In recent years, we see a great change from grid computing to cloud computing. Cloud computing is among the most popular words in computing today. As technology foundation, virtualization technology (VT) becomes a re-emerging technology. It is a decoupling technique that separates system software from hardware platform, while making applications to run pervasively. Many academic institutes and research labs from industries have devoted great efforts in various related aspects. In 2007, Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology initialized a basic research project (the 973 project) with 6 universities and 2 research institutes, aimed at various topics related to VT-based computing systems, such as VT architecture design philosophy, VT design for a single computing system, VT design for multiple computing systems, user environment for VT, security, reliability and trust issues related to VT, as well as performance evaluation and benchmarking for VT-based computing systems. In this talk, we will give insight for this project. Our experiences on VT research are discussed in detail, including power management, virtual machine live migration, memory/IO virtualization, and desktop virtualization.

Jin is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. Jin is the member of Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). He has co-authored 15 books and published over 400 research papers. His research interests include computer architecture, virtualization technology, cluster computing and grid computing, peer-to-peer computing, network storage, and network security

Jin is the steering committee chair of International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC), Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC), International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST), and Annual ChinaGrid Conference. Jin is a member of the steering committee of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC), and the International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC), International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC), International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC).

In 2005, he co-founded Infobright, and holds the position of Chief Scientist. Recently, he has also come back to his academic work - research and teaching at University of Warsaw.

Dominik's research interests are in databases, data mining and soft computing, with a special emphasis on the theory of rough sets - its foundations and usage in hybrid approaches to complex data analysis.

Dominik has co-authored over 100 articles for scientific books, journals, and conferences. He has also co-edited over 20 volumes of conference proceedings and been a featured speaker at conferences around the world. He serves as an editorial board member for several international scientific journals including Information Sciences (INS), Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), as well as Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). He also serves as vice-president of International Rough Set Society.

The present talk will discuss the tremendous impact made by the Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the IT business. We will present the winning model of the organization of the FLOSS communities and its impact on the political, social and ethical aspects of our Society.
In particular, starting from the local experience of the Open Source Competence Center (CCOS) of Umbria, Italy, the dissemination of FLOSS solution in the Public Administrations will be discussed.

The issue of Open Standards and Open Formats will be also presented.

The licensing problem will finally be illustrated.

He participated to two UE COST Actions, leading for each a Working Group. In 2007-2010 he was the Italian representative inside the Management Committee of the GridChem Action.
He has been visiting researcher at SLAC (USA), at the University of Oklahoma (USA), at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and the University of Barcelona (Spain) At the University of Crete and FORTH, Crete (Greece).

He has been the co-Chair of the following conferences: ICCSA 2004 (Assisi, Italy), ICCSA 2005 (Singapore), ICCSA 2006 (Glasgow, UK), ICCSA 2007 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); ICCSA 2008 (Perugia, Italy), ICCSA 2009 (Seoul, Korea), ICCSA 2010 (Fukuoka, Japan). He has been co-Chair of the Web3D 2007 Symposium (Perugia, Italy) sponsored by ACM-SIGGRAPH and Eurographics.

He is Program Chair of ICCSA 2011, to be held in Santander (Spain),
He has been invited speaker at the Conference ICHIT 2006, the International Conference on Hybrid Information Technologies, held on Nov 9th-11th, Jeju Island (South Korea).

In 2006 the SIMBEX project has been selected by the CIVR of the Ministry of University as one of the 12 best products of the University of Perugia in the Mathematics and Computer Science areas in the period 2003-2005.

He is member of the EGEE III Project.

He coordinated more than 80 Thesis of the “Laurea in Informatica”.

He has published over 70 papers on international journals and books and edited more than 30 books.

He delivered more than 50 presentations to International Conferences / Workshops.

He is President of the Umbria's Open Source Competence Center since 2007.

He is IEEE Senior member (Computer Society and Communications Society) and ACM Senior Member (SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH). He is member of Web3D Consortium and Internet Society (ISOC).

Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) techniques could dramatically reduce the cost and generate huge amount of various types of DNA sequence data throught different experimental designs. With the rapid development of NGS, not only the enormous opportunities are occuring in biological and medical research fields, but also healthcare and clinical practices based on personal genomic information are becoming a reality. In other words, the era of personalized medicine is coming. However, great chanllenges are still remaining for both biologists and information scientists to improve sample preparation, sequencing accuracy and efficiency, data processes and interpretation in order to meet the future medical revolution. Here, recent progresses in both technologies and bioinformatic analysis related to next generation DNA sequencing will be introduced. A novel platform for next generation DNA sequencing and related applications will be presented.

OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) is relevant for a plethora of Intelligent Data Analysis and Mining Applications and Systems, as it offers powerful tools for exploring, querying and mining massive amounts of data on the basis of fortunate and well-consolidated multidimensional and a multi-resolution metaphors over data. Applicative settings for which OLAP plays a critical role are manyfold, and span from Business Intelligence to Complex Information Retrieval and Sensor and Stream Data Analysis. Recently, the Database and Data Warehousing research community has experienced an explosion of OLAP-related methodologies and techniques aimed at improving the capabilities and the opportunities of complex mining processes over heterogeneous-innature, inter-related and massive data repositories. Despite this, open problems still arise, among which the so-called curse of dimensionality problem plays a major role. This problem refers to well-understood limitations of state-of-the-art OLAP data processing techniques in elaborating, querying and mining multidimensional data when data cubes grow in size and dimension number. This evidence has originated a large spectrum of research efforts in the context of Approximate OLAP Query Answering techniques, whose main idea consists in compressing target data cubes in order to originate compressed data structures able of retrieving approximate answers to OLAP queries at a tolerable query error. This research proposes an excerpt of a ten-year-long history of OLAP data cube compression techniques, by particularly focusing on three major results, namely Δ - Syn, KLSA and LCS - Hist.

He is Adjunct Professor at the University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro (since 2004) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Messina (since 2008). During 2007, he held a Visiting Position at the School of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. During 2009, he held a Visiting Position at the Database Group of the University Claude Bernard of Lyon 1, Lyon, France. During 2009, he held a Visiting Position at the Computer Science Department of the University of Turin, Turin, Italy. During 2009, he held a Visiting Position at the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. During 2009, he held a Visiting Position at the Department of Computer Science of the Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. During 2010, he holds a Visiting Position at the Department of Information and Communication Engineering of the Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan. During 2010, he holds a Visiting Position at the Computer Science Department of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

Medical paper-based records have been in existence for decades and their gradual replacement by computer-based records has been slowly underway for over twenty years in healthcare systems. Computerized information systems have not achieved the same degree of penetration in healthcare as that seen in other sectors such as finance, transport and the manufacturing and retail industries. Further, deployment has varied greatly from country to country and from specialty to specialty and in many cases has revolved around local systems designed for local use. Electronic medical record systems lie at the center of any computerized health information system. Without them other modern technologies such as disease surveillance systems cannot be effectively integrated into routine clinical workflow. The paperless, interoperable, multi-provider, multi-specialty, multi-discipline computerized medical record, which has been a goal for many researchers, healthcare professionals, administrators and politicians for the past two decades, is however about to become reality in many countries. This article provides a roadmap vision based on the emerging web technologies that hold great promise for addressing the challenge of sharing electronic health records. It starts with addressing the ubiquity trend and how it can be realized based on the new cloud computing paradigm to share electronic heath records like the community of care records/documents (CCRs, CCDs). The article also addresses the security concerns related to sharing electronic health records over the cloud.

In this paper, we focus on a multi-core system-on-chip design for real-time bio-sianl processing of brain-heart monitoring systems. The significance of this SoC is to enable practical developments of portable real-time brainheart monitoring systems. The designed multi-core SoC can work as a high speed computation platform at low power to perform real time signal processing and image reconstruction tasks. The architecture of the SoC comprises a novel diffuse optical tomography (DOT) system for taking brain imaging, an independent component analysis (ICA) processor for brain electroencephalogram (EEG) signal, and a heart rate variability (HRV) analysis processor for heart electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. In addition, to achieve lower power consumption, an intelligent power management system is designed and implemented. The resulting SoC design has been fabricated in 65nm CMOS technology and proofed to be a very low power functional chip up to 60 MHz at 12.24 mW.

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