Activities

Guest-editor

1. IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine, "Autonomics Clouds", editors: Manish Parashar, Javier Diaz-Montez, Omer Rana, Ioan Petri, IEEE Computer Society, November 2014.

2. Future Generation Computer Systems, Special Issue on Economics of Computing Services, Ioan Petri, Jorn Altmann, Jose Angel Banares, Elsevier, 2016.

Organising Committee

1. The 27th ICE/IEEE International Technology Management Conference, Cardiff, UK, August 2021.

2. The 26th ICE/IEEE ITMC International Technology Management Conference, Cardiff, UK, June 2020.

3. 11th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds and Services, GECON14, Cardiff, UK, 2014.

4. 12th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds and Services, GECON15, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2015.

5. 19th IFIP / SOCOLNET Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2018, 17-19 September 2018 – Cardiff, UK

Programme Committee

1. 19th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services,13-15 September, 2022,Izola, Slovenia.

2. 30th International Conference on Information Systems Development Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 31–September 2, 2022.

3. 18th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services, 21-22 September 2020, Online.

4. The 34th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2020) will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, on May 18-22, 2020.

5. 1st InternationalConference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS), Washington, USA, Apr 2020.

6. International Workshop on Clouds and (e-Science) Applications Management - CloudAM 2019, December, New Zealand.

7. The 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2019), Istambul, Turkey

8. International Workshop on Clouds and (e-Science) Applications Management - CloudAM 2018, December 17-20, Technopark Zurich, Switzerland, December 17-20, 2018.

9. International Symposium on Cloud Computing and Services for High-Performance Computing Systems (InterCloud-HPC 2018), Orleans, France.

10. 15th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services, September 2018, Pisa, Italy.

11.  6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2018), 6-8 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain - http://www.ficloud.org/2018/.

12. 14th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services, September 2017, Biarritz, France.

13. 4th Workshop on Formal Semantics for the Future Enterprise, Poznan, Poland, 2017.

14. 1st IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing, May 2017, Madrid, Spain.

15. 5th International Workshop on Cloud and (E-Science) Application Management, Shanghai, China, 2016.

16. The 15th International Conference on Informatics in Economy (IE 2016), Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

17. 13th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services, September 2016, Athens, Greece.

18. The IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2016,  22-24 August 2016, Vienna, Austria.

19. 1st Workshop on Bioinformatics Applications for Clusters and Cloud Computing in conjunction with the 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 16-19, 2016, Cartagena, Colombia

20. The IEEE 4th International Workshop on Clouds and (e-Science)Applications Management - CloudAM 2015, In conjunction with the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Limassol, Cyprus. December 7-10, 2015

21. The IEEE 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2015, Roma, Italy, 2015.

22. 5th International Workshop on Cloud Services and Web 2.0 Technologies for Collaboration (CSWC 2015) workshop along with CTS 2015, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

23. The IEEE 14th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India, 2014.

24. 21st International Workshop: Intelligent Computing in Engineering, in Cardiff, The United Kingdom, July 16-18, 2014

25. 7th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), Noida, India, August 7-9, 2014

26. 1st International Workshop on Social Clouds: Cloud Computing through Social Networks alongside the IEEE CloudCom Conference, Bristol, UK, 2013

27. 1st International Workshop on Formal Semantics for Future Enterprises, International Conference on Business Information Systems, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2012

28. 2st International Workshop on Formal Semantics for Future Enterprises , International Conference on Business Information Systems, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2013

Journal Reviewer

1. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

2. Future Generation Computer Systems

3. IEEE Access

4. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

5. IEEE Transactions on Computers

6. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

7. Knowledge-Based Systems

8. Advanced Engineering Informatics

9. Computers in Industry

10. Cluster Computing- The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications

11. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

International PhD Reviewer

1. R. J. Rodríguez, "Performance Analysis and Resource Optimization of Critical Systems Modelled by Petri Nets," PhD Thesis, University of Zaragoza, Spain, 2013.

Tutorials

   1. Exploring Autonomics for Federated Clouds using CometCloud, Rutgers University: Moustafa AbdelBaky , Javier Diaz-Montes, Mengsong Zou, Manish Parashar, Cardiff University: Omer Rana, Tom Beach, Ioan Petri, 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 2015.

List of attended lectures, workshops and tutorials

1. Jennifer Clark, Smart Cities: Remaking markets and manufacturing open innovation spaces, Georgia Tech University, USA, held at Cardiff University, UK, 2018.

2. Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos from Queen's University of Belfast, Advances towards Energy-Efficient and Resilient HPC: Scaling Up, Out, or Back?, held at Cardiff University, UK, 2016.

3. Rizos Sakellariou from University of Manchester, Parallel Computing: from traditional execution time minimization to multiobjective optimization, Cardifff Unviersity, Dec 2015.

4. Mehmet Hakan Karrata, Intrusion detection in sensor networks, Kuwait University, held at Cardiff University, UK, August, 2015.

5. Luiz Bittencourt,Scheduling and resource management in cloud computing, University of Campinas, Brazil,held at Cardiff University, UK, August 2015.

6. Andrew Jones, Ian Taylor, Kieran Evans, Francisco Quevedo and David Rogers, The SWITCH project: time-critical, self-adaptive cloud applications made easy(!), March 2015, Cardiff University, UK.

7. The UK Research and Training Initiative, Workshop on Large Scale and IT Systems, Grasmere - Lake District UK, February 2014. 

8. Paul Walker, An Unexpected Driver of Computational Complexity, Rutgers University, CoRe Auditorium, New Jersey, USA, March 2014

9. Bernard Mayerson, Data is the new oil, IBM Vice President for Innovation, Cardiff School of Engineering, March 2014.

10. The UK Research and Training Iniatiative, Workshop on Large Scale and IT Systems, Grasmere - Lake District UK, April 2013.

11.  Alan Bundy, The Interaction of Reprezentation and Reasoning, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Oct 2013.

12. John Carroll, Text Mining from User-Generated Content, School of Informatics, 23 March 2011,  University of Sussex,  Cardiff, UK.

13. Adrien Maglo, Progresive Compression of Manifold Polygon Meshes, Mas Laboratory Ecole Centrale Paris, France, Cardiff University, May, 2012.

14. Steve Furber, Biologically Inspired Massively Parallel Computing, The University of Manchester, Cardiff, 2012.

15. Colin Ware, Visual Thinking and Visual Thinking Tools, Data Vizualisation Research Lab, CCOM, Cardiff University.

16. Omer Rana, Enacting Data Intensive Adaptive Application over Service-Oriented Infrastructure, Cardiff University, Feb 2012.

17. Nigel Shadbolt FREng, Open Data, Powering the Information Age, UK Open Data Advisor  and Transparency Board, University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science, Cardiff University 2012.

18. Ian Witten, Semantic Document Representation, Departament of Computer Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand –School of Engineering, Cardiff University, July 2012.

19. Tomy Hey, Vice President of Microsoft Research UK e-Science Centre, The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery, University of Southampton, Cardiff University, 2012.

20. Congduc Pham, Wireless Sensor Networks for Search&Rescue mission critical Applications: From Low Level Challenges to Multi-Sensors/Multi-Robots Perspective, University of Pau, France, Cardiff University, June 2012.

21. Keith G. Jeffery, The challenges in ICT: Debunking the Hype, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Harwell Oxford, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, held at Cardiff University, 2012.

22. Hmood Al-Dossari, A Simulation Environment for Performance Evaluation of QoS Assessment Methods, Informatics Research Group Seminar, Cardiff University, April,  2011.

23. The Sustainable Construction Service Platform (SCriPt) “Business Planning” Workshop, Computational Engeneering Researching Group, Cardiff University, Queen’s Building, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 2011.

24. A Governance Model for Outsourcing and Managing BIM Data using a Cloud Infrastructure Workshop, Cardiff University, Queen’s Building, Cardiff, UK.

25. Hoang Ong, Web Scraping Applications and Prevention Methods, Cardiff University Internal Seminar, 2011.

26. Chuck Hansen, Image Based Biometrical Computing and Visualisation, Scietific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, held at Cardiff University, School of Computer Science and Informatics, 2011.

27. Paul Welsh, Managing a city's transportation system, Explore the world of real time wotking ot chip with everything,  Cardiff South Wales Branch, 2011.

28. Takayuki HOSHI, Principles and Applications of Aitborne Ultrasound Tactile Display, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan,  held at Cardiff University, July 2011.

29. Joerg Fritsch, Cloud Computing platforms in a multicore world, NATO C3 Agency, Cardiff University, 2011.

30. Aris Gkoulalas Divanis, Grigorios Loukides, Medical Data Sharing: Privacy, Challenges and Solutions, IBM Research of Zurich, Cardiff University 2011.

31. Christopher Gwilliams,  A generic intro into the basics of Android development, FTS seminar, Cardiff University, School of Computer Science & Informatics, January 2011.

32. Ian Grimstead, From distributed web services, through arterial cell modelling to naturally viewed 3D, Blue Room, Cardiff University, School of Computer Science & Informatics, February, 2011.

33. Donald Knuth, Turing Lectures and Seminars Series, Standford University, Birt Acres Lecture Theatre, Bute Building, Cardiff University, February, 2011.

34. Christian Wallraven, Toward a 'language' of facial expression from cognition to computation, Congnitive Systems Lab, Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Koreea University, Seminar help at Cardiff University, 2011.

35. Shada Alsalamah, Towards Persistent Control over Shared Information in a Collaborative Healthcare Environment, Internal Research Seminar. Departmement of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, February 2011, Cardiff, UK.

36. William  Webberley, Google Chrome Extensions, Internal Research Seminar, Departmement of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, March 2011, Cardiff, UK.

37. Dr. Kris Bubendorfer , Electronic Markets Grid Computing and Resource Management, University of Wellington, coeditor of Market Oriented Grid and Utility Computing with Rajkumar Buyya from University of Melbourne, School of Engeneering and Computer Science, June 2010.

38. Towards Business Value Driven management of Business Process on Service-Oriented Architecture, Vladimir Tosic, NICTA Researching Institute, Melbourne Australia, in Cardiff University, June 2010.

39. Insessional Programme for Dissertation Writing and Scientific Language, Humanities Language Center, Cardiff University, May-June 2010.

40. Alaisdair F.D. Gray from Information Management Group, Distributed Query Processing over Streaming and Stored Heterogenous Data Sources, University of Manchester, January 2010.

41. Paul Barnet from Wolfram Mathematica, Intergrating Mathematica in Teaching and Reseach Seminar, Cardiff University, March 2010.

42.  Ron Perrott ,e-Science in the Clouds, [Terry Harmer, Christina Cunningharn, Peter Wright, Leong Sun, John Hawkins] from Belfast Centre of e-Sccience, Cardiff, May 2010.

43.  Neil Wilkinson , Behaviour Driven Business Automation, - Entreprise Architect of British Aerospace Manufactor , Seminar held at Cardiff University, May 2010

44. SEE- GRIG-SCI, See –Grid eInfrastructure for regional eSciences, SEE GRID workshop, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 2009.

45. M. Baldoni, C. Baroglio, G. Boella, R. Bordini, M. Dastani, B. Dunin- Keplicz, C. Jonker, M. Maudet, A. Omicini, M. Pechoucek (eds.), European Agent Systems Summer School (Lectures and Student Session),  Eleventh edition of the European Agent SystemsSummer School EASSS’09 Handouts, Turin, Italy, August 31 - September 4, 2009.

46. Anne Trafethen from University of Oxford, Data Driven science: What is potential? What is required? What are the challenges?, November,  2009.

47. Omer Rana and Manish Parashar, IEEE International Conferences on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, Venice, 2008.