Various Activities
Conference Activities
2005
- Programme Committee, The High Performance Computing, Communications, and Storage Conference (SC2005), Seattle, November 2005
- Programme Committee, Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Networks for Parallel, Cluster and Grid Computing Systems (PEN-PCGCS'05), to be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2005), Oslo, Norway June 14-17, 2005
- Programme Committee, Workshop on the Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE), in conjunction with the 14th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed
Computing (HPDC-14), June 2005
- Co-organiser, Work-in-Progress Papers on Novel Grid Technologies (NTG) to be held at Cluster Computing and Grid 2005 (CCGrid 2005), Cluster Computing and Grid 2005, Cardiff, UK, 9 - 12 May 2005
- Co-Chair, Workshop on Web and Grid Services for Scientific Data Analysis (WAGSSDA),
to be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2005), Oslo, Norway June 14-17, 2005
- Programme Committee, EGC2005,
European Grid Conference, Science Park Amsterdam, The Netherlands February 14 -16 2005
- Programme Committee, IADIS 2005,
International Association for Development of the Information Society, Algarve, Portugal, 22 to 25 February 2005
- Programme Committee, Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems (AIMS)
track at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005), Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 13-17, 2005
2004
- Programme Committee, ADCOM 2004, International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications, Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 15-18 December 2004
- Programme Committee, ISPA'2004, Second International Symposium on Parallel and
Distributed Processing and Applications, Hong Kong, China, 13-15 Dec 2004
- Programme Committee, SAG'04, First
International Workshop on Scientific Applications On Grid Computing,
Beijing, China, 20 Sept - 24 Sept 2004
- General Chair, 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, November
8, 2004, Pittsburgh, USA
- Programme Committee, GGF11,
International Association for Development of the Information Society Semantic Grid Applications Workshop, Honolulu June 4-9, 2004
- Programme Committee, Cluster 2004, September 20-23 2004, San Diego, California
- Workshop co-organiser, International Symposium on Performance
Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'04), San
Jose Hyatt, San Jose, California, July 25-29, 2004
- Workshop co-organiser, Grid Performance Workshop 2004 (GPW 2004), University College London, May 12-13, 2004
- Programme Committee, Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems
(AIMS), The 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2004),
Nicosa, Cyprus, March 14-17, 2004
- Programme Committee, High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC
2004), in Arlington, VA, USA, April 18-22, 2004
- Programme Committee, COMPAHEC 2004, Computer Applications in
Health Care, Nicosia, Cyprus, 14-17 March, 2004
2003
- Programme Committee, Cluster 2003, IEEE International Conference
on Cluster Computing, December 1-4, 2003, Hong Kong
- Programme Committee, 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing
(Grid2003), Phoenix, Arizona, 17 November 2003
- Programme Committee, workshop on Knowledge Grid and Grid
Intelligence, Halifax, Canada, October 13, 2003
- Co-Chair, Grid Information Services workshop, NeSC, Edinburgh,
April 25-26, 2003
- Programme Committee, 2nd International Symposium on Parallel and
Distributed Computing (ISPDC), Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2003
- Programme Committee, workshop on Innovative Solutions for Grid
Computing (InnoGrid), Melbourne, Australia. Part of the ICCS
Conference, 2-4 June 2003
- Programme Committee, Peer-to-Peer workshop at the International
CCGrid Conference, Hirakawa-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, May 12-15,
2003.
- Programme Committee, 5th Int. Conference On Parallel Processing
And Applied Mathematics, Czestochowa (Poland), September 7 - 10,
2003
- Programme Committee, Applications sub-area of the International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2003 (IPDPS 2003), Nice,
France, 22-26 April, 2003
- Programme Committee, International Workshop on Performance
Modelling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed
Systems (PMEO-PDS’03), in conjunction with IPDPS 2003, Nice,
France, 22-26 April, 2003
- Programme Committee, Special Track on Agents, Interactions,
Mobility, and Systems (AIMS), The 18th ACM Symposium on Applied
Computing (SAC 2003), Florida, USA March 9-12, 2003
2002
- Programme committee for a symposium on Parallel and Distributed
Systems (part of ECIT 2002 - European Conference on Intelligent
Technologies), Iasi (Romania), July 17-20 2002
- Programme Committee, International Workshop on
Algorithms And Tools For Parallel Computing On Heterogeneous Clusters
(HeteroPar’02), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia,
October 20-22, 2002
- General Co-Chair, IEEE Cluster 2002 Conference, Chicago, USA,
September 2002
- Programme Committee, Workshop on
Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing , CCGrid 2002, Berlin,
Germany, May 2002
- Programme Committee,
Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and
Distributed Systems (PMEO-PDS'02) at IPDPS 2002, Fort Lauderdale,
USA, April 15, 2002
- Programme Committee, Heterogeneous Computing
Workshop (HCW'02) at IPDPS 2002, Fort Lauderdale, USA, April 15,
2002
- Programme Committee, High
Performance Computing Symposium 2002 , Special Track on "High Performance
Simulation Environments", San Diego, California, USA, April 14-18,
2002
- Programme Committee,The 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing ,
Madrid, Spain, Special Track on Agents, Interactions,
Mobility, and Systems (AIMS) , March 10 - 14, 2002
- Organising Committee, CCGrid 2002 , Berlin,
Germany, May 2002
2001
- The 4thInternational
Conference on Algorithms & Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP
2000) , Hong Kong December 2001.
- Programme Committee,2nd
International Workshop on Grid Computing , in conjunction with Supercomputing 2001 (SC2001) , Denver,
Colorado, November 12, 2001.
- Programme Committee, workshop on Metacomputing held
in conjunction with ICPP'2001 ,
Valencia, Spain, September 3 - 7, 2001
- Global chair, Euro-Par 2001,
Cluster Computing track, Manchester University UK, August 2001
- Programme Committee, Heterogeneous
Computing Workshop (HCW'01) at IPDPS 2001, San Francisco, USA, April 23, 2001
- Programme Committee, Cluster Computing: Internals and Usage (CCIU), International Conference on Computational
Science 2001 (ICCS'2001), San Francisco, USA, May 2001
- Programme Committee, The
World’s Internet & Electronic Cities Conference (WIECC
2001) , Kish Island, Iran, May 1-3, 2001
- General Co-Chair, Cluster 2001
, Sutton Place Hotel, Newport Beach, California, Los Angles,
USA, October 2001
- Programme Committee, Workshop on Active Middleware Services,
HPDC-10, San Francisco, August 2001
- Vice Chair, International Symposium on
Cluster Computing and the GRID (CCGRID2001) ,
Brisbane, Australia, 16-18 May, 2001
- Programme Committee, High Performance Computing
2001 , Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation [HPC], Special
Track on "High Performance Simulation Environments", Seattle,
Washington,, U.S.A., April 22th-26th, 2001
- Heterogeneous Computing
Workshop (HCW'01), IPDPS 2001, San Francisco, USA, April 2001
- Programme Committee, 4th International Conference on the Practical Application
of Knowledge Management - Manchester, UK, 26th - 29th March 2001
2000
- Programme Committee, International Workshop on Algorithms and Tools
for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Clusters(HeteroPar’02) , Moscow
State University, Moscow, Russia October 20-22, 2002
- Programme Committee, special session on High Performance Data Management
at the 4th International
Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Computing (ICA3PP'2000),
Hong Kong, December 2000
- Vice Chair, Grid 2000, In Conjunction with 7thInternational Conference on High Performance Computing
(HiPC’2000), Bangalore, India, December 17-20, 2000
- Programme Committee and Publication Chair, Cluster 2000
, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany, 28 November – 2
December 2000
- Programme Committee, Workshop
on Active Middleware Services , HPDC-9 , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
August 1-4, 2000
- Programme Committee, 1 stMyrinet User Group Conference ,
Lyon, France, 28-29th September 2000
- Programme Chair, Cluster Computing Workshop, HPCN2000, The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May, 2000
- Joint Convenor -
Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) Research Strategy
Workshop, Manchester, January 2000
- Vice Chair, Cluster Computing Workshop, Euro-Par2000, Munich,
September 2000
- Programme Committee,
Cluster Computing workshop , HPC Asia2000, Bejing, China, May 2000
- Programme Committee, 3rd
International Conference on the Practical Application of Knowledge Management, Manchester, UK, April 2000
- Programme Committee, Heterogeneous
Computing Workshop (HCW'00) at IPDPS 2000, Cancun, Mexico, May 2000
- Programme Committee, PC-NOW00 at
IPDPS 2000, Cancun, Mexico, May 2000
1999
- Co-Chair, International
Workshop on Cluster Computing (IWCC'99) , Melbourne, Australia, December,
1999
- Programme Committee, Autonomous
Agents 1999 , Washington USA, May 1999.
- Programme Committee, MPIDC'99, Atlanta USA, March 1999.
- Programme Committee, PC-NOW99
at IPPS/SPDP 1999 , Puerto Rico,
April 1999.
Other Commitments
Membership and participation
Present
- Visiting Professor, Westminster University, September 2003 - present.
- Interim joint co-chair of the IEEE CS Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), July 2004.
- Evaluator for STREPS proposals submitted to the "Grid-based systems for Complex Problem Solving" Strategic Object of the IST FPVI Programme, Brussels, November 2003.
- Chair of the appointments committee for the Editor in Chief of IEEE DS-Online, September 2003.
- Steering Committees, IEEE conferences on Cluster Computing, CCGrid and the Grid.
- EU Expert, Grid technologies.
- IEEE CS digital magazine (DS Online) sub-section editor, international Grid activities, June 2000
– present.
- Executive committee member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and the Technical Committee on Supercomputing Application (TCSA), July 2003 – present.
- Co-chair of the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC), 1999 – present.
- Member of the IEEE and Computer Society since 1998.
- Associate of the Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences, the American University of Beirut, Lebanon,
2002 – present.
Past
- UK DERA Consultant (Portsdown), June 1999 – 2002.
- Member of the Faculty Research Program, Computer Science and Mathematic, ORNL, Summer 2000
- Co-ordinator of the EU JavaGrande Forum, 1997 – 1999
- Visiting Research Fellow, ECS, the University of Southampton, 1996 – 1998
- Visiting Senior Research Scientist at the NPAC, Syracuse University, USA, Summer 1997, 1998 and 1999
- Participation in the benchmarking effort PARKBENCH, 1994 – 1998
- A member of the UK JISC funded TOPIC consortium, 1996 – 2000
Journals and Reviewing
- Guest Editor of the International Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
(CCPE).
- Section Editor, Performance, the International Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley and Sons.
- Chief Associate Editor of the Electronic Journal Performance Evaluation and Modelling of Computer
Systems (PEMCS)
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), Inderscience Publishers.
- Journal reviewing for:
- Computation and Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Cluster Computing, JPDC, PDCP, High
performance Computing and FGCS.
- Book reviewing for:
- Wiley & Sons, Springer Verlag, Prentice Hall and Addison Wesley.
- IEEE magazines Computer, Internet Computing and Pervasive Computing, 2001 – present.