Four invited addresses
The 2017 programme included four keynote speakers from Singapore, China, Japan and Thailand. Their talks moved from game theory and quantum communication to control and distributed simulation.
Coalitional game with application in cloud computing
Dusit Niyato, PhD, IEEE Fellow
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
The talk introduced coalitional game theory as a tool for analysing cooperative behaviour among agents with a shared objective. It presented the basic concepts, solution approaches and algorithmic aspects, then applied them to federated cloud computing, where service providers form coalitions to improve performance and reduce the cost of hosting services.
Dusit Niyato is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. He received his engineering degree from KMITL and his PhD from the University of Manitoba. His work covers wireless and mobile networking, game theory and cloud systems, and he has published extensively in these fields.
Quantum key distribution: concept, techniques and recent progress
Wei Chen, Associate Professor
University of Science and Technology of China
The address introduced the fundamental concepts of quantum key distribution, the implementation technologies and the practical security problems that accompany real deployments. It focused on recent progress in China, represented by work at USTC, and outlined projects and open questions for the field.
Wei Chen received his doctorate from USTC in 2008 and is an associate professor in the Department of Optics and Optical Engineering. His research covers quantum key distribution and quantum information, with experimental work on practical terminals and network routing equipment.
Smart signal quantization for control
Toshiharu Sugie, Professor, IEEE Fellow
Kyoto University, Japan
Discrete valued signals are common in mechanical, networked and biological control systems. The talk examined how signal quantization affects control performance and introduced dynamic quantizers that outperform conventional static quantizers. Experimental results from mechatronic systems supported the analysis.
Toshiharu Sugie has been a professor in the Department of Systems Science at Kyoto University since 1998. His research interests include robust control, system identification, numerical optimisation and control applications for mechanical systems. He has held editorial roles at Automatica and other control journals.
Distributed simulation in the cloud
Stephen John Turner, Professor
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
The talk introduced cloud computing, virtualisation and distributed simulation, then considered how large discrete simulations can be executed in cloud environments. It covered the high level architecture for simulation, resource provisioning and hierarchical resource management, and looked ahead to modelling and simulation as a service.
Stephen John Turner is a professor in the Computer Engineering Department at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi. He previously worked at Nanyang Technological University and has research interests in high performance computing, cloud computing, parallel and distributed simulation and complex adaptive systems.
The conference programme is on the technical programme page. The speaker list and session record are part of the same archive.