Keynote speech: Smart systems, the fourth industrial revolution and new challenges in distributed computing

Didier El Baz (1) , Li Zhu (2)

1 LAAS-CDA - Équipe Calcul Distribué et Asynchronisme
2 Xiamen University

Smart systems and the smart world concept are addressed in the framework of the fourth industrial revolution. New challenges in distributed autonomous robots and computing are considered. An illustration of a new kind of smart and reconfigurable distributed modular robot system is given. A prototype is also presented as well as the associated distributed algorithm.

Mots clés: smart systems; massive parallelism; smart earth; smart world; Fourth industrial revolution; factory of the future; Internet of Things; self-reconfigurable robots; distributed computing

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]

Didier El Baz, Li Zhu. Keynote speech: Smart systems, the fourth industrial revolution and new challenges in distributed computing. International Conference on Parallel Computing (PARCO 2017), Sep 2017, Bologne, Italy. ⟨hal-02091750⟩