题目：Scientific Workflows in Service/Cloud Computing, and Beyond
报告人：MengChu Zhou，Ph.D. & Distinguished Professor，New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
时间：2013年10月13日周日上午10：00
地点：CSC 223
摘要：Many disciplines including biology and biomedicine have adopted the service/cloud computing paradigms, and leveraging workflows to orchestrate data-pipelines. Two major NIH sponsored initiatives, i.e., cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) and CardioVascular Research Grid (CVRG), have both adopted a service/cloud infrastructure that virtualizes the access of data and computational resources, and elastically scales out for more power. This talk consists of three parts. We start with an overview of the service/cloud infrastructure and their benefits to domain scientists. Afterwards we present caFlow, a workflow toolkit for caBIG with rich features such as service discovery, stateful interaction, data access and security. Given the infrastructure and the toolkit, scientists call for composition guidance to reuse the best practices and wisdom of the crowds. To address this research challenge we propose a network-based approach, called ServiceMap, to provide a GPS-like support to: 1) help domain scientists understand various usage patterns of the existing services; and 2) recommend possible service compositions. At the end of the talk, we will give some personal perspectives on how services computing is to interplay with Cloud computing, social network and big data, and evolve in the near future.
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报告人简介：
MengChu Zhou received his B.S. degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 1983, M.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1986, and Ph. D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1990. He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ in 1990, and is currently a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of Discrete-Event Systems Laboratory. His research interests are in Petri nets, computer-integrated systems, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, system security, semiconductor manufacturing, and embedded control. He has 350+ publications including 10 books, 150+ journal papers (majority in IEEE transactions), and 17 book-chapters. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation from 1997 to 2000, and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering from 2004-2007, and currently Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part A and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He was General Co-Chair of 2003 IEEE International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics, Washington DC, October 5-8, 2003, Founding General Co-Chair of 2004 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Taipei, March 21-23, 2004, and General Chair of 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensing and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. April 23-25, 2006 and IEEE Conf. on Automation Science and Engineering, Washington D.C., August 23-26, 2008. He was Program Chair of 1998 and 2001 IEEE International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) and 1997 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. Dr. Zhou was the recipient of NSF’s Research Initiation Award, CIM University-LEAD Award by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Perlis Research Award by NJIT, Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE SMC Society, and Distinguished Service Award from IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He was the founding chair of Discrete Event Systems Technical Committee of IEEE SMC Society, and founding chair of Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation Technical Committee of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is Fellow of IEEE, IFAC and AAAS.