Poster Session
Desirable AI: Anthropological and Philosophical Perspectives on Human Values View Digital Media
Poster Session Chelsea Haramia, Ana Ilievska
This poster provides an opportunity to learn about the Desirable AI project—a joint collaboration between the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge that is funded by Stiftung Mercator and informed by the European Commission’s negotiations on its Artificial Intelligence Act that will require AI systems to be assessed for their impact on fundamental rights and values. In addition to delivering an exposition of the project’s core strategies for rethinking AI for just and sustainable futures, this poster outlines key contributions from two of the project’s team members—Ana Ilievska and Chelsea Haramia. Ilievska’s research within the Desirable AI project focuses on concepts like moderation, slowness, care, and the realization of human potential, drawing from southern European authors including Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Collodi, Eça de Queirós, Fernando Pessoa, and Srečko Kosovel. These notions form the core of southern thought (Franco Cassano, Albert Camus) and the Yugoslav Marxist humanist school of philosophy, placing human self-realization and moral judgment at the center of human-machine interactions. Haramia’s research considers questions of ecosystemic sustainability, the answers to which may help to prepare humans for a future wherein we share intellectual, cultural, or environmental space with biotic and abiotic others. Discerning the value of systems and of the connections within them requires conceptual analyses of crucial terms and their relations, demands critical explorations of bias, generates expansive ethical debates, and cultivates lessons that may be applied to real-world science and industry projects.
Cloud Manufacturing Adoption Framework: Understanding the Enablers and Inhibitors of Adopting Cloud Manufacturing View Digital Media
Poster Session Amer Asiri
Cloud manufacturing (CM) represents a new manufacturing paradigm, driven by integrating the concept of Cloud Computing and sharing economy to provide manufacturing resources and services on demand. CM is attracting more attention of researchers, as well as organizations seeking to gain competitive advantage as it offers several advantages over traditional manufacturing, such as scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, a successful adoption of a technological innovation may not be always easy and straightforward, and, hence, the importance of having a multi-perspective framework. Since adopting CM is potentially complex, this study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of all aspects influencing the adoption decision. It is constructed of various dimensions specific to CM, capturing all possible enablers and inhibitors in order to enable users to make informed decisions based on their individual business cases. This study engages in a qualitative exploration of the multi-context factors influencing CM adoption. To construct the framework, a literature review was performed regarding Cloud Manufacturing, Cloud Computing, cloud technologies, innovation diffusion, and sharing economy. The most represented considerations were identified, and then filtered based on their suitability in CM. To ensure the framework’s comprehensiveness and relevance, it was subsequently validated through a qualitative survey administered to the most cited researchers in the field of CM and related topics. Accordingly, this study proposes a 5-context framework covering 28 adoption considerations aiming at facilitating CM-related future research and business development.
On-Prem is the New Black View Digital Media
Poster Session Aj Jester
In a world where Cloud gives us the ease and flexibility to deploy and scale your apps we often overlook security and control. The fact that resources in the cloud are still shared, the hardware is shared, the network is shared, there is not much insight into the infrastructure unless the logs are exposed by the cloud provider. Even an air gap environment in the cloud is truly not air gapped, it's a pseudo-private network. Moreover, the general trend in the industry is shifting towards cloud repatriation, it's a fancy term for bringing your apps and services from cloud back to on-prem, like old school how things were run before the cloud was even a thing. This shift has caused what I call a knowledge gap where engineers are only familiar with interacting with infrastructure via APIs but not the hardware or networks their application runs on. In this study I review and demystify on-prem environments and more importantly show engineers how easy and smooth it is to repatriate data from cloud to an on-prem air gap environment.
