A Service-Based Approach to Drone Service Delivery in Skyway Networks
This talk presents a novel service framework that optimizes drone package delivery by composing the best services based on payload, time, and cost while considering environmental factors for both single drones and swarms.
Overview
We propose a novel service framework to effectively provision drone-based delivery services in a skyway network. This service framework provides a high-level service-oriented architecture and an abstraction to model the drone service from both functional and non-functional perspectives. We focus on spatio-temporal aspects as key parameters to query the drone services under a range of requirements, including drone capabilities, flight duration, and payloads. We propose to reformulate the problem of drone package delivery as finding an optimal composition of drone delivery services from a designated take-off station (e.g., a warehouse rooftop) to a landing station (e.g., a recipient’s landing pad). We select and compose those drone services that provide the best quality of delivery service in terms of payload, time, and cost under a range of intrinsic and extrinsic environmental (i.e., context-aware) factors, such as battery life, range, wind conditions, drone formation, etc. This talk will overview the key challenges and propose solutions in the context of single drones and swarms of drones for service delivery.
Presenters
Athman Bouguettaya, Professor, School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney
Brief Biography
Athman Bouguettaya is Professor and former Head of School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. He previously held senior roles at RMIT (HoS), CSIRO DATA61 (Science Leader, Service Computing), and Virginia Tech (tenured faculty & Program Director). He received his PhD in CS from the University of Colorado, Boulder (1992). He is Fellow IEEE, WISE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, ACM/IEEE Distinguished Speaker, and Member (Honoris Causa) of the Academia Europaea (MAE). Bouguettaya has published 330+ papers in premier venues (TKDE, TWEB, CSUR, VLDBJ, WWWJ, SIGMOD, ICDE, VLDB, EDBT). His pioneering work in Web/Service Computing shaped the community, with highly cited contributions recognized globally (Top 0.5% ScholarGPS in Computer Science, Top 2% Stanford Study, Top 10 Google Scholar in Service Computing). He is or has been on the editorial boards of several journals, including TBD, TSC, TKDE, TOIT, CSUR, IJNGC, VLDBJ, DPDB, and IJCIS. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer-Verlag Services Science book series. He served as Guest Editor of several special issues, including ACM TOIT on Semantic Web Services, IEEE TSC on Service Query Models, and IEEE Internet Computing (IC) on Database Technology on the Web.