The PhD defence will be fully digital and streamed directly using Zoom. The host of the session will moderate the technicalities while the chair of the defence will moderate the disputation.
Ex auditorio questions: the chair of the defence will invite the audience to ask ex auditorio questions either written or oral. This can be requested by clicking 'Participants -> Raise hand'.
Trial lecture
Ontology-based context awareness and semantic interoperability in frameworks for pervasive and growing Internet of things
Main research findings
Humanity through centuries of evolution has become the dominant species on the planet. We enjoy comforts enabled by our advancements in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). But all this is threatened by population explosion, climate changes and man-made disasters. Population concentration in urban areas during such tumultuous times has added further uncertainty and possible recreation of scenarios that led many civilizations in the past to perish.
Innovation through Smart Cities and Internet-of-Things (IoT) provide glimpses of handling the disaster recovery operations in a more ubiquitous, digitalized and federated way. Thus, "Interoperability for Disaster Relief Operations in Smart City environments" is an essential element needed by disaster recovery operators and agencies. Interoperability of the underlying technologies is needed to resolve the heterogeneous and disconnected nature of future Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Recovery (HADR) operations. The thesis proposes an architecture, its component interactions and shows its validity using prototypical implementations for allowing the interoperable operation of ICT assets in Smart City environments.
For more information
- PhD advisor, Ida Elisabeth Rydning, i.e.rydning@its.uio.no
- Technician, Arild Hemstad, arild.hemstad@its.uio.no