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SUMMARY:TECoSA seminar - The Road to Trustworthy ML: From Security and Privacy to Verifiability
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIn this talk\, Buse Atli will present the evolving landscape of security and privacy in machine learning (ML)\, drawing on insights from my own research and experiences in both academic work and real-world applications. She will describe the ongoing arms race between attacks and defenses in ML systems and discuss what these dynamics reveal about trust\, governance\, and accountability in ML. Finally\, she will argue that verifiability is one of the most critical yet still unresolved aspects of achieving trustworthy ML\, particularly in light of legal frameworks such as the EU AI Act. \nBio: Buse Atli is an Assistant Professor in the Cybersecurity Division at Linköping University. Previously\, she was a security researcher at Nokia Bell Labs\, developing threat modeling strategies for security and privacy in AI-enabled network systems. She received her PhD from Aalto University in Finland. Her research focuses on trustworthy machine learning\, including robustness\, data privacy\, model confidentiality\, verifiability\, and AI governance. \nZoom-link for the seminars is : https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-the-road-to-trustworthy-ml-from-security-and-privacy-to-verifiability/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260305T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260305T160000
DTSTAMP:20260311T153658Z
CREATED:20260302T080632Z
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SUMMARY:Online Talk: “AI in Complex Industrial Systems: From Digitalization to Autonomous Cyber‑Physical Environments”
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Much of today’s industry is still only partially digitalized\, with fragmented data\, manual processes and legacy systems never designed for analytics or autonomy. Yet pressures around energy use\, resilience and sustainability are increasing rapidly and AI and advanced digital technologies are key to meeting these new challenges.\nIn this talk Stella Riad will show how AI can create value even in imperfect\, analog‑heavy environments\, and how research in modelling\, digital twins\, automation and emerging cyber‑physical systems can bridge the gap toward more autonomous and resilient industrial ecosystems. The talk outlines where we are today\, what remains difficult\, and which technical\, organizational and human capabilities we need in the future. \nBio: Stella Riad is Head of the Industrial Systems Department at RISE. She holds a PhD in theoretical particle physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and has a background in applied research and technology leadership in the MedTech industry. At RISE\, Stella leads research and innovation in AI and advanced data analytics\, with a strong focus on industrial systems. \nPresentation TECoSA seminar 260305 \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/online-talk-ai-in-complex-industrial-systems-from-digitalization-to-autonomous-cyber-physical-environments/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251106T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251106T160000
DTSTAMP:20251211T123608Z
CREATED:20250430T075245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251211T123608Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: ARA Living Lab for Connecting the Unconnected
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time.  All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the Outlook invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register. \nOur November seminar is with Hongwei Zhang\, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Wireless\, Communities and Innovation (WiCI) at Iowa State University. The seminar will take place via Zoom\, through this link. \n \nAbstract: One grand societal challenge is how to provide affordable\, quality broadband connectivity to rural regions today while ensuring that rural broadband does not always lag behind urban broadband as technologies and services evolve. To address the challenge\, we need to nurture rural-focused broadband innovation and associated innovation communities. In this talk\, I will share the design principles\, hardware and software implementation\, as well as the enabled wireless and applications research of the ARA living lab. I will also discuss open challenges in developing and operating such living labs\, as well as the opportunities of leveraging rural industries (e.g.\, agriculture) for advancing the frontier of wireless systems such as Open RAN and 6G. \nBio: Hongwei Zhang is the Richardson Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Wireless\, Communities and Innovation (WiCI) at Iowa State University. His research investigates modeling\, algorithmic\, and systems issues in wireless sensing and control networks as well as their applications in connected and automated vehicles\, XR\, and cyber-physical-human systems in general. He has led the development of open-innovation infrastructures for precision agriculture\, connected and automated transportation\, cellular networks\, and IoT networks which have been used by researchers worldwide. His work has been recognized by best paper awards from the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS)\, IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)\, and ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds\, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH)\, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine\, and Journal of Systems Science and Complexity (Springer). More information about his work can be found from his website at http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~hongwei. \nSeminar slides: ARA Living Lab for Connecting the Unconnected \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-ara-living-lab-for-connecting-the-unconnected/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Talks,webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250912T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250912T180000
DTSTAMP:20250822T100118Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Futures KTH 6G Summit
DESCRIPTION:On September 12\, 2025\, leading experts from academia\, industry\, and government will gather at KTH’s Albanova campus for the 6G Summit\, a full-day event focused on the future of next-generation networks. \nWhat to expect \n\nKeynote talks from top researchers and industry experts\nPanels on emerging 6G technologies and application requirements\nResearch showcases from KTH centers\nPoster sessions\, networking\, and industry-academic collaboration\n\nHighlights \n\nTalks by Stefan Parkvall (Ericsson)\, Gunes Karabulut-Kurt (Polytechnique Montreal)\, Petar Popovski (AAU)\, and Marie-Jose Montpetit (SLICES)\nEngaging panels on “What’s new in 6G” and “Application requirements”\nFood\, posters\, and networking throughout the day\n\nRead more about the event here. \nOrganized by the Digital Futures Working Group CooperateContact: György Dán – gyuri@kth.se  \nDirections to the venue
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/digital-futures-kth-6g-summit/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250912
DTSTAMP:20250523T080228Z
CREATED:20250523T080149Z
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SUMMARY:DETERMINISTIC6G Summer School & Summit
