Workshop on e-Services Composition and Development in the Cloud

(W-Codec 2017)
December 27-28, 2017
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

PROGRAM

Wednesday, December 27
8:30 – 9:30am Registration
Workshop kickoff
9:30 – 9:35 am
Basit Shafiq, LUMS
Welcome Address
9:35 – 9:50 am
by Syed Sohail Hussain Naqvi, Vice Chancellor, LUMS
Keynote talk: Vertical Workflows: Service Enactment &
Orchestration Across Edge and Cloud Resources
9:50 – 11:00 am
Speaker – Omer Rana, Professor of Performance Engineering,
School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University
11:00 – 11:30 am Tea Break
Keynote talk:
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Speaker – Syed Ismail Shah, Former Chairman, Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch Break
e-Government Services Panel
Panelists –
 Syed Ismail Shah, Former Chairman, Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority
 Muhammad Mahmood, Secretary to Government of Punjab,
Agriculture Department
2:00 – 3:45 pm
 Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Director General, Punjab Land Records
Authority
 Ali Jan Khan, Secretary Primary & Secondary Healthcare
Department, Government of Punjab
 Naiman Jalil, Associate Professor, LUMS
 Salman Iqbal, CEO, Softech Systems (Moderator)
3:45 – 4:05 Tea Break
Invited talk: Smart Grid for Smart City
4:05 – 4:45 pm Speaker – Naveed Arshad, Associate Professor of Computer Science,
LUMS
4:45 – 5:30 pm Poster session
 Thursday, December 28

Keynote talk: Building a better “brain” for IoT

9:30 – 10:30 am
Speaker – Ali R. Butt, Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
10:30 – 10:45 am Tea Break
Tutorial: e-Services Process Composition and Management in the
Services Cloud
10:45 am – 12:30 pm
Speaker – Basit Shafiq, Associate Professor, Department of
Computer Science, LUMS
12:30 – 2:00 pm Lunch Break
Invited talk: e-Government initiatives in Pakistan Railways
2:00 – 2:30 pm Speaker – Fahad Rahman, Director Information Technology,
Pakistan Railways
Invited talk: Recent Developments in the ICT Sector of Pakistan
and Future Directions
2:30 – 3:15 pm
Speaker – Fakhar-ul-Islam Lodhi, Dean and Professor, Faculty of
Computer Science, GIFT University
Invited talk: Designing ICT Interventions to Promote Governance
Reforms
3:15 – 3:45
Speaker – Syed Ali Hasanain, Assistant Professor, Department Of
Economics, LUMS
3:45 – 4:00 Tea Break
Invited talk: Imagineering the Cybernetics of Water Resource
Management
4:00 – 4:30
Speaker – Abubakr Muhammad, Associate Professor, Department
of Electrical Engineering, LUMS
Invited talk: Inverting HVAC for Energy Efficient Thermal Comfort in
Populous Emerging Countries
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Speaker – Tariq Jadoon, Associate Professor, Department of
Electrical Engineering, LUMS
5:00 – 5:10 pm Concluding Remarks