Invited Kenote Speakers

About Professor Hojjat Adeli

Dr. Hojjat Adeli received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976 at the age of 26. He has authored 484 research and scientific publications in various fields of computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, and medicine including 14 books such as Machine Learning - Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, and Fuzzy Systems (Wiley, 1995); Wavelets in Intelligent Transportation Systems (Wiley, 2005); Intelligent Infrastructure (CRC Press, 2009); and Automated EEG-based Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders - Inventing the Future of Neurology. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, now in 25th year of publication and Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, now in 18th year of publication. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Neural Systems. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from OSU, "in recognition of extraordinary accomplishment in research and scholarship". In 2005, he was elected Honorary/Distinguished Member, ASCE: "for wide-ranging, exceptional, and pioneering contributions to computing in civil engineering and extraordinary leadership in advancing the use of computing and information technologies in many engineering disciplines throughout the world." In 2007, he received the OSU College of Engineering Peter L. and Clara M. Scott Award for Excellence in Engineering Education "for sustained, exceptional, and multi-faceted contributions to numerous fields including computer-aided engineering, knowledge engineering, computational intelligence, large-scale design 1optimization, and smart structures with worldwide impact," as well as the Charles E. MacQuigg Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2008 he was Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "for distinguished contributions to computational infrastructure engineering and for worldwide leadership in computational science and engineering as a prolific author, keynote speaker, and editor-in-chief of journals." In 2010 he was profiled as an Engineering Legend in Leadership and Management in Engineering, ASCE. Same year he was included in The Ohio State University Buckeye Wall of Brilliance, "a permanent exhibition documenting the areas of inspiration and innovation from Buckeyes throughout Ohio State's history." In 2011 he was elected an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to computational intelligence in infrastructure engineering." He is the Editor-in-Chief and Founder of international research journals Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure, now in 27th year of publication, and Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, now in 20th year of publication. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Neural System.

Intelligent Infrastructure, Sustainable Design, and Signature Structures

Three topics of Intelligent Infrastructure, Sustainable Design, and Signature Structures and their interconnections are presented in this Keynote Lecture. The focus of building sustainability so far has been mostly on saving energy and water and making them more environmentally friendly by, say, reducing the carbon emissions. It is esti-mated that over 70% of the city's green gas are emitted from buildings. As reported in the LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) 24%-50% of energy use, about 30% of CO2 emissions, 40% of water use, and 70% of solid water can be reduced for sustainable buildings. Sustainable building design initiatives strive to transform structural developments to more environmentally conscious building design and ulti-mately improve the quality of life.
In this Keynote Lecture the author presents the vision of sustainability via intelligent infrastructure. This vision is broad and encompasses not only structures but also transportation systems. The author envisages a new generation of civil smart structures where intelligent sensors and actuators are integrated for health monitoring and vibration control of structures under extreme dynamic loading (Adeli and Kim 2009). The health of such a smart structure is continuously monitored in real time by sensors and its behavior is actively controlled in an effective and efficient way through properly designed actuators. In addition to the innovative hardware technologies such as smart materials, sensors and actuators, advanced computing technologies such as data mining and automatic feature extraction techniques play an important role in creating an effective smart structure technology. It is shown the smart structure technology is particularly attractive for tall buildings leading to a much lighter structure with substantial weight reduction in the order of 20-35%. Multidisciplinary methodologies and information technologies are presented for health monitoring and nonlinear active control of tall building structures subjected to extreme dynamic loading such as those due to winds or earthquakes.
The author's vision of sustainability via intelligent infrastructure is broad and en-compasses not only structures but also transportation systems. It is presented in Adeli and Jiang (2009) where the authors provide a "unique treatise for attacking and solving some of the most complex and intractable problems encountered in the emerging fields of smart structures and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). It is shown some of these problems can be solved effectively through ingenious integration of several different computing paradigms including chaos theory (based on nonlinear dynamics theory), wavelets (a signal processing method), and three complementary soft computing methods, that is, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and genetic algorithm." The premise of ITS is intelligent and maximum utilization of the existing freeway systems rather than adding to them thereby minimizing the destruction of the nature and resulting in environmentally conscious and sustainable designs and solutions (Adeli and Karim 2005).
Finally, the author presents a number of signature highrise and superhighhrise building structures built, under construction, or designed but yet to be constructed in more than a dozen different countries including Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, U.S.A., and Vietnam. It is noted that design of such signature and highly irregular structures would not have been possible without recent advances in computing and information technologies.

