11th ERDT Congress

In a developing economy such as ours, accelerating research and application of science and engineering to solve complex problems becomes challenging in the face of constraints in physical resources and infrastructure. Such constraints and challenges may be addressed by fully harnessing the power of computation to uncover the information hidden in data to understand, model, simulate, create, design, harness, operate, optimize, or forecast the behavior of complex systems or phenomena. The use of “smart systems” – data- and computationally-driven systems – deserves further exploration as a potential strategy to achieve the various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The design, deployment and use of such systems however requires dealing with massive volumes of data, careful application design, and the use of appropriately-architected computational systems.