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the DETERMINISTIC6G Summer School\, a three-day immersive learning experience at KTH Main Campus\, designed to showcase groundbreaking advances in deterministic and dependable 6G networks. This event is a unique opportunity to engage directly with researchers and industry experts who are pioneering the future of end-to-end time-critical communication. \nWhat to Expect: \n\nKeynotes by leading voices in 6G innovation\nDeep dive lectures on AI/ML\, TSC\, time synchronization\, and security architectures\nHands-on exercises using real network data\nInternational networking opportunities with peers and professionals\n\nHighlighted Lectures: \n\nDifferentiated Connectivity and Dependable Communication by Joachim Sachs\, Ericsson\nMachine Learning Architectures for KPI Prediction by Prof. James Gross\, KTH\n\nThe Summer School will be followed by a one-day Summit hosted at Ericsson in Kista on September 11\, featuring keynote speeches\, expert panels\, and poster sessions on deterministic 6G technologies. \nWho Should Attend? \n\nM.Sc. and PhD students\nAcademic and industry researchers with a background in mobile networking\nProfessionals eager to expand their knowledge in 6G and deterministic networks\n\nRegister soon! Only 50 onsite seats available.Follow this link for full agenda and summit registration. \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/deterministic6g-summer-school-summit/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Talks,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241205T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241205T160000
DTSTAMP:20241125T121212Z
CREATED:20240823T101730Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Transformation of Software Engineering Concepts in Industrial Automation: Towards Openness and Distributed Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time.  All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the Outlook invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur December seminar is withValeriy Vyatkin (IEEE Fellow)\, Professor of Information and Computer Engineering. The seminar will take place at Gladan\, KTH. You can register for the event here.\n\nIt is also possible to attend via Zoom.\n\nABSTRACT: In this talk\, we observe the past 30 years of developments in computational concepts used in Operational Technology (OT) level of industrial automation systems which is traditionally associated with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs).\n\nSuch trends as modularity\, reconfigurability and autonomy counter the complexity of engineering and stipulate industries to look for transformation of OT engineering to more software-centric and vendor neutral approach\, same time maintaining compatibility with legacy. We will review the transformation of IEC 61499 standard concept and developments in the adjacent areas of computing and to summarise newly emerging challenges.\n\nBIO: Valeriy Vyatkin (IEEE Fellow) is Professor of Information and Computer Engineering in Automation at Aalto University\, Finland on joint appointment as Chaired Professor (Ämnesföreträdare) of Dependable Computation and Communication Systems\, Luleå University of Technology\, Luleå\, Sweden. He has been leading research projects related to software and systems engineering for cyber-physical automation systems\, intelligent energy\, logistics and transportation\, addressing such aspects as dependability\, distributed architectures and multi-agent systems applied in various industry sectors: SmartGrid\, material handling\, building management systems and reconfigurable manufacturing\,  funded by the National Science Foundation (USA)\, Vettenskap Råd (Sweden)\, Academy of Finland\, various national and private agencies in Japan\, Germany\, New Zealand\, Sweden\, Finland and the EU. Valeriy is an active IEEE volunteer for about 20 years\, currently serving as Vice-President for Technical Activities of Industrial Electronics Society.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-transformation-of-software-engineering-concepts-in-industrial-automation-towards-openness-and-distributed-intelligence/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminar,Talks,webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241107T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241107T160000
DTSTAMP:20241111T133111Z
CREATED:20231107T072236Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Holistic perspectives on safety of Automated Driving Systems
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time.  All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the Outlook invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nThe recording from this seminar is available here.  \nOur November seminar is with Magnus Gyllenhammar\, Industrial PHD Student at Zenseact. The seminar will take place at Gladan\, KTH. Click here to register for the physical event. It will also be possible to attend via Zoom.  \nABSTRACT: In recent years\, enormous investments in Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) have distinctly advanced ADS technologies. Despite promises made by several high profile auto-makers\, it has however become clear that the challenges involved for deploying ADS have been drastically underestimated.Contrary to previous generations of automotive systems\, common design\, development\, verification and validation methods for safety critical systems do not suffice to cope with the increased complexity and operational uncertainties of an ADS. In this talk I will present the key findings from a review paper conducted with the aim to provide an understanding of existing methods for providing safety evidence and\, in particular\, identifying the associated challenges and gaps pertaining to the use of each method. Four categories of methods: design techniques\, verification and validation methods\, run-time risk assessment\, and run-time (self-)adaptation\, are presented and the eight challenges (identified in the paper) help provide insights into a selection of the reviewed methods. Finally\, the derived set of research gaps will be discussed. \n\nThe talk is based on the results of a review paper currently in submission – an early preprint-version of which can be found at: https://www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.20331243.v1 \n  \n\nBIO: Magnus Gyllenhammar pursues a PhD at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as part of his employment at Zenseact\, Gothenburg\, Sweden. His research focuses on finding efficient strategies for safety argumentation of ADSs\, especially focusing on precautionary safety and dynamic risk assessment in relation to the fulfilment of a quantitative risk norm. He received his MSc. in Engineering Physics\, major in Complex Adaptive System\, from Chalmers University of Technology\, in 2016. In 2018\, he joined Zenseact (then Zenuity) and has since worked on creating and realising data-driven strategies for verification and safety argumentation of ADSs.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-holistic-perspectives-on-safety-of-automated-driving-systems/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminar,Talks,webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241003T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241003T160000
DTSTAMP:20240911T081852Z
CREATED:20240908T094609Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - NextG2Com - a Vinnova competence center for the next generation networked intelligent systems and applications
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time.  All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the Outlook invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur December seminar is with professor Maria Kihl (Lund University – faculty of engineering)\, Director for the center NextG2Com (https://www.nextg2com.lu.se/english/). The seminar will be held via Zoom. \n  \nBio: Maria Kihl is a Professor in Internetworked systems at Lund University. She is a research leader and the Director for the new Vinnova competence center NextG2Com. She has long experience of applied research with industrial collaboration within a wide range of networked applications and telecommunication infrastructures.  Further\, she is the Chair of the Career Board LTH and an Assistant Head of Department of Electrical and Information Technology. Also\, she has been a board member for Teracom AB. \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-with-maria-kihl/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Seminar,Talks,webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240126T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240126T130000
