First Annual UK System Research Challenges Workshop, January 11–13, 2016

The First Annual UK System Research Challenges Workshop was held at Doxford Hall, Chathill, January 11–13, 2016.

Programme

Monday, January 11

• 18:00 Arrive at Doxford Hall

• 19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, January 12

• 09:20 Welcome and Introduction, Paul Watson, Director, Digital Institute Newcastle University

• 09:30 Middleware (Chair: Ian Leslie, Cambridge University)
  • Middleware for IoT, Mark Little, Red Hat
  • Coordinating Data Analysis and Management in Multi-Layered Clouds, Omer Rana, Cardiff University

• 10:30 Coffee

• 11:00 Visualization and Messaging (Chair: Andrew Martin, Oxford University)
  • Visualization System Challenges for IoT Data, Prof Nick Holliman, Newcastle University
  • Messaging for IoT, Dave Ingham Red Hat

• 12:00 Lunch

• 13:30 Hardware and Servers (Chair: Andy Stanford Clark, IBM)
  • Rethinking RISC in an age of Risk, Simon Moore, Cambridge University
  • A big data platform using micro servers for IoT, Tom Jackson, Cybula

• 14:30 Coffee

• 15:00 Security (Chair: Mark Little, Red Hat)
  • Novel emergent systemic threats in Internet cyber-physical systems, Paul Galwas, Digital Catapult
  • What makes IoT insecure and how can biographs help, Michele Sevegnani, Glasgow University
  • The Dystopian Internet of Things, Andrew Martin, Oxford University

• 16:30 Discussion (Chair: Paul Watson, Newcastle University)

• 19:00 Dinner

• 21:00 Lightning Talks (Chair: Derek McCauley, Nottingham University)

Wednesday, January 13

• 09:30 Provenance and Statistics (Chair: Frédéric Le Mouël, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon)
  • Provenance and the IoT, Paolo Missier, Newcastle University
  • Reactive streams and POMP models as fundamental building blocks of IoT systems, Darren Wilkinson, Newcastle University

• 10:30 Coffee

• 11:00 Discussion of Way Forward (Chair: Paul Watson, Newcastle University)

• 12:00 Lunch

• 13:15 Bus Leaves for Newcastle.