Prof Ryszard Kowalczyk
Title: Autonomic Management of Quality-assured Provision of Complex Services
Presenter: Prof Ryszard Kowalczyk – Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Abstract:
The assurance of quality-of-service (QoS) is critical for the successful deployment of service-oriented applications, especially in open, dynamic and distributed cross-organisational environments. This talk will address the adaptive management of the QoS assured provision of composite services as required for more reliable, fault-tolerant and flexible service delivery in such environments. After an overview of the current state and trends in QoS management, the presentation will focus on autonomic QoS management across the whole lifecycle of composite service provision. It includes automated composition planning, service discovery, service level agreement (SLA) negotiation and contracting, service enactment and QoS monitoring, and adaptive exception handling with dynamic re-selection, re-negotiation and re-planning to ensure the required end-to-end QoS of composite services. A sample reference architecture of an autonomic management platform realised with web services and software agents will be outlined and demonstrated with selected application scenarios in telecommunication, internet service provision, logistics and virtual environments. In concluding remarks some open problems and further R&D directions in that area will be discussed.
Presenter’s Bio:
Ryszard Kowalczyk has over 20 years of R&D experience in intelligent systems, agent technology and service computing, and their applications in building and managing open, large-scale, distributed systems such as service-oriented systems, virtual enterprises, collaborative e-business and smart environments. He is the Foundation Director of the Swinburne’s Centre for Complex Software Systems & Services and a Full Professor of Intelligent Systems in the Faculty of Information & Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Before joining the University in 2003, he spent several years with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and corporate R&D divisions of multinational companies in Australia and overseas. Prof Kowalczyk has authored 4 patents and some 140 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and served on a number of Editorial and Advisory Boards of international journals and organisations including IEEE SMC and IEEE FIPA WGs. He has successfully led more than 30 R&D projects funded by competitive grants and industry in excess of $17 million, delivering significant research and commercial benefits to industry partners. His past and current industry collaborators include Canon, IBM, Telstra, Vastpark, DSTO, SAP, Siemens, DaimlerChrysler and Infosys.