Keynote Address

Keynote Address 1

Reviewing and foreseeing recent IT technology trends;
  Expanding the concept of Internet to IoT, AI, and blockchain.
Takashi Arano (Intec Inc.)

Abstract
Since 1990s, the speaker has been involved in introducing advanced IT technologies to the real use cases in the front line of business. This keynote reviews technology trends of these 20 years from Internet and IPv6 to the most recent ones such as IoT, AI and blockchain which the speaker now deals with in Intec Inc., and tries to forecast the future deployment of these technologies.
He started up an Internet service in a Japanese telecom carrier, NTT, as a chief network engineer, which is now the biggest Internet service provider in Japan. Different from traditional telecom services, the Internet is open in terms of technology, business and community. Thanks to openness, the Internet has been a platform to make and accelerate a lot of innovations. Technology openness leads to easier connections within contents, software and people as well as less costly services. Community openness helps more collaboration of stakeholders. Business openness invites thousands-times more people to “innovation games”. The speaker believes recent IT technologies stated above are just on the same path the Internet has evolved and will accelerate much more innovations than the Internet did.


Biography
Takashi Arano
Executive Officer, General Manager of Advanced Technology Research and Development Institute, Intec Inc.
Director, Intec Innovative Techonologies USA, Inc.

Takashi Arano received Master of Science from the University of Tokyo.

Since 1996, he had lead NTT's Internet department as a chief network engineer. He designed an initial network of OCN, which is now one of the biggest Internet providers in Japan. He was also involved in a wide range of strategic planning such as M&A in NTT. He has joined the Intec group since June 2002. He has lead Intec's innovative business initiatives based on advanced technologies such as IPv6, AI, IoT, cloud robotics, and block chain.

He also contributed to the Internet community in the past.
Address Policy area

  • Vice chair of ICANN ASO Address Council
  • Chair of APNIC Address Policy SIG
  • Board member of JPNIC, etc.

IPv6 Promotion area

  • Board member of the IPv6 Forum
  • Steering Chair of the first Global IPv6 Summit in Japan
  • Program Chair of the first Global IPv6 Summit in Asia Pacific
  • Some Japanese governmental committee members, etc.

 

 

Keynote Address 2

Cyber-Physical-Social Convergence in Smart Living: Challenges and Opportunities
Sajal K. Das (Department of Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA)

Abstract
We live in an era in which our physical and personal environments are becoming increasingly intertwined and smarter due to the advent of pervasive sensing, wireless communications, computing, and actuation capabilities. Indeed our daily lives in smart cities and connected communities depend upon a wide variety of smart service systems and cyber-physical infrastructures, such as smart energy, transportation, healthcare, supply-chain, etc. Alongside, the availability of low-cost wireless sensor networks (WSNs), Internet of Things (IoTs), and rich mobile devices (e.g., smartphones) are also empowering humans with fine-grained information and opinion collection through crowdsensing about events of interest, thus resulting in actionable inferences and decisions. This synergy has led to cyber-physical-social convergence with human in the loop that exhibits complex interactions, inter-dependencies and adaptations between engineered/natural systems and users with a goal to improve quality of life experience what we call smart living. However, the main challenges are posed by the scale, heterogeneity, big data, and resource limitations (e.g., energy) in context recognition and situation awareness using sensors, IoTs and CPS networks. This talk will highlight unique research issues and challenges in smart living and CPS systems, followed by novel solutions for energy-efficient data gathering and fusion, lifetime optimization and security in WSNs, and trade-off between energy and information quality in multi-modal context recognition. Our research is based on online and randomized algorithms, graph theory, game theory, trust model, and information theory. Case studies and experimental results will be presented for energy efficient homes and smart healthcare applications. The talk will be concluded with directions for future research.


Biography
Dr. Sajal K. Das is a professor of Computer Science Department and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA. During 2008-2011, he served the NSF as a Program Director in the Computer and Network Systems Division. Prior to 2013, he was a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and founding director of Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests include wireless and sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems and smart environments including smart grid and smart healthcare, distributed and cloud computing, security and privacy, biological and social networks, and applied graph theory and game theory. He has published over 600 research articles in high quality journals and conferences, 52 book chapters, and 5 US patents. He coauthored four books – “Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols, and Applications” (John Wiley, 2005); “Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure: Foundations and Challenges” (Morgan Kaufman, 2012); “Mobile Agents in Distributed Computing and Networking” (Wiley, 2012); and “Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach” (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His h-index is 75 with more than 23,500 citations according to Google Scholar. Dr. Das is a recipient of 10 Best Paper Awards in prestigious conferences (e.g., ACM MobiCom and IEEE PerCom) and numerous awards for research, teaching, mentoring and professional services, including IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks and mobile computing. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal and serves as Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. A founder of IEEE PerCom, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE SMARTCOMP, and ICDCN conferences, he served on numerous ACM and IEEE conference committees as General Chair, Technical Program Chair, or Program Committee member. Dr. Das is an IEEE Fellow for pioneering contributions to parallel, distributed and mobile computing.

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