DTSTAMP:20240122T133732Z
CREATED:20240119T093247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T133732Z
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SUMMARY:Invited talk on Safe & Reliable Automated Driving Decision Making
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Safety is a core concern for AD. We propose a framework to introduce safety constraints to decision making for AD. The formal STPA modeling is conducted on the operational scenarios of AD\, namely\, combining STPA models and ontology method to realize the structured formalized expression of the scenario\, then based on that identifying the scenario hazards\, and generating scenario safety constraints. The safety constraints obtained will be introduced to the perceptual neural network and quantifying the uncertainty of perceptual neural network output. Combining the safety perceptual output and human driving characteristic constraints (such as driving style and response time) to realize much safer decision making for AD. \nBio: Ci LIANG is currently the Associate Professor in tenure track and Ph.D. Supervisor with the School of Transportation Science and Engineering\, Harbin Institute of Technology. She worked as a Senior Engineer at the Swedish headquarters of Volvo Cars from 2018 to 2022\, working on the project of system safety design for L4 Autonomous Driving System\, and the project of functional safety design on Power & Energy control system of Electric Vehicles. Ci Liang was the nominee for the European ” Women in Rail Research and Innovation Award”\, and the “8th Abertis Traffic Safety International Award” in France. She serves as the IFAC TC 7.4 “Transportation Systems” Technical Committee\, the Chairman and IPC of the workshop SRToITS of international conference “SafeComp”\, Guest Editor of SAE International Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles\, reviewers of IEEE T-ITS\, Reliability Engineering and System Safety\, IEEE T-IV\, etc.\, IEEE member and IEEE ITSS member. \nAssociate Professor Ci Liang (Harbin Institute of Technology School of Transportation Science and Engineering) will be visiting the Mechatronics division at KTH on 25 and 26 January 2024. \nPlease contact tecosa-admin@kth.se if you are interested in attending this talk in real life at the KTH Department of Engineering Design\, Brinellvägen 85.  Alternatively\, you can join by Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/invited-talk-on-safe-reliable-automated-driving-decision-making/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231124T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231124T130000
DTSTAMP:20231109T131229Z
CREATED:20231109T131229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T131229Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Research Seminar: Learn and Align RL Policies from Human Feedback
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Simões Marta\, TECoSA PhD student\n(Venue\, Zoom link and sign-up link circulated to members)\nPlease email vickid@kth.se if you have any questions. \nABSTRACT: Reinforcement learning from informed by human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a novel domain in machine learning\, where human insights are crucial in shaping the behavior of an AI agent. Within this domain\, a significant strategy is preference-based reinforcement learning\, in which a human-informed reward system is developed through the evaluation and selection among different sets of action sequences. In this talk\, I will present several works conducted by our group on aligning RL policies with human feedback. I will primarily focus on aligning relevant features such as safety and perceived safety—even though the work can be extended to any desired feature—and will discuss the application of these principles in the context of RL policies. Additionally\, I will provide concrete examples of leveraging human intrinsic knowledge through methods such as ranking\, stating preferences\, and analyzing text.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-research-seminar-learn-and-align-rl-policies-from-human-feedback/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Talks,webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231102T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231102T160000
DTSTAMP:20231023T084022Z
CREATED:20230822T092154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T084022Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Learning Optimal Edge Processing with Offloading and Energy Harvesting
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time.  All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the Outlook invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur guest speaker for November is Francesco De Pellegrini\, Professor of networking and AI at the University of Avignon\, France.  The seminar will take place via Zoom (https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267). \nABSTRACT:  Modern portable devices can execute increasingly sophisticated AI models on sensed data. The complexity of such processing tasks is data-dependent and has relevant energy cost. This work develops an Age of Information markovian model for a system where multiple battery-operated devices perform data processing and energy harvesting in parallel. Part of their computational burden is offloaded to an edge server which polls devices at given rate. The structural properties of an optimal policy for a single device-server system are derived. They permit to define a new model-free reinforcement learning method specialized for monotone policies\, namely Ordered Q-Learning\, providing a fast procedure to learn the optimal policy. The method is oblivious to the devices’ battery capacities\, the cost and the value of data batch processing and to the dynamics of the energy harvesting process. Finally\, the polling strategy of the server is optimized by combining this policy improvement technique with stochastic approximation methods. Extensive numerical results provide insight into the system properties and demonstrate that the proposed learning algorithms outperform existing baselines. \nBIO: Francesco De Pellegrini received the MSc 2000\, and the Ph.D. 2004\, in Information Engineering at the University of Padova\, Italy. He is currently full professor at the University of Avignon\, where he teaches networking and artificial intelligence  He has published 100+ papers in major conferences and journals of computer science\, networking and control theory. He applies algorithms on graphs\, stochastic and control\, and game theory for the design and perfomance evaluation of wireless and wired networked systems. He has co-authored two best papers\, published in WiOPT 2014 and at NetGCoop 2016. His current H-index (Google) is 30 with 7000+ citations. He is anassociated editor for TNSE. He has been general co-chair of IEEE NETGCOOP 2012 and IEEE WIOPT2022\, and TPC Co-Chair of IEEE NETGCOOP 2014\, IEEE WIOPT 2018 and ITC 2021.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-learning-optimal-edge-processing-with-offloading-and-energy-harvesting/
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Talks,webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230929T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230929T130000
DTSTAMP:20230821T114938Z
CREATED:20230821T114938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230821T114938Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Research Seminar: Explainable Reinforcement Learning for Telecom
