Tommi Mikkonen & Kari Systä // #SISeminarSeries​​ // March 20, 2025

LiquidAI: Orchestrating Cloud-Edge Continuum with Isomorphic Software ABSTRACT—The cloud-edge continuum has become an emergent environment for various applications, hosting complex computations with ML/AI. However, the fashion we build our systems is somewhat rigid in its design space, because in many cases the hardware and other infrastructure that powers the different nodes in the continuum requires that functions are targeted to a particular subsystem. In this talk we propose isomorphic software architectures, where functions can be flexibly allocated to the different nodes comprising the continuum. Furthermore, we address candidate technologies we have tested with proof-of-concept implementations. Towards the end of the talk, we also discuss remaining challenges. BIO—Tommi Mikkonen is a professor of software engineering at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has been doing hands-on research on various programming related topics in particular in web, mobile, and IoT domains. In addition to his academic merits, he has visited Nokia, Sun Labs, and Mozilla. Kari Systä is currently a professor of software engineering at Tampere University. Before that in 1995-2011 he worked at Nokia Research Center as principal scientist and research manager. One of his long-lasting research interests have been dynamic run-time system for various devices. For example, he was the Nokia representative in the international group to define the first mobile Java Standard MIDP 1.0. Currently, he co-leading the BF-funded research project LiquidAI where the research teams of Universities of Jyväskylä and Tampere collaborate."