Bridging Pervasive Computing with Mobile Agents through Context-awareness

Speaker:	Prof. Arkady Zaslavsky
		Monash University

Title:		"Bridging Pervasive Computing with Mobile Agents through
		Context-awareness"

Date:		Thursday, 11 August 2005

Time:		2:00p.m.-3:00p.m.

Venue:		Room 1504 (via lift nos. 25/26), HKUST


ABSTRACT:

The focus of this presentation is on mobile agents and contribution they
can make into building pervasive systems. Two ongoing projects, eHermes
and ContextExplorers will be presented. eHermes involves run-time
construction and coordination of mobile agents using task decomposition
graphs. Another component of eHermes is concerned with unobtrusive user
profiling and personalisation, which involves information agents, and
where agents themselves could be users of the system. ContextExplorers is
a joint project with HP Labs and is supported by HP PhD endowment. The
project is concerned with developing software mobile agents that can
extract, interprete, validate and verify run-time context of a pervasive
computing system and reason about context. A brief overview of a
Monash-wide initiative CoolCampus will be given. Coolcampus brings
together researchers in pervasive/mobile/wireless space with potential
users of this technology in educational environment.


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Biography:

Arkady Zaslavsky is an Associate Professor at Monash University,
Australia. He is also an Adjunct-Professor at the Lulea University of
Technology, Sweden. He received MSc in Applied Mathematics majoring in
Computer Science from Tbilisi  State University (Georgia, USSR) in 1976
and PhD in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute for Control Sciences
(IPU-IAT), USSR Academy of Sciences in 1987.

Arkady Zaslavsky has published more than 200 publications throughout his
professional career. He organised and chaired many workshops and
conferences in mobile computing area, including "Mobility in Databases and
Distributed Systems" and International Conference on Mobile Data
Management, MDM2003. He is an editorial board member for Elsevier journals
"Computer Communications" and "Information and Software Technology". His
research interests include mobile and pervasive computing; distributed and
mobile agents and objects; wireless networks; distributed computing and
database systems; distributed object technology and mobile commerce.

Arkady Zaslavsky has been awarded and involved in many research grants and
projects including DSTC's "M3: Enterprise Architecture for Mobile
Computation", "Context-rich mobile agent technology to support information
needs of financial institutions", "Adaptive Distributed Information
Services", "Mobile City" and others.

He is a member of ACS, ACM and IEEE Computer Society.