Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous CLOSER conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
2020
Cloud Computing for Enabling Big Data Analysis Services
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria and Fuzhou University, Italy New Horizons in IoT Workflows Provisioning in Edge and Cloud Datacentres for Fast Data Analytics: The Osmotic Computing Approach
Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Quantum in the Cloud: Application Potentials and Research OpportunitiesFrank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Edge Intelligence - The Co-evolution of Humans, IoT, and AI
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
2019
Clouds for Real-Time Applications Scheduling IssuesEleni Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Putting the "Account'' into Cloud Accountability
Martin G. Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Building Trust in the Cloud, Ensuring we Don't Need to Trust our Provider so Completely!
David Wallom, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2018
Smart Connected Digital Factories: Unleashing the Power of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands CLOUD, Trigger of a Socio-economic RevolutionTobias Hoellwarth, EuroCloud Europe, Austria Scientific Workflows in the Era of Clouds
Péter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Will Cloud Gain an Edge?
Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
2017
Not Acid, Not Base, but Salt - A Transaction Processing Perspective on Blockchains
Stefan Tai, TU Berlin, Germany Big Data, Smart Data and Imbalanced Classification - Preprocessing, Models and Challenges
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Challenges on Big data based Clouds Health-Care for Risk Predictions based on Ensemble Classifiers and Subjective AnalysisHamido Fujita, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan Big Data - Evolution, Trends and Opportunities
Roy Cecil, IBM Portugal, Portugal
2016
Native Cloud Applications - Why Virtual Machines, Images and Containers Miss the Point!
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany Complexity Science with the Internet of Things
Peter Sloot, Complexity Institute Singapore, Singapore; ITMO St. Petersburg; Russion Federation; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands The New Era of Multi-dimensional Data Management
Verena Kantere, University of Geneva, Switzerland RTTMM: Role Based 3-Tier Mobility Model for Evaluation of Delay Tolerant Routing Protocols in Post Disaster Situation
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, United States
2015
Cloud Computing and Big Data Can Improve the Quality of Our Life
Victor Chang, Teesside University, United Kingdom Change Alone is Unchanging - Continuous Context-aware Adaptation of Service-based Systems for Smart Cities and Communities
Paolo Traverso, Center for Information Technology - IRST (FBK-ICT), Italy In-transit Analytics on Distributed Clouds - Applications and Architecture
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Software- and Systems Architecture for Smart Vehicles
Cornel Klein, Siemens AG, Germany
2014
Agile Infrastructure at CERN - Moving 9'000 Servers into a Private Cloud
Helge Meinhard, CERN, IT Department, Switzerland Probabilistic Resource Allocation based on a Large Deviations Principle
Paulo Gonçalves, INRIA-DANTE, France OpenNebula - Latest Innovations in Private Cloud Computing
Ignacio Martín Llorente, OpenNebula Director and CEO & Full Professor at UCM, Spain
2013
Breathing in the Clouds - Thin Air or Bad Atmosphere?
Gottfried Vossen, WWU Münster, Germany Reducing Energy Consumption by using Clouds
Ivona Brandić, Vienna UT, Austria Data Science, Clouds and X-Informatics
Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University, United States
2012
PERFORMANCE OF CLOUDS - Issues and Research Directions
Eleni Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER SCIENCE - Approaches and Instruments
Frédéric Desprez, Antenne Inria Giant, Minatec Campus, France DATA INTENSIVE SCIENCE AND CLOUD COMPUTING
Fabrizio Gagliardi, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain
2011
PROVISIONING OBJECT-ORIENTED SERVICE CLOUDS FOR EXERTION-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
Michael Sobolewski, Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center, AFRL/WPAFB, United States SMART CLOUD ENGINEERING, NOMENCLATURE, AND ENABLEMENT
Tony Shan, Keane Inc., United States LEVERAGING ARCHITECTURE - Service Engineering as the Next Challenge
Wil Janssen, Networked Enterprises Manager, Netherlands CLOUD SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN
Donald Ferguson, Columbia University, United States