Dr. Alexey Vinel St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation (Russian Academy of Sciences), St.Petersburg, Russia

Intelligent Transportation Systems from Cyber Physical Systems Perspective

Abstract

Recent advances in information and communication technologies made it possible to introduce a vast variety of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) aimed to reduce traveling time, increase safety and ecological compatibility of different means of transportation. ITS is a cross-disciplinary area, which makes use of the up-to-date results in traffic engineering, wireless communication, data processing, automation and human behavior studies. This fact leads to a situation, when different components of ITS are often designed independently of each other. However, an increase of the ITS performance can be achieved by a tight coupling of computing and communication aspects of the system with its physical dynamics, what corresponds to the conception of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). In this tutorial-style talk we first provide definitions and classifications of ITS and CPS. Then by the example of road traffic cooperative safety systems architecture we explain conventional design and performance evaluation approaches as well as enhance them for the case when mutual effects of communication, computation and physical processes are considered. We illustrate the benefits and drawbacks of CPS-based vision as well as its applicability to the design of different types of ITS.

Bio

Alexey Vinel is a Head of telecommunications technologies and computer networks group and a Senior research scientist of Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation (Russian Academy of Sciences). He received his Ph.D. (kandidat nauk) (2007) degree in technical sciences from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). Prior to that he was studying at Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, where received his Master (2005) and Bachelor (2003) degrees in information systems, both with honours. He did internships in Germany at Siemens AG in Munich (2004-2005), University of Wuerzburg (2006-2007) and carried out numerous short-term visits with different European organizations. He has conducted scientific research in the areas of wireless network performance evaluation, development of random multiple access algorithms and has published articles in internationally recognized journals, such as IEEE ComMag, IEEE JSAC as well as many conference proceedings. He is Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Member of Organizing and Technical Committees of numerous international conferences.

	Prof. Chung-Ming Huang Distinguished Professor National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Demodulating and Encoding Heritage (DEH): Multi-Disciplinary Cross-Domain Research, Development and Deployment over Computer Science/Engineering and Human Literature Science for U-Heritage

Abstract

Two elements that currently need to be emphasized in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) are (1) innovative applications and services and (ii) multi-disciplinary cross-domain R&D. With the advance of broadband wireless mobile networks technology (3.5/4G and Wi Max) and powerful handheld devices (iPhone, Google Phone, HTC), R&Ders are investigating the feasibility of anywhere, any time, ubiquitous applications and services. Through the multi-disciplinary cross-domain R&D effort, one can chain theory, technology, application/service and content to layout his research to real development and then to the practical deployment and use. In this talk, a case study of multi-disciplinary cross-domain research, development, and deployment called Demodulating and Encoding Heritage (DEH) for U(biquitous)-Heritage over CSE and Human Literature Science is given. Instead of having virtual heritage exploration in some desktops, a user can use the DEH system to physically walk into some heritage to have real experience and, at the same time, the user’s handheld device that has 3.5G wireless connection and GPS can receive the corresponding heritage information from the DEH server. In DEH, CSE people are in charge of the aspects of technology and application/service system, which contain R&D of database, intelligent inference, location-based service and navigation, and web technology for U-Heritage; Human Literature Science people are in charge of the content creation, which contains Point Of Interests (POIs) and Line Of Interests (LOIs), for U-Heritage. Main technical issues and some experience of cross-domain research, development, and deployment based on DEH will be introduced.

Bio

Chung-Ming Huang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University on 1984/6, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and information science from The Ohio State University on 1988/12 and 1991/6. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor in Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C. He is also Director of the Promotion Center for the Telematics Consortium (PCTC), Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan, R.O.C. He was (i) Chair of Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering and Director of Institute of Medical Informatics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C., and (ii) Principal Project Reviewer of Industrial Development Bureau and Department of Industrial Technology, Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), Taiwan, R.O.C. He got the Best Paper Award in the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2008) on 2008 and 2008 International Computer Symposium (ISC2008). He edited world’s 1st Telematics book - “Telematics Communication Technologies and Vehicular Networks” that was published by Information Science Reference (IGI Global). He has published more than 200 referred journal and conference papers in wireless and mobile communication protocols, interactive multimedia systems, audio and video streaming and formal modeling of communication protocols. His research interests include wireless and mobile network protocol design and analysis, media processing and streaming, web technologies, and network applications and services.