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Prof. Zakaria Maamar
Title: Cloud-Edge Coopetition: A Win-Win Partnership
Abstract:
With the increasing popularity of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), organizations are adjusting their practices and embracing new ones so they could deal with an ever-growing amount of sensed and actuated data that things generate. Some practices advocate for using cloud and edge computing. The former promotes "anything-as-a-service" while the latter promotes "process data next to where it resides". Generally presented to the ICT community as competing computing models, we discuss in this keynote how cloud and edge could work hand-in-hand for a win-win partnership through a seamless coordination of their respective "duties" and "responsibilities". This coordination stresses the importance of defining where the data of things should be sent (either cloud, edge, or cloud&edge concurrently) and in what order (either cloud then edge, edge then cloud, or cloud&edge concurrently). Business applications' concerns with data such as latency, sensitivity, and freshness dictate both the appropriate recipients of data and the appropriate orders of sending data. This keynote summarizes our research agenda on fostering the win-win partnership between cloud and edge. Issues addressed, objectives achieved, and experiments conducted are presented during the keynote as well.
Speaker Short Bio:
Zakaria Maamar is Professor in the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. His research interests include service computing, cloud/edge computing, and lately Internet of (cognitive) Things. Zakaria has published in different peer reviewed journals and conferences, serves on the program and organizing committees of several international conferences and workshops, and also serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. He is the recipient of an IBM Faculty Award in 2009. Zakaria has a PhD in computer science from Laval University, Quebec City, Canada.
