Bogdan M. 'Dan' Wilamowski

IEEE Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics,

Past Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics,

Director of Alabama Nano/Micro Science and Technology Center.

Professor of Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 200 Broun Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849-5201

"Advantages and problems of soft computing"

Abstract: Soft computing can be a very attractive alternative to a purely digital system, but there are many traps waiting for researchers trying to apply this new exciting technology. For nonlinear processing both neural networks and fuzzy systems can be used. Terrifically neural networks should provide much better solutions: smoother surfaces, larger number of inputs and outputs, better generalization abilities, faster processing time, etc. In industrial practice, however, many people are frustrated with neural networks not being aware that the reason for their frustrations are wrong learning algorithms and wrong neural network architectures. Having difficulties with neural network training, many industrial practitioner are enlarging neural networks and indeed such networks converges to solutions much faster. But at the same time such excessively large network are not able to respond correctly to new patterns which were not used for training. This presentation describes how to use effective neural networks and how to avoid all reasons for frustration.

A short CV: Dan Wilamowski, MS 1966, PhD 1970, DSc 1977, became a Full Professor in 1987 and over a 20 year period served as Department Head for Solid State Electronics, Director of the Institute for Electronic Technology in Gdansk as well as a group leader in two R&D Centers in Poland. He held visiting positions at Tohoku University for 3 years and at the University of Arizona for 2 years. He was tenured at both the University of Wyoming and the University of Idaho. For the last 8 years he has served as Alumni Professor and Director of the Alabama Micro/Nano Science and Technology Center at Auburn University. He is the author of 4 textbooks, 5 handbooks, 325 refereed publications, 29 patents and has directed 140 graduate students to completion of their degrees. For his commitment to research and education, he has received several national and international awards.

Laïla Gide

THALES Corporate Research and Technology

"ARTEMIS SRA 2011: Embedded Systems and Societal Challenges."

Abstract: In the meeting of ARTEMIS-IA General Assembly, which took place on March 2nd 2011, the ARTEMIS Strategic Agenda (SRA) 2011 was endorsed as a recalibration of the ARTEMIS SRA 2006. The ARTEMIS SRA 2011 contains two main elements: The widely acknowledged societal challenges in the European Union and a set of innovation activities in embedded systems that goes beyond the classic scientific approach in driving research activities.

All these challenges will inspire concrete research topics where the change from static networked embedded systems to highly dynamic system of systems, autonomous, self-organizing, self-healing, and self- configuring will require new architectures, new design processes, new methods and tools.

A short CV: Laïla Gide is Director Advanced Studies Europe in THALES Corporate Research and Technology. She is coordinating the participation of THALES in the European R&D programmes, and is involved in ARTEMIS since the beginning. She holds a BSC in Electronic Engineering, and built an industrial experience through her several positions in the international cooperation, licensing partners in various regions of the world ( Europe, South America, Far East and Middle East) and as former quality director of Thales naval activities in France. She is Steering Board member of ARTEMIS Industry Association, Co-chair of the Working Group (Strategic Research Agenda) (SRA) and Co-chair of the Working Group on standardisation. She is one of the pioneers in building ARTEMIS and was deeply involved in the SRA 2006 and now in the newly published revision the SRA 2011.

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Portugal

"Behavioral Aspects in Collaborative Enterprise Networks"

Abstract: The collaborative networks paradigm can empower enterprises with the needed agility and survival capability to face market turbulence. However, the success and sustainability of collaboration requires proper understanding and modeling of the involved behavioral aspects, a basis for sound development of support tools and governance mechanisms. Therefore a set of relevant behavior-related issues are discussed and major research challenges identified. This includes network's evolution, emotional health, incentives, conflicts preemption and negotiation, value systems alignment, collaboration readiness, and governance principles.

A short CV: Prof. Luis M. Camarinha-Matos received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the New University of Lisbon in 1989, and he is currently professor of Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing at the same university. He is co-founder of the Centre for Technology and Systems and coordinator of the CoDIS Group (Collaborative networks and Distributed Industrial Systems) of Uninova. He has participated in many international and national projects, both as a researcher and as a coordinator. He has coordinated various successful projects in the area of virtual organizations (PRODNET II, THINKcreative, VOmap, TeleCARE, ECOLEAD, ePAL) and projects of cooperation between European Union and Latin America, (Cimis.net, FlexSys, SCM+ and MASSYVE). He was founder and chairman of the IFIP COVE working group WG5.5, and also the founder and current chairman of SOCOLNET (Society of Collaborative Networks). He has also coordinated several other national projects, and has been a member of various international projects. Prof. Camarinha-Matos has been involved in the organization and program committees of more than 250 international conferences, with particular reference to the IEEE/IFIP BASYS series of conferences on balanced automation systems (as founder and general chairman), and the IFIP PRO-VE series of conferences on virtual enterprises (as founder, and Program Chair). He has edited various issues of Journals and books, and he has more than 330 publications in Journals and conferences proceedings. He has also been reviewer and evaluator of projects for the European Commission and other programs (Portugal, Brazil, Ireland, Czech Republic, Norway, Hong Kong, Estonia, and Argentina).

Stamatis Karnouskos

SAP

"Cyber-Physical Systems in the SmartGrid"

Abstract: A revolution in energy domain is underway, namely the smart grid. Its basic building blocks are the existing efforts of the Internet of Things and Internet of Services, that come together with cooperation as the key enabler. In smart grid era, networked embedded devices are making the electricity grid itself, our homes, factories, cities etc. smarter, enabling and increasing the collaboration among and within them. The smart grid is asystem of systems i.e. a complex ecosystem of heterogeneous cooperating entities that interact in order to provide the envisioned functionality. Advanced business services are envisaged that will take advantage of the near real-time information flows among all participants. In order to realize the promise of smart grid, a key element would be to have timely monitoring and control; a task that will heavily depend on ubiquitous networked embedded devices and ecosystems of them. Once a highly distributed and service-based energy infrastructure is in place, we will see cost-effective new innovative concepts and technologies flourishing that will empower with new capabilities and tools.

A short CV: Stamatis Karnouskos is a senior researcher with SAP and investigates the added value of integrating networked embedded devices in enterprise systems. The last 15 years Stamatis leads efforts in several European Commission and industry funded projects related to smart grids, Internet-based services and architectures, software agents, mobile commerce, security and mobility. Stamatis is actively involved in several consultations at European Commission and German level dealing with System of Systems, Internet of Things, energy efficiency, SmartGrids, and various R&D projects at European level. He has authored several technical papers, acted as guest editor in IEEE/Elsevier journals, and participates as a program member committee and reviewer in several international journals, conferences and workshops.