Keynote Speaker 1:
Professor Sergei Gorlatch University of Münster, Institute of Computer Science, Germany
Date/Time: Monday, July 7, 2025, 04.20-05.20 pm.
Speech Abstract
An emerging class of challenging intelligent applications called Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) is considered. ROIA are networked applications connecting a potentially very high number of users who interact with the application and with each other in real time. In other words, a response to a user’s action happens virtually immediately. Typical representatives of ROIA are multiplayer online computer games, advanced simulation-based e-learning and serious gaming. All these applications are characterized by high performance and QoS requirements, such as, short response times to user inputs (about 0.1-1.5 s); frequent state updates (up to 100 Hz); large and frequently changing numbers of users in a single application instance (up to tens of thousands simultaneous users). This talk will address two challenging aspects of future cyber-applications: a) using Mobile Cloud Computing for allowing high application performance when a ROIA application is accessed from multiple mobile devices, and b) managing dynamic QoS requirements of ROIA applications by employing the emerging technology of Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
Keynote Speaker Biography
Dr. Sergei Gorlatch has been a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Muenster (Germany) since 2003. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Assistant Professor at the University of Passau, and Humboldt Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Professor Gorlatch has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in renowned international books, journals and conferences. He was principal investigator in several international research and development projects in the fields of software for parallel, distributed, Grid and Cloud systems, machine learning, and networking, which were funded by the European Community and by German national bodies. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cluster Computing, Journal "Multiagent and Grid Systems, and Journal of Programming and Artificial Intelligence.
Keynote Speaker 2:
Professor Adlen Ksentini Communication Systems Department, EURECOM, France
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 01.20-02.40 pm.
Speech Abstract
Intent-based networking (IBN) is crucial in enabling autonomous networks by specifying goals and constraints at a higher level to the Network Management System. TMForum has specified a dedicated architecture and model that rely on Intents to handle and manage communication services, paving the way for autonomous systems towards 6G. Intents that represent an abstracted operational goal specified by the communication service owner, which is usually provided as input to the Network Management System (NMS). The latter, in turn, generates the necessary low-level configurations to fulfill these Intents. The current model of expressing Intents still requires significant effort in writing JSON and YAML structures, demanding a detailed comprehension of the format and model specified by the Northbound Interface (NBI). This process is sometimes not straightforward, and adhering to the structure of these NBIs takes time. A natural evolution for IBN is to move beyond human-readable languages and transition towards natural language. In this talk, we will discuss the evolution of Intents in 6G relaying Large Language Model (LLM) that translates human language into operational intents to deploy communication systems, leveraging few-shot learning and human-in-the-loop Feedback.
Keynote Speaker Biography
Adlen Ksentini is a professor in the Communication Systems Department of EURECOM. He is leading the Netsoft group actively contributing to network softwerization of 5G and 6G. Adlen Ksentini's research interests are Network Sofwerization and Network Cloudification, focusing on topics related to ML and AI for 5G and 6G networks. He has been participating in several H2020 and Horizon Europe projects on 5G and beyond, such as 5G!Pagoda, 5GTransformer, 5G!Drones, MonB5G, ImagineB5G, 6GBricks, 6G-Intense, Sunrise-6G, AC3, Flecon-6G, and 6G-DALI. He is the technical manager of Flecon-6G, 6G-Intense, and AC3, on zero-touch management of 6G resources and applications and Cloud Edge Continuum, respectively. He is interested in the system and architectural issues but also in algorithm problems related to those topics, using Markov Chains, Optimization algorithms, and Machine Learning (ML). Adlen Ksentini has given several tutorials in IEEE international conferences, IEEE Globecom 2015, IEEEE CCNC 2017/2018/2023, IEEE ICC 2017, IEEE/IFIP IM 2017, IEEE School 2019. Adlen Ksentini received the best paper award from IEEE IWCMC 2016, IEEE ICC 2012, and ACM MSWiM 2005. He has been awarded the 2017 IEEE Comsoc Fred W. Ellersick (best IEEE communications Magazine’s paper).
Keynote Speaker 3:
Professor Levent Ertaul Computer Science Department, California State University East Bay, USA
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 09.20-10.20 am.
Speech Abstract
Cyber security, cyberwar, hacking, privacy, and governmental/personal data breaches… We keep hearing these with increasing frequency over and over again. This creates a cyber anxiety everywhere. And on top of that we, as ordinary people started to learn that corporations and governments all around the world keep track of our personal data. For example, mobile phones constantly provide information about our location to service providers. Google knows what we are thinking about from our personal online searches. Facebook can see who our friends are. Yahoo knows the type of news we are interested in. Our online shopping patterns are recorded. Governments are launching surveillance programs to collect our personal data on the cyber space. And the list goes on... It is as if we are all living in glass houses in which we don’t have any privacy or can’t keep any secrets anymore. Cyber security issues affect everyone. Most of all they affect us individuals. That is why ignorance is not bliss in cyber security. Every day we face new questions, new challenges from our rights and responsibilities as citizens of the cyber world to how to protect ourselves, if we can, from new types of security threats. In this talk, I will try to explain vulnerabilities and security issues in the cyber space along with what we can and cannot do to protect ourselves.
Keynote Speaker Biography
Dr. Levent Ertaul is a full-time professor and Computer Science Department chair at the California State University, East Bay, USA. He received a Ph.D. degree from Sussex University, UK. He specializes in Cyber Security. He has more than 90-refereed papers published in the Cyber Security, Network Security, Wireless Security and Cryptography areas. He also delivered more than 100 seminars, talks, presentations and participated in various panel discussions related to Cyber Security. He published a book titled “Computer and Network Security Essentials”. In the last couple of years, Dr. Ertaul has given Privacy and Cyber Security speeches at US universities and several US organizations. He also gave interviews related to Cyber Security in NBC, FOX2, ABC7 news. In 2019-20-21, Dr. Ertaul received an Outstanding Achievement Award for Research Contributions to the Field of “Cyber Security & Privacy” and an Achievement Award for Research Contributions to the Field of Network Security from American Counsel of Science and Education. He also received a fellowship to work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL) in the Cyber Defenders and Global Security /Z programs between 2013-2017. He participated in several hacking competitions nationwide (NCL, CyberFire, TracerFire, Monarch of the Hill CTF, LANL CTF). Recently he received CISCO Instructor Expert Excellence Awards (2021, 2022). His current research interests are Wireless Hacking Techniques, Wireless Security, IoT Security, Post Quantum Cryptography and Privacy. For more details, please visit borg.csueastbay.edu/~lertaul.