A Middleware Architecture for Community Computing with Intelligent Agents

Hee Yong Youn: School of Information and Communications Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea. (TEL) +82-31-290-7147 (FAX) +82-31-290-7231 (E-Mail) youn@ece.skku.ac.kr (URL) http://csn.skku.ac.kr

Abstract

In this talk we present an intelligent middleware architecture displaying high flexibility and scalability with reconfigurable and self-growing elements by adopting a hybrid architecture and dynamically configurable reflective ORB. It consists of two internal layers, one external layer, and various tools forming an efficient agent-based application platform. It also provides development toolkit, agent management system, and context-oriented interface definition language for context awareness, which are important for developing efficient agent-based applications.

Short Biography

Hee Yong Youn: Hee Yong Youn is Professor of School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkan University, Suwon, Korea, and Director of Ubiquitous Computing Technology Research Institute. His research interests include distributed and ubiquitous computing, system software and middleware, and embedded systems. He has published more than 200 papers in int'l journals and conference proceedings, and received Outstanding Paper Award from the 1988 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 1992 Supercomputing, and 2001 Korean Society Internet Information Spring Symposium, respectively. He also served as a lecturer of the ACM Lectureship Series from 1993 to 1997. Dr. Youn is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society.

He received the BS and MS degree in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1977 and 1979, respectively, and the PhD degree in computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, in 1988. From 1979 to 1984, he was on the research staff of Gold Star Precision Central Research Laboratories, Korea. He had been Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington until 1999. He was also a faculty of School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, Taejon, Korea from 1999 to 2000.