Martin Serrano

A formal approach for the inference plane supporting integrated management tasks in the Future Internet

Integrated management of the Future Internet governs resources, networks, systems and services. This requires systems supporting services to orchestrate decision-making and management tasks. Management tasks must be performed considering end-user and network activity, and be able to enforce and verify operations for network and end-user requirements control. This paper proposes the semantic enrichment of management information described in information and data models with ontological data and provides an approach to formalize the Inference Plane promoting integrated management. The proposed semantic enrichment provides new semantic tools to integrate context information with management service operations, and offers a more complete understanding and hence, a more inclusive governance of the management of resources, devices, networks, systems and services. The semantic approach consists of the ontology for support and management, which provide the necessary semantic richness to represent the different types of information needed to be integrated in management operations. In particular, it can be used with other tools for governing and orchestrating behavior.

Federation, a matter of autonomic management in the Future Internet

In the Future Internet, free exchange of information between enterprise applications and networking systems promotes the personalization of services and enables many different types of end-user applications and management operations optimizing the network performance. As result of this free information exchange, we need to facilitate the federation of information between these applications, harmonizing the differences between operation, management data and information models in heterogeneous networks, and application management systems. This paper concentrates on identifying the research challenges that we have to address in the areas of software engineering and network management supporting federation. In particular, we describe research challenges for federated management systems highlighting the flexibility these systems can offer in the Future Internet communications, when they are able to support value-added federated end-to-end services. As part of our approach, semantic techniques are cited to represent networking information governing technology and/or network protocols offering a wide diversity of end-to-end services as a result of this transparent information sharing process.

A semantic monitoring and management framework for end-to-end services

Modern distributed applications and communication services have become increasingly complex, composed of diverse heterogeneous sub-systems, and it is progressively more unrealistic that the users of these systems will be able to manage them in a holistic end-to-end manner. In particular, it is increasingly difficult to understand how such systems operate, the meaning of errors, and how they can be manipulated in a managed way, cognisant of the end-to-end nature of these systems. This paper describes an approach to semantically enrich monitoring information, events and faults, and management actions in such a way that they can be presented to a manager in manner that can be understood and leveraged. This work is based on one of the key scenarios FAME research project.

Review and designs of federated management in future internet architectures

The Future Internet as a design conception is network and serviceaware addressing social and economic trends in a service oriented way. In the Future Internet, applications transcend disciplinary and technology boundaries following interoperable reference model(s). In this paper we discuss issues about federated management targeting information sharing capabilities for heterogeneous infrastructure. In Future Internet architectures, service and network requirements act as design inputs particularly on information interoperability and cross-domain information sharing. An inter-operable, extensible, reusable and manageable new Internet reference model is critical for Future Internet realisation and deployment. The reference model must rely on the fact that highlevel applications make use of diverse infrastructure representations and not use of resources directly. So when resources are not being required to support or deploy services they can be used in other tasks or services. As implementation challenge for controlling and harmonising these entire resource management requirements, the federation paradigm emerges as a tentative approach and potentially optimal solution. We address challenges for a future Internet Architecture perspective using federation. We also provide, in a form of realistic implementations, research results and solutions addressing rationale for federation, all this activities are developed under the umbrella of federated management activity in the Future Internet.

Pervasive Computing Support in the Transition towards Personalised Health Systems

This paper discusses pervasive computing work in the transition from traditional health care programs to personalised health systems pHealth. A chronological guided transition survey is discussed to highlight trends in medicine describing their most recent developments about health care systems. Future trends in this interdisciplinary techno-medical area are described as research goals. Particularly, research and technological efforts concerning ICTs and pervasive computing in healthcare and medical applications are presented to identify systems requirements supporting secure and reliable networks and services. The main objectives are to summarise both the pHealth systems requirements providing end-user applications and the necessary pervasive computing support to interconnect device-based health care applications and distributed information data systems in secure and reliable forms, highlighting the role pervasive computing plays in this process. A generic personalised healthcare scheme is introduced to provide guidance in the transition and can be used for multiple medical and health applications. An example is briefly introduced by using the generic scheme proposed.

Diagnosis Support on Cardio-Vascular Signal Monitoring by Using Cluster Computing

The support for remote data processing and analysis is a necessary requirement in future healthcare system. Likewise interconnect/manage medical devices and distributed processing of data collected through these devices are crucial processes for supporting personalised healthcare systems. This work introduces our research efforts to build a monitoring application hosted on a cluster computing environment supporting personalised healthcare systems (pHealth). The application is based on a novel distributed clustering algorithm that is used for medical diagnosis of cardio-vascular signals. The algorithm collects different statistics from the cardiac signals and uses these statistics to build a distributed clustering model automatically. The resulting model can be used for diagnosis purposes of cardiac signals. A cardio-vascular monitoring scenario in cluster computing environment is presented and experimental results are described to demonstrate the accuracy of cardio-vascular signals diagnosis. Advantages of using data analysis techniques and cluster computing in medical diagnosis also discussed in this work.

3rd ICTs and Society Meeting; Paper Session - Theorizing the Internet; Paper 1: Toward Trust as Result. A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for the ‘Future Internet’

Trust has emerged as one of the key challenges for the Future of the Internet and as a key theme of European research. We are convinced that a transdisciplinary research agenda – that we define as Trust as Result – shared by Sociology and Computer Science, is of paramount importance for devising sustainable trust solutions for the (Future) Internet stakeholders. The scope of this paper is to present some aspects we consider important for building such an agenda. We distinguish our agenda by comparison with one of the current mainstream interdisciplinary approaches to trust, that of Trust Modelling which assumes that trust is an input in the design of trustworthy ICTs. We propose a different approach based on the concept of Assemblage, as proposed by DeLanda, and focus on how we can create trust as the result of the design and