The 28th International IEEE AINA 2014 conference started today at the university of Victoria. It started with the keynote from Prof Shojiro Nishio from Osaka university. He spoke about Humanware: the third ware which creates innovation in Information technology.
Humanware is a new terminology introduced by them which is the flow of information linking information among human relationships. This involves understanding the biological dynamics, cognitive dynamics and information dynamics about humans.
Prof Shojiro compared humans and machine with respect to memory capabilities, data transfer rates, performance among which humans are insignificant when compared to machines, whereas in the aspect of energy consumption they suggest humans consume much less energy than machine to do the same work. They reasons that, genes and brain do not remove noise but utilize noise or “yuragi” to achieve highly energy efficient and adaptive behavior.
Yuragi enables information and communication technology, which is highly adaptive, robust and energy efficient.
These concepts they have implemented in dynamic routing algorithms and prove that “Yuragi” reduces complexity and energy consumption.
After the keynote we attended the workshop in Trust Computing and Social Networking. The first talk gave a detailed explanation of email system and proposed a new advanced mail system using correspondence model. This proposed a framework through which different level of policies could be enforced for different contexts and users depending on the situation. The author also explained the working of the email system, which was very insightful.
This was followed by a talk on introducing a 3rd party auditing for Cloud computing. In my opinion this concept was not realistic and the author was not very clear about the kind of SLAs they where addressing. My personal opinion was that the solution they proposed was not viable.
The last talk in this workshop was about a user-centric highly reliable personal website portal. This was very similar to many password management systems. But it was unique feature where the service reads the contractual documents or the terms of service and presents them in a user-friendly manner. The author suggested that this will be implemented through NLP. One of the audience also suggested have a zero knowledge proof for the same, which was a very interesting suggestion.
We attend the many other session where the papers where more concentrated about the security and privacy aspects.
The day ended with a welcome party, which was good way to meet many professors and authors and discuss their research interests. It was a good way to end an eventful day.
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