Séminaire « SLICES, Your Scientific Instrument to support Future Networked System Research », par Serge Fdida (Sorbonne Université, France)
Résumé : The scientific community working on next-generation networks and systems increasingly lacks advanced, sustainable open tools to validate research, accelerate discovery through data sharing, and support reproducibility. The rapid pace of academic production — driven largely by data-intensive methods and the fast adoption of AI/ML — makes validation ever more challenging. SLICES-RI is the first initiative designed as a sustainable scientific instrument under the European ESFRI framework. SLICES-RI is intent-driven and supports the complete lifecycle of experimental research—from concept to reproducible deployment—by enabling experiments to be executed over its infrastructure through standardized blueprints, and by systematically collecting, archiving, and documenting all outputs following a rigorous methodology. A key challenge today lies in creating a seamless, continuous mechanism that can translate scientific excellence into competitive advantage at the pace of innovation. SLICES-RI addresses this by going beyond the mere provision of advanced technology — most importantly, it enables virtual access through an open data management infrastructure and well-defined workflows. In addition, we argue that the importance of data, scale and diversity, motivates the interest for building foundation models that will definitely have a strong transformative role in the design of open research infrastructures.
SLICES-RI is the appropriate environment for designing, testing and assessing such network foundation models. This talk will present the SLICES instrument, its community, academic engagement, and roadmap, highlighting its openness and its strong potential for collaboration. The SLICES-RI "Beyond 5G BluePrint" will illustrate the talk with practical examples.
Co-sponsored by: CNAM, Equipe ROC
Speaker(s): Serge Fdida,
Bldg: Auditorium Gaston Planté, CNAM, 2 rue Conté, Paris, Ile-de-France, France, 75003, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/520156
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