[REFERENCES]
Adeli, H. and Jiang, X. (2009), Intelligent Infrastructure - Neural Networks, Wavelets, and Chaos Theory for Intelligent Transportation Systems and Smart Structures, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida.
Adeli, H. and Karim, A. (2005), Wavelets in Intelligent Transportation Systems, John Wiley and Sons, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
Adeli, H. and Kim, H. (2009), Wavelet-Based Vibration Control of Smart Buildings and Bridges, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida.

About Dr. Krishna Kant

Dr. Krishna Kant is currently a Research Professor at the Center for Secure Information Systems at George Mason University, Fairfax VA. He is also serving as a program director in the Computer and Network Division (CNS) at the National Science Foundation. At NSF, he runs the Computer Systems Research (CSR) program and is actively involved in driving the NSF wide SEES (Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability) program. His current areas of research include robustness in the Internet, cloud computing security, and sustainable computing. He carries 30 years of combined experience in academia, industry, and government. He has published in a wide variety of areas in computer science including fault tolerant computing, traffic characterization, telecommunication systems, architectural modeling, Internet routing and name resolution, and data center management, among others. He has authored a graduate textbook on performance modeling of computer systems. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1981 from University of Texas at Dallas. He has since held positions at Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, Bell Labs, Bellcore (Telcordia), Intel, NSF, and GMU.

Energy Adaptation in Ubiquitous Computing

Energy efficiency is well recognized as a critical requirement of computing system design for a variety of reasons including cost and environmental impact. In this talk, I will first motivate an approach that goes beyond energy efficiency and more directly addresses the sustainability issues. The key notion in this approach is use of renewable and harvestable energy and smart adaptation of systems to the available energy supply. I will discuss the application of this approach in a variety of environments including mobile and ubiquitous computing. In particular, I will discuss energy adaptation in peer to peer environments involving mobile devices. I will then discuss how such principles can be applied to other ubiquitous environments such as ad hoc networks and in the management of smart infrastructures. Finally, I will discuss some broader issues regarding energy adaptation in the context of both the cyber-infrastructure and energy consuming cyber-physical systems.

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Mobile Cloud and Green Computing

About Professor Ivan Stojmenovic

Ivan Stojmenovic received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics. He held regular and visiting positions in Serbia, Japan, USA, Canada, France, Mexico, Spain, UK (as Chair in Applied Computing at the University of Birmingham), Hong Kong, Brazil, Taiwan, and China, and is Full Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada and Adjunct Professor at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He published over 250 different papers, and edited seven books on wireless, ad hoc, sensor and actuator networks and applied algorithms with Wiley. He is editor of over dozen journals, editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (from January 2010), and founder and editor-in-chief of three journals (MVLSC, IJPEDS and AHSWN). Stojmenovic is one of about 500 computer science researchers with h-index at least 40 and has >11000 citations. He received four best paper awards and the Fast Breaking Paper for October 2003, by Thomson ISI ESI. He is recipient of the Royal Society Research Merit Award, UK. He is elected to IEEE Fellow status (Communications Society, class 2008), and is IEEE CS Distinguished Visitor 2010-12. He received Excellence in Research Award of the University of Ottawa 2009. Stojmenovic chaired and/or organized >60 workshops and conferences, and served in >200 program committees. He was program co-chair at IEEE PIMRC 2008, IEEE AINA-07, IEEE MASS-04&07, EUC-05&08-10, AdHocNow08, IFIP WSAN08, WONS-05, MSN-05&06, ISPA-05&07, founded workshop series at IEEE MASS, ICDCS, DCOSS, WoWMoM, ACM Mobihoc, IEEE/ACM CPSCom, FCST, MSN, and is/was Workshop Chair at IEEE INFOCOM 2011, IEEE MASS-09, ACM Mobihoc-07&08.