention in research
communities.
It has been widely recognized that security and privacy are the
critical issues in online social networks. On one hand, online
social networks have been the effective platform for the
attackers to launch attacks and distribute malicious
information. On the other hand, privacy leakage through online
social networks has become common exercise. New methods and
tools, consequently, must follow up in order to adapt to this
emerging security paradigm. In this talk, we will discuss the
security and privacy problems in social networks and how big
data analytics can be used to address the problems.
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Short Bio |
Professor Yang Xiang received his PhD in Computer Science from
Deakin University, Australia. He is currently a full professor
at School of Information Technology, Deakin University. He is
the Director of the Network Security and Computing Lab (NSCLab)
and the Associate Head of School (Industry Engagement). His
research interests include network and system security,
distributed systems, and networking. In particular, he is
currently leading his team developing active defense systems
against large-scale distributed network attacks. He is the Chief
Investigator of several projects in network and system security,
funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). He has
published more than 170 research papers in many international
journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on
Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Security and
Forensics, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
He has published two books, Software Similarity and
Classification (Springer) and Dynamic and Advanced Data Mining
for Progressing Technological Development (IGI-Global). He has
served as the Program/General Chair for many international
conferences such as ICA3PP 12/11, IEEE/IFIP EUC 11, IEEE
TrustCom 13/11, IEEE HPCC 10/09, IEEE ICPADS 08, NSS
11/10/09/08/07. He has been the PC member for more than 60
international conferences in distributed systems, networking,
and security. He serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and
Distributed Systems, Security and Communication Networks
(Wiley), and the Editor of Journal of Network and Computer
Applications. He is the Coordinator, Asia for IEEE Computer
Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP). He
is a Senior Member of the IEEE. |
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Professor
Jemal
Abawajy
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Deakin University
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Title: Hybrid
Consensus Pruning of Ensemble Classifiers for Big Data Malware
Detection |
Abstract:
Despite of
the fact that security and privacy are critical issues in big
data, more research needs to be done in the area of malicious
software (malware) detection and prevention. In this
presentation, we introduce an ensemble classifier and new
advanced ensemble pruning method. We show experimental results
of the new method as compared to several state-of-art ensemble
pruning method for big data platforms. |
Short Bio |
Jemal H. Abawajy is
a full Professor and the Director of the Parallel and
Distributing Computing (PARADISE) Lab at Deakin University,
Australia. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and was a member of the
organizing committees for over 400 international conferences
serving in various capacities including chair and general
co-chair. He has published more than 200 refereed articles,
supervised numerous PhD students to completion and is on the
editorial boards of many journals. |
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