Abstract:
The future Internet of Things (IoT) will enable a new and wide range of decentralized systems (e.g. from smart homes to smart cities) where “things”, able to sense/actuate, compute and communicate with other machines and with humans, will play a central role. The growing importance of such novel cyberphysical network and technology demands suitable and effective paradigms able to fulfill the general and specific requirements of IoT systems engineering. In this keynote, we propose the exploitation of the agent-oriented computing paradigm to support IoT systems analysis, design, and implementation. The synergic meeting of Agents with the IoT will make it possible the development of dynamic IoT systems of diverse scales. First, we introduce background and literature about IoT, with a specific focus on IoT systems development along with currently available agent-oriented approaches. Then, we present in detail our agent-oriented approach specifically based on the ACOSO (Agent-based COoperating Smart Objects) Methodology and related middleware, which provides an effective agent programming model and an agent execution heterogeneous platform along with ad-hoc IoT tools for the construction of an IoT system in terms of a Multi-Agent System. Some case studies concerning the development of IoT systems will be briefly described to show the flexibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach. Finally, future challenges will be delineated towards EDGE and Cloud-assisted agent-based approaches for IoT, specifically towards Agent-oriented IoT Data Mining at the EDGE and Industry 4.0.
Bio:
Giancarlo Fortino (SM’12) is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept. of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES) of the University of Calabria (Unical), Rende (CS), Italy. He has a Ph. D. degree and Laurea (MSc+BSc) degree in Computer Engineering from Unical. He is High-end Foreign Expert of China (term 2015-2018), Adjunct and Guest Professor at the Wuhan University of Technology (China), High-end Expert of HUST (China), CAS PIFI Visiting Scientist at Shenzhen (2019-2021), and Associated Senior Research Fellow at the Italian National Research Council - ICAR Institute. He has been also Visiting Researcher and Professor at the International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley, USA, 97-99) and at the Queensland University of Technology (Australia, 2009), respectively. He is in the list of Top Italian Scientists (TIS) by VIA-academy and by Guide2Research, with h-index=52 and 10000+ citations according to GS. He is the director of the SPEME (Smart, Pervasive and Mobile Systems Engineering) Lab at DIMES, Unical and co-director of two joint-labs on IoT technologies established with Wuhan University of Technology and Shanghai Maritime University, respectively. His main research interests include Internet of Things computing and technology, agent-based computing, body area networks, human-machine systems, wireless sensor networks, pervasive and cloud computing, multimedia networks, and mobile health systems. He participated to many local, national and international research projects and was the deputy coordinator and scientific & technical project manager of the EU-funded (8Meuro) H2020 INTER-IoT project. He authored about 450 publications in journals, conferences and books. He chaired about 100 Int'l conferences/workshops as co-chair (he is currently the general chair of IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems 2020 in Rome, Apr. 6-8, 2020), organized 60+ special issues in well-known ISI-impacted Int'l Journals, and participated in the TPC of about 500 conferences. He is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Book Series on “Human-Machine Systems” and of the Springer Book Series on "Internet of Things: Technology, Communications and Computing”, and currently serves (as associate editor) in the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Access, IEEE SMC Magazine, IEEE OJEMBS, IEEE OJCS, Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Information Fusion, and others. He is the recipient of the 2014 Andrew P. Sage SMC Transactions Paper award. He is co-founder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a spin-off of Unical, developing innovative IoT-based systems for e-health and domotics. He is the Chair of the IEEE SMC Italian Chapter, Member-at-large of the IEEE SMCS BoG, Member of the IEEE Press Board of Directors, and founding chair of the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on “Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices”.
