Selected Topics in Software Engineering

In the duration of the course, selected chapters will be presented and analysed in the domains of Internet of Things, Artificial Inteligence, Cloud-to-Things computing, semantic technologies, Digital Twins and blockchain technologies with goal to develop novel human-centric smart and trustworthy services and applications. The course will cover the following domains:

1. main concepts, vision and goals of cloud, fog and edge computing with respect to security, trust and service reliability,

2. cognitive and context aware computing, and solving bias in artificial intelligence,

3. decentralized democratic governance mechanisms, consensus-based proofs, verification and certification that contribute towards a Next Generation Trusted Internet supporting humanity in all aspects of life,

4. advanced concepts related to scalability, interoperability, energy efficiency, privacy and security, for making dependable building blocks of the Next Generation Internet,

5. advanced concepts of ontologies, resource models, reputation and tokenization mechanisms for decentralised information and knowledge management,

6. advanced concepts of Digital Twins.