Opportunities for Autonomic Behavior in Mobile Cloud Computing

Many mobile applications offer services that combine functionality from components in the mobile devices, in cloud computing datacenters, and even across networking nodes in between. This talk discusses opportunities and techniques for applying techniques from autonomic computing to the mobile-cloud software stack, aiming at improving application efficiency (e.g., battery and network usage) and user experience.

Dilma da Silva is a Principal Engineer and Manager at Qualcomm Research in Santa Clara, California. She leads the area of mobile cloud computing. Her prior work experience includes IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York (2000-2012) and University of Sao Paulo in Brazil (1996-2000). Her research activities have been around scalable and adaptive system software, focusing in the past four years on cloud computing. She received her Ph.D in computer science from Georgia Tech in 1997. She has published more than 70 technical papers. Dilma is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, an ACM Distinguished Speaker, a member of the board of CRA-W (Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research) and of the CDC (Coalition for Diversifying Computing), a co-founder of the Latinas in Computing group, and treasurer/secretary for ACM SIGOPS. More information is available at www.dilmamds.com.