The Department of Informatics Engineering (DEI) of the Institute of Engineering of Porto (ISEP), in collaboration with the Master in Critical Computing Systems Engineering (MESCC), invites to participate in another seminar "Critical Computing Series: Towards Reliable Distributed Edge-Cloud Applications", that will take place on 2nd December, at 18:30 PM, ONLINE.
"Software-defined vehicles" are pressuring the automotive industry to adapt to new development paradigms. New innovate approaches and HW/SW architectures for vehicles are required to develop and deploy software in the future. This shift in software development will result in a higher degree of freedom to deploy software not only in-vehicle. It will enable vehicles to expand towards off-board edge- and cloud services. This change is already in place for services that are not critical for the operation of vehicles like entertainment and navigation systems. Thinking further ahead we are facing the introduction of latency- and safety-critical computing tasks that are performed outside of the vehicle leading into a breakthrough technology we call “Reliable Distributed Systems” (RDS). Complementing limited onboard compute with edge/cloud compute as well as enriching on-board sensory with information from external sources like other vehicles and/or infrastructure enables more complex applications or even collaborative control of vehicles. Realizing this will lead to new challenges approaches from end-to-end application-level latency management to new ways of addressing automotive safety systematically. RDS is the basis for a paradigm shift in the way intelligent and autonomous systems will be built in future. It allows information from individual systems to be reliably fused into a real-time distributed world model enabling better and more intelligent decisions. This will not be limited to automotive systems but can also expand and enable novel applications system architectures in a variety of domains from industrial automation over building automation to consumer robotics.