Prof. Cecilio Angulo

Cognitive Assistants Supporting Human-Robot Networks Collaboration in Human Cyber Physical Systems

We are living a new sociotechnical era of collaborative, human-centred, distributed work in networks of human–robot teams in the smart factory. This new scenario, generically defined as human cyber physical systems, requires specific methods and techniques to analyse and develop cognitive assistance systems supporting and taking care of the Operator 5.0. Computer networks, distributed computing, and cognitive information systems are key research areas for the design and development principles of cognitive assistants in the smart factory, their application domains, and associated challenges. This keynote focuses on the current state-of-the-art of standards, platforms, and solutions, as well as new trends in assistance systems that support collaborative robotics and IoT technologies. This talk will provide attendants with a comprehensive overview of how cognitive assistants can be designed and work in human–robot networked teams.

Biography of Cecilio Angulo

Cecilio Angulo PhD in Science (Applied Mathematics), is Full Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. He has held various tenured and visiting professorship positions: University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France, University of Genova, Italy, and Spanish AI Research Institute. Prof. Angulo has widely published in peer reviewed international journals and conferences in the field (H-index 34). Founder of the Research Centre on Intelligent Data Science and AI (IDEAI-UPC), Prof. Angulo has led and participated in more than 40 R&D competitive projects, 18 of them funded by the European Commission. Prof. Angulo has an extensive outreach and social service. He is promoter and member of the Ethics Committee at UPC and President of the Catalan Association on AI. His research interests include reinforcement learning and robotics, applications on recommender systems, cognitive social robots and assistive technologies. He can be reached at cecilio.angulo@upc.edu and https://futur.upc.edu/CecilioAnguloBahon.

Prof. Javier Lopez

Standardization efforts for Digital Twins: an analysis from the security side

Digital Twins (DTs) and their potential application to business in general, and industrial scenarios in particular, are increasingly attracting the attention of many companies and, hence, the scientific community. DTs are demonstrating its high value in predicting failures, spotting abnormal situations and thus improving industrial and manufacturing domains while providing real-time services. However, full deployment of DTs in a secure and consistent way relies much on the standardization efforts from international bodies and industrial associations. In this talk, we analyze the actual situation, presenting what has been approached so far and what is still lacking.

Biography of Prof. Javier Lopez

Javier Lopez is a Full Professor at the University of Malaga and Head on NICS Lab research group. His research activities mainly focus on network security, security protocols and critical information infrastructures protection. As Head of NICS Lab he has published about one hundred research papers in international journals, (co)supervised 19 PhD thesis, and lead more than fifty research projects including over a dozen funded by the European Commission. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of, amongst others, IEEE Wireless Communications and Journal of Network and Computer Applications. He has been Co-Editor in Chief of International Journal of Information Security.