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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Anomaly Detection and Causal Reasoning about Attacks in SCADA Systems
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar at kl.15 on the first Thursday of each month. This Spring they will be on-line\, and all are welcome to join. Each invited speaker will talk for about 40 minutes\, followed by a panel discussion coordinated by TECoSA members.\nKlara Nahrstedt\nThe seventh speaker in our series is Prof Klara Nahrstedt\, Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof Nahrstedt is also a member of TECoSA’s International Scientific Advisory Board. You can read more about Prof Nahrstedt here: https://cs.illinois.edu/about/people/faculty/klara \nPanel: Lei Feng (Chair)\, Magnus Isaksson (RTE)\, Fredrik Asplund (KTH) \nPlease email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register! \nAnomaly Detection and Causal Reasoning about Attacks in SCADA Systems \nABSTRACT: Abstract: The SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems are widely used in critical cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as Smart Grid\, Manufacturing and other mission-critical CPS systems. SCADA devices and networks are often subject to a wide range of attacks coming from external attackers and/or internal misconfigurations.  Traditional intrusion detection systems are deployed to ensure the security of SCADA systems\, but they often focus on monitoring only one or two levels of network data\, such as traffic or source data\, and continuously generate a large number of alerts without further analyzing them for causal reasoning. \nIn this talk\, we present anomaly detection systems\, such as ED4GAP and EDMOND\, and a causal reasoning framework\, such as CAPTAR. ED4GAP is an efficient edge-based detector for GOOSE-based source data attacks. EDMOND is an edge-based anomaly detector for MODBUS traffic\, which analyzes SCADA network anomalies at all three levels of network traffic data (transport\, protocol\, source data)\, aggregates alerts to decrease the volume of alerts\, and sends aggregated alerts to control center for causal analysis. CAPTAR is a cloud-based causal reasoning framework which correlates and matches aggregated alerts to causal polytrees. Bayesian inference is performed on the causal polytrees to produce a high-level view of the security state of the protected SCADA network. We will discuss the anomaly detection and causal reasoning analyses on attack examples\, and show experimentally that\, using GOOSE\, MODBUS and DNP3 network traffic\, we can do anomaly detection and attack reasoning in real-time. \nJoint work with Dr. Wenyu Ren\, Dr. Tuo Yu\, Dr. Atul Bohara\, Dr. Jordi Ros-Giralt\, Ghada Elbez\, Tim Yardley\, Al Valdes\, Prof. Bill Sanders in the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign. \nBIO: Klara Nahrstedt is the Grainger Distinguished Chair of Engineering Professor in the Computer Science Department\, and Director of Coordinated Science Laboratory in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are directed toward end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) and resource management in large scale multimedia distributed systems and networks\, and real-time security and privacy in cyber-physical systems. She is the recipient of the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements\, University Scholar\, Humboldt Award\, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award\, ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award\, Piloty Prize\, and Drucker Award. Klara Nahrstedt received her Diploma in Mathematics from Humboldt University\, Berlin\, Germany in 1985. In 1995 she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Computer and Information Science. She is ACM Fellow\, IEEE Fellow\, AAAS Fellow\, and Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina Society). \nDates in the Seminar Series include: 1 October\, 5 November\, 3 December\, 4 February\, 4 March\, 1 April\, 6 May\, 3 June
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-attacks-in-scada-systems/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210422T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210422T170000
DTSTAMP:20210420T083753Z
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SUMMARY:Next Generation IoT and Edge Computing Strategy Forum
DESCRIPTION:Views on a strategic European vision for (Far) Edge Computing in the Next-Generation Internet of Things\nThere are a few seats left for this on-line workshop\, which offers talks and discussions on System Integration Platforms\, Ecosystems and Alliances\, Trust and Trustworthiness and Visionary Concepts. \nTECoSA Director Martin Törngren will be taking part in the Visionary Concepts panel\, considering key questions such as: \n* What are new emerging concepts that address the emerging IoT and edge orchestration paradigms?\n* Which are the main challenges for their implementation\, and which players would be needed?\n* What is the time horizon by which these concepts are expected to be mature for market adoption?\n* Where do you see the role of European partnerships and the potential relevance of their roadmaps? \n \n  \nYou can find out more and register for this event via:\nhttps://app.swapcard.com/event/next-generation-iot-and-edge-computing-strategy-forum
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/next-generation-iot-and-edge-computing-strategy-forum/
CATEGORIES:Talks,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210422T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210422T120000
DTSTAMP:20210316T104627Z
CREATED:20201001T100313Z
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SUMMARY:Research Forum (Workshop 2): Innovator’s DNA skill guide applied to research questions or challenges
DESCRIPTION:Since the first Workshop in November\, the PhD students within TECoSA have been exploring their research question or challenge using the Innovator’s DNA skill guide\, developed at MIT. \nDuring this session\, we will introduce the method within the Center and give the students as well as industrial partners a possibility to get new perspectives on their challenges. \nPreparation: Bring your research question or challenge (Ph.D.-students) / Bring any challenge that you currently are facing (Industry/Teachers) \nFrom Spring  2021\, the Research Forum will be open to all TECoSA members\, from academia and industry alike\, by invitation to tecos-all.  Facilitator: Martin Karlsson (martink9@kth.se)
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/research-forum-workshop-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210415T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210415T170000
DTSTAMP:20210310T091529Z
CREATED:20210310T091414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210310T091529Z
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SUMMARY:Resilient Resource Allocation for Service Placement in Mobile Edge Clouds
DESCRIPTION:TECoSA PhD student Peiyue Zhao will defend his thesis – abstract below.  All are welcome to join. Please contact peiyue @ kth.se for the link. \nAbstract \nMobile edge computing makes available distributed computation and storage resources in close proximity to end users and allows to provide low-latency and high-capacity services within mobile networks. Therefore\, mobile edge computing is emerging as a promising architecture for hosting critical services with stringent latency and performance requirements\, which otherwise are challenging to be addressed in conventional cloud computing architectures. Notable use cases of mobile edge computing include real-time data analytic services\, industrial process control\, and computation offloading for massive Internet of things devices. However\, those services rely on efficient resource management\, including resource dimensioning and service placement\, and require to be resilient to cyber-attacks\, to faulty components and to operation mistakes. The work in this thesis proposes models of resilient resource management that support rapid response to incidents in mobile edge computing and develops efficient algorithms for the resulting resource management problems.​ \nIn the first part of the thesis\, we consider resilient resource management for edge computing systems in which failover is realized by restoring additional service instances in different mobile edge computing nodes in case of failures. We first develop a placement algorithm based on Benders decomposition and linear relaxation to determine the mobile edge computing nodes to be opened and to compute the placement of the service instances with respect to a set of considered failure scenarios\, with the objective of minimizing operation costs. Upon the occurrence of a failure scenario\, service migration is to be triggered to migrate the service instances from one placement to another placement\, for which we further develop service migration algorithms to schedule migration under time constraints\, so as to minimize service interruptions. \nIn the second part of the thesis\, we consider resilient resource management in mobile edge computing for services with different levels of resilience requirements. Resilience is achieved by synchronizing states of the services to two types of standby instances that maintain the trade-off between energy consumption and activation time such that the standby instances can take over the service seamlessly as an instantaneous failure response. We formulate the joint problem of resource dimensioning and service placement for minimizing energy consumption and prove that it is NP-hard. We propose an efficient approximation algorithm based on Lagrangian relaxation to decide the type\, amount\, and locations of the computation resources and to compute the placement of service instances and their associated standby instances. We then consider the same resilience model but for hosting periodic services in mobile edge computing systems with resources portioned into availability zones\, under schedulability constraints. We formulate the corresponding resilient resource management problem as a non-linear programming problem and prove that it is NP-hard. We propose efficient solutions based on approximation programming and primal-dual approaches for resilient service placement. \nBy considering different models of resilient service placement in mobile edge computing\, the results in this thesis provide effective\, efficient\, and scalable resource management algorithms for emerging mobile edge computing systems.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/resilient-resource-allocation-for-service-placement-in-mobile-edge-clouds/
CATEGORIES:PhD defense
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210401T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210401T163000
DTSTAMP:20210203T072255Z
CREATED:20200914T073437Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Edge Intelligence: The Surprises\, Risks and Lessons
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar at kl.15 on the first Thursday of each month. This Spring they will be on-line\, and all are welcome to join. Each invited speaker will talk for about 40 minutes\, followed by a panel discussion coordinated by TECoSA members.\nAaron Ding\nThe sixth speaker in our series is Asst Prof Aaron Ding\, Assistant Professor in Engineering Systems & Services at TU Delft and Adjunct Professor in Computer Science at University of Helsinki .You can read more at: http://homepage.tudelft.nl/8e79t/ \nPanel: James Gross (Chair)\, Tor Ericson (AFRY)\, Raksha Ramkrishna (KTH) \nPlease email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register! \nEdge Intelligence: The Surprises\, Risks and Lessons  \nABSTRACT: Similar to the transition from Cloud to Cloud Intelligence\, we are witnessing a fast evolution from the Internet of Things to the Internet of Intelligent Things (IoIT). The IoIT paves the way to a programmable infrastructure that can consolidate the power of the Cloud and distributed computing resources to enhance performance\, resilience\, and quality of experience for users. The envisioned programmable infrastructure has the potential to bring our society to the next level\, by making it more intelligent\, more sustainable\, healthier\, and forging innovations in numerous fields such as autonomous driving\, smart energy\, logistics\, and e-health. \nBehind the curtains\, one of the key enablers for this vision is Edge Intelligence – a powerful combination of edge computing and artificial intelligence. This talk will present my investigations on Edge Intelligence with a system flavor. Besides sharing my first-hand experience of system design and development\, the talk will reveal several pitfalls and lessons learned through live cases. The goal is twofold: 1) to disclose blind spots and interesting directions that deserve further investigations in our community\, and 2) to share my observations on doing system research in such “buzzword bingo” domain\, especially what could hinder us from transferring the mostly fun system work into solid scientific outcome. \nDates in the Seminar Series include: 1 October\, 5 November\, 3 December\, 4 February\, 4 March\, 1 April\, 6 May\, 3 June
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-edge-intelligence-surprises-risks-and-lessons/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210325T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210325T120000
DTSTAMP:20210130T150951Z
CREATED:20210122T104542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210130T150951Z
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SUMMARY:The Learning Brain - a session with Anna Tebelius Bodin!
DESCRIPTION:Anna Tebelius Bodin is a Swedish thought-leader on the brain\, with a M.Ed from Harvard University. She has given over 800 talks and published 5 books about the psychology behind learning and well-being.  Last year\, her efforts to spread knowledge about how the brain learns was acknowledged with The 2020 Mensa Award of Sweden. \nOn Thursday 25 March\, Anna will host an interactive session at the TECoSA Research forum. All TECoSA members are welcome to attend. (see Martin Törngren’s Teams invite\, 21.01.22). \nAnna Tebelius Bodin\nDuring the session\, we will explore how the brain absorbs information. We look at what is required to build knowledge and develop skills. Then we turn the perspective around and look at how we can communicate and shape our message in a way that meets the brain’s ability to learn and engage. \nYou can read more about Anna’s work on her homepage: https://www.annatebeliusbodin.se/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/talk-by-anna-tebelius-bodin-on-how-the-brain-absorbs-information/
CATEGORIES:Lectures,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210304T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210304T163000
DTSTAMP:20210203T072331Z
CREATED:20200914T072634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T072331Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Real-time Virtualization\, Concurrency Platforms\, and Middleware: from Devices to Edge Servers
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar at kl.15 on the first Thursday of each month. This Spring they will be on-line\, and all are welcome to join. Each invited speaker will talk for about 40 minutes\, followed by a panel discussion coordinated by TECoSA members.\nChris Gill\nThe fifth speaker in our series is Prof. Chris Gill from Washington University in St. Louis.  You can read more about his research here: https://datasciences.wustl.edu/people/chris-gill/  The abstract is below. \nPanel: Martin Törngren (Chair)\,  Ingemar Söderquist (SAAB)\, David Broman (KTH) \nPlease email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register! \nReal-time Virtualization\, Concurrency Platforms\, and Middleware: from Devices to Edge Servers \nABSTRACT: As embedded devices\, platforms\, and software become ever more sophisticated\, the range of real-time\, embedded\, and cyber-physical applications they enable becomes increasingly broad\, diverse\, and compelling. Especially over the past decade\, individual advances in sensing\, actuation\, computation\, communication\, and control have given rise to an unprecedented proliferation of applications in domains ranging from increasingly autonomous vehicles to medical cyber-physical systems to real-time hybrid physical/simulated systems.  With this progress\, however\, come further technical challenges that must be addressed to sustain such technical evolution and impact. \nThis talk will first describe selected recent advances in real-time scheduling theory\, their realization within real-time virtualization and concurrency platforms and middleware\, and limitations of the state of the art that remain even with those advances.  It will then suggest promising combinations of those advances\, which if fully integrated may launch a new generation of adaptive real-time systems that can respond dynamically to changing demands\, while still maintaining assurance of correct timing behavior.  Finally\, this talk will describe open problems and suggest candidate approaches towards addressing them\, to achieve such a synthesis of techniques\, and the potential impacts that can have. \nDates in the Seminar Series include: 1 October\, 5 November\, 3 December\, 4 February\, 4 March\, 1 April\, 6 May\, 3 June
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-realtime-virtualization-concurrency-platforms-and-middleware/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210223T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210223T120000
DTSTAMP:20210311T111636Z
CREATED:20210311T111636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T111636Z
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SUMMARY:3rd Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The 3rd TECoSA quarterly meeting takes place from kl.9-12 Tuesday 23 February\, (on-line\, link to follow to TECoSA members).\n \nFor more information about this event please contact TECoSA Admin tecosa-admin@kth.se
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/3rd-quarterly-meeting/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210204T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210204T163000
DTSTAMP:20210203T072054Z
CREATED:20200914T072532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T072054Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Impact of Digitalisation\, Key Strategic Technology Roadmaps and Importance of Edge Computing
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar at kl.15 on the first Thursday of each month. This Spring they will be on-line\, and all are welcome to join. Each invited speaker will talk for about 40 minutes\, followed by a panel discussion coordinated by TECoSA members.\nThe fourth speaker in our series is Prof Haydn Thompson\, founder and managing director of the THHINK Group (http://thhink.co.uk/index.html).  The abstract for the talk is below.\nPanel: Martin Törngren (Chair)\, Stefan Andersson (SAAB)\, Jana Tumová (KTH) \nPlease email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register! \nImpact of Digitalisation\, Key Strategic Technology Roadmaps and Importance of Edge Computing \nABSTRACT: The talk will highlight the importance of digitalisation and the strategic opportunities this offers for Europe for the future. This is leading to significant changes giving greater productivity through exploitation of process optimisation and advanced cobotics\, greater customer benefits through new smart personalised products\, intelligent monitoring and in-service feedback for new product development through exploitation of digital twins\, and new service-based business models driven by the new oil “data”. This very fast pace of change will have a great impact on human workers and their role in the work place as well as for society in providing smarter information driven products for the future. Here privacy\, security and exploitation of autonomous features become key concerns leading to the need for trustworthiness in future IIoT and Cyber-Physical Systems. There is also a convergence of key digital technologies for the future such as Edge computing\, IIoT\, AI\, and 5G. The presentation will highlight important roadmaps in the domain and the EC strategic thinking that has driven the new Horizon Europe and Digital Europe programmes launched in 2021. \nDates in the Seminar Series include: 1 October\, 5 November\, 3 December\, 4 February\, 4 March\, 1 April\, 6 May\, 3 June
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-roadmaps-for-edge-computing/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201203T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201203T160000
DTSTAMP:20201130T083143Z
CREATED:20200914T072219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201130T083143Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Machine Learning Systems: On-Device AI and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar at kl.15 on the first Thursday of each month. This Autumn they will be on-line\, and all are welcome to join. Each invited speaker will talk for about 40 minutes\, followed by a panel discussion coordinated by TECoSA members.\nNic Lane\nThe third speaker in our series is Assoc.Prof Nic Lane\, Head of the Machine Learning Systems Lab at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Samsung AI Centre. You can read more here: http://niclane.org/ \nThe talk is entitled “Machine Learning Systems: On-Device AI and Beyond” (abstract below).\nPanel: György Dán (Chair)\, Diarmuid Corcoran (Ericsson)\, Elena Dubrova (KTH) \nPlease email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register! \nABSTRACT: Mobile and embedded devices increasingly rely on locally executing deep neural networks to understand the world — a formerly impossible feat that would have overwhelmed their system resources just a few years ago. The age of on-device artificial intelligence is now upon us; but incredibly\, these dramatic changes are just the beginning. Looking ahead\, machine learning on IoT devices will extend beyond simply classifying categories and perceptual tasks\, to performing roles that alter how every part of the systems stack of smart device function. This next evolution in constrained-resource computing will finally produce devices that meet our expectations in how they can learn\, reason and react to the real-world. In this talk\, I will briefly discuss the initial breakthroughs that allowed us to reach this point\, and outline a number of looming open problems we must overcome to bring about this next phase in the deep transformation of mobile and embedded computing. \nBIO: Nic Lane (http://niclane.org) is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge where he leads the Machine Learning Systems Lab (CaMLSys — http://http://mlsys.cst.cam.ac.uk/). Alongside his academic role\, he is also a Director (On-Device and Distributed Machine Learning) at the Samsung AI Center in Cambridge. Until May 2020\, Nic was an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Oxford. Earlier in his career\, Nic held dual appointments at University College London (UCL) and Nokia Bell Labs. Of late\, Nic research has specialized in the study of efficient machine learning under computational constraints\, and over the last five years he has pioneered a range of embedded and mobile forms of deep learning. More generally\, Nic’s research interests revolve around the modelling and systems challenges that arise when computers collect and reason over various types of complex real-world multi-modal sensor data. Nic has received multiple best paper awards\, including ACM/IEEE IPSN 2017 and two from ACM UbiComp (2012 and 2015). In 2018 and 2019\, he (and his co-authors) received the ACM SenSys Test-of-Time award and ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time award for pioneering research\, performed during his PhD thesis\, that devised machine learning algorithms used today on devices like smartphones. Nic served as the PC-chair of ACM MobiSys 2019\, a role he has performed also for ACM HotMobile and ACM SenSys in the past. Most recently\, Nic is the 2020 ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar award winner for his contributions to “the understanding of how resource-constrained mobile devices can robustly understand\, reason and react to complex user behaviors and environments through new paradigms in learning algorithms and system design.” Prior to moving to England\, Nic spent 4-years at Microsoft Research based in Beijing as a Lead Researcher. He received his PhD from Dartmouth College in 2011. Nic also received an M.Eng from Cornell University (2004) and a B.Sc (Hons) from the University of Waikato (2001). \nDates in the Seminar Series include: 1 October\, 5 November\, 3 December\, 4 February\, 4 March\, 1 April\, 6 May\, 3 June
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-machine-learning-systems-on-device-ai-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201120T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201120T120000
DTSTAMP:20201001T100244Z
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SUMMARY:Research Forum (Workshop 1)
DESCRIPTION:Culture for innovation\nSuccessful organisations are characterised by a high level of psychological safety\, i.e. a culture where it is possible to take interpersonal risk without any negative consequences. This is needed to create a culture where one can share criticism\, keep an open mind\, listen to each other\, and show social sensitivity – all of which are essential to build collective intelligence and leverage on diversity. \nThe aim of the TECoSA Research Forum is to build a collaborative culture within the Center and help each other to develop our research and innovation skills.  We will do this in steps: \n\nDuring the first interactive online workshop on 20 November\, teams of graduate students will be trained on how to build a research and innovation culture for high collective intelligence as well as learn a method to elaborate and develop their research questions.\nAfter the workshop\, peer-coached teams will continue the learning journey in biweekly meetings.\nThe winter session concludes with a second interactive online workshop on 11 March 2021.\n\nKey focus points:\n‣ How do I create psychological safety?\n‣ How do I help to create collective intelligence?\n‣ Build questioning\, observing\, networking and experimenting capabilities to surface new ideas and research questions. \nFacilitator: Martin Karlsson (martink9@kth.se)
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/research-forum-workshop-1/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201119T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201119T170000
DTSTAMP:20200915T085357Z
CREATED:20200915T085350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200915T085357Z
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SUMMARY:ISAB Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Agenda and papers will be circulated to all involved.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/isab-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Management meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201105T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201105T160000
DTSTAMP:20200924T151343Z
CREATED:20200914T071923Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar at kl.15 on the first Thursday of each month. This Autumn they will be on-line\, and all are welcome to join. Each invited speaker will talk for about 40 minutes\, followed by a panel discussion coordinated by TECoSA members.\nLihui Wang\nThe second speaker in our series is Professor Lihui Wang\, Chair of Sustainable Manufacturing at KTH\, and Chairman of the Swedish Production Academy\, as well as President of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution (NAMRI). You can read more about Prof Wang’s research here: https://www.kth.se/profile/lihuiw \nPanel: Lei Feng (Chair)\, Niklas Tibblin (Atlas Copco)\, Iolanda Leite (KTH) \nPlease email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register! \nHuman-Robot Collaborative Assembly: The State of the Art and Latest Advancement\nABSTRACT: Human-robot collaboration has attracted increasing attentions\, both in academia and in industry. For example\, in human-robot collaborative assembly\, robots are often required to dynamically change their pre-planned tasks to collaborate with human operators in a shared workspace. However\, the robots used today are controlled by pre-generated rigid codes that cannot support effective human-robot collaboration. In response to this need\, multi-modal yet symbiotic communication and control methods have been developed. These methods include voice processing\, gesture recognition\, haptic interaction\, and brainwave perception. Deep learning is used for recognition\, classification\, and context awareness identification. Within this context\, this seminar provides an overview of the current status of human-robot collaboration including its classification\, characteristics and definition. The focus is placed on the latest advancement on multi-modal robot control and in-situ operator assistance. At the end of the talk\, remaining challenges and future research directions are highlighted. \nDates in the Seminar Series include: 1 October\, 5 November\, 3 December\, 4 February\, 4 March\, 1 April\, 6 May\, 3 June
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-human-robot-collaborative-assembly/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201106
DTSTAMP:20200924T102236Z
CREATED:20200625T110010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200924T102236Z
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SUMMARY:Embedded Conference Scandinavia\, 4-5 Nov 2020 (postponed)
DESCRIPTION:2020.09.23:  Message from the ECS Organisers: \nIt is with a lot of uncertainty we are now entering the autumn period. The ban against organizing events with more than 50 people remains\, meaning that according to the Swedish government’s current rules\, we are prohibited to arrange the conference. The Swedish Electronics Trade Association and BraMässor therefore regrettably have to inform you that ECS cannot be held on November 4-5\, 2020\, as planned. \nOur ambition is to come back with a new date as soon as it is possible and allowed to organize the conference. Your proposal will be kept on record and we will be in touch as soon as we have any further information. \n  \n2020.06.25 TECoSA is proud to be taking part in this year’s Embedded Conference Scandinavia! \nThe event attracts about 2000 visitors each year\, and there is a lot of focus on communication\, control and security in connected systems. Industrial IoT\, Edge Computing\, AI in various applications\, and of course Data Security are all hot topics. We hope to see you there! \nRegistration opens in September. Read more on the ECS 2020 homepage http://www.embeddedconference.se/app/netattm/attendee/page/96127
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/embedded-conference-scandinavia/
LOCATION:Kistamässan\, Arne Beurlings Torg 5\, Kista\, Stockholm\, Sweden
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201023T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201023T153000
DTSTAMP:20200915T085259Z
CREATED:20200915T085259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200915T085259Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Agenda and papers will be circulated to all involved.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-board-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Management meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201022T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201022T120000
DTSTAMP:20200915T085416Z
CREATED:20200831T120718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200915T085416Z
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SUMMARY:Quarterly Meeting number 2\, 2020
DESCRIPTION:The 2nd TECoSA quarterly meeting takes place from kl.9-12 Thursday 22 October\, (on-line\, link to follow to TECoSA members).\n \nIn preparing for this meeting\, our three projects are gearing up including planning of preparatory workshops. All partners are encouraged to get in contact with the corresponding project leads (Jana\, Safety / György\, Predictability / Elena D.\, Security). \nFor more information about this event please contact TECoSA Admin tecosa-admin@kth.se
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/quarterly-meeting-number-2-2020/
CATEGORIES:Management meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201001T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201001T160000
DTSTAMP:20200924T143716Z
CREATED:20200914T071853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200924T143716Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Seminar - Edge computing concepts\, motivations\, and challenges
DESCRIPTION:We aim to bring you a TECoSA Seminar at kl.15 on the first Thursday of each month. This Autumn they will be via on-line\, and all are welcome to join. Each invited speaker will talk for about 40 minutes\, followed by a panel discussion coordinated by TECoSA members.\nErik Elmroth\nThe series kicks-off with a presentation from Prof Erik Elmroth\, Head of the Computer Science Department at Umeå University (and also a member of TECoSA’s International Scientific Advisory Board). See the Biography below\, and read more about his research at: https://people.cs.umu.se/elmroth/ \nPanel: Martin Törngren (Chair)\, Lars-Berno Fredriksson (Kvaser)\, Elena Fersman (KTH) \nPlease email tecosa-admin@kth.se to register! \nEdge computing concepts\, motivations\, and challenges\nABSTRACT: Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm which brings computation and data storage closer to the location where it is produced or needed\, to improve response times\, save bandwidth\, or enforce data locality policies. The concept is still in rapid development and under constant change\, but as a general principle it combines remote mega-scale cloud datacenters with virtually unlimited capacity\, rather small regional datacenters\, and local edge nodes with very limited capacity and tough power constraints. Typically\, the large and regional datacenters comprise mainly general-purpose hardware whereas edge nodes tend to be more heterogeneous and tailored for particular applications. \nDrivers for edge cloud development are\, e.g.\, latency-critical industrial IoT applications with machine-to-machine interaction and data-intensive applications where massive data volumes of only local relevance are produced and processed. \nAlthough early edge clouds are already being deployed\, it is still to be seen what will be the dominating deployments and who will be the winning stakeholders\, as\, e.g.\, both cloud datacenter provides are interested to broaden their services to cover also the last mile whereas telecom providers see opportunities to extend their services beyond sending bits and bytes. Moreover\, hand-in-hand with edge cloud developments is the development of the 5G infrastructure\, with virtualized network functions running alongside edge cloud applications. \nFrom a scientific point of view\, the edge clouds come with numerous challenges\, e.g.\, regarding how to design and efficiently operate the infrastructure and manage applications in a geographically distributed multi-stakeholder infrastructure; what programming models to use; how to address the new security and privacy challenges; etc. \nBIOGRAPHY: Erik Elmroth is Professor in Computing Science and Head of the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University. He is leading the Umeå University research on distributed systems\, focusing on the autonomous management of ICT resources\, spanning from individual servers to large scale cloud datacenters\, federated clouds\, highly distributed edge clouds\, and software-defined infrastructures. Elmroth’s has been principal investigator for numerous large-scale projects including\, e.g.\, the VR framework grant project Cloud Control\, the eSSENCE strategic research program\, several EU FP7 and H2020 projects\, an 8 postdoc project in autonomous systems funded by the Kempe Foundations\, etc. \nElmroth’s extensive leadership experience includes over ten years as Head and Deputy Head of department and 13 years as Deputy Director for a national supercomputer center (HPC2N). International experiences include a year at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, University of California\, Berkeley\, and one semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, Cambridge\, MA. \nElmroth is member of the Swedish Royal Academy for Engineering Sciences and vice chair for its section on Information Technology. Previously\, he has chaired the Board of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC)\, the VR’s expert group on e-science infrastructures and been member of VR’s Council for Research Infrastructures (RFI). He has also produced two international research strategies for the Nordic Council of Ministers. He received the Nordea Scientific Award 2011 and the SIAM Linear Algebra Prize 2000. \nElmroth is founder and chair of the Cloud Control Workshops series (www.cloudresearch.org/workshops). He is also co-founder of Elastisys AB. \nDates in the Seminar Series include: 1 October\, 5 November\, 3 December\, 4 February\, 4 March\, 1 April\, 6 May\, 3 June
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-seminar-edge-computing-concepts-motivations-and-challenges/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200924T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200924T160000
DTSTAMP:20200910T085649Z
CREATED:20200910T085649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200910T085649Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Identity Management Workshop (security project)
DESCRIPTION:Project members only.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-identity-management-workshop-security-project/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200923T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200923T120000
DTSTAMP:20200910T085523Z
CREATED:20200910T085523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200910T085523Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA Federated Learning Workshop (security project)
DESCRIPTION:Project members only.
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-federated-learning-workshop-security-project/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200605
DTSTAMP:20200604T091133Z
CREATED:20200331T150649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200604T091133Z
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SUMMARY:Quarterly meeting no 1\, 2020
DESCRIPTION:First TECoSA centre quarterly meeting including project presentations. \nFor more information about this event please contact Martin Törngren martint@kth.se
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/quarterly-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Management meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200603T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200603T140000
DTSTAMP:20200331T213624Z
CREATED:20200331T211851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200331T213624Z
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SUMMARY:SERC TALKS: “How Do We Make Sure Future Cyber-Physical Systems Are Human Centered\, and In Particular\, Trustworthy?”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Martin Törngren\, Professor\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology \nThis talk will provide the following perspectives: \n\nTrends and capabilities of future Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)\, drawing upon lessons learnt from previous technological shifts\nA complexity analysis of CPS\, used to highlight bottlenecks in current (systems) engineering practices\nDirections towards trustworthy and circular CPS Automated driving and edge computing will be taken as technological case studies for illustrative purposes.\n\nSERC Talks broadcasts using the Zoom Webinar Platform. \nRead more: sercuarc.org/event/serc-talks-how-do-we-make-sure-future-cyber-physical-systems-are-human-centered-and-in-particular-trustworthy/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/serc-talks-how-do-we-make-sure-future-cyber-physical-systems-are-human-centered-and-in-particular-trustworthy/
CATEGORIES:Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200527T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200527T140000
DTSTAMP:20200520T091219Z
CREATED:20200520T090444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200520T091219Z
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SUMMARY:PhD defense: Task Placement and Resource Allocation in Edge Computing Systems
DESCRIPTION:Candidate: Sladana Josilo\, KTH/EECS/NSE \nChairperson: Prof. Carlo Fischione\, KTH/EECS/NSE \nFaculty opponent: Prof. Ben Liang\, Univ. of Toronto\, Canada \nDate: 14:00 on Wednesday\, 27 May 2020 \nRegister here: https://kth-se.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EQCltecySbSMoEQiRztIZg \n  \nGrading committee members:\nProf. Albert Banchs\, IMDEA and UC3M\, Spain\nAssoc. Prof. Valeria Cardellini\, Univ. Rome Tor Vergata\, Italy\nAdj. Prof. Johan Eker\, Lund University and Ericsson Research\, Sweden \nGrading committee stand-by members:\nProf. Mats Bengtsson\, KTH\, Sweden\nProf. James Gross\, KTH\, Sweden \nAdvisors: Prof. György Dán (KTH/EECS/NSE)\, Prof. Viktoria Fodor\n(KTH/EECS/NSE) \nAbstract:\nThe evolution of wireless and hardware technology has led to the rapid development of a variety of mobile applications. Common to these applications is that they have low latency and high computational requirements that often cannot be fulfilled by individual devices due to their insufficient computational power\, memory and battery capacity. An emerging approach to meet increasing user demand for delay sensitive and computationally intensive applications is mobile edge computing. The core paradigm of mobile edge computing is to bring computing and storage resources close to the end users and by doing so to relieve devices from computationally heavy workloads while meeting delay requirements of applications. However\, the overall performance of edge computing systems is determined by the efficiency of the joint allocation of wireless and computing resources. The work in this thesis proposes decentralized algorithms for allocating these two resources in edge computing infrastructures. \nIn the first part of the thesis\, we consider the resource allocation and computational task scheduling problem in an edge computing system in which wireless devices can use cloud resources and the resources of each other with the objective to minimize their own perceived response times. We develop a game theoretical model of the problem\, prove the existence of equilibrium task allocations and propose an efficient decentralized algorithm that computes an equilibrium based on average system parameters. \nIn the second part of the thesis\, we consider the resource allocation and computational task assignment problem in an edge computing system that consists of an edge cloud that can be accessed by devices through multiple wireless links. We model the problem as a strategic game\, in which each device aims at minimizing a combination of its response time and energy consumption. We prove the existence of equilibrium task allocations\, and use game theoretical tools for designing polynomial time decentralized algorithms with a bounded approximation ratio. We then extend the analysis to a system with periodic tasks\, and show that equilibrium task allocations still exist. Furthermore\, we propose a polynomial complexity decentralized algorithm and characterize the structure of equilibria computed by the algorithm. \nIn the third part of the thesis\, we consider the resource allocation and computational task assignment problem in an edge computing system that consists of multiple wireless links and multiple edge clouds managed by a single network operator. We model the interaction between the operator and devices that aim at minimizing their response times as a Stackelberg game. We express the optimal resource allocation policies in closed form\, prove the existence of Stackelberg equilibria and propose an efficient decentralized algorithm with a bounded approximation ratio. Finally\, we consider the same edge computing system under network slicing\, and based on a game theoretic treatment of the problem we develop an approximation algorithm for assigning tasks to slices and managing the resources across and within slices. \nBy providing constructive equilibrium existence proofs\, the results in this thesis provide low complexity decentralized algorithms for allocating edge computing resources in a variety of edge computing infrastructures. \nSmartGridComm 2020: sgc2020.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/phd-defense-task-placement-and-resource-allocation-in-edge-computing-systems/
CATEGORIES:PhD defense
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200513
DTSTAMP:20200331T210323Z
CREATED:20200331T205217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200331T210323Z
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SUMMARY:TECoSA workshop on testbeds
DESCRIPTION:TECoSA workshop on testbeds – the Open Experimental Edge Environment. \nFor more information about this event please contact James Gross jamesgr@kth.se
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/tecosa-workshop-on-testbeds/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200428T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200428T150000
DTSTAMP:20200427T071413Z
CREATED:20200331T150444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200427T071413Z
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SUMMARY:Safety project workshop
DESCRIPTION:Detailed agenda below. For questions please contact Jana Tumova tumova@kth.se. The workshop is divided into 2 slots: \n\n 9–12 – Use cases overview\n13–15 – Researchers viewpoints on the use cases\n\n  \nOver the past weeks\, KTH researchers met with several industrial partners and discussed their safety use cases. The purpose of this safety workshop is to consolidate\, further the mutual understanding on the researchers’ and partners’ interests\, and plan future activities. We will \n1) overview the use cases from the researchers’ perspective: What resonated with us? What research challenges we see that we can address? What research topics we propose to start with? \n2) discuss within the proposed research topics: Which industrial partners see application in their use cases? What focus should be prioritized? Which extensions would be interesting? \n3) hear about further safety use cases from partners: If you have a safety use case that you would like to present\, please get in touch with Jana (tumova@kth.se). \nAgenda:\n9-10:20 A quick overview of the industrial use cases from the researchers’ perspective\n– Atlas Copco tightening\n– Atlas Copco cobots\n– Elekta MR-Linac\n– Saab architectures\n– Saab search & rescue\n– Einride\n10:30-12 Discussions on research topics\n10:30 – 10:50 Probabilistic programming\n10:50 – 11:10 Safe reinforcement learning\n11.10 – 11.30 Perceived safety vs. safety\n11.30 – 11.50 Safety architectures \n 12-13 Lunch break\n13-14 Presentations of new use cases \n14-15 Discussion summaries and ways forward
URL:https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/event/safety-project-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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