Description
Rationale for the Workshop:
Through investments in European Digital Sovereignty a marketplace will emerge with many different hardware and software service providers. End users will be able to freely select service providers to manage, share and exploit their Data, AI models and fulfil their compute needs. Trust and trustworthiness refers to the confidence users and stakeholders have towards three aspects; reliability, security and performance of a system.
ACES, the European funded R&D project foremost develops the orchestration of distributed powerful edge-cloud computing infrastructures. The framework of ACES and the blueprint of the solution with its various technologies were developed, with trust and trustworthiness by design.
More often implementing trust is done as an afterthought by stacking technologies on top of the existing system to create security and trustworthiness and consequently create overhead. The ACES project has security by design in the way that selected technologies can have a dual use; an operational function and a trust function.
ACES focus is performance optimization in support of big data and AI processing in data dense environments and mission critical applications. The consortium is planning a follow up project, ACES II, to work on the other two aspects of Trust and Trustworthiness’, reliability and security.
The moderated (Luca Remotti, Francesco Mureddu) fast paced workshop will have a range of short presentations, each followed by a 10 min Q&A and reflections from the audience on aspects of trust and trustworthiness at the high performing edge. The workshop will address following aspects: Trust & trustworthiness by design, ACES meta-vision and how was incorporated in the ACES blueprint (Fred Buining, HIRO-MicroDataCenters BV), Relevant Trust Metrics (Petar Kochovski, University Lubljana), Knowledge Graphs for transparency (Felix Cuadrado, UPM), Bayesian analytics and trust (Loris Canelli, SUPSI), Peer-to-Peer Trust (Vadim Bulavintsev, Hiro MicroDataCenters) Network embedded AI (Fernando Ramos, University Lisbon) for security, Swarm based orchestration of distributed edge-computing infrastructures (Melanie Schranz, Lakeside Labs).
Workshop Agenda:
15:15 - 15:25: Introduction to the Project
Presenter: Luca Remotti
Duration: 10 minutes
Content:
Luca Remotti will introduce the project, outlining the objectives and the importance of integrating AI into cloud-edge computing systems. He will briefly discuss the ethical, security, and transparency considerations central to the project.
15:25 - 15:50: Keynote Speech on Trust & Trustworthiness at powerful edge-computing infrastructures
Speaker: Fred Buining
Duration: 15 minutes + 10 min Q&A, Reflections.
Content:
Fred Buining will present a meta-vision on the future of edge-computing infrastructures within Europe’s Digital Sovereignty and the edge custodianship for trust and trustworthiness for edge devices, applications, AI and dataspaces. Fred will also introduce the trust and trustworthiness by design that is embedded in the ACES framework.
15:50 - 16:10: Trust Metrics collection (ACES, ACES II); Presentation, Q&A and Discussion
Speaker: Petar Kochovski (University Lubljana), Moderator: Francesco Mureddu
Content: Optimized metrics collection relevant for performance and reliability of distributed edge, future metrics for security
Peter will present which metrics and their optimized collections method for metrics that are relevant for the system operations. He highlights those metrics that are earmarked for performance and reliability monitoring. Finally he will present metrics that are in particular relevant for security.
16:10 - 16:20: Break
Duration: 10 minutes
Content: A short break for networking and refreshments.
16:20 - 16:40: Knowledge Graphs for Infrastructure transparency (ACES, ACES II); Presentation, Q&A and Discussion
Speaker: Felix Cuadrado (University of Madrid), Moderator Francesco Mureddu
Content: Knowledge graphs to capture the ontology and complex relationships of the distributed infrastructure. Current and future use to enhance trust/ trustworthiness.
Felix will discuss the use of knowledge graph in defining and explaining complex distributed systems, their relationships and storing relevant data and metadata. Felix will look towards the future of using knowledge graphs to enhance systems intelligence and security.
16:40 - 17:00: Bayesian analytics for analysis under dynamicity and uncertainty (ACES, ACES II); Presentation, Q&A and Discussion
Speaker: Loris Canelli (Supsi), Moderator Francesco Mureddu
Content: Loris will present how Bayesian analytics are used to analyse the relationships and data stored in the knowledge graph and discover probalistic relationships between different components and the overall system performance and reliability. Loris will end his presentation with a view on how these methods can model, infer, and predict potential security threats and anomalies.
17:00 - 17:20: Swarm Intelligence to manage highly dynamic distributed and future composable edge cloud computing infrastructures at the edge
Speaker: Melanie Schranz (Lakeside Labs), Moderator Francesco Mureddu
Content: Melanie will present how custom built swarm mechanisms can help manage highly complex and distributed fine grained infrastructures and workloads in edge-cloud computing settings. Swarms performance and reliability can be achieved via light weight swarm mechanisms. Her presentation will end with how swarm elements can be used to enhance security.
17:00 - 17:40: Intelligence in the network of a distributed infrastructure
Speaker: Fernando Ramos (University of Lisbon), Moderator Francesco Mureddu
Content: Fernando will present how programmability and embedded intelligence in the network switches paves the way for high performant, reliable networks. The presentation will end with an outlook on how AI embedded in the network switch can enhance security in future distributed networks.
17:40- 18:00: Reflections on trust and trustworthiness in distributed powerful edge computing infrastructures.
All presenters and audience, Moderator Francesco Mureddu
Content: The main questions the audience tries to answer is: “How can Europe own a trusted powerful edge- cloud infrastructure ? Which initiatives and investments are needed and what type of research could drive this development forward?
