SEDE2007

Software Engineering of Ubiquitous Systems: Challenges & Opportunities

We are at the beginning of a new era of computing, characterized by implicit, ubiquitous, pervasive, and mobile systems. Wireless and wearable computer hardware, dynamic, adaptive communication tools, a variety of sensory aids, and small but powerful embedded systems make up the front end of this new paradigm of computing. Massive parallel processors would provide the backbone services. Software development for these systems can no longer follow the current familiar paradigms of software engineering. Software for these systems should be viewed, and hence developed, as a community of highly specialized, reactive, adaptive, collaborative and smart distributed objects. In this talk we present the framework of a new paradigm of software development that attempts to meet the challenges of this highly mobile, constantly changing, network-centric and user-oriented form of computing. We argue that software systems of the future will not be so much built, as grown incrementally, as part of the ubiquitous, intelligent devices that share data and computing responsibilities, as well as the personal, work and recreational contexts of users and physical objects that make up the users world.

Data Mining Applications

Data Mining is now accepted as a branch of Computer Science. However, it is still in its infancy with a recent explosive growth of algorithms, applications, and of course research. In this talk I will concentrate on data mining applications. The potential results of the application of data mining concepts are limitless. In this fun talk I will explore some of these areas. After a brief introduction to data mining and the three core topics (classification, clustering, and association rules), I will provide an overview of what to me are some of the most exciting current applications of data mining. These will include Web Usage Mining, Text Mining, Network Security, Multimedia Information Retrieval, and Bioinformatics. During this high level talk I will examine existing applications in each of these areas.