Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and eResearch

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Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and e-Research

• 4th UK UbiNet workshop

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Ambient Intelligence
Pervasive
Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and e-Research
e-Science
the Grid
cyberinfrastructure
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Motivation

• The digital world of the Grid meets the physical
  world through a variety of sensors, instruments
  and interfaces
• Projects in the e-Science programme have
  increasingly become aware of the need to focus on
  this digital-physical interface of the grid
• The ubiquitous computing community is looking
  towards the Grid for aspects of processing, data
  handling, integration and access
• There is also interest in applying middleware
  techniques across these distributed computing
  domains

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Objective

• The objective of this workshop is to bring
  together researchers and practitioners across
  these fields and identify research agendas which
  bring together ubiquitous computing and e-Science
• It seems to me the UK is ahead of the field
  how can we together conduct internationally
  leading research in this area?

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Background

• e-Science projects have touched on this space
• Equator IRC
• CombeChem
• Usability Task Force

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Background

• Strategic reports have identified this space
• Computer Science Challenges to Emerge from
  e-Science
• Next Generation Grids 2 - Requirements and
  Options for European Grids Research 2005-2010 and
  Beyond
• Andsurely Moores Law implies we need to think
  about this(?!)

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Story so far

• Birds of Feather session at e-Science All-Hands
  meeting in September 2004 (who was there?)
• This followup workshop organised with help from
• Tom Rodden, Nottingham
• Morris Sloman, Imperial College
• Oliver Storz, Lancaster
• Ian Marshall, Kent
• Peter Dickman, Glasgow
• Omer Rana, Cardiff
• and Nicky Harding (e-Science and EnviSense)

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Workshop Schedule
Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th May 2005
www.semanticgrid.org/ubinesc/
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Session format

• 20 minute invited talks
• 10 minute position papers
• Points of clarification during speaker handovers
• Discussion at end with all speakers
• Session chairs need to keep overall session to
  time please
• Give me your slides!

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Dinner

• Howies
• 10-14 Victoria Street, Edinburgh
• www.howies.uk.com
• See map in pack
• Please sign Dinner Sign In sheet at front of
  room before lunchtime

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Panel

• Invited speakers and members of organising
  committee who will be here tomorrow morning
  please meet at beginning of lunch to organise
  panel

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Ambient Intelligence and The Grid
A Framework for discussion
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Seven aspects of symbiosis

• Devices need the Grid for computation
• Devices need the Grid for integration
• The Grid needs devices to interface with the
  physical world
• Virtualisation
• The information systems perspective
• Grid computation on networks of devices
• Self-Organisation

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Semantic
Grid
Pervasive
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Semantic
Sensor nets
Grid
Pervasive
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Semantic
Sensor nets
Grid
Pervasive
Interaction
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Semantic
Sensor nets
Grid
Pervasive
Grid services for devices
Interaction
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Semantic
Semantic Grid
Task Computing
Sensor nets
Grid
Pervasive
Grid services for devices
Interaction
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Daves Position Ambient Intelligence is the
Intersection of the Semantic Grid and the
Physical World
Semantic
Task Computing
AmbientIntelligence
Sensor nets
Grid
Pervasive
Grid services for devices
Interaction
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Semantic
Semantic Grid
Task Computing
SWS
OGSA
Web Services
Grid
Pervasive
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Action Planning
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Some Options

• Workshop report, to go into NeSC Technical Report
  Series
• EPSRC Network
• Transfer experimental techniques, models and
  scientific insights
• Promote mobility between academe, universities
  and industry
• Networks are expected to lead to new
  collaborative multidisciplinary research
  proposals
• EPSRC will provide a total of 60,000 for a
  maximum of three years to cover the operating and
  support costs
• EPSRC Research in the Usability Challenges to
  Emerge from e-Science