TITLE: Fog Computing: A new paradigm for bio-inspired algorithms

Prof Richard Millham
Durban University of Technology, South Africa

 

Abstract:

Nature provides inspiration to develop solutions to real-world problems. The behavior of animals, evolved over tens of thousands of years to adapt to specific environmental conditions, provide a model for bio-inspired solutions to problems in diverse environments. The growth of these bio-inspired algorithms, and the principles upon which they are based, are briefly examined before looking at the wide areas in which they can be applied.  New technological developments, such as the Internet of Things and fog computing, have generated both new research areas and a need to re-evaluate these algorithms to address research issues such as scalability and computational time.

 

Biography

Richard Millham graduated with a BA (Hons) from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada), MSc (Scotland), and a PhD in Software Engineering from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. After a fifteen year career in industry, he joined academe and has previously worked at universities in Scotland, Ghana, South Sudan, Bahamas, and South Africa. Richard Millham currently serves as an associate professor of IT at Durban University of Technology in Durban, South Africa. His research interests include software and data evolution, cloud computing, big data, data streaming, IOT, and security.