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BCS-FACS Evening Seminar reminder, see below. *Prof. Jonathan Bowen <https://sites.google.com/site/jpbowen/> *FBCS FRSA Chair BCS-FACS Emeritus Professor of Computing, London South Bank University Chairman, Museophile Limited See *The Turing Guide <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turing_Guide>*, Oxford University Press, 2017 On 1 May 2018 at 15:59, Jonathan Bowen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Autonomics and their verification from BT's industrial perspective > > *https://www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/59069 > <https://www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/59069>* > > *Date/Time: *Monday 21 May 2018, 6.00pm - 8.00pm, refreshments will be > available from 5.15pm. > > *Venue: *BCS, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, > London, WC2E 7HA > > *Cost:* Free > > *Book online* > <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bcs-facs-autonomics-and-their-verification-from-bts-industrial-perspective-research-trends-registration-43128031102> > > *Details:* > > The next phase of computing involves sophisticated, complex systems that > perform human like tasks. Our belief is that the management of such > complexity will be impossible in the future without self-learning > autonomous systems. Therefore, the next challenge is not only understanding > “Big Data” but devising complex systems incorporating more and more > sophisticated machine learning techniques. Presently, however, software > systems that incorporate machine learning are hard to build, deploy, and > maintain. > > They require a large and highly skilled workforce. Unlike traditional > enterprise systems, once built, they often require thousands of hours of > on-going, sometimes daily, maintenance to ensure that their predictions and > behaviour continue to be accurate and useful. Integrating machine learning > systems into traditional enterprise architecture, testing and deployment > processes are likewise too complex, partly due to organizational silos that > exist between systems engineers and data scientists. > > This talk will present a novel business autonomic framework covering > topics that deal with the design, implementation, deployment and lifecycle > management of such closed loop self-learning autonomic systems. A real > example will also be presented together with an abstraction of the main > principles extracted from the framework. Also, software engineering > techniques that ensure correctness autonomic systems decisions will be > presented and analysed. Simulation and testing as current industrial > practices will be discussed and the gaps towards assurance and formal > verification of autonomic properties that will presented. > > Dr Botond Virginas from British Telecom & Dr Sofia Meacham from > Bournemouth University > > *For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event please note that BCS > does not issue invitation letters.* > > *Prof. Jonathan Bowen <https://sites.google.com/site/jpbowen/> *FBCS FRSA > Emeritus Professor of Computing, London South Bank University > Chairman, Museophile Limited > See *The Turing Guide <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turing_Guide>*, > Oxford University Press, 2017 > > >