| FATOS XHAFA,
PhD Hab. Full Professor Professor Titular d'Universitat Dept de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain. |
Visiting
Professor, Birkbeck
College, University
of
London, UK |
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Fatos is native from Albania (Spanish citizen) where he was graduated
in
Mathematics from
the
Faculty of Natural
Sciencies (FNS), University of Tirana (UT),
Albania, in 1988.
During
1989-1993 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied
Mathematics of the FNS, UT, Albania.
Fatos joined the Techical University of Catalonia as a Visiting Professor at the Applied Mathematics Department I, and later he entered the Department of Languages and Informatic Systems (LSI) as a PhD student and in 1996 as an Assistant Professor. Fatos got his PhD in Computer Science from the Department of LSI in 1998.
Currently,
Fatos is Hab.
Full Professor and holds a permanent position of Professor
Titular
at the
Department of LSI and member of the ALBCOM Research
Group. His current research
interest
include parallel and distributed algorithms, combinatorial
optimization, approximation and meta-heuristics,
networking systems, distributed programming, Grid and P2P computing. His
research is supported by Research Projects from Spain, EU and NSF/USA.
Fatos is awarded research merits for the period 1996-2007 (dos
sexenios) and for the period 2001-2006 (sexeni compl.
autonòmic.) and teaching merits for the period 1995-2010 (tres
quinquenios). His research/teaching
activity is evaluated to A/A
by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Fatos is involved in the organization of several
International events. He served as Organizing
Chair of ARES-2008,
PC Chair of
CISIS-2008, General Chair of HIS-2008 and of 6th 3PGCIC-2011/6th BWCCA-2011 conferences held at UPC. He served as Workshops Chair of CISIS-2009. Currently, he is General Co-Chair of INCoS-2009/INCoS-2010, PC Co-Chair of AINA-2010, General Co-Chair of CISIS-2010 and AINA-2011 conferences. He is the co-organizer of several workshops held in conjunction with international conferences. Fatos is Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing (IJSSC) and of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), member of EB of several International Journals and Guest Editors of Special Issues. Fatos teaches at UPC and also at Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He is also external member of the research group Parallel, Distributed and Collaborative Systems (PDCS) of UOC. My Erdös number is 3
NEWS
» Guest editor of
special issue in FUTURE
GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEM Journal,
Elsevier
» Guest editor of special issues in CLUSTER COMPUTING and COMPUTING, Springer Journals
» Visit the IJSSC ("Space-based and Situated Computing") and IJGUC ("Grid Computing") Inderscience International Journals
» Invited Guest Co-Editor for a Special issue of KER--"Knowledge Enineering Reviews" (Cambridge University Press), 2011
» Visit the MESHWEB@UPC at http://weboptserv.lsi.upc.edu/MESHWEB/
CISIS-2008, General Chair of HIS-2008 and of 6th 3PGCIC-2011/6th BWCCA-2011 conferences held at UPC. He served as Workshops Chair of CISIS-2009. Currently, he is General Co-Chair of INCoS-2009/INCoS-2010, PC Co-Chair of AINA-2010, General Co-Chair of CISIS-2010 and AINA-2011 conferences. He is the co-organizer of several workshops held in conjunction with international conferences. Fatos is Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing (IJSSC) and of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), member of EB of several International Journals and Guest Editors of Special Issues. Fatos teaches at UPC and also at Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He is also external member of the research group Parallel, Distributed and Collaborative Systems (PDCS) of UOC. My Erdös number is 3
NEWS
» Guest editor of
special issue in FUTURE
GENERATION COMPUTER SYSTEM Journal,
Elsevier » Guest editor of special issues in CLUSTER COMPUTING and COMPUTING, Springer Journals
» Visit the IJSSC ("Space-based and Situated Computing") and IJGUC ("Grid Computing") Inderscience International Journals
» Invited Guest Co-Editor for a Special issue of KER--"Knowledge Enineering Reviews" (Cambridge University Press), 2011
» Visit the MESHWEB@UPC at http://weboptserv.lsi.upc.edu/MESHWEB/
Research & Services
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- Editorial Board
- Guest Editor
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