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:  Industrial PhD students Ahmad Terra (TECoSA\, Ericsson) and Franco Ruggeri (Ericsson)\nLocation: C435\, Brinellvägen 85 (plan 4)\nZoom link and sign-up link circulated to members\nPlease email vickid@kth.se if you have any questions. \nABSTRACT: Explainable Reinforcement Learning (XRL) primarily to provide explainability for black-box models to enable trust. XRL includes multiple methods applied to different elements of RL agent (state\, rewards\, policy explanations\, etc.). This seminar will present multiple existing state-of-the-art XRL methods\, their application to different elements especially to the remote electrical antenna tilt (RET) use case. Additionally\, the seminar includes a new method “Both Ends Explanations for RL (BEERL)” that goes one-step further to connect and compare input and output explanations\, identify and mitigate bias\, and generates two different levels of explanation which in turn allows RL agent re-configurations when unwanted behaviours are observed.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-research-seminar-explainable-reinforcement-learning-for-telecom/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230907T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230907T170000
DTSTAMP:20230905T113637Z
CREATED:20230817T101124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T113637Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Safety Challenges for Automated Vehicles in the Absence of Connectivity
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time.  All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the Outlook invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur September seminar is with Dr Akhil Shetty\, postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley Department of Mechanical Systems.  The session will be given via Zoom (https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267). \nABSTRACT:  Automated vehicles (AVs) are expected to create a future with effortless driving and virtually no traffic accidents. AV companies claim that\, when fully developed\, the technology will eliminate all crashes caused due to human error. Indeed\, AVs will likely avoid the large number of crashes caused by impaired\, distracted or reckless drivers. But there remains a significant proportion of crashes for which no driver is directly responsible. In particular\, the absence of connectivity of an AV with its neighboring vehicles (V2V) and the infrastructure (I2V) leads to a lack of information that can induce such crashes. In this talk\, I will present prototypical examples motivated by the NHTSA pre-crash scenario typology to show that fully autonomous vehicles cannot guarantee safety in the absence of connectivity. Since AV designs today do not require such connectivity\, these crashes would persist in the future. Combining theoretical models and empirical data\, I will also argue why such hazardous scenarios would occur with a significantly high probability. Our work suggests that incorporating connectivity is a prerequisite for a safe AV future.  \nBIO: Akhil Shetty is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley advised by Prof. Kameshwar Poolla and Prof. Pravin Varaiya. He received his B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay. Akhil is a recipient of the Berkeley Graduate Fellowship for doctoral studies at UC Berkeley. He received the Best Student Paper Award at ITSC 2020\, and was a finalist for Best Student Paper at ECC 2018 and SPCOM 2014. He is interested in applying tools from optimization\, control\, and statistics to tackle problems in the fields of energy and intelligent transportation systems.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-safety-challenges-for-automated-vehicles-in-the-absence-of-connectivity/
CATEGORIES:Talks,webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230901T141500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230901T160000
DTSTAMP:20230821T082052Z
CREATED:20230821T080954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230821T082052Z
UID:6783-1693577700-1693584000@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:Boundary Objects within the Discourse on the Development of Complex CPS
DESCRIPTION:Half-way seminar for PhD student Rusyadi Ramli\nThis seminar will present the role of boundary objects\, explore the contextual factors of boundary objects\, and discuss how to design effective boundary objects within the discourse on the co-engineering practice in the development of complex CPS. All with an interest in this topic are welcome to join (Gladan\, Brinellvägen 85\, plan 3). \nThe opponent for this seminar will be Nicolette Lakemond\, Deputy Dean and Professor in Industrial Development at Linköping University\, who will give an invited talk from 13.15-14.15 AI in the Context of Complex Intelligent Systems. \nAbstract for the half-way seminar by Rusyadi Ramli:\nCyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are evolving to become more intelligent\, connected\, and collaborative due to the advancement of technology. Provided with unprecedented capabilities\, these CPS also represent unprecedented complexity and bring new risks beyond classical dependability. As CPS are becoming more complex to realize\, this requires an increasing breadth of knowledge and skills and a stronger emphasis on collaborative engineering (co-engineering) to deal with the multitude of viewpoints involved. \nTo facilitate co-engineering practice\, engineers commonly used artifacts such as architectural frameworks and standards during the development of complex CPS.  These artifacts can be considered as boundary objects\, i.e.\, objects that hold different meanings to several Community of Practice and serve to translate information between them. This research focuses on boundary objects\, (e.g.\, what is the role of boundary objects\, what are the contextual factors of boundary objects\, and how to design effective boundary objects within the discourse on the development of complex CPS). The current results show that the concept of boundary objects within the discourse on the development of complex CPS is not well-defined. Nonetheless\, the results indicate that the concept of\, and the role of\, boundary objects can be identified based on three contextual factors e.g.\, structure\, identity\, and culture.  The results suggest that the concept of boundary object has narrowed down towards matters of structure and identity within the discourse on the development of complex CPS. \nMoreover\, this research indicate that the boundary objects can be categorized into four categories based on two implicit\, orthogonal dimensions present in the discourse\, i.e.\, \n\nboundary objects can be either transparent or opaque\, and\nboundary objects can be either a support to\, or a limiter on\, human activity.\n\nThese categories suggest that the discourses on automation and organisational learning could be used to elicit a deeper understanding of enablers or barriers to boundary objects. \n\n\n\nBio: My research interests fall at the intersection of systems engineering\, engineering design\, and engineering management. Currently\, my research focuses on investigating the role of engineering artefacts to e.g.\, bridge the knowledge gap and promote compromise among different Community of Practices (e.g.\, safety engineers\, cybersecurity engineers\, software engineers) in the development of trustworthy complex systems (e.g.\, connected and automated vehicle\, intelligent transporation systems\, etc). \nSome theories I use for my PhD research include boundary objects\, organizational learning\, and social-practice theory. As for the research methods\, I mainly use field-based methods such as expert interviews and participant observation to conduct my research.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/boundary-objects-within-the-discourse-on-the-development-of-complex-cps/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230901T131500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230901T141500
DTSTAMP:20230821T081112Z
CREATED:20230821T080900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230821T081112Z
UID:6787-1693574100-1693577700@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:AI in the Context of Complex Intelligent System
DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Nicolette Lakemond\, Professor in Industrial Development at Linköping University\n\nAs artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into the context of complex products and systems (CoPS)\, making complex systems more intelligent\, this presentation explores the consequences and presents research results on the implications for engineering management in emerging complex intelligent systems (CoIS). \nAll are welcome to attend this talk\, which takes place in Gladan\, Brinellvägen 85 (plan 3). \nThe talk will be followed by the half-way seminar for Rusyadi Ramli\, Boundary Objects within the Discourse on the Development of Complex CPS\, for which Prof Lakemond is the opponent.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/ai-in-the-context-of-complex-intelligent-system/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230901T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230901T170000
DTSTAMP:20230825T061051Z
CREATED:20230504T104329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T061051Z
UID:6456-1693573200-1693587600@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:TECoSA 13th Quarterly Meeting and Testbeds Inauguration
DESCRIPTION:On Friday 1 September\, TECoSA will host it’s 13th Quarterly Meeting\, starting with the official Testbeds Inauguration.  An Outlook invitation has been circulated to TECoSA members and special guests!  The plan for the afternoon is given below. \nFor more information\, please contact Martin Törngren (martint@kth.se) or James Gross (jamesgr@kth.se). \nPart 1: 13.00-15.00 – TECoSA Testbeds Inauguration \nThe indoor testbed in R1. \nVenue: KTH R1 Reactor Hall\, Drottning Kristinas väg 51 \nPreliminary Agenda: \n\n13.00: Welcome and Introductions\n13.25:  Panel Debate with starting position statements from the industrial and academic representatives\n14.15: Testbed visits (indoor and outdoor) and Demos\n15.30: Inauguration closes\n\nPart 2: 15.13-17.00 – TECoSA Workshop on the new projects and the way forward \n\n15.30: TECoSA 2.0 – updates and Intro to the Workshop\n15.45: Work in groups per project: SMEDE\, CART and COLA\n16.30: Plenary brief summaries\, results from work groups
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-13th-quarterly-meeting-and-testbeds-inauguration/
CATEGORIES:Talks,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230619T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230619T163000
DTSTAMP:20230523T121904Z
CREATED:20230523T114955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T121904Z
UID:6474-1687186800-1687192200@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:Safe Reinforcement Learning for Real-time Dose-based Adaptive Radiotherapy
DESCRIPTION:TECoSA industrial PhD student Kenneth Lau (Elekta)\, will present his work so far as a “30% seminar”.  All with an interest in the topic are welcome to join\, via Zoom (https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/620751730409) or in real life on KTH Campus (Teknikringen 14\, room 304\, floor 3).  \nABSTRACT: External beam radiotherapy treats tumors using radiation beams from outside the patient’s body. However\, radiation to healthy tissues can cause side effects. Current treatment planning methods use static patient images to modulate radiation beams and do not account for stochastic patient motions\, such as heartbeat and breathing. This can lead to discrepancies between the plan and actual radiation delivery. MR-Linac is a recent breakthrough that allows us to visualize a patient’s anatomy in real-time. However\, traditional dose-based adaptative radiotherapy methods are too slow to compute in real-time. We propose to use reinforcement learning for real-time dose-based adaptive radiotherapy.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/safe-reinforcement-learning-for-real-time-dose-based-adaptive-radiotherapy/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230616T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230616T130000
DTSTAMP:20230614T100341Z
CREATED:20230614T100304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T100341Z
UID:6531-1686916800-1686920400@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:TECoSA Research Seminar: An Approach to Multi-Agent Planning from Spatio-Temporal Specifications
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Georg Schupp\, TECoSA PhD\nLocation: KTH Campus (Teknikringen 14\, room 304)\nZoom link and sign-up link circulated to members\nPlease email vickid@kth.se if you have any questions. \nABSTRACT:  When deploying autonomous robots into the real world\, we desire for them to be safe and to work as intended. One increasingly popular way to approach this challenging problem is through a formal methods framework\, which combines two great advantages: \n(i) The ability to rigorously describe various involved tasks and constraints on the robot’s behavior through temporal logics\, such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL); and \n(ii) Generic algorithms to compute plans that are correct by design\, i.e. provably satisfy the logic formula. \nDirectly applying techniques from formal methods to multi-agent task planning problems poses several challenges and confronts the designer of such problem solving algorithms with several key design decisions. In this talk\, we explore how to model computational and human actors  coexisting in a shared environment\, each with their own capabilities and goals. We present a unified framework that computes minimal assumptions on the behaviour of human actors and robots and communicates them as least-limiting advisers. \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-research-seminar-an-approach-to-multi-agent-planning-from-spatio-temporal-specifications/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230601T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230601T160000
DTSTAMP:20230321T154444Z
CREATED:20230321T154444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T154444Z
UID:6242-1685631600-1685635200@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Computation offloading in Edge and cloud environment: Survey\, taxonomy\, applications and open challenges
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Spring 2023\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur June seminar is with Ali Balador\, senior researcher and project manager at Ericsson Research.\nThe Zoom link is https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267. \nABSTRACT:  With the rapid development in the area of Internet of Things (IoT)\, the number of delay-sensitive and computationally intensive IoT applications has drastically increased recently. The resource-constrained nature of the IoT devices\, different characteristics of IoT tasks such as delay sensitivity\, and heterogeneity of the edge cloud servers make the task offloading problem an important challenge in the edge cloud continuum. Offloading can be defined as a mechanism to move the processing or computation from one device to another with more suitable capabilities. The main goal is to move resource-intensive tasks from a device with limited resources to an edge server or cloud server to achieve performance objectives\, such as reducing overall computation time\, minimizing network resources usage\, maximizing battery life. \nOffloading is a flexible mechanism whose implementation depends on use cases or situations. For this reason\, it is very important to study different application domains and use cases to find out which use cases are the most promising and can get benefit of offloading. In this presentation\, I will explore different application domains and use cases and explain why offloading is beneficial. I will also show an offloading taxonomy that helps to understand that flexibility and identify which are the most relevant offloading configurations for different application domains and use cases. \nOne example could be offloading to support time-critical industrial use cases. However\, to ensure deterministic performance and support timing predictability of real-time applications that utilize the edge-cloud continuum\, more enhancements are required in the computation domain and communication domain. In this case\, I will present our initial plans for our new VINNOVA project\, which is called AORTA. We will develop technologies that allow offloading of real-time services and functionality to the edge and cloud. We will build upon recent advances in 5G and cloud and networking technologies\, as well as cutting-edge research results. The AORTA framework will support a fluid compute model where functionality will be dynamically deployed locally\, at the edge\, or in the cloud and support integration and real-time performance irrespective of where they execute. \nBIO:  Dr. Ali Balador graduated in computer science at the Polytechnic University of Valencia\, where he also achieved his Phd on the topic of wireless communication for vehicular environments in 2016. He held the role of Assistant Professor at Mälardalen University for 5 years. He was a visiting researcher at University of Bologna in Italy\, Halmstad University in Sweden\, and the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan. \nAli has a background in a number of industries\, such as automotive\, railway\, healthcare\, and manufacturing but has spent most of his time focusing on the automotive sector\, working in research and development projects where he acted as main technical coordinator or WP leader. He spent 6 years at RISE Research Institute of Sweden where\, he focused on topics such as edge and cloud computing and the combination with artificial intelligence. \nIn April 2022\, he joined Ericsson Research in Sweden in the role of senior researcher and project manager. His own personal research interests include wireless networks\, distributed systems\, cloud and edge computing\, and security & privacy.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-computation-offloading-in-edge-and-cloud-environment-survey-taxonomy-applications-and-open-challenges/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Talks,webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230526T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230526T130000
DTSTAMP:20230517T104219Z
CREATED:20230517T104219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T104219Z
UID:6471-1685102400-1685106000@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:TECoSA Research Seminar: Efficient Monte Carlo Inference for Probabilistic Programming Languages
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Daniel Lundén\, TECoSA postdoc\nLocation: Gustaf Dahlander (floor 3\, Teknikringen 31\, KTH Campus)\nZoom link and sign-up link circulated to members\nPlease email vickid@kth.se if you have any questions. \nABSTRACT: Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) allow users to express statistical inference problems that the PPL implementation then\, ideally\, solves automatically. In particular\, PPL users can focus on encoding their inference problems\, and need not concern themselves with the intricacies of inference. In the last decade\, PPL-related research have seen a dramatic increase\, with applications in research fields such as evolutionary biology\, epidemiology\, cognitive science\, motion forecasting\, computer vision\, database cleaning\, and inverse graphics. \nIn this seminar\, Daniel will give an introduction to PPLs\, their applications\, and my research. His research focuses on efficient implementations of Monte Carlo inference algorithms as part of PPL compilers\, with a particular interest in programming language theory\, compilers\, and static program analysis. \nYou can read more about Daniel’s research at: https://dlunde.github.io/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-research-seminar-efficient-monte-carlo-inference-for-probabilistic-programming-languages/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230525
DTSTAMP:20230224T105523Z
CREATED:20230224T105335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230224T105523Z
UID:5704-1684713600-1684972799@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:Nordic Systems Engineering Tour\, Spring 2023
DESCRIPTION:Organised by the 5 Nordic Chapters of INCOSE – Norway\, Denmark\, Sweden\, Finland and Germany.\nThe  programme is being developed and will be published at \nhttps://www.nordic-systems-engineering-tour.com/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/nordic-systems-engineering-tour-spring-2023/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230428T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230428T150000
DTSTAMP:20230330T111735Z
CREATED:20230330T110714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230330T111735Z
UID:6303-1682690400-1682694000@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:TECoSA Research Seminar: Collaborative Collision Avoidance of Connected Vehicles Using ADMM with PI-Regulated Lagrangian Multipliers
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Kaige Tan\, TECoSA PhD student\nLocation:  Gladan\, Brinellvägen 85 (KTH Campus)\nZoom link: circulated to members (contact Vicki for more info)\nRegister for IRL participation: email vickid@kth.se  by kl.15 on Monday 24 April \n\nABSTRACT: The decentralized approach is popular for the collaborative collision avoidance of connected vehicles in many scenarios. By modeling the task as a collaborative optimal control problem\, Lagrangian methods are widely used to decouple the constraints and enable the decentralized solution. However\, potential constraint-violating behavior will lead to oscillations during the Lagrangian update\, resulting in more iterations and lower real-time efficiency. \nExisting methods generally neither address this shortcoming\, nor explore the Lagrangian update mechanism. This study takes a control perspective\, and solves this collaborative optimal control problem based on an extension of the Alternating Directions Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm by performing the iteration update with a Proportional-Integral- (PI-) regulated controller. The link between the Lagrangian optimization and the PI controller improves the convergence performance during iterations. Simulation results in traffic intersection scenarios demonstrate the advantage of the proposed approach. The preliminary results and future work on its real-time implementation on the 5G testbed will also be discussed.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-research-seminar-collaborative-collision-avoidance-of-connected-vehicles-using-admm-with-pi-regulated-lagrangian-multipliers/
CATEGORIES:Talks,webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230419T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230419T110000
DTSTAMP:20230413T115013Z
CREATED:20230413T115013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230413T115013Z
UID:6401-1681896600-1681902000@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:MedTechLabs Seminar: Strategies and tactics for protecting digital IP such as AI Applications
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to this seminar focusing on life science technologies.  The speakers will analyze and present strategies for scientists to accelerate their ability to find and protect digital inventions. It will include tactics and practical tips on patenting or other ways to extract business opportunities from science related to digital technologies. \nThe seminar will have a focus on digital life sciences but can be beneficial for digital applications in any technical field. \nSpeakers: Måns Marklund (Cascelotte) and Michael Kitzler (Rouse)\nModerator: Niclas Roxhed\, Director MedTechLabs and associate professor at KTH\nHybrid event: participants can choose to join in real life at the Karolinksa Institute (KI\, Nobels väg 12B\, 171 65 Solna)\, or via video-link (details will be circulated to those who register). \nClick here to register. \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/medtechlabs-seminar-strategies-and-tactics-for-protecting-digital-ip-such-as-ai-applications/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230406T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230406T160000
DTSTAMP:20230403T112243Z
CREATED:20230127T123343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T112243Z
UID:5683-1680793200-1680796800@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Addressing Uncertainty in the Safety Assurance of Machine-Learning
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Spring 2023\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur April seminar is with Prof Simon Burton\, Scientifc Director at Fraunhofer IKS.  This will be a Zoom-only event\, and is jointly organized by TECoSA and Digital Futures.  The Zoom link is https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267.\nABSTRACT:  There is increasing interest in the application of machine learning (ML) technologies to safety-critical cyber-physical systems\, with the promise of increased levels of autonomy due to their potential for solving complex perception and planning tasks. However\, demonstrating the safety of ML is seen as one of the most challenging hurdles to their widespread deployment for such applications. In this presentation I explore the factors which make the safety assurance of ML such a challenging task. In particular we address the impact of uncertainty on the confidence in ML safety assurance arguments. I show how this uncertainty is related to complexity in the ML models as well as the inherent complexity of the tasks that they are designed to implement. Based on definitions of categories and severity of uncertainty as well as an exemplary assurance argument structure\, we examine possible defeaters to the assurance claims and consequently how the assurance argument can be made more convincing. The analysis combines an understanding of insufficiencies in machine learning models\, their causes and mitigating measures with a systematic analysis of the types of asserted context\, asserted evidence and asserted inference within the assurance argument. \nThis leads to a systematic identification of requirements on the assurance argument structure as well as supporting evidence. A combination of qualitative arguments combined with quantitative evidence are required to build a robust argument for safety-related properties of ML functions that is continuously refined to reduce residual and emerging uncertainties in the arguments after the function has been deployed. \nThe presentation ends with an outlook on both developments in the standardisation of the safety of AI/ML\, in particular ISO PAS 8800 Road Vehicles – Safety and AI\,  as well as open research topics. \nBIO:  Prof. Dr. Simon Burton graduated in computer science at the University of York\, where he also achieved his Phd on the topic of the verification of safety-critical software in 2001. Simon has a background in a number of industries but has spent the last two decades mainly focusing on the automotive sector\, working in research and development projects as well as leading consulting\, engineering service and product organisations. Most recently\, he held the role of Director of Vehicle Systems Safety at Robert Bosch GmbH where\, amongst other things\, his efforts were focused on developing strategies for ensuring the safety of automated driving systems. \nIn September 2020\, he joined Fraunhofer IKS in the role of scientific director where he steers research strategy into “safe intelligence”. His own personal research interests include the safety assurance of complex\, autonomous systems\, and the safety of machine learning. In addition to his role within Fraunhofer IKS\, he has the role of honorary visiting professor at the University of York where he supports a number of research activities and interdisciplinary collaborations. He is also an active member in various standardization committees\, and is the convenor of the ISO working group ISO/TC 22/SC 32/WG14 with the responsibility for developing an international standard on Safety and AI for road vehicles.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-addressing-uncertainty-in-the-safety-assurance-of-machine-learning/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230313T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230316T170000
DTSTAMP:20230123T134255Z
CREATED:20230123T134255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230123T134255Z
UID:5647-1678694400-1678986000@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
DESCRIPTION:The 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) takes place in Stockholm from 13-16 March. \nThe conference theme for HRI 2023 is “HRI for all” and will focus on key HRI theories\, methods\, designs\, studies\, and technical advances that aim to understand and promote inclusion and diversity in HRI. We encourage the community to consider ways to both make the field a more inclusive place for those who may not feel included\, as well as to encourage inclusion within our research methods and practices. \nPlease see the HR I2023 homepage for the programme and how to register:\nhttps://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/acm-ieee-international-conference-on-human-robot-interaction/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Talks,Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230202T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230202T160000
DTSTAMP:20230125T082633Z
CREATED:20230120T151752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230125T082633Z
UID:5633-1675350000-1675353600@www.tecosa.center.kth.se
SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Robots Gone Wrong: The role of failure in human-robot interactions
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Spring 2023\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register.\nOur February seminar is with Dr Rebecca Stower\, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Social Robotics Lab (SORO) at the Division of Robotics\, Perception and Learning here at KTH.  This will be a hybrid event\, and is jointly organized by TECoSA and Digital Futures.  The Zoom link is https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267\, and the real-life location will be shared with those who sign-up. \nABSTRACT: As robotics research continues to advance\, there are increased opportunities for humans and robots to coexist in workplaces\, homes\, and public spaces. Yet\, alongside this increased presence comes also more opportunities for failures to occur. Such failures can be physical\, technical\, or social and can lead to sometimes severe communication and task breakdowns. In this seminar\, I will cover the role of such failures in shaping (different kinds of) human-robot interactions. I will also discuss different psychological concepts that are especially relevant to assessing and understanding robot failures\, including trust\, robot agency\, and likeability. This research can also be considered in light of the replication crisis\, where different challenges might be encountered by researchers when designing and implementing user studies involving both humans and robots. Consequently\, the seminar will also consider the role of interdisciplinary robotics research in addressing such challenges. \nBIO: Rebecca Stower  is a postdoctoral researcher in the social robotics lab (SORO) at the Division of Robotics\, Perception and Learning at KTH Royal Institution of Technology in Stockholm\, Sweden. Previously\, she worked as a researcher at the Paris8 CHArt Laboratory in collaboration with the Laboratory of Intuitive and Natural Interactions with Teleoperated Robots (INIT) in Montreal. She graduated with her PhD in Psychology in 2021 as part of the ANIMATAS H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie European Training Network (2018-2022). She is interested in the role of failures during human robot interactions\, and how this affects people’s attitudes and behaviours towards robots. She is also highly involved with interdisciplinary research and the open science movement.  You can read more on her homepage! \n 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-robots-gone-wrong-the-role-of-failure-in-human-robot-interactions/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221201T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221201T160000
DTSTAMP:20221025T112403Z
CREATED:20220803T125345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221025T112403Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Dynamic Games for Cyber Deception
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Autumn 2022\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email vickid@kth.se to register.\nOur December seminar is with Quanyan Zhu\, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU\, and Director of LARX\, the Laboratory for Agile and Resilient Complex Systems.  This event is jointly organized by TECoSA and Digital Futures\, where Prof Zhu is currently a scholar  in residence. \nVenue:  This session takes place via Zoom (https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267)\, and on KTH Campus (The Cafeteria\, Digital Futures Hub\, Osquars Backe 5\, floor 2).  If you plan to join in real life\, please email vickid @  kth.se by 28 November (so we can organise fika).   \nABSTRACT:  Deception and anti-deception technologies are new paradigms of active cyber defense. They provide defenders a proactive and autonomous security mechanism by engaging the adversaries and influencing their moves to the defender’s advantage. Game theory captures the strategic and self-interested nature of attackers and defenders in cybersecurity. It provides an ideal set of quantitative tools to develop such a framework to analyze and design deception. In this talk\, we first present a taxonomy of deception and counter-deception and understand how they can be conceptualized\, quantified\, and designed or mitigated. Then\, we present a class of dynamic games of incomplete information to capture the fundamental characteristics of deception and demonstrate the applications of game theory and learning in problems such as attack engagement\, lateral movement\, and information manipulation. The talk will also discuss open problems and research challenges that the game theory community can address and contribute with an objective to build a multidisciplinary bridge between game theory and cybersecurity. \nBIO:  Quanyan Zhu received B. Eng. in Honors Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 2006\, M. A. Sc. from the University of Toronto in 2008\, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2013. After stints at Princeton University\, he is currently an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, New York University (NYU). He is an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and Center for Cyber Security (CCS) at NYU. He is a recipient of many awards\, including NSF CAREER Award\, NYU Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship\, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF)\, NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS)\, and Mavis Future Faculty Fellowships. He spearheaded and chaired INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control on Smart Energy Systems (CCSES)\, Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory (WCGT)\, and ICRA workshop on Security and Privacy of Robotics. His current research interests include game theory\, machine learning\, cyber deception\, network optimization and control\, smart cities\, Internet of Things\, and cyber-physical systems. He has served as the general chair or the TPC chair of the 7th and the 11th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) in 2016 and 2020\, the 9th International Conference on NETwork Games\, COntrol and OPtimisation (NETGCOOP) in 2018\, the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS 2019) in 2019\, and 2020 IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS). He is a co-author of three recent books published by Springer: Cyber-Security in Critical Infrastructures: A Game-Theoretic Approach (with S. Rass\, S. Schauer\, and S. König)\, A Game- and Decision-Theoretic Approach to Resilient Interdependent Network Analysis and Design (with J. Chen)\, and Cross-Layer Design for Secure and Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems: A Decision and Game Theoretic Approach (with Z. Xu).
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-with-quanyan-zhu-director-of-larx/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:How does edge AI change the principles of communications and computing?
DESCRIPTION:A Digital Futures Distinguished lecture with Kaibin Huang from The University of Hong Kong\nAbstract: Data has replaced oil as the world’s most valuable resource. An enormous amount of data is being generated 24/7 by tens of billions of edge devices at the network edge. Their distillation into AI using machine learning algorithms promises to automate practically unlimited IoT applications ranging from autonomous driving to virtual reality. This gives rise to a hot area known as edge intelligence\, a distinctive feature of 6G mobile networks. \nThree questions will be asked to understand the induced paradigm shift in communications:\n1) Is reliable communication always needed?\n2) Is interference always a foe?\n3) Is analogue computing outdated? \nProf Huang will introduce some 6G edge-intelligence technologies that feature communication-computing fusion to find negative answers to these questions. They include channel-noise protected/accelerated edge AI\, over-the-air federated learning\, and neuromorphic computing-empowered ultra-fast baseband processing. \nYou can find Prof Huang’s bio and the Zoom link at: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/event/distinguished-lecture-kaibin-huang-the-university-of-hong-kong/ 
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/how-does-edge-ai-change-the-principles-of-communications-and-computing/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Efficient Inference at the Edge
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar on the first Thursday of each month during term-time. For Autumn 2022\, the talks will be on-line or hybrid. All are welcome to attend and we look forward to some lively discussions. Members can accept the invitations\, non-members can email vickid @ kth.se to register.\nOur November seminar is with Professor Axel Jantsch\, Professor of systems on chips at TU Wien.  The session is co-hosted with Digital Futures\, and will be given via Zoom (https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66857695267)\, with a number of seats available in real life on KTH Campus (Digital Futures Conference Room\, Osquars backe 5\, SE-114 28 Stockholm).  Please email vickid @ kth.se by 31 October if you plan to join in real life. \nABSTRACT:  The presentation will review the design space\, the trade-offs and the available options for implementing Deep Neural Networks in resource constrained embedded devices.  Going into depth\, the talk will present:\n~ a detailed\, layer-wise power and delay profiling of neural network inference\, and\n~ pruning based network compression techniques. \nBIO: Axel Jantsch received the Ph.D. degree from TU Wien\, Vienna\, Austria\, in 1992. From 2002 to 2014\, he was a full professor in      electronic systems design at KTH. Since 2014\, he has been a Professor of systems on chips at TU Wien\, Vienna\, Austria.  His current research interests include systems on chips\, self-aware cyber-physical systems\, and embedded machine learning.  You can read more on his homepage: https://jantsch.se/AxelJantsch/HomePage/research.html \nThis event is co-sponsored by Digital Futures (www.digitalfutures.kth.se)
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-efficient-inference-at-the-edge/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Castor Software Days
DESCRIPTION:Open to the software industry\, software researchers and software students\,  the 2022 CASTOR Software Days take place (free of charge) on KTH Campus on\n  *  Wednesday 31 August (software-defined networking day) and\n  *  Thursday 1 September (software systems design day) \nYou can find more information (including how to register) on their homepage:  https://www.kth.se/castorsoftwaredays
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/castor-software-days/
CATEGORIES:Talks,Workshops
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