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Professor Dr. Imre J. Rudas
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Cloud Computing with Special Emphases to Intelligent Robotics and Education Prof. Imre J. Rudas Cloud Computing as an emerging technology is a new paradigm in Information Technology and has dramatically changed our everyday life. The presentation summarizes the basics of cloud computing, namely the main idea, the definition, the cloud model composed of essential characteristics, service models and deployment models. In the second part of the presentation the possible applications of cloud computing in robotics are outlined with special emphases to robots as a service in cloud computing. Finally some cloud robotics projects are discussed. In the third part of the presentation the new perspectives of cloud computing based education are discussed. Some higher educational institutions do not have sufficient hardware or software to provide the students full learning environment and experience. This problem is particularly important in various fields of Engineering Education. Cloud computing provides Service as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) which allow the students to access the latest technologies with a low budget. Finally some tips for planning Platform as a Service (PaaS), SaaS and Iaas are outlined and some security problems are discussed.
Brief Biography: Imre J. Rudas graduated from Bánki Donát Polytechnic, Budapest in 1971, received the Master Degree in Mathematics from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, the Ph.D. in Robotics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1987, while the Doctor of Science degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2004. He received his first Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia and the second one from “Polytechnica” University of Timisoara, Romania.
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Love Ekenberg
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Public Participatory Decision Making Abstract: Within the realm of e-government, the development has moved towards testing new means for democratic decision-making, like e-panels, electronic discussion forums, and polls. Although such new developments seem promising, they are not problem free, and the outcomes are seldom used in the subsequent formal political procedures. Nevertheless, process models offer promising potential when it comes to structuring and supporting transparency of decision processes in order to facilitate the integration of the public into decision-making procedures in a reasonable and manageable way. Based on real-life cases of urban planning processes in Sweden, we present an outline for an integrated framework for public decision making to: a) provide tools for citizens to organize discussion and create opinions; b) enable governments, authorities, and institutions to better analyze these opinions; and c) enable governments to account for this information in planning and societal decision making by employing a process model for structured public decision making Brief Biography of the Speaker: Love Ekenberg has a PhD in Computer and Systems Sciences as well as a PhD in Mathematics from Stockholm University. He is full Professor in Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University visiting and Professor in Societal Planning and Environment at KTH - the Royal Institute of Technology. He has been working with various aspects of risk and decision analysis for a number of years and was formerly an advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Centre International de D minage Humanitaire Gen ve, member of the Swedish advisory group to the UN ICT Task Force, WHO, World Bank and others. He has published well over 150 articles on formal methods, risk, decision analysis and eGovernment. people.dsv.su.se/lovek |