Canada Research Chair in Smart Sustainable Eco-Cloud

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ABOUT THE CHAIRThe Internet has undergone multiple revolutions since its inception, resulting in the household ultra-broadband utility we know today. Growing demand for Internet-based services continues to drive the evolution of related auto-mation technologies, particularly with regard to intensive information-processing and knowledge dissemination.

Data centres, which are regarded as the “brain” of the Internet, are required to host increasingly critical applica-tions that consume huge amounts of energy. This develop-ment raises new challenges with respect to scalability, re-siliency, operational cost-effectiveness, and environmental protection, which the Chair was created to address.

Chairholder Mohamed Cheriet is addressing issues re-lated to a sustainable smart eco-cloud platform, which is a virtual and analytical system capable of deep, complex computation and intelligent behaviours performed in an energy-efficient and eco-friendly manner. By means of

smart meters, data collectors, and analytical gears that acquire knowledge about ecosystems and all the players involved, including end-users, eco-cloud services are able to react immediately and “just in time” to establish auto-mated control processes.

Each component of the eco-cloud model can affect the others and be affected by them, thereby creating a con-stantly evolving relationship in which they will be suf-ficiently flexible and adaptable to deliver services more effectively and optimize resource utilization. This will pave the way for a new class of approaches addressing the fundamental issues of machine-learning and artificial-intelligence systems facing critical mass applications and a rapidly growing, changing, and innovative cyber-society based on the eco-cloud.

The results of Professor Cheriet’s research will leverage re-search on smart technologies, leading to the establishment of new inter-sector and inter-disciplinary collaborations with academia and corporations.

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RESEARCH FOCUSIn efforts to develop sustainable methodologies for cloud computing, the Chair is pursuing research objectives in three key areas.

Virtual platform model for multi-tenant infrastructurep New virtualization techniques p New resource-sharing techniquesp Intelligent machine-learning techniques for context-aware

modellingp New ecosystem-oriented architecture

Incremental learning and unstructured intensive data analyticsp Big data collection, information extraction and classificationp Cognitive and distributed behaviour analysisp Incremental learning frameworkp Schema-free data-intensive analytics

Environmental assessment and optimizationp Life-cycle inventory of cloud computing equipment and servicesp User-oriented slicing lifecycle analysisp Multi-dimensional optimization model for cloud ecosystemp Holistic definition of “green ICT” concept

Data Center

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Fully charged energy storage

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Solar Panels

Hydroelectricity

Virtual machinesEnergy storage

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FUTURE BENEFITSThe research work conducted by the Chair will result in:

p Advances in knowledge about cloud computing paradigms, green ICT, smart technologies, and in-novation in the community

p Platforms, test beds, and method-ologies for the design and opti-mization of next-generation green cloud models

p Machine-learning and artificial-in-telligent systems for critical mass applications on cloud

p Closer ties between engineering and science to foster creativity and innovative design

The Chair research program will help to create a next-generation green cloud model, thereby unlocking the vast potential for innovation in a broad range of sectors, including education, health care, energy, knowledge dis-semination, and public services.

Department of Automated Manufacturing Engineering École de technologie supérieure1100 Notre-Dame Street WestMontreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 1K3

CONTACTProfessor Mohamed Cheriet, Eng., Ph. D.

Phone: 514 396-8972 E-mail: mohamed.cheriet@etsmtl.ca Web: crc-cloud.etsmtl.ca

CHAIRHOLDERMohamed Cheriet has been a ten-ured professor in the Department of Automated Manufacturing Engineering at ÉTS since 1996. He is among the very few

researchers who have initiated and conducted major international initia-tives ranging from green computing to human science. Professor Cheriet has made fundamental contribu-tions in the areas of data processing and recognition, cloud computing and green ICT in a career that spans over two decades.

His high-quality publications (over 250 articles) and active participation in chairing conferences and editing prestigious journals are a testa-ment to his leadership in the data-processing and green ICT research communities, both in Canada and internationally. He is the founder and chairman of the Montreal chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligent Systems Society.

Mohamed Cheriet has been hon-ored with the Queen Elizabeth II Dia-mond Jubilee Medal, the Research Excellence Award given annually by the Board of Governors of ÉTS, and many other outstanding awards from IEEE and the image-processing community.

PARTNERSp Ericsson Canada

p Ciena Corporation

p Inocybe Technologies

p Civimetrix Telecom

p Prompt Québec

p MITACS Inc.

p CANARIE

p Réseau d’informations scientifiques du Québec (RISQ)

p Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

p Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

p École Polytechnique de Montréal

p University of Toronto

ÉTS is a member of the Université du Québec network