FATOS
XHAFA,
PhD
Associate Professor -- Professor Titular d'Universitat
Department of
Languages & Informatics
Systems
Technical University of
Catalonia,
Barcelona, Spain.
AT
BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (ON LEAVE) --STARTING SEPTEMBER 2009.
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. 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 1995-2005
by AQU (dos
quinquenios).
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. He served as Workshops Chair of CISIS-2009. Currently, he is General Co-Chair of INCoS-2009, PC Co-Chair of AINA-2010 and General Co-Chair of CISIS-2010 conference. 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
» Invited to give a
tutorial at 12th
UKSim-2010 Conference, Cambridge, UK
» Invited to give a tutorial "Meta-heuristics for Scheduling in Distributed Environments" at PPSN-2010, Cracow, Poland
» Co-editing a Springer Volume with selected papers from CISIS 2009 Conference, To appear early 2010
» Guest Editor of Special issue of Journal of Computer abd Systems Sciences with selected papers from AINA-2009 Conference
» Guest Editor of Special issue of JCSSE with selected paper from CISIS 2009 Conference. To appear: Vol 25 No 2 March 2010.
» Guest Editor of Special Issue of Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology with selected papers from SMECS-2009
CISIS-2008, General Chair of HIS-2008 held at UPC. He served as Workshops Chair of CISIS-2009. Currently, he is General Co-Chair of INCoS-2009, PC Co-Chair of AINA-2010 and General Co-Chair of CISIS-2010 conference. 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. My Erdös number is 3
NEWS
» Invited to give a
tutorial at 12th
UKSim-2010 Conference, Cambridge, UK» Invited to give a tutorial "Meta-heuristics for Scheduling in Distributed Environments" at PPSN-2010, Cracow, Poland
» Co-editing a Springer Volume with selected papers from CISIS 2009 Conference, To appear early 2010
» Guest Editor of Special issue of Journal of Computer abd Systems Sciences with selected papers from AINA-2009 Conference
» Guest Editor of Special issue of JCSSE with selected paper from CISIS 2009 Conference. To appear: Vol 25 No 2 March 2010.
» Guest Editor of Special Issue of Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology with selected papers from SMECS-2009
Research & Services
- Research Projects
- Organization of Events
- Participation in Events
- Editorial Board
- Guest Editor
- Book Editor