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Keynote Speakers for PROFES 2011

 

PROFES 2011 is happy to welcome two keynote speakers:

 

Dr. Dennis Smith - Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute

Dr. Dennis Smith

Keynote: The Impact of Emerging Software Paradigms on Software Quality and User Expectations

This talk will discuss emerging approaches to software development and evolution that enable organizations to respond quickly to new business needs while maintaining their legacy applications. These approaches include:

1)  Service oriented architecture (SOA) which is a way of designing, developing, deploying, and managing systems where coarse-grained services represent reusable functionality, and service consumers compose applications or systems using the functionality provided by these services through standard interfaces. This approach enables the flexible composition and evolution of new services. Major barriers include lack of a long term strategy, lack of effective governance, unrealistic expectations, and inappropriate technical strategy.
 

2)  Cloud computing which is a “a large-scale distributed computing paradigm that is driven by economies of scale, in which a pool of abstracted, virtualized, dynamically-scalable, managed computing power, storage, platforms, and services are delivered on demand to external customers over the Internet 1. This approach enables consumer organizations to have access to state of the practice hardware and software without making many of the upfront infrastructure investments. The main drivers for cloud computing adoption include scalability, elasticity, virtualization, cost, mobility, collaboration, and risk reduction. Major barriers include security, interoperability, control and performance.
 

3)  Enterprise architecture planning and development which develops a comprehensive plan for using business functionality across an enterprise and building applications from shared resources. Because it takes a perspective that crosses an entire enterprise, it enables the breaking down of barriers that take place within individual organizations. Major barriers include lack of long term commitment, and a focus on completeness rather than practicality.
The combination of these three approaches offers potentials for both success and failure. They can enable rapid responses to new business situations through the shared use of common resources, as well as the discipline to use a common plan for implementing enterprise wide priorities. However, the use of these approaches has often been over-hyped, resulting in failure. This talk uses lessons learned from current adoption efforts to identify the core concepts of these approaches, what their potentials are, as well as common misconceptions and risks.

1. I. Foster, Y. Zhau, R. Ioan, and S. Lu. “Cloud Computing and Grid Computing : 360-Degree Compared.”Grid Computing Environments Workshop, 2008.

 Bio: Dennis Smith leads the System of Systems Practice (SoSP) Initiative and is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. This initiative focuses on developing basic principles and methods to help organizations work effectively in a System of Systems (SoS) environment. The work focuses on governance, acquisition and engineering issues of systems of systems, especially on SOA systems. He has been a co-organizer of a project that developed a SOA research agenda and has published work on a number of SOA issues, such as migration to SOA, SOA testing, SOA governance, as well as broader principles for systems of systems.  Dr. Smith has co-organized  international workshops on SOA research challenges, including  workshops at ICSE (2007, 2008), CSMR (2007, 2008), and  ICSM ( 2007, 2008, 2009).  He  also co-developed SMART, a method for migrating legacy assets to SOA. He has presented tutorials on SOA at international conferences, including CSMR 2006, ICSM 2006, ICSE 2007, and ICSOC 2008.  He has been  a co-organizer of workshops at ICSE that include SDSOA 2007 and 2008, SEEUP  2009, and PESOS 20101.
Dr. Smith is a Senior Member of IEEE Computer Society and is on the Executive Committee of the Technical Council On Software Engineering (TCSE).  He has been on program committees and steering committees of international conferences, including ICSM, ICPC, STEP, TEAA, WSE, CSMR, EDOC and CASCON.  He has also served as Chair of the Steering Committee of ICPC and STEP. Dr. Smith has been general chair of two international conferences and was co-program chair of ICCBSS 2007. He holds an M.A. and PhD from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Columbia University.

 

Dr.David J. Kasik - Senior Technical Fellow, Visualization and Interactive Techniques, The Boeing Company

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Keynote: Acquiring Information from Diverse Industrial Processes using Visual Analytics

Visual analytics is an emerging technology that provides another technique to derive better information from data. As a technology, visual analytics is a new approach that complements more traditional methods in business intelligence, information visualization, and data mining. The basic concept is to provide highly interactive visual techniques that let people explore multiple heterogeneous data sets simultaneously. The key aspect is interactivity, which lets people follow paths to seek answers to questions normally unasked. The visual aspect allows people to detect the expected and discover the unexpected.

The intelligence community in the United States and Europe began investing in and using visual analytics after the events of September 11, 2001. Boeing is a leader in exploring the application of visual analytics in industry. One of the primary attractions for visual analytics is the technology’s applicability to data gathered from diverse processes. This talk will provide a glimpse of the highly complex business in a global aerospace company, an overview of visual analytics, Boeing’s overall approach to visual analytics, and specific cases studies from multiple process domains, including bird strikes, industrial safety, and software system interrelationships.

Bio: Dave Kasik is Boeing's subject matter expert in visualization and interactive techniques. He is pursuing new ways of using visualization for the huge amounts of both geometric and non-geometric data Boeing needs to run our business.Dave started work at Boeing in 1977 and has 29 years of service. He devoted the first 11 years to research and development of computer-aided design software. These projects led to pioneering work in interactive 3D graphics, user interface management systems, and industrial use of non-uniform rational (NURBS) solids and surfaces. NURBS is the common geometric form in the commercial CATIAV5 and Siemens Unigraphics systems used across Boeing. Like many Boeing employees, Dave left Boeing for a period of time and worked for General Motors/Electronic Data Systems from 1988 - 1991.
Upon his return, Dave broadened his visualization and interactive techniques efforts with a goal of making 3D geometry more available to the entire user community. Dave is pioneering the use of visual analytics to help extract more information from complex non-geometric data. The field of visual analytics emerged from the intelligence community as a response to the 9/11 attacks. Visual analytics supplements more traditional analytic techniques (like statistics and data mining) with a humans ability to use vision to select outliers. Emerging visual analytics tools are being explored in areas as diverse as safety and marketing.
Dave earned his Masters in Computer Science from the University of Colorado in 1972 and a Bachelors. in Quantitative Studies from the Johns Hopkins University in 1970. He participates in numerous professional organizations, including ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), which named Dave a Distinguished Scientist in 2007, and IEEE, where he is a member of the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications editorial board.