FATOS
XHAFA,
PhD
Associate Professor -- Professor Titular d'Universitat
Department of
Languages & Informatics
Systems
Technical University of
Catalonia,
Barcelona, Spain.
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 Associate Professor (Professor Titular)
at the
Department of Languages and Informatic Systems and member of the ALBCOM Research Group
(ALGORITHMS,
BIOINFORMATICS, COMPLEXITY AND FORMAL METHODS). 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.)
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 held at UPC. Cuurently, he is the Workshops Chair of CISIS-2009. He is the co-organizer of 3PGIC workshop (held within CISIS conference), MuCoCos workshop (held within CISIS conference), SMECS workshop (held within ICPP conference) and BWCCA workshop (held within iiWAS conference).
Fatos is also member of editorial board, regular reviewer of International Journals and Guest Editors of about 10 Special Issues.
NEWS
»
The list of
accepted papers of Special Issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experiences "Simulation in Emergent Computational
Systems"
» The list of accepted papers of Special Issue of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing "Efficient Techniques for Resource
and Services in Grid and P2P-based applications"
» TThe list of accepted papers of Special Issue of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing "Semantic Data Models and Performance Analysis for Grid and P2P systems"
» Invited PC Co-Chair of AINA 2010 (The IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications)
to be held in Perth, Australia, 20-23 April 2010.
CISIS-2008, General Chair of HIS-2008 held at UPC. Cuurently, he is the Workshops Chair of CISIS-2009. He is the co-organizer of 3PGIC workshop (held within CISIS conference), MuCoCos workshop (held within CISIS conference), SMECS workshop (held within ICPP conference) and BWCCA workshop (held within iiWAS conference).
Fatos is also member of editorial board, regular reviewer of International Journals and Guest Editors of about 10 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.
NEWS
»
The list of
accepted papers of Special Issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experiences "Simulation in Emergent Computational
Systems" » The list of accepted papers of Special Issue of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing "Efficient Techniques for Resource
and Services in Grid and P2P-based applications"
» TThe list of accepted papers of Special Issue of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing "Semantic Data Models and Performance Analysis for Grid and P2P systems"
» Invited PC Co-Chair of AINA 2010 (The IEEE 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications)
to be held in Perth, Australia, 20-23 April 2010.
Research & Services
- Research Projects
- Organization of Events
- Participation in Events
- Editorial Board
- Guest Editor
- Book Editor