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CS Colloquium: Christoph Dorn (TU Vienna)

Speaker: Christoph Dorn, Technical University of Vienna

Talk Title: Models and Techniques for the Design and Self-Adaptation of Socio-Technical Systems

Series: CS Colloquium

Abstract: The emergence of socio-technical systems characterized by significant user collaboration poses a new challenge for system adaptation. People are no longer just the ³users² of a system but an integral part. Traditional self-adaptation mechanisms, however, consider only the software system and remain unaware of the ramifications arising from collaboration interdependencies. By neglecting collective user behavior, an adaptation mechanism is unfit to appropriately adapt to evolution of user activities, consider side-effects on collaborations during the adaptation process, or anticipate negative consequence upon reconfiguration completion. Inspired by existing architecture-centric system adaptation approaches, I will make the case for a human architecture model and linking it to the runtime software architecture.
I will introduce a mapping mechanism and corresponding framework that enables a system adaptation manager to reason upon the effect of software-level changes on human interactions and vice versa.

Biography: Christoph Dorn, PhD, worked since 2006 as a research assistant at the Technical University of Vienna. He received his Degree in Business Informatic MSocEcSc in 2004 and his PhD in Computer Science in 2009. His research interest is focused on Collaborative Working Environments, Adaptive Collaboration Patterns, Software Architecture, Team formation heuristics, and Self-adaptive Ad-hoc Workflows. Recently awarded an Austrian Science Fond Schroedinger Mobility Fellowship (Marie Curie Co-funded), Christoph was a visiting researcher with Prof. Richard Taylor at U.C. Irvine from March 2011 to August 2012. He is currently spending his fellowship return phase at the Distributed Systems Group (TU Vienna).

Host: Nenad Medvidovic

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Assistant to CS chair