Themis - Trustworthy and Sustainable Code Offloading

The goal of Themis project is to devise fundamentals for the new groundbreaking generation of geographically distributed probabilistic operating systems unifying computation and communication facilities. The idea is to instantly offload arbitrary portions of the code from the end device (like the IoT sensors) to the arbitrary computational surrogates that might be an idle node, your personal laptop, a raspberry pi or any other computational facility. The challenge is to achieve sustainability, while facilitating low latency of hyper heterogeneous, highly volatile tactile Internet applications. Our ambitions in Themis are enabled by the recent developments in Edge computing, a new concept bringing computation and data storage closer to the location where it is needed and by probabilistic large scale near real time systems relying on Markov Chains -- both areas pioneered by the PI. Besides very concrete use cases within intelligent traffic management and hybrid classic/quantum architectures, we identified the innovation potential in the area of Microgrids and Earth Science.