1 Why? Who? What? Jon Oberlander Director of SICSA

Why?  Systems of tomorrow –Distributed, pervasive, varied …  How can we “right-scale” in the exabyte age? –Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering  Systems of tomorrow –Distributed, pervasive, varied …  How can we “right-scale” in the exabyte age? –Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering

3 Starting point Strathclyde Edinburgh Glasgow Stirling St Andrews Abertay Dundee Robert Gordon Aberdeen Heriot Watt

4 9% of UK population 16% of UK 4* output 20% of UK RC grants 9% of UK population 16% of UK 4* output 20% of UK RC grants

SICSA: world-leading & internationally recognised output

6 Plans for growth: £29M investment Governing Board Advisory Committees Advisory Committees Research Committee Research Committee Graduate Academy Graduate Academy Securing Practical networking Performance analysis Network security formalisms Web languages Interfacing Modelling Computational group theory System and performance modelling Model checking Applications Engineering Socio-technical systems Agents and autonomics Complex interactions Speech and language HCI Information retrieval Machine learning

Graduate Academy  Prize Studentships –20 international studentships p.a.  International Summer Schools –2009: Pervasive adaptation Homecare systems Programming languages: Concurrency, distribution, multicore  National Graduate Symposium – June  Visiting Fellowships –12 p.a.

Securing the NGI: Research challenges  Future architecture: –Naming, addressing & routing –Security and resilience –Converged services –Ubiquitous access –Network defence - resilience  Issues: –Understanding network evolution –Heterogeneity –Current ossification due to CNI dependencies –Research issues “masked” by commercial drivers

Securing: Strength in Scotland Applications Security services & protocols Protocols and systems Network management Network measurement, monitoring & analysis New paradigms and system architecture Networked Games. Abertay, Glasgow. Measurement & monitoring. Glasgow, St Andrews. Security. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews New architecture. Glasgow, St Andrews Mobile & wireless. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Strathclyde Protocol analysis and testing. Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews WWW Info Sys. RGU, St Andrews, Stirling Distributed applications. Strathclyde, St Andrews, Stirling

Multimodal Interfacing: Research challenges  Modality: narrow to broad –Speech, gesture, touch, face, body –Interpreting & generating multimodal communication scenes  Frequency: discrete to continuous –Interaction loops, ambient networks, evidential reasoning  Flexibility: impersonal to personal –Dialogue, context, affect, history –User modelling, inference, privacy  Intelligence: explicit to implicit –Intention recognition, assistiveness, very large scale NLP

Information retrieval HCI Natural language processing applications: Ubiquitous computing, dialogue systems, healthcare, knowledge engineering, machine translation, autonomous robotics Visualisation - Glasgow, Strathclyde, RGU - Glasgow, Dundee, Heriot-Watt - Glasgow, Abertay, Heriot-Watt, RGU - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde - Aberdeen, Dundee, Abertay, RGU, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling, Strathclyde Interfacing: Strength in Scotland Speech Cognitive systems - Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews - Edinburgh, Stirling Machine learning - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Stirling

Modelling and Abstraction: Research challenges Predictive abstract models for analysis of complex, interacting systems  Languages, abstractions and mappings –discrete/continuous state/time, deterministic/stochastic, individual/population  Effective algorithms –scalable tools  Scalable analysis –large scale, reductions and abstractions  Query languages –for analysis  New application domains

Modelling and Abstraction: Strength in Scotland types and logics process algebras automated reasoning applications: neuroinformatics, mathematical biology, networked systems machine learning - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling - Abertay, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling

Complex Systems Engineering: Research challenges  Scope –Modelling –Evolution –Socio-technical  Issues –Socio-technical systems engineering –Novel computing paradigms –Trusted software –Reducing time to value

Complex Systems Engineering: Strength in Scotland Complexity in Organisations Socio-technical systems Software engineering Novel computation Predictable software systems Mathematical foundations Accident analysis. Glasgow LSCITS. St Andrews Responsibility and trust. St Andrews, Edinburgh Agents. Aberdeen, Edinburgh Adaptive Computation. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Abertay, Stirling, Dundee, Robert Gordons Model-driven development. Edinburgh Functional systems. St Andrews, Heriot Watt Empirical SE. Strathclyde Modelling and Abstraction Social informatics. Edinburgh, Napier

A bigger picture Chemistry East/WestChem Chemistry East/WestChem Engineering SRPE … Engineering SRPE … Neuroscience SINAPSE Neuroscience SINAPSE Life Sciences SULSA Life Sciences SULSA Geosciences SAGES Geosciences SAGES SICSA

17 Conclusion  SICSA is about people  Research excellence is the driver –>16% uplift  Knowledge transfer is a central priority –informatics-ventures.com (£3.7M ERDF) –ProspeKT (£8.3M Scottish Enterprise + UoE)  SICSA is about people  Research excellence is the driver –>16% uplift  Knowledge transfer is a central priority –informatics-ventures.com (£3.7M ERDF) –ProspeKT (£8.3M Scottish Enterprise + UoE)