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Meeting Agenda
 

MAR.30 MAR.31 APR.1 APR.2

 

MAR. 29, TUE. (DAY 0) @ Howard Plaza Hotel, Taipei
18:00 Reception @ Howard Plaza Hotel Yantze River Restaurant
 

MAR. 30, WED. (DAY 1) @ Howard Civil Service International House, Taipei

Opening Flyby Session

08:00 ~ 08:30

Registration

08:30 ~ 08:50

Opening Remarks

Moderator:Ce-Kuen Shieh

Speakers:

  • Dr. Chung-Liang Chien, Deputy Minister of MOST 
  • Dr. Tzi-Dar Chiueh, Vice President of NARLabs  
  • Dr. Peter Arzberger, Chair, PRAGMA Steering Committee, UCSD

08:50 ~ 08:55

Group Photo

08:55 ~ 09:30

1-minute introductions by all participants

09:30 ~ 10:00

CENTRA: Objectives, Partners and Desired Outcomes,

Jose Fortes, (UF, USA); Fang-Pang Lin, (NCHC, Taiwan); Shinji Shimojo, (OU/NICT, Japan.)

Dive-in Session on Environmental Modeling
Moderator:Jose Fortes

10:00 ~ 10:10

“HPC-based big data platform for environmental monitoring,” Whey-Fone Tsai, (NCHC, Taiwan.)

10:10 ~ 10:20

“Life mapper:
Software Enabling Research, Species Habitat Predictions and Biodiversity Analyses,” 
Aimee Stewart, (KU, USA.)

10:20 ~ 10:30

“Relating vegetation dynamics to climate variables in Taiwan,” Hui-Ping Tsai, (NCHU, Taiwan.)

10:30 ~ 10:40

“Projects of Regional Development and Green Energy Technology Applications,” Yen-Jong Chen, (NCKU, Taiwan.)

10:40 ~ 10:50

“The Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease in Indonesia: Assessing and Monitoring Malaria Risk in Indonesia,” Yeni Herdiyeni, (BAU, Indonesia.)

10:50 ~ 11:20

Coffee Break

Dive-in Session on Disaster Management
Moderator: Kohei Ichikawa

11:20 ~ 11:30

“3-D reconstruction technology for disaster monitoring and assessment,” Ming-Der Yang, (NCHU, Taiwan.)

11:30 ~ 11:40

“Multisite Information Interface for Disaster Management,” Jason Haga, (AIST, Japan.)

11:40 ~ 11:50

“Opportunities for system-of-systems research to enhance infrastructure resiliency in the Lower Mekong region,” Tho Nguyen, (UV, USA.)

11:50 ~ 12:00

Emulation of disaster impact on ICT environment and recovery technologies on StarBED,” ToshiyukiMiyachi, (NICT, Japan.)

12:00 ~ 13:20

Lunch Time

Dive-in Session on Smart and Connected Communities
Moderator: Yen-Jong Chen

13:20 ~ 13:30

“Global Smart Gigabit Communities Testbed,” Glenn Ricart, (US Ignite/U.Utah, USA.)

13:30 ~ 13:40

“Creating federated city testbed in Osaka,” Shinji Shimojo, (OU/NICT, Japan.)

13:40 ~ 13:50

“Towards Singularity: Network Empowered with AI,” Akihiro Nakao,(UT, Japan.)

13:50 ~ 14:00

“Participatory science for air quality monitoring," Ling-Jyh Chen, (Academia Sinica, Taiwan.)

Dive-in Session on Research Testbeds and Networking

Moderator: Fang-Pang Lin

14:00 ~ 14:10

“Introduction to StarBED: a large-scale network testbed and its research topics,” Toshiyuki Miyachi, (NICT, Japan.)

14:10 ~ 14:20

“PRAGMA-ENT: An international SDN testbed for collaborative research,” Kohei Ichikawa, (NAIST, Japan.)

14:20 ~ 14:30

“IPOP Overlay Virtual Network: Overview and Use Cases,” Kensworth Subratie, (UF, USA.)

14:30 ~ 14:40

“US-South America research networks,” Julio Ibarra, (FIU, USA.)

14:40 ~ 14:50

“Parallel Simulation and High-Performance Modeling of Computer Systems and Networks At Scale,” Jason Liu, (FIU, USA.)

14:50 ~ 15:00

“Statistical Approaches to Recognize Community and Centrality Patterns in Social Networks, Tai-Chi Wang, (A.S., Taiwan.)

15:00 ~ 15:10

“A Swarm Intelligence Based (SIB) Natural Heuristic Optimization Method and its Applications in Statistics,” Frederick Kin Hing Phoa, (A.S., Taiwan.)

15:10 ~ 15:30  

Coffee Break

Dive-in Session on Data and Cyberinfrastructure 

 

Moderator: Hsiu-Mei Chou

15:30 ~ 15:40

From Smart Cities to Smart Nation: A Research Framework,” Hock Beng Lim, (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.)

15:40 ~ 15:50

“Immersive Analytics,” Jason Leigh, (UH, USA.)

15:50 ~ 16:00

“Virtual clusters in the PRAGMA cloud testbed,” Shava Smallen & Nadya Williams, (UCSD, USA.)

16:00 ~ 16:15

“Using MuMMI to Model and Improve the Energy and Performance of HPC Applications on Power-aware Supercomputers”, Xingfu Wu, (TA&M, USA.)

16:15 ~ 16:30

“RADICAL Cybertools: Building Blocks for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure,” Shantenu Jha & Ming Tai Ha, (Rutgers, USA.)

16:30 ~ 16:45

“Design and Development of Wireless Sensor Nodes for Internet of Things Applications,” Alejandro Ballado & Febus Reidj Cruz, (MIT, Philippines.)

16:45 ~ 17:30

Preliminary working group formation and self-assignment of participants to groups

18:00

Dinner

 

MAR. 31, THU. (DAY 2)  @ NCHC, Taichung

Late-Pelicans Dive-in Session

Moderator: Shinji Shimojo

09:30 ~ 09:50

“JOSE: A large-scale open testbed for Future IoT services,” Yuuichi Teranishi, (NICT, Japan.)
 (VTC)

09:50 ~ 10:00

“Building Repeatable System Software Deployments and Why It's Important,” Phil Papadopoulos, (UCSD, USA.)

10:00 ~ 10:10

“Systems Research for Parallelism and Empathy,” Peter Dinda, (NWU, USA.)

10:10 ~ 10:20

Testbed for edge computing and SND,” Hiroaki Yamanaka, (NICT, Japan.)

10:20 ~ 10:30

Cyber Infrastructure for Communication & Community Behavior in Online Social Networks, ” S.Felix Wu, (U.C.Davis, USA.)

Catch-a-project-and-group Session

Moderator: Jose Fortes

10:30 ~ 11:00

Review of identified working groups and topics, orientation and expected outcomes

11:00 ~ 12:30

Panel Discussions I

12:30 ~ 13:30

Lunch

13:30 ~ 16:00

Panel Discussions II

16:00 ~ 18:30

Working group Reports back in plenary session

18:30

Dinner

 

APR. 1, FRI. (DAY 3) @ NCHC, Taichung

9:30 ~ 11:30

Panel Discussions III

Planning Session     Moderator: Shinji Shimojo  

11:30 ~ 12:30

Brief workgroup reports in plenary session

12:30 ~ 13:30

Lunch

13:30 ~ 14:30

Panel Discussions IV

Takeaway Session   Moderator: Jose Fortes

15:40 ~ 16:30

Final workgroup Reports in plenary session

16:30 ~ 17:00

Closing Remarks

17:00 ~ 18:30

CENTRA Steering Committee Meeting (members only)

18:30

Dinner

 

APR. 2, SAT. (DAY 4)

09:00

 Unstructured Group Meetings & Cultural Experiences