Keynote Speaker: Manish Parashar (University of Rutgers, USA) ,
"Information Drive Science in Pervasive Environments"


Pervasive services and information environments are enabling a new
generation of knowledge-based, data-driven scientific applications, which
symbiotically and opportunistically combine computations, data services, and
sensors/instruments to provide dramatic insights into complex phenomenon.
However the scale, dynamism and uncertainty of these environments and
applications present many challenges.

In this talk I will introduce the opportunities, requirements, and
challenges of information driven scientific investigation enabled by
pervasive environments, and will present research efforts and application
scenarios. I will then introduce solutions being developed at TASSL, Rutgers
University as part of Project AutoMate, and will use dynamic data-driven
subsurface management applications to illustrate these solutions.