Sound's interesting though it probably won't be a hands-on talk --more for
those who like to look ahead a couple of steps (or speculate :-)
Given the clout of the speaker I'd exspect the room to fill early.
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:05:42 -0700
From: Cheri Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UO CIS Colloquium - Thursday, October 13, 2005
Mobility and Resource Management in Smart Home Environments
Sajal K. Das
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at
Arlington
ABSTRACT
Rapid advances in sensors, wireless mobile networks and pervasive computing
technologies have set the stage for the development of smart environments.
Context-awareness is perhaps the most salient feature in such environments, and
user location plays a vital role in defining the contexts. Thus it is extremely
important to design scalable, technology independent, location-aware services
to demonstrate best performance and efficacy of smart environments.
In this talk, we will first characterize smart environments and the desired
goals. Then we will develop an agent based architecture for smart homes,
followed by an information theory based predictive framework for inhabitant's
mobility tracking and location-aware resource optimization. The underlying idea
is to capture inhabitant's spatio-temporal movement (location) profiles from
sensors in the symbolic domain, store them in a compressed dictionary to help
learn such profiles, and predict with good accuracy the inhabitant's future
mobility patterns (location as well as the most likely routes). The framework
is rich enough to be applied to other contexts, such as successful prediction
of inhabitant's activity sequence and resource needs, thus leading to
pro-active and near-optimal resource (e.g., scarce wireless bandwidth)
management schemes and on-demand operations of automated devices along the
inhabitant's future locations and paths. Simulation and real experiments will
corroborate high prediction success and sufficient reduction in daily
energy-consumption and manual device operations.
(This research is funded by the US National Science Foundation.)
Biography
Dr. Sajal K. Das received B.Tech. degree in 1983 from Calcutta University, M.S.
degree in 1984 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and PhD degree in
1988 from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, all in Computer Science.
He is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and also the Founding
Director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking
(CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). His current research
interests include resource and mobility management in wireless and sensor
networks, mobile and pervasive computing, wireless multimedia and QoS
provisioning, mobile Internet protocols, distributed processing and grid
computing. He has published over 350 research papers, directed numerous funded
projects, and holds 5 US patents in wireless mobile networks. He received the
Best Paper Awards in ACM MobiCom'99, ICOIN'01, ACM MSWIM'00, and ACM/IEEE
PADS'97. He is also a recipeint of UTA's University Award for Distinguished
Record of Research (2005), College of Engineering Research Excellence Award
(2003), and Outstanding Faculty Research Award in Computer Science (2001 and
2003). He is frequently invited as a keynote or invited speaker at
international conferences. He is the coauthor of a book "Smart Environments:
Technology, Protocols and Applications", published in 2005 by John Wiley.
Dr. Das is the Editor-in-Chief of Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal, and
serves on the Editorial Boards of 5 international journals including IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems, and ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks. He has served as General Chair of
IEEE WoWMoM'05, IWDC'04, IEEE PerCom'04, CIT'03 and IEEE MASCOTS'02; General
Vice Chair of IEEE PerCom'03, ACM MobiCom'00 and HiPC'00-01; Program Chair of
IWDC'02, WoWMoM'98-99; TPC Vice Chair of CIT'05, ICPADS'02; and as TPC member
of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences. He is the Vice Chair of IEEE Technnical
Committees (TCPP and TCCC), and on the Advisory Boards of several cutting-edge
companies.
DATE: Thursday, October 13, 2005
TIME: 3:30 p.m. talk, refreshments following talk
PLACE: 220 Deschutes Hall (Colloquium Room), University of Oregon
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/activities/talks/
Cheri Smith Undergraduate Coordinator
Computer & Information Science [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (541) 346-1376, Fax: (541) 346-5373
120 Deschutes Hall
1202 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1202
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