IEEE – Dayton Section Computer Society Meeting

 Internet of Things:  An Application Centric Perspective

TOPIC: Internet
SPEAKER: Dr. Amit Sheth:  Founder & Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) Lexis Nexis Ohio Eminent Scholar, Wright State University
DATE: Tuesday, September 16, 2014
TIME: 11:30-12:30 PM
PLACE: Kno.e.sis 399 Joshi Research Center, Wright State University Main Campus (park in visitor parking – Lot 2,off University Boulevard. Joshi Center is just to the right of the Student Union. There may be a nominal parking fee)
BONUS: After the presentation, a brief tour of Kno.e.sis – the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing will be provided.  With around 100 researchers, its research impact has made WSU among the top 10 universities in the world in World Wide Web.  It carries out extensive multidisciplinary and big data analysis involving Web, social, and sensor data, in domains such as clinical and biomedical, defense/intelligence, material sciences and social-behavioral sciences.  Brochure: http://knoesis.org/resources/images/iPad2.pdfWeb site: http://knoesis.org
RSVP: DaytonComputerSociety@gmail.com or Dave Perez (937)904-5486.Pizza and water provided for recommended donation of $3/person -RSVP (name, email, phone, IEEE member? Computer Society member? pizza?) required.  Meeting open to all.
ABSTRACT: Sensors and mobile devices have revolutionized the way we interact and understand the world.  There are more connected devices now on the web than the number of people on the planet.  This number is expected to grow to 50 billion by 2050.  Such a massive connected network has an unprecedented potential to revolutionize human experience.  In this talk, Dr. Sheth will present tools and techniques for effectively utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT) for building advanced applications, including the Physical-Cyber-Social (PCS) systems.  He will discuss the issues and challenges related to IoT, semantic data modelling, annotation, knowledge representation (e.g. modelling for constrained environments, complexity issues and time/location dependency of data), integration, analysis, and reasoning.  He will also describe estate-of-the-art developments on creating an notation models and semantic description frame works for IoT data (e.g. such as W3C Semantic Sensor Network ontology).  And he will review the enabling technologies and common scenarios for IoT applications from the data and knowledge engineering point of view.
BIO: Dr. Amit P. Sheth is an educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the Lexis Nexis Eminent Scholar and founder / executive director of the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis). Kno.e.sis conducts research in Web 3.0 with focus on Physical (sensor/IoT), Cyber, and Social Big Data, and applications to health care and life sciences, cognitive science, material sciences, and defense / intelligence.  Kno.e.sis’ activities have resulted in Wright State University being recognized as a top organization in the world on World Wide Web in research impact.  With h-index of 85, Prof. Sheth is one of top 50 authors in Computer Science (10 year impact), among the top 2i n World Wide Web (10 year or all years) and among the top 25 authors (all years) in databases (based on Microsoft Academic Search top authors list for respective field).  His research has led to several commercial products, many real-world applications, and two earlier companies with two more in early stages.