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With advances in various networking technologies creating connections with enormous bandwidth and low latency, transport services offered by telecommunication service providers are becoming commoditized. In order to differentiate their services against those of their competitors, these service providers are seeking to enable value-added services layered on top of the commodity transport service. At the same time, businesses across all industries realize the need to be flexible and adaptable to change in order to succeed in today?s information-driven economy.

A robust, scalable, and dynamic communication and integration infrastructure is necessary to connect service consumers and providers within and between corporations. Service-oriented networking (SON) is an emerging architecture that directly addresses this need by enabling network devices to operate at the application layer to provide functions such as service-based routing, content transformation, and protocol integration to consumers and providers. We anticipate that enterprise applications of the future will leverage distributed SON deployment patterns where large numbers of SON devices coordinate with peers using network-wide application-specific policies, in order to determine the appropriate points in the network to perform configuration changes based on prevailing network and application conditions.

Modeling and adaptation of resources based on state and workload (current or predicted) is highly desirable in emerging high-performance computing and information service systems, on the path towards completely "autonomic" services. In this seminar, we provide an overview of our efforts at NC State, in collaboration with IBM, Cisco and Nortel, to develop frameworks and algorithms for modeling of emerging next generation network-based services, predictive and dynamic resource allocation, traffic modeling and adaptive scheduling.

We describe techniques in a modeling and control framework that includes quality of service, pricing and economic considerations. We present an overview of approaches that we have used for profit or utility-oriented scheduling in service access nodes. We are currently working to apply similar techniques to Web services, network appliances and multimedia services (e.g., SIP and IMS).

Biography:

Michael Devetsikiotis (IEEE S 1985, M 1994, SM 2003) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the Dipl. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in 1990 and 1993, respectively.

As a student he received scholarships from the National Scholarship Foundation of Greece, the National Technical Chamber of Greece, and the Phi Kappa Phi Academic Achievement Award for a Doctoral Candidate at North Carolina State University. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the honor societies of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi.

In October 1993 he joined the Broadband Networks Laboratory at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate. Michael later became an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in April 1995, an Assistant Professor in July 1996 and an Associate Professor in July 1999. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State as an Associate Professor, in October 2000, and became a Professor in July 2006. He remains an Adjunct Research Professor in the SCE Department, Carleton University. He is also an active member of the Operations Research faculty, and an associate member of the faculty of Computer Science at NC State.

Michael served as Chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling and is now a member of the ComSoc Education Board. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, and is currently an Area Editor of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling, the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and the Journal of Internet Engineering.

He has co-chaired the Next Generation Internet symposium under IEEE ICC 2002 in New York, the High-Speed Networks symposium under IEEE ICC 2004 in Paris, the Quality, Reliability and Performance Modeling (QRPM) symposium under IEEE ICC 2006 in Istanbul, and the Quality, Reliability and Performance for Emerging Network Services symposium under IEEE Globecom 2006 in San Francisco. He served recently as Workshops Chair for IEEE Globecom 2008 in New Orleans, and will co-chair the QRPM Symposium under IEEE Globecom 2010.

Today, a decision to major in computer science is not the top choice among high school seniors. What can we do to inspire a new generation to become computer scientists? How can we make our industry more enticing to young people without watering down course work? This presentation describes the plan of a new curriculum for a computer science program at Marietta College. The challenges specific to this environment are examined with emphasis on K-12 outreach, curriculum design and links to industry. Strategies from operations research will be used as a backdrop for potential curriculum solutions.

Biography:

After completing an undergraduate degree in finance and a short career in the insurance industry, Bob went back to school during tough economic times in the early 1980's. A computing course which used the Commodore PET inspired him to continue learning about computers. During the last twenty plus years Bob has been teaching computer science courses at Southeast Community College in Cumberland Kentucky, West Virginia University at Parkersburg, and currently at Marietta College in Marietta, OH. During this time he completed a graduate degree in Information Systems from Marshall University. Bob has taught over twenty computer-related courses including Discrete Mathematics, Computer Programming I and 2, Operating Systems, File Processing, Database Theory and Design, Systems Analysis and Design, Computer Networks, Software Engineering, Computer Security, Computer Graphics, Game Programming, Web Programming with PHP, Artificial Intelligence, XML and Java, and Computer Organization. He has also taught the first four semesters of the Cisco sequence leading to the CCNA. Bob has made presentations relative to computer science, computer technology, and teaching and has worked with local companies on a consulting basis, normally related to database systems. Bob was a 2007 Recipient of the SBR Distinguished Professorship Grant at WVUP, Past President of the WVUP Faculty Senate and a member of ACM since 1987. He is currently involved in a curriculum update at Marietta College.

Return on Investment is key for large and small organizations in these risky times. A key mitigator of ROI risk is the avoidance of capital expenditure on IT infrastructure. While traditional Application Service Provider style hosting services do fit this bill, there is a new service on the horizon that has key benefits over the ASP model - cloud computing. Cloud computing leverages virtualized resources to isolate the developer and user from details of the infrastructure, while spreading infrastructure capital expenses over a large number of hosted applications.

In our discussion, we will discuss the realities of hosted application, including the current popular ASP models, and compare them to cloud computing. There will be an overview of cloud computing architecture and strategy. Finally, we will end up with a comparison of various commercial cloud services, including Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure.

Biography:

Bill Sempf is an enterprise architect. In 17 years of professional experience he has participated in the creation of well over 200 applications for large and small companies and managed the software infrastructure of two internet service providers. He is the author of Visual basic for Dummies (2008 and 2005) and has contributed to numerous other publicatikons. He is a gradutae of The Ohio State University with a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration and has several professional cerifications.

Many organizations do not know the dangers (if any) that exist in their data. With ubiquitous data breaches, legal imperatives, and compliance efforts, organizations can be nervous about what may be stored that they do not know about. Jack will discuss a process for the discovery and management of these unknowns utilizing a risk-based approach.

Biography:

Jack Freund specializes in engineering and implementing governance, risk, compliance, security, and business continuity management systems for commercial and government organizations that need to meet audit and compliance requirements. Jack has spent over 11 years in IT, including 7 years at Lucent Technologies where he was involved in cellular and core network engineering, supply chain engineering, and project management. Jack has a BS in CIS, Masters in Telecommunications and Project Management, and is a Doctoral Candidate in Information Systems where he is researching Emergency Management Systems. Jack is a CISSP-ISSMP, CISA, CIPP, PMP, and an IRCA ISO 27001 auditor. Jack is also an adjunct professor for DeVry University, and volunteers with the IEEE.

The agenda is as follows:
08:30-09:15 Registration
09:15-10:30 Speaker (Bill Sempf)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Speaker (Robert Van Camp)
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:30 Keynote Speaker (Michael Devetsikiotis)
14:40-14:45 Break
14:45-16:00 Speaker (Jack Freund)

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