EBSIS - Event Based Systems in IaşiA Twinning between UniversitateaAlexandruIoan Cuza din Iaşi, Université de Neuchâtel and Technische Universität Dresden

Dr. Emanuel OnicaFaculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi

The Twinning Call

• Part of the Horizon 2020 work programme• Topic: „Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation”• Coordination and Support Action (CSA)

• Challenge: to address networking gaps and deficiencies between the research institutions of the low performing Member States and regions and internationally-leading counterparts at EU level.

• Scope: Twinning aims at significantly strengthening a defined field of research in a particular knowledge institution by creating a link between this institution and at least two internationally-leading research institutions in other Member States.

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EBSIS – Event Based Systems in Iaşi

Consortium:

• Coordinator: Universitatea AlexandruIoan Cuza din Iaşi (UAIC)

• Université de Neuchâtel (UNINE)

• Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)

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EBSIS – Event Based Systems in Iaşi

Main Objective:

To raise the research profile of the initiating institution, Facultyof Computer Science, UAIC, Romania by extending the ground base for, and strengthening a new research field, event based systems - security, dependability and scalability.

Objective was chosen in relation with the partners expertise and in connection with the regional Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) key priority ICT topics identified for Romania (EC S3 platform, UEFISCDI 2013 foresight exercise).

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EBSIS – Targeted Research Field

Event Based Systems covers a large umbrella of solutions where system components communicate using a producer/consumer paradigm.

Basic architectural characteristics:

• The event: an observable occurrence that takes place at the level of a component in the system, which is of interest for other components.

• A notification describing the event is generated by a producer following the event occurence, and distributed to interested consumers through a middleware mediator service.

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EBSIS – Targeted Research Field

Key architectural aspect - communication between consumers and producers is decoupled by the intermediary middleware:

• producers and consumers for a specific event are not necesarilly aware of each other

• the middleware can offer complex processing services on notification event data before delivery

• decoupling permits connection of various heterogeneous components in a complex distributed system

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EBSIS – Targeted Field: use cases

Complex Event Processing (CEP) platforms:

• Mediator service is responsible of complex analysis of streams of information, from different sources over various periods of time

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• Example: finance area for algorithmic stock trading (market activity analysis)

• Example: IoT applications in intelligent houses (analysing sensor data for automated functionalities)

Figure source: Distributed Event-Based Systems (G. Mühl et al. – Springer 2006)

EBSIS – Targeted Field: use cases

Real time Big Data processing:

• Mediator service is responsible with extracting aggregated information in real-time on vast amounts of data received as event streams

• Example: • Large scale experimental

infrastructures• Storage for post-processing is an

issue • Data is produced at high rates in

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EBSIS – Targeted Field: use cases

Publish/Subscribe systems:

• Mediator service is responsible with published information dissemination to sets of clients selectively interested in parts of the published data

• Example: distributed service offered by a broker overlay for investors interested in stock market variations

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EBSIS – Targeted Field: problems

• Scalability

• Dependability

• Security

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EBSIS – Detailed Objectives

• O1: Obtaining an influx of knowledge on the targeted research field from the direct partners. Creating premises for co-authoring research papers and collaborating on future research projects.

• O2: Increasing networking with external academic institutions and establishing collaboration with businesses related to the targeted research field.

• O3: Integrating new content in the curriculum related to the targeted research field. Attracting senior students to research groups.

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EBSIS – Work plan

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EBSIS – Work plan

WP1: Primary training actions• invited collaborators for block teaching activities • master theses co-supervision

WP2: Advanced specialization actions• invited collaborators for scientific seminars• visits to partner research groups• conferences and networking actions attendance related to the

targeted research field

WP3: Outreach activities• three summer schools• open presentation sessions in collaboration with industry on

common research avenues related to the targeted field• a conference during the last project year 13/17

EBSIS – Impact and results exploitation

• Consortium collaboration: research papers co-authored by consortium members on the targeted research field or complementary topics (e.g., distributed systems, cryptography)

• External collaboration: research papers co-authored with external academic partners or industry; other actions related to the the targeted research field – invited talks, given lectures, project collaboration

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EBSIS – Impact and results exploitation

• Institutional development: future grant applications, either with secured funds or evaluated above threshold limits

• Curriculum development: new topics additions to academic curriculum related to the targeted research field

• Young researchers focus: research papers co-authored by PhD or master students related to the targeted research field 15/17

EBSIS – Partners description

UNINE – Institute of Informatics (IIUN), Complex Systems Group• Pascal Felber • Etienne Rivière • Hugues Mercier • Elisa Gorla (Institute of Mathematics)

TUD – Computer Science Department• Christof Fetzer (Systems Engineering Group)• Thorsten Strufe (Privacy and Data Security)

Projects (H2020, FP7) 2010-2015:• SERECA – secure cloud computing• LEADS – Data-as-a-Service cloud service model• SRT-15 – content based routing and complex event processing• ParaDIME – energy savings through a distributed architecture• VELOX – software transactional memory for parallel programming

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