Transcript NOW: With whom?

Adaptive Computing:
Key Mission 2009
Doc. Patrik Floréen
18.5.2005
Contents
• The NOW (=2005): Who, What, and With Whom?
• Interesting research topics
• The THEN (=2009): Who, What and With Whom?
• Possible achievements by 2009
• Problems and forthcoming actions
NOW: Who?
• Group of Doc. Patrik Floréen:
– Senior researcher: PhD Greger Lindén
– Researchers: Jukka Kohonen, Petteri Nurmi,
Michael Przybilski, Jukka Suomela
– Programmer: Fredrik Boström
• Group of Prof. Hannu Toivonen:
– Researchers: Kari Laasonen, Mika Raento
– Programmer: Renaud Petit
NOW: What?
• Topology control and routing in ad hoc and sensor
networks (NAPS)
• Context management for mobile or embedded
applications (MobiLife and Space4U)
• Presence services (Context)
NOW: What?
Mobile
computing
Contextawareness
Ad hoc
networking
Combinatorial
optimization
Modelling
and data
analysis
NOW: With whom?
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Draws on existing competence in data mining (incl.
probabilistic reasoning), combinatorial optimization
and language technology
At the intersection of many HIIT research groups
– Many groups deal with data communication,
context-awareness, personalisation and
adaptation; in ARU CoSCo and Fuego (incl. user
experience)
National collaboration with Nokia and other ICT
companies
European collaboration with the MobiLife consortium,
mostly with Telematica Instituut, NEC, FOKUS,
DoCoMo Eurolabs
Interesting Research Topics
• Common theme: Restricted resources & Distribution
– How to make inference on context data with limited
resources? (Data analysis and machine learning)
– How to construct distributed context-aware
software architectures (Software engineering)
– How to distributedly operate ad hoc networks to
achieve the desired tasks? (Algorithmics)
• What we do NOT do:
– Data communication protocols
– Data analysis requiring massive computational
resources
THEN: Who?
• Joint effort with data analysis, intelligent systems and
mobile computing groups
– Evolution and redistribution between groups
• Joint research programme(s) à la HIIT strategy
• New senior / experienced researchers
– Especially postdocs
THEN: What?
Modelling
and data
analysis
Mobile
computing
Combinatorial
optimization
THEN: With whom?
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More collaboration within Finland (TKK, VTT Oulu, …)
Internationally: also non-European collaboration
(USA, …)
Possible achievements by 2009
• New approaches to context inference tasks
• General-purpose context-aware architecture
• Practical ad hoc networking solutions
• About 5 PhD theses completed
Problems and forthcoming actions
• Context-aware computing does not exist as a
methodology
• What is our core competence?
– Usually the competence is method oriented, not
application oriented
• We have an Adaptive Computing strategy day on Friday
3 June at Uunisaari
• Further discussions needed before we have a steady
course set out!