Managing context and reasoning about it in pervasive computing systems

Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia

Monday, April 10
4:30pm - SENSQ 5317

Refreshments at 4:15

Hosted by Panos K. Chrysanthis

Abstract

Context-awareness is essential for reactive and proactive behavior of pervasive & mobile computing systems. This talk concentrates on a context-spaces approach to managing and reasoning about context as well as maintaining stability of pervasive computing systems. A short overview of a variety of projects in mobile/pervasive/wireless computing and networking will also be presented.

Biography of Speaker

Arkady Zaslavsky is an Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia. He is also an Adjunct-Professor at the Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. He received MSc in Applied Mathematics majoring in Computer Science from Tbilisi State University (Georgia, USSR) in 1976 and PhD in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute for Control Sciences (IPU-IAT), USSR Academy of Sciences in 1987.

Arkady Zaslavsky has published more than 200 publications throughout his professional career. He organised and chaired many workshops and conferences in mobile computing area, including "Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems" and International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM2003. He is an editorial board member for Elsevier journal "Computer Communications" and IEEE Distributed Systems-Online. His research interests include mobile and pervasive computing; distributed and mobile agents and objects; wireless networks; distributed computing and database systems; distributed object technology and mobile